Fast tracking the digitisation of adult social care with MODS | Faculty of Health & Care

Synopsis MODS is a milestone for social care and enables better outcomes for service users. It provides a shared national data language that facilitates integration and innovation. As such it tackles long-standing sector issues including inconsistent terminology and poor data sharing. In the talk we will hear why there was an urgent need for a national data standard in Adult Social Care to: • Improve data quality and consistency • Enable true interoperability across fragmented systems • Reduce duplication, cost, and admin burden • Support CQC (Care Quality Commission) and national policy requirements • Unlock innovation, analytics and research We will also learn how MODS was built and about NHS Assurance Portal. The portal ensures the standard is successfully implemented by driving compliance, supporting implementation, enforcing consistency and enabling continuous improvement. Speaker biography Adam is the CEO and Co-Founder of MetadataWorks. He led the data architecture team for the groundbreaking 100,000 Genome Project and has been instrumental in delivering MODS together with the UK's National Adult Social Care Record Standard. He is a member of the British Standards Institute's IST/35 Health Informatics committee and the UK FHIR Board's Sub-Group for Social Care. Adam is deeply committed to FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) data and is at the forefront of building federated data discovery networks across the government. He is delivering integrated metadata catalogues for leading organisations, including NHS England, Administrative Data Research UK, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and the UK Office for National Statistics.