BS EN 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.This International Standard will serve tofacilitate 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, andenable the systematic evaluation of human anatomy within terminological systems.The International Standard 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.This International Standard 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.This International Standard 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.Cross References:ISO 704ISO 1087-1:2000ISO 2788ISO 10241ISO 15225:2000/Amd 1:2004ISO 17115ISO 18104ISO/IEC 2382-4ISO/IEC/TR 9789:1994EN 1614:2006EN 1828:2002ENV 12611:1997EN 12264:2005ENV 13940:2001All current amendments available at time of purchase are included with the purchase of this document.