Adult Social Care Record (MODS): Adult Social Care Record (MODS) Implementation Guidance

Background

The Adult Social Care Record (MODS) is designed to establish a suite of interoperable components that, when combined, create a comprehensive digital record for adult social care. These components, or "building blocks," are versatile and can be assembled into specific configurations or included within particular forms, yet they are all unified under an extensive conceptual framework. For instance, an identified need—a fundamental element of the digital social care record—is always connected to an individual. This need might be recognised during various interactions, such as in the process of assessment, within care planning, or through the actual delivery of care services.

Latest Version:

Version 0.2.0 marks the latest iteration of the Adult Social Care Record (MODS) beta. This iteration is the culmination of an initial discovery phase and the creation of an alpha version of MODS. The ongoing beta phase, along with the forthcoming stages of development, are dedicated to refining the functionality of MODS to ensure optimal performance. The development team is actively engaged in soliciting and incorporating user feedback, with the goal of continuously enhancing MODS in alignment with the insights gained from practical use and research.

Our Approach

Related Standards and Programmes of Work:

ISO13606:

“ISO 13606 is a standard from the International Standardization Organization (ISO), originally designed by the European Committee for Standardization (CEN).

The overall objective of the ISO 13606 standard is to define a rigorous and stable information architecture for communicating part or all of the electronic health record (EHR) of a single subject of care (patient) between EHR systems, or between EHR systems and a centralized EHR data repository. It may also be used for EHR communication between an EHR system and clinical applications or middleware components (such as decision support components) that need to access EHR data, or as the representation of EHR data within a distributed (federated) record system.”

Classes of information about the person within the MODS will fall into one of the following categories:

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