prEN ISO 13972

Health informatics - Quality Requirements and Methodology for Detailed Clinical Models prEN ISO 13972

Scope

Quality requirements and methodologies are necessary for clinical content analysis, quality assurance, information modelling, and repositories for Detailed Clinical Models (DCM).

Detailed Clinical Models are small items of clinical, preventive and care information that are well defined and for which knowledge, data definition, vocabulary binding, and information models for use in information and communication technology are standardized and reusable over domains, purposes, standards and implementations (adapted from Brisbane workshop, 2007).
It is envisioned that the DCM will step into the already established arena of semantic interoperability, with extra features including attention for the validity, reliability and usability of the clinical source materials, criteria for the format of a DCM, generic modelling in order to allow transformations into archetypes, HL7 templates, and other relevant standards and technologies, offering clinicians the opportunity to 'only do this once' and reusing these investments multiple times. In addition, involved experts from HL7, CEN, ISO and OpenEHR expect that this approach can help to bridge still existing issues in the harmonization of standards. Part of this work would include establishment of criteria for repositories of DCM in which metadata, searchability and distribution and maintenance will be determined.