STI is an Integrated Terminology Service based on standard protocol

Common Terminology Services – Release 2 (CTS2) of HL7 to

provide support to the regions, autonomous provinces and professionals of the

health, for the integrated management of the encoding systems envisaged

within the framework of the Electronic Health File and governed by Prime Ministerial Decree No

178/2015 “Regulation on electronic health records.

An integrated terminology service (or terminological server) is a

software component integrated, possibly with other services, which

provides centralised access to the terminology content of the systems

coding used in the field of medical and health care (in the specific case) and

provides terminology services (consultation, research, mapping,

export, update check, etc.) for other applications that

they make a request. The TSI service is aimed at two main categories.

users: Health Operators, MMGs and laboratorists, on the one hand, to obtain

a support in the correct use of terminologies for encoding data

in the two documents provided for in the legislation (the Profile Sanitario Sintetico and

laboratory Referral); and regional applications/services and contact persons

on the other hand, for administrative support, in order to encourage:

alignment with the standard standardised coding systems.

The re-used version also allows terminologies to be managed.

multi-domain coding and to upload, manage, map also catalogues or

local terminologies.