ISO 13119:2022 PDF

Scope: This document specifies a number of metadata elements that describe resources containing medical knowledge, primarily digital documents provided as web resources, accessible from databases or via file transfer, but can be applicable also to paper documents, e.g. articles in the medical literature. The metadata elements — support unambiguous and international unders tanding of important aspects to describe a resource, e.g. purpose, issuer, intended audience, legal s tatus and scientific background, — are applicable to different kinds of digital resources, e.g. recommendation from consensus of a professional group, regulation by a governmental authority, clinical trial protocol from a pharmaceutical company, scientific manuscript from a research group, advice to patients with a specific disease, review article, — are possible to present to human readers including health professionals as well as individuals/ patients, and — are potentially usable for automatic processing, e. g. to support search engines to res trict matches to documents of a certain type or quality level. The metadata elements defined in this document are not intended to — describe documents about a single patient, such as medical records, — describe details ofthe medical content ofthe resource (but some idea ofthe content can be described via keywords or codes) , or — prescribe criteria for the quality of the resource content.

ISO 13119:2022 history

2022 ISO 13119:2022 Health informatics — Clinical knowledge resources — Metadata
2012 ISO 13119:2012 Health informatics - Clinical knowledge resources - Metadata