DCM Charter References

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Documents and resources

• HDF – HL7 Development Framework, the methodology for developing HL7 specifications
• HL7 project wiki – The wiki maintained by HL7 for support of HL7 projects.
• ISO 13972 – A draft work item proposing to define quality criteria for Detailed Clinical Models

Glossary

• ASTM – American Society for Testing and Materials
• CEN – European Committee for Standardization
• CIM – Constrained information model: An information model constructed to represent the concepts in a problem domain in a form in which every feature is assigned to a corresponding feature in the HL7 Reference Information Model
• DCM – Detailed Clinical Model: an information model of a discrete set of precise clinical knowledge which can be used in a variety of contexts.
• DAM – Domain Analysis Model: An information model constructed to represent the concepts in a problem domain in a form most closely matching the domain as understood by subject matter experts
• ISO – International Organization for Standardization
• HDF – HL7 Development Framework, which documents the process for HL7 standards development
• HL7 – Health Level Seven, an ANSI-recognized standards development organization in the healthcare interoperability space (www.hl7.org)
• MDA - Model-Driven Architecture is a software design approach for the development of software systems that expresses guidelines as models for the structuring of specifications.
• PIM – Platform-independent model; a conceptual model that does not assume a specific implementation technology (but may assume a specific reference model)
• PSM – Platform-specific model; a model that assumes a specific reference model or implementation technology
• SAIF - Services-Aware Interoperability Framework, an HL7 framework to support interoperability across communication paradigms
• SDO – Standards development organization

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