Improving health information standards in Ireland
PRSB is working with The Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) to provide specialist training and advice on setting and maintaining health information standards in Ireland. This includes sharing proven methodologies, tools and lessons learnt and clinical safety considerations.
On this page
Background
The Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) is an independent authority established to drive high-quality and safe care for people using our health and social care services in Ireland. HIQA’s mandate to date extends across a specified range of public, private and voluntary sector services. HIQA’s role is to develop standards, inspect and review health and social care services and support informed decisions on how services are delivered.
In 2023, HIQA, in conjunction with the Department of Health and the HSE, set out the critical components needed to standardise health information in Ireland including the collaborative setting of health information standards and the development of a programme to maintain these standards.
Key to achieving standards that are fit for purpose and in line with national and international requirements, HIQA sought specialist training and advice from PRSB. PRSB has the experience and expertise to provide relevant training, advice and artefacts that will strengthen HIQA’s health information standards setting function.
Aims and objectives
HIQA is seeking the provision of an external training and advice service from the PRSB to provide the following deliverables over three phases during 2025:
- Explanation of how projects are delivered, including a detailed introduction to PRSB’s methodology and lessons learnt from project delivery.
- Application of the methodology in practice and tools PRSB use, including information modelling tools and artefacts.
- Products developed and published by PRSB.
- Clinical safety considerations.
- Explanation of endorsement and benefits, and how this could be applied in Ireland.
- Demonstration of architecture, modelling tools and outputs for suppliers.
- Illustration of the relationship between PRSB standards and EU standards.
- Support and maintenance of standards – how it works, queries and resolutions, governance and clinical input.
- Coordination and oversight of shadowing opportunities for team members on specific programmes of work.
Conformance assessment tools and methodology.