International Organization for Standardization

Health informatics - Profiling framework and classification for Traditional Medicine informatics standards development - Part 1: Traditional Chinese Medicine - First Edition
 N TS 18790-1

Annotation

General

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is a form of traditional medicine that originated in China, and is characterized by holism and treatment based on pattern identification/syndrome differentiation. The Technical Specification establishes common concepts and a vocabulary for describing the complex domain of various Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) informatics standards initiatives and their supporting artefacts. It provides a useful profiling framework to align existing and developing TCM informatics standards and to reference health informatics standards. It promotes the reuse of TCM informatics knowledge and improves the identification of opportunities for TCM informatics standards alignment, collaboration, and coordination.

Topics considered outside the scope of this Technical Specification include:

— profiling framework and classification for informatics standards of Kampo, Korean medicine, and other traditional medicine.

Main purpose

The framework has been developed to address different needs of TCM informatics and compare with health informatics standards. The specific needs addressed in this Technical Specification are the following:

— provide the capability to comprehensively define and classify TCM informatics standards artefacts;

— facilitate the coordination, communication, and comparability of TCM informatics standards through a common understanding of intended users and content;