ISO 19465:2017 漢方薬—漢方薬（TCM）の臨床用語システムのカテゴリー | ページ 2

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The committee responsible for this document is ISO/TC 249, Traditional Chinese medicine.

Introduction

Clinical terms used in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) healthcare are distinct from those used in health care systems based on biomedicine. The proliferation of computer applications and increase of electronic communication in TCM healthcare call urgently for specific standards. A terminological system is required to support a consistent way of indexing, storing, retrieving and aggregating clinical data of TCM. However, the process of standardization of clinical terminology of TCM is not compatible with the needs. The large number of clinical terms in the TCM system cannot be effectively managed without classification. The development of the category framework is a fundamental part of the terminological system.

The objective of this document is to express a core categorial structure of TCM clinical terms. The development of an International Standard will help existing users to develop a robust logical TCM clinical terminology system.

The potential uses for this categorial structure are as follows:

• support developers of TCM clinical terminology systems (TCMCTS);
• support developers of new terminology systems concerning TCM;
• facilitate the representation of TCM clinical information using a standardized core model in a manner suitable for computer processing;
• facilitate the mapping between TCM terminologies and biomedicine terminological systems.

The target groups for this document are the following:

• developers of TCM clinical terminology systems;
• developers of information systems that require a structured framework of concepts to facilitate implementation;
• specialists who require common models of knowledge to facilitate the analysis of current and legacy data from one or more information systems;
• clinicians and coders, to provide greater consistency in structure and organization when entering and retrieving data using one or more terminology systems.

1 Scope

This document specifies a categorial structure within the subject field of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) clinical practice. It describes the upper-level categories of TCM clinical terms and the nomenclature of the hierarchical categories. It is applicable only to clinical terminological systems in TCM disciplines, not to a comprehensive categorial structure of TCM, the conceptual definition of the hierarchy categories, and terms for individual TCM concepts.

The following are considered outside the scope of this document:

• comprehensive categories of TCM;
• the conceptual definition of the hierarchy categories.
• terms for individual TCM concepts;
• the terms or categories of Kampo, Korean medicine and other traditional medicines.

2 Normative references

There are no normative references in this document.

3 Terms and definitions

For the purposes of this document, the following terms and definitions apply.

ISO and IEC maintain terminological databases for use in standardization at the following addresses:

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