ISO 16278:2016定义了在术语系统中综合描述人体解剖学的组织和内容所需的特征。它主要用于基于计算机的应用，如临床电子健康记录、决策支持和各种生物医学研究目的。 ISO 16278:2016将用于 -促进新术语系统的规范化建设，增强其连贯性和表达力， -促进术语系统中人体解剖学的维护， -提高现有术语系统的一致性和连贯性， -允许在不同类型的术语系统中的人体解剖学项目之间进行系统的交叉引用， -促进术语系统内人体解剖学的融合， -明确不同医疗保健领域和术语系统之间的人体解剖学重叠， -为各开发人员之间关于将不同术语系统集成到信息系统的谈判提供要素，以及 -能够在术语系统中对人体解剖学进行系统评估。 ISO 16278:2016本身不适合或不适用于个体临床医生或医院管理人员。 本国际标准的目标群体如下: -专业标准医疗术语分类结构的设计者； -开发医疗术语系统，包括分类和编码系统； -术语系统服务的生产者和包括自然语言处理在内的软件设计者； -信息建模师、知识工程师和标准开发人员为健康信息管理系统构建模型； -需要医疗术语系统明确表示的信息系统开发人员； -医疗文档表示的标记标准的开发人员。 ISO 16278:2016不包括描述人类生命周期（包括产前发育、产后生长和衰老）中发育解剖学所需的分类结构。 ISO 16278:2016是为作为计算机集成部分使用而开发的- 基于应用程序和电子医疗记录。对于手动使用，它的价值有限。 本国际标准的目的不是使人体解剖学术语的最终用户分类标准化，或与国家实践和语言中嵌入的概念系统相冲突。

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. ISO 16278:2016 will serve to - facilitate the construction of new terminological systems in a regular form which will increase their coherence and expressiveness, - facilitate maintenance of human anatomy within terminological systems, - increase consistency and coherence of existing terminological system, - allow systematic cross-references between items of human anatomy in different types of terminological systems, - facilitate convergence among human anatomy within terminological systems, - make explicit the overlap for human anatomy between different health care domains terminological systems, - provide elements for negotiation about integration of different terminological systems into information systems between the respective developers, and - enable the systematic evaluation of human anatomy within terminological systems. ISO 16278:2016 itself is not suitable or intended for use by, individual clinicians or hospital administrators. The target groups for this International Standard are the following: - designers of specialized standard healthcare terminological categorial structures; - developers of healthcare terminological systems including classifications and coding systems; - producers of services for terminological systems and designers of software including natural language processing; - information modellers, knowledge engineers, and standards developers building models for health information management systems; - developers of information systems that require an explicit representation of healthcare terminological systems; - developers of marked-up standards for representation of healthcare documents. 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. 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. 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.