Support Terminology specification STABLE

This document describes the openEHR Support Terminology and code sets, which define the vocabulary and codes needed for the openEHR Reference, Archetype and Service models. The openEHR terminology is not considered to be in the same space as externally defined terminologies such as SNOMED CT, ICDx etc, since it is not an ontology of real facts, but of informational classifiers needed by the openEHR models. The code sets are generally a means of interfacing external codes such as ISO language identifiers, with openEHR. The audience of this document includes:

Prerequisite documents for reading this document include:

Feedback may be provided on the openEHR Terminology specifications forum.

Issues may be raised on the specifications Problem Report tracker.

To see changes made due to previously reported issues, see the TERM component Change Request tracker.