HL7 Technical Committee or
Special Interest Group
Mission and Charter Statement
Group Name: Arden Syntax Special Interest Group
Mission
This group supports the HL7 mission to create and promote its standards by
maintenance and further development of the Arden Syntax for Medical Logic Systems, a
standard for representing and sharing clinical knowledge in procedural format.
Charter
Work Products and Contributions to HL7 Processes
The Arden Syntax SIG will develop future versions of the Arden Syntax, with the goals
of facilitating its use for representing procedural medical knowledge and promoting
knowledge sharing.
Toward this end, it also will identify existing HL7 messages and triggers that might be
usable for decision support and contribute these to the Clinical Decision Support
Technical Committee. Also, the SIG will work with other groups in HL7 towards a
standard data model and query protocols to solve Arden Syntax's "curly braces" issue.
Formal Relationships with Other HL7 Groups
The SIG is sponsored by the Clinical Decision Support Technical Committee. As such,
the SIG will incorporate the generic modeling for clinical decision support systems in the
specific technology represented by a procedural formalism for clinical knowledge
representation. Further, the SIG will contribute abstractions from its work with this
particular formalism toward the more generic modeling efforts of the TC.
Formal Relationships with Groups Outside of HL7
NONE
Date of Last Revision
DRAFT. 19 December, 2000.