System of concepts to support continuity of care

Concepts that are needed for these purposes must represent both the content and context of the health care services.

Work to take the standard through ISO and to develop a second part focused on the healthcare process had proven problematic, resulting in the withdrawal of the two ISO work items on 13 January 2011[4] and a proposed resolution in CEN TC251 to stop the development of part 2 from CEN.

The main purpose is to graphically describe a concept system within a subject field.

Some examples of these which should complement this standard are: The continuity of care is achieved in clinical processes.

The relation between the business areas that have to be covered from continuity perspectives is used to structure this standard.

The process used was to make an XML schema/service for each reference structure, to document the specialisation and to use it in an implementation.

The study demonstrates the feasibility of developing shared care plans combining a standard concept model, for example ContSys with an electronic health records (EHR) interoperability specification, that is the openEHR, while highlighting areas that need further exploration.

The conformance criteria in the committee draft have been substantially revised compared with the precursor standard.