BS ISO 17115:2020 PDF

Scope: What is ISO 17115 about? ISO 17115 is an international standard that discusses the aspects of health informatics. ISO 17115 serves the purpose to define a set of basic concepts required to describe formal concept representation systems, especially for health sciences. It describes the representation of concepts and characteristics, for use, especially in formal computer-based concept representation systems. ISO 17115 d escribes the characteristics which synthetically describe the organization and content of a terminological system in health and supports the development of specific standards on categorial structures for particular healthcare subject fields with the minimum requirements to support the meaningful exchange of information. Note 1: Topics considered outside the scope of ISO 17115 include: Enumeration of axiomatic concepts and semantic links Detailed content of health terminology systems (classifications, nomenclatures, or reference terminology of health concepts) Note 2: ISO 17115 is not suitable for, or intended for use, by individual clinicians or hospital administrators. Note 3: It is not the purpose of ISO 17115 to standardize the end-user classification or to conflict with the concept systems embedded in national practice and languages. Who is ISO 17115 for ? ISO 17115 on the representation of categorial structures of terminology is useful for:

BS ISO 17115:2020 history

2020 BS ISO 17115:2020 Health informatics. Representation of categorial structures of terminology (CatStructure)
2007 BS ISO 17115:2007 Health informatics - Vocabulary for terminological systems