DIN EN ISO 16278:2016-08

The standard defines the characteristics required to synthetically describe the organization and content of human anatomy within a terminological system. It is intended primarily for use with computer-based applications such as clinical electronic health records, decision support and for various bio-medical research purposes. This standard will serve to: - facilitate the construction of new terminological systems in a regular form which will increase their coherence and expressiveness; - facilitate maintenance of human anatomy within terminological systems; - increase consistency and coherence of existing terminological system; - allow systematic cross-references between items of human anatomy in different types of terminological systems; - facilitate convergence among human anatomy within terminological systems; - make explicit the overlap for human anatomy between different health care domains terminological systems; - provide elements for negotiation about integration of different terminological systems into information systems between the respective developers; and - enable the systematic evaluation of human anatomy within terminological systems. The standard itself is not appropriate or intended for use by individual clinicians or hospital administrators. The target groups for this standard are the following: - designers of specialized standard healthcare terminological categorial structures; - developers of healthcare terminological systems including classifications and coding systems; - producers of services for terminological systems and designers of software including natural language processing; - information modellers, knowledge engineers, and standards developers building models for health information management systems; - developers of information systems that require an explicit representation of healthcare terminological systems; - developers of marked-up standards for representation of healthcare documents. This standard replaces DIN EN 15521:2008-02 as follows: a) the form has been brought in line with the minimally revised European Standard adopted by ISO; b) in the title, "terminologies systems" has been changed to "terminological systems"; c) some minor editorial changes have been made. This standard has been prepared by Technical Committee ISO/TC 215 "Health Informatics" (secretariat: ANSI, USA) in collaboration with CEN/TC 251 "Medical Informatics" (secretariat: NEN, the Netherlands) with the participation of German experts. The responsible national standardization committee is Working Committee NA 063-07-03 AA "Terminologie" ("Terminology") at DIN Standards Committee Medicine (NAMed). Taking Presidential Decision 1/2004 for Annex A into account, this standard contains only the original English version of the International Standard ISO 16278:2016.