What is BS EN 1614 - Representation of dedicated kinds of property in laboratory medicine about?
BS EN 1614 is applicable to Health informatics that provides a structure aiding the representation, e.g., systematic terms or coding systems, of dedicated kinds of property, including dedicated kinds of quantity, in laboratory medicine. The structure for representation is intended to facilitate the unambiguous communication of messages containing information about properties.
Note: Every communication, including requests to and reports from clinical laboratories, and information retrieval for management reporting, research, and reimbursement, will require additional information which is outside the scope of BS EN 1614.
Who is BS EN 1614 - Representation of dedicated kinds of property in laboratory medicine for?
BS EN 1614 on laboratory medicine is useful for:
- International and national organizations responsible for the development, maintenance, or registration of nomenclatures, classifications, and coding systems
- Designers and developers of HCIS, e.g., laboratory information systems (LIS)
- Persons responsible for the acquisition of HCIS and checking compliance with standards
- Designers and developers of computerized diagnostic devices and data acquisition systems
- Developers of communication standards
Why should you use BS EN 1614 - Representation of dedicated kinds of property in laboratory medicine?
The degree to which a message (such as a clinical laboratory report) requires formal, systematic expression is determined by the geographic, linguistic, social, or professional distance between the communicating parties. The further the distance, the more likely there is to be a misunderstanding. Risks of misunderstanding also increase when the "professional distance" between communicating parties increases, e.g., laboratory to health administrator rather than a laboratory to the clinician. BS EN 1614 provides two approaches to reducing this risk.
BS EN 1614 provides a model for the representation of dedicated kinds of property in laboratory medicine to ensure connectivity between laboratory production databases, medical health records, and request and report systems.
Overall, you can use BS EN 1614 structure for representation constitutes the essential basis for the development of nomenclatures and coding systems intended for use in unambiguous and fully informative communication about properties, that fall within the field of application.
