Health Concept Representation standards development supports patient safety, effectiveness and efficiency of health service delivery by developing standards for the consistent and clear representation and collection of health information. The objectives are to ensure that the meaning of health information is preserved over time, space, context and reuse; and to be responsive to the administrative and clinical business requirements for semantic interoperability in health care domains.

The Standards Australia IT-014-02 sub-committee - Health Concept Representation inform and are informed by work focusing on decision support knowledge with an emphasis on formal interfaces between decision support and the ontology model. Examples of issues addressed within this sub-committee are the formal representation and description of health concepts; principles of their organisation within terminologies and their related systems including controlled clinical terminologies and classifications.

Groups impacted by the work of this sub-committee include health consumers, clinicians, software vendors, secondary data users and managers, EHR infrastructure developers, educators, terminologists and information managers.