Interoperability

terminology standard

Terminology: Clinical Terminology Governance

Govern code systems, value sets, mappings, licenses, versions, and validation timestamps independently from transport standards.

Statuslicense-review-required
StewardSNOMED International, Regenstrief Institute, and U.S. National Library of Medicine
Profiles4
Linked contracts4

Versions and profiles

Deployment scope must be selected and verified before live exchange.

01SNOMED CT
02LOINC
03RxNorm
04deployment-approved value sets
Capabilities

Approved exchange scope

  • clinical concept coding
  • laboratory and observation coding
  • medication normalization
  • value-set validation
Evidence

Required conformance artifacts

  • terminology version inventory
  • value-set expansion
  • mapping review
  • validation timestamp
Controls

Required before live use

  • license review
  • version pinning
  • mapping provenance
  • semantic drift monitoring
  • human terminology review

Contract bindings

Connector contracts using this standard.

Primary sources

Official references retained for implementation review.