ISO 13940:2015定义了医疗服务不同方面的概念体系。 医疗保健的核心业务是护理对象和医疗保健专业人员之间的互动。这种相互作用发生在医疗保健/临床过程中，是ISO 13940:2015过程方法的正当理由。为了能够代表临床内容和临床背景，ISO 13940:2015与通用医疗/临床过程模型以及医疗服务的临床、管理和资源方面的综合概念定义和概念模型相关。 实际上，ISO 13940:2015涵盖了医疗保健中结构化信息被指定为需求时所需的概念定义。这些定义仅指概念层面，而非实施细节。ISO 13940:2015将涵盖产品开发过程中的所有级别规范 信息视角下的逻辑参考模型，作为国际、国家或地方层面语义互操作性的共同基础， 信息系统，以及 特定类型临床过程的信息。

ISO 13940:2015 defines a system of concepts for different aspects of the provision of healthcare. The core business in healthcare is the interaction between subjects of care and healthcare professionals. Such interactions occur in healthcare/clinical processes and are the justification for the process approach of ISO 13940:2015. To be able to represent both clinical content and clinical context, ISO 13940:2015 is related to a generic healthcare/clinical process model as well as comprehensive concept definitions and concept models for the clinical, management and resource aspects of healthcare services. In practice ISO 13940:2015 covers the concept definitions needed whenever structured information in healthcare is specified as a requirement. The definitions are intended to refer to the conceptual level only and not to details of implementation. ISO 13940:2015 will cover all levels of specifications in the development of logical reference models within the information viewpoint as a common basis for semantic interoperability on international, national or local levels, information systems, and information for specified types of clinical processes.