HL7 Version 3 Standard: Common Terminology Services (CTS), Release 2

DESCRIPTION

The goal of CTS2 is to provide a standardized interface for the use and management of terminologies.  CTS2 provides a modular, common, and universally deployable set of behaviors which can be used to manage sets of terminologies deployed in a service environment. CTS2 services will contribute to interoperability by supporting easy access to the foundational elements of shared semantics and foster the authoring of high-quality terminologies via its authoring profile. Additionally. CTS2 defines the functional requirements of a set of service interfaces that allow the representation, access, and maintenance of terminology content either locally, or across a federation of terminology service nodes.

ALTERNATIVE NAMES

HL7 Version 3 Standard: Common Terminology Services (CTS), Release 2 may also go by the following names or acronyms:

TARGETS

Stakeholders who employ any terminology enabled software application or perform terminology development operations

Vendors and Providers who employ any terminology enabled software application or perform terminology development operations.

IMPLEMENTATIONS/CASE STUDIES

• PHAST
• Mayo Clinic

DEVELOPMENT BACKGROUND

CTS2 extends the behavior defined in HL7’s original CTS specification.  CTS2 was developed as a joint standards development activity occurring in both Health Level 7 (HL7), the Object Management Group (OMG) where HL7 developed this normative Service Functional Model (SFM) with the OMG developing the Platform Independent Model (PIM).

RELATED DOCUMENTS

	HL7 Version 3 Standard: Common Terminology Services (CTS), Release 2		(Download)
	HL7 Version 3 Standard: Common Terminology Services (CTS), Release 1	(View Brief)	(Download) (524 KB)

TOPIC

• Terminology

BALLOT TYPE

• Normative

STATUS DATE

2022-01-18

RESPONSIBLE WORK GROUP

PRODUCT TYPE

• Services

FAMILY

• V3

CURRENT STATE

• Stable

REALM

• Universal