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Besides these areas, there is a range of other responsibilities that NRC may decide to undertake. The table below lists a set of possible responsibility areas. The list is not exhaustive but includes the main areas that NRCs currently cover. Some of the areas are marked as "Required," as these are part of the core responsibility areas.
Table 1. NRC Responsibility areas
Responsibility area | | Required | Optional |
Manage licenses (manually or automatically) | | |
Distribute International Releases | | | |
Manage Extensions (Authoring, release, distribution and maintenance) | | | |
Manage Reference sets (Authoring, release, distribution and maintenance) | | |
Manage Mappings (Authoring, release, distribution and maintenance) | | |
Manage Translations (Authoring, release, distribution and maintenance) | | | |
Offer Tooling- As user service: To enable users to access and explore SNOMED CT
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Manage change requests for organizations in the country | | |
Offer education, promotion and training | | |
Engage stakeholders | | |
Offer implementation consultancy | | |
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NRC competenciesThe competencies required for an NRC are dependent on what services the NRC chooses to deliver. However, most NRC staff should have a general understanding of SNOMED CT and IHTSDO.
If an NRC is unable to provide a specific type of service, it should seek to identify other resources that are able to meet the requirements of implementers and users in the Member country.
The following core competencies are typical for the work of an NRC. Some of these competency areas can be considered assignment-specific, as they will not be required as a constant competency within the NRC but are required to fulfill specific assignments, such as translation, mapping and development of Reference sets.
General competencies required | Terminology | Terminology |
Technical and IT skills |
Communication |
Implementation |
| Education |
Assignment-specific competencies | Clinical and scientific domain specialty knowledge |
Linguistics and translation |
Specific competencies required to undertake particular NRC related tasks are outlined in Table 2.
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Table 2 Competencies and skills required to undertake particular NRC tasks Note Note that the range of tasks that different NRCs undertake may vary. |
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Tasks | Main competencies | Knowledge/Skills areas |
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Distribute International Release and National Extension | - Communication
- Technical/IT
| - Communication with Affiliates, e.g. news updates
- Tooling support for access to the International Release and National Extension
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Manage extensions | | |
| - Terminology
- Domain specialty
- Translation
| - Content development
- Terminologies, description logic
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| | - Tooling support for extension development and management
(See "Technical/IT" responsibility)
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Manage Reference sets | | |
| - Terminology
- Domain specialty
(clinical experts, etc.)
| - Reference set development and maintenance
- Domain insight, depending on the purpose of the Reference Set
- Concept selection
- Logical and concept model
- Search techniques
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| | - Tooling support for Reference set development and management
(See "Technical/IT" responsibility)
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Manage Mappings | | |
| - Terminology
- Domain specialty
| - Map development and maintenance
- Knowledge of current practice for use of classifications and terminologies in the Member territory
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| | - Tooling support for Reference Set development and management
(See "Technical/IT" responsibility)
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Tooling Developments - Browsing, Developing content, and Refsets, QA, Distribution
| | - SNOMED CT technical specifications and File formats
- Software and database design and development
- Information modeling/information model standards
- SNOMED CT search and data entry techniques and software
- Authoring and distribution requirements
- Quality assurance techniques
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Manage translations | - Terminology
- Linguistics
- Domain specialty
| - Translation processes
- Concept definition
- Quality assurance
- Terminology authoring technology
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Change requests | - Communication
- Terminology
- Translations
| - Content development
- Terminologies, description logic
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| | - Terminology authoring tool
- Tooling support for change request submissions and management of change requests.
(See "Technical/IT" responsibility)
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Education, promotion and training Engaging stakeholders | - Communication
- Implementation
- Education
| - Dissemination competencies
- Users and user needs
- Broad and deep knowledge of SNOMED CT, users and implementation aspects.
- Examples, use cases
- National health IT-infrastructure, current practices and regulation
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Implementation consultancy | - Implementation
- Technical/IT
- Business Analysis
| - Broad and deep knowledge of SNOMED CT, users and
implementation aspects. - Examples, use cases
- Implementation levels and technical opportunities
- Ability to understand requirements and relate to terminology
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Manage licenses (manually or automatically) | - Communication
- Technical/IT
| - Communication with Affiliates
- Tooling support, e.g. license repository
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