Abstract

This guide is intended to document principal ideas which are necessary and sufficient to assign value to health classification. This guide shall serve governments, funding agencies, terminology developers, terminology integration organizations, and the purchasers and users of this classification system toward improved terminological development and recognition of value in classification. This international standard will also provide classification developers and authors with the quality guidelines needed to construct useful, maintainable classifications. It is applicable to all areas of health about which information is kept or utilized, and is intended to complement and utilize those notions already identified by other national and international standards bodies. These tenets do not attempt to specify all of the richness which can be incorporated into a classification. However, this standard does specify the minimal requirements, which if not adhered to will assure that the classification will have limited generalizability and will be very difficult if not impossible to maintain.

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1. Scope

2. Referenced Documents (purchase separately) The documents listed below are referenced within the subject standard but are not provided as part of the standard.

ISO Standards

ASTM Standards

E1238 Specification for Transferring Clinical Observations Between Independent Computer Systems

E1239 Practice for Description of Reservation/Registration-Admission, Discharge, Transfer (R-ADT) Systems for Electronic Health Record (EHR) Systems

E1284 Guide for Construction of a Clinical Nomenclature for Support of Electronic Health Records

E1384 Practice for Content and Structure of the Electronic Health Record (EHR)

E1633 Specification for Coded Values Used in the Electronic Health Record

CEN Standards

Keywords

ICS Code

ICS Number Code 01.140.20 (Information sciences); 11.020 (Medical sciences and health care facilities in general)

DOI: 10.1520/E2522-07R13

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ASTM E2522