EN ISO 11240:2012 Health informatics - Identification of medicinal products - Data elements and structures for the unique identification and exchange of units of measurement (ISO 11240:2012)
This International Standard:— specifiesrulesfortheusageandcodedrepresentationofunitsofmeasurementforthepurposeofexchanging information about quantitative medicinal product characteristics that require units of measurement (e.g. strength) in the human medicine domain;— establishes requirements for units in order to provide traceability to international metrological standards;— provides rules for the standardized and machine-readable documentation of quantitative composition andstrength of medicinal products, specifically in the context of medicinal product identification;— defines the requirements for the representation of units of measurement in coded form;— provides structures and rules for mapping between different unit vocabularies and language translationsto support the implementation of this International Standard, taking into account that existing systems,dictionaries and repositories use a variety of terms and codes for the representation of units.
EN ISO 11240:2012 Referenced Document
ISO 11238 Health informatics - Identification of medicinal products - Data elements and structures for the unique identification and exchange of regulated information on substances
ISO 11239 Health informatics. Identification of medicinal products. Data elements and structures for the unique identification and exchange of regulated information on pharmaceutical dose forms, units of presentation, routes of administration and…
ISO 21090 Health informatics - Harmonized data types for information interchange
ISO 3166 Codes for the representation of namens of countries
ISO 639 Code for individual languages and language groups
2012EN ISO 11240:2012 Health informatics - Identification of medicinal products - Data elements and structures for the unique identification and exchange of units of measurement (ISO 11240:2012)