Improvements of ICD-11 from the informatics point of view

Abstract

ICD-11 is designed as IT friendly system, and many new features with informatics are incorporated, such as contents model etc. It is not only as a coding system for diagnosed disease, but supporting system for diagnosis, which will result in standardization of medicine. This article will describe about the informatics characteristics of ICD-11, introducing informatics tools, and discuss about the future vision of its usage.