Poster: DECIPHER Pre-commercial Procurement: a tool to promote the adoption of international standards in fragmented sectors

Poster presented at the WHO - FAMILY OF INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATIONS NETWORK ANNUAL MEETING (2014)

The WHO–FIC Network Annual Meeting served to review the work within the WHO Family of International Classifications in line with the Strategic Work Plan of the Network. The meeting included 38 individual Committee and Reference Group sessions and 9 plenary sessions; and 3 Poster sessions.  The WHO-FIC Network Committees, namely the Update and Revision Committee (URC), the Education and Implementation Committee (EIC), the Family Development Committee (FDC), and the Informatics and Terminology Committee (ITC), together with the WHO-FIC Network Reference Groups, including the Mortality Reference Group (MRG) and the Functioning and Disability Reference Group (FDRG) conducted their annual meetings elected their new co-chairs and updated the Strategic Work Plan for the WHO–FIC Network (SWP) with a particular focus on the review of the results of activities of the past year and formulate the new activities for the year to come.   
The WHO-FIC Advisory Council met for two half days during the week to review the SWP, and jointly discussed common themes. Dr Lars Berg and Ms Jenny Hargreaves are serving as co-chairs of the WHO-FIC Network. In accordance with the election rules, the WHO–FIC Advisory Council and the Small Executive Group (SEG) werereconstituted. The work of the Network and its committees and reference groups will continue, in line with the Strategic Work Plan, and will be monitored by the SEG, the WHO–FIC Advisory Council, and WHO.  
The special theme of the WHO-FIC Network Annual Meeting in 2014 was “Driving improvement in healthcare: from data to eHealth tools”. Accordingly, main classification activities were reviewed from the digitalization perspective, including how to support WHOFIC using digital tools and standards and evaluating their added-value. Classification standards on mortality, morbidity and on interventions are essential for the integration into the digital health applications. 

161 posters on various WHOFIC topics were presented and printed as a booklet, 30 were presented in special sessions and all were displayed throughout the meeting. Five posters were selected garnering special awards as a result of online voting by the meeting participants.  A special plenary session was included on ICHI: International Classification of Health Interventions that is being planned as a collaborative activity between WHO and American Medical Association to develop ICHI as an international reference classification. 

The Annual Meeting discussed the ICD Revision Process in detail in a special plenary session including: the current state of the ICD-11 Joint Linearization for Mortality and Morbidity Statistics (JLMMS) and the two Primary Care Linearizations: SHORT and INTERMEDIATE for use in low-resource and medium-resource settings, comparability between ICD-10 and ICD-11, the added value of ICD 11, the transition process in WHO Member States, conducting the reviews for the ICD-11 linearization for mortality and morbidity statistics, conducting Field Trials for testing feasibility and reliability, special bridge-coding  between ICD-10 and ICD-11, basic questions and, in particular, on mechanisms for producing ICD-11 in multiple languages as an international standard. 

(WHO Family of International Classifications Network)