This document defines universal and specialized characteristics of health terminological resources that make them fit for the purposes required of various applications. It refers only to terminological resources that are primarily designed to be used for clinical concept representation or to those parts of other terminological resources designed to be used for clinical concept representation. This document helps users to assess whether a terminology has the characteristics or provides the functions that will support their specified requirements. The focus of this document is to define characteristics and functions of terminological resources in healthcare that can be used to identify different types of them for categorization purposes. Clauses 4 and 5 support categorization according to the characteristics and functions of the terminological resources rather than the name.
Cross References:
ISO 17115:2007
ISO 1087-1:2000
ISO/TS 17117:2002
ISO 704
ISO 23185
BS EN ISO 17117-1:2018 history
2024BS EN ISO 17117-1:2023 Health informatics. Terminological resources - Characteristics