Health informatics — Categorial structures of clinical findings in traditional medicine — Part 1: Traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean medicine

This specification defines a categorial structure for clinical findings in terminological systems for traditional Chinese medicine, traditional Japanese medicine and traditional Korean medicine. The specification defines 3 subcategories: pattern-TM, disorder-TM and sign&symptom-TM. Concept representations in these 3 categories are used to describe the states of patients in clinical records and communications.

Main sections:

· Scope

· Normative references

· Terms and definitions

· Categorial structure (3.1.2) for clinical findings in TM-CJK

· Annex A: Comparison of semantic links with ISO/TS 22789:2010

· Annex B: Guidance notes for using categorial structures