DANSK DS/ISO 17115 PDF

1.1 Main purposes The purpose of this International Standard is to define a set of basic concepts required to describe formal concept representation systems, especially for health sciences, and to describe representation of concepts and characteristics, for use especially in formal computer based concept representation systems. A main motivation is to make it possible to precisely describe content models described in other International Standards. Informally, the term concepts is often used when what is meant is concept representations . However, this leads to confusion when precise meanings are required. Concepts arise out of human individual and social conceptualisation of the world around them. Concept representations are artefacts constructed of symbols and often manifest in computer programs. Because they are artefacts, it is possible to be precise about the functioning and capabilities of concept representations. It is more difficult to be clear about the yet poorly understood function of human conceptualisation. Potential uses for this International Standard are to describe formal definitions, parts of definitions and how they are related, describe patterns for concept representation in a particular domain. 1.2 Target groups The target groups for this International Standard are developers of concept representation systems for different health care domains, developers of standards for concept representation, especially those describing domain concept models, information modellers, knowledge engineers, and standards developers building information models for health information systems such as electronic health records and decision support systems, developers of information systems that require an explicit system of concepts for internal organization, data warehouse management and middleware services. 1.3 Topics considered outside scope Topics considered outside the scope of this International Standard include enumeration of axiomatic concepts and semantic links, detailed content of health terminology systems (classifications, nomenclatures or reference terminology of health concepts).