Health informatics — Terminological resources — Part 1: Characteristics

This standard defines universal and specialised 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. The standard 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 health care that can be used to identify different types of them for categorisation purposes. Clauses 4 and 5 support categorisation according to the characteristics and functions of the terminological resources rather than the name.

Main sections:

· Scope

· Normative references

· Terms and definitions

· Characteristics of terminological resources in the health domain

· Functions invoked by a certain set of characteristics

· Annex A: Selected definitions from ISO 1087-1

· Annex B: Relations between characteristics, functions, requirements and evaluation criteria of terminological resources

· Annex C: Relations among terminological resources