IS/ISO 17115 : 2007 : Health Informatics - Vocabulary for Terminological Systems

NATIONAL FOREWORD

This Indian Standard which is identical with ISO17115 : 2007 ‘Health Informatics - Vocabulary for terminological systems’ 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 approval of the Medical Equipment and Hospital Planning Division Council.

Health terminology is complex and multifaceted, more so than most language domains. It has been estimated that between 500,000 and 45 million different concepts are needed to adequately describe concepts (for example, conditions of patients and populations), actions in healthcare and related concepts (for example, biomedical molecules, genes, organisms, technical methods and social concepts).