NF EN 15521

<p>ISO 16278:2016 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.</p> <p>ISO 16278:2016 will serve to</p> <p>- facilitate the construction of new terminological systems in a regular form which will increase their coherence and expressiveness,</p> <p>- facilitate maintenance of human anatomy within terminological systems,</p> <p>- increase consistency and coherence of existing terminological system,</p> <p>- allow systematic cross-references between items of human anatomy in different types of terminological systems,</p> <p>- facilitate convergence among human anatomy within terminological systems,</p> <p>- make explicit the overlap for human anatomy between different health care domains terminological systems,</p> <p>- provide elements for negotiation about integration of different terminological systems into information systems between the respective developers, and</p> <p>- enable the systematic evaluation of human anatomy within terminological systems.</p> <p>ISO 16278:2016 itself is not suitable or intended for use by, individual clinicians or hospital administrators.</p> <p>The target groups for this International Standard are the following:</p> <p>- designers of specialized standard healthcare terminological categorial structures;</p> <p>- developers of healthcare terminological systems including classifications and coding systems;</p> <p>- producers of services for terminological systems and designers of software including natural language processing;</p> <p>- information modellers, knowledge engineers, and standards developers building models for health information management systems;</p> <p>- developers of information systems that require an explicit representation of healthcare terminological systems;</p> <p>- developers of marked-up standards for representation of healthcare documents.</p> <p>ISO 16278:2016 does not include categorial structure that might be necessary for the description of developmental anatomy during the human life cycle, which includes prenatal development, post-natal growth and aging.</p> <p>ISO 16278:2016 has been developed for use as an integrated part of computer-based applications and for the electronic healthcare record. It would be of limited value for manual use.</p> <p>It is not the purpose of this International Standard to standardize the end user classification of human anatomy terminology or to conflict with the concept systems embedded in national practice and languages.</p>