ISO/PWI TS 16569

Health informatics — Standardized Dataset for Exchanging Musculoskeletal Exercise Therapy Recommendations

Scope

This document specifies a standardized data set of exercise recommendations aimed at data exchange between healthcare providers and patients. In order to exchange exercise recommendations for musculoskeletal disorder, defining the structure of the data through electronic exchange from healthcare providers to patients is necessary.
This document defines data structures of exercise recommendation data for electronic exchange between healthcare providers and patients with musculoskeletal disorder.
The data structure defined in this document consists of the following items:
1) Period
2) Exercise
3) Healthcare Provider (Professional, Physician, Performer, Practitioner, etc.)
4) Subject (Patient)
This document also defines a data model to represent those exercises, since the composition of exercise recommended for patients with musculoskeletal disorder is diverse, complex, and specific.
The data model of 2)exercise consists of:
a) Type
b) Session
a.1) Body part
a.2) Repetition
a.3) Equipment
c) Number of Sessions
This document focuses on data exchange of exercise recommendation for back ache and degenerative arthritis, and does not cover other musculoskeletal disorders.
This document is not intended to provide a data set for symptoms of other musculoskeletal disorders, as well as the patient’s pain intensity.