1.1 Information models appropriately are used for analysis, design, and sharing a common understanding in health and healthcare information engineering, in healthcare process improvement, in building information systems, and in health informatics standards development.

1.2 The purpose of this practice is to identify best practices for the creation, use, and assessment of information models in the health and healthcare domain.

1.3 Included in this practice are recommended organizational policies and procedures, where modeling is best used in healthcare, and recommended modeling methods, best practices and evaluation criteria.

1.4 Excluded from this practice are detailed specifications of modeling techniques that are specified or described in other sources.