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A system of concepts for the continuity of care A model conforming to ISO 13940:2026
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  2. Health records

    The concepts describing how care is documented: health records, extracts, reports, and the repositories that share them.

  3. care data

    data produced during care activities

  • Health records

    The concepts describing how care is documented: health records, extracts, reports, and the repositories that share them.

    • record template

      information model that is a template for recording a care record

    • care data

      data produced during care activities

    • care information

      information about a person relevant to their care

    • care documenting

      care activity where health records are created or maintained

    • health record

      data repository regarding the health and care of a subject of care

    • professional health record

      health record held under the responsibility of one care provider and maintained by care professionals

    • personal health record

      health record held and maintained by the subject of care or a subject of care proxy

    • shareable data repository

      data repository containing health record extracts, accessible for duly authorized care actors independent of their organizational affiliation and placed under the custody of a care actor

    • health record extract

      part or all of a health record extracted for the purpose of communication

    • social record extract

      part or all of a social record extracted for the purpose of communication

    • health report

      health record extract conveying specifically focused care information in order to fulfil current information needs of the recipient

    • social care report

      social record extract conveying specifically focused social care information in order to fulfil current information needs of the recipient

    • discharge report

      health report concerning a completed mandated period of care

    • health summary

      electronic health record extract containing essential care information intended for specific uses

    • discharge summary

      discharge report summarizing a mandated period of care

    • health concern

      health record extract that includes all health record components associated with a health thread

    • summarized care information repository

      data repository containing summarized information for care coordination and the continuity of care

    • care communication

      care activity where two or more care actors communicate

    • non-ratified care information

      care information the relevance of which has not been assessed and explicitly stated as valid by a care professional

    • care information for import

      care information that is a candidate for import into a professional health record after a care professional has confirmed its clinical relevance to that professional health record

    • care information request

      request sent out by a care actor to another care actor for specific care information needed for the provision of care to a subject of care

    • health certificate

      official document issued by a care actor attesting to the relevant health matters of a subject of care

    • health record component

      part of a health record that is identifiable for the purposes of referencing and revision

    • folder

      record component used for creating hierarchical structures within an electronic health record extract and with compositions as leaf nodes

    • composition

      health record component containing information composed during one clinical encounter or documentation session, and committed within one health record

    • entry

      health record component that represents the data documenting one observation or a series of related observations, or a statement, an explanation of reasoning, a care intention, plan or action

care data

data produced during care activities

care data extends the class data

Figure 1. Class Diagram
Class Diagram of care dataGenerated diagram of focal class care data and related classes. set of values of qualitative or quantitative variablesdata data produced during care activitiescare data

Plural care data

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ISO 13940:2026 ("ContSys") is published by the International Organization for Standardization. This site presents a model conformant to the standard; it is not the text of the standard.