EVS-EN 15521:2007

This European standard defines the characteristics required to synthetically describe the organisation 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 European standard 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;