IS/ISO 12381 : 2019 Health Informatics - Explicit Time-Related Expressions for Healthcare-Specific Problems

NATIONAL FOREWORD

This Indian Standard which is identical to ISO 12381 : 2019 'Health informatics - Explicit time-related expressions for healthcare-specific problems' issued by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) was adopted by the Bureau of Indian Standards on the recommendation of the Health Informatics Sectional Committee and after approval of the Medical Equipment and Hospital Planning Division Council.

The text of the ISO standard has been approved as suitable for publication as an Indian Standard without deviations. Certain conventions are however not identical to those used in the draft Indian Standards. Attention is particularly drawn to the following:

a) Wherever the words 'International Standard' appears referring to this standard, they should be read as 'Indian Standard'; and

b) Comma (,) has been used as a decimal marker while in Indian Standard, the current practice is to use a point (.) as the decimal marker.