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The International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation (IHTSDO) is an Association established in 2007 for the purpose of:
- [enhancing] the health of humankind by facilitating better health information management;
- [contributing] to the improved delivery of care by clinical and social care professions;
- [facilitating] the accurate sharing of clinical and related health information, and the semantic interoperability of health records;
- [encouraging] global collaboration and cooperation with respect to the ongoing improvement of the Terminology Products; and
- [providing] the foregoing on a globally coordinated basis, thereby enabling the Members and the related organizations within their Territories to pool resources and share benefits relating to the development and maintenance of, and their utilization and reliance upon, the Terminology Products.
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