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<div class="section-heading"> <p>WHO Family of International Classifications (FIC)</p> </div> <div class="row" data-sf-element="Row"> <div id="PageContent_C118_Col00" class="sf_colsIn col-md-6" data-sf-element="Column 1" data-placeholder-label="Column 1"> <div class="sf-image thumb"> <img class="lazy" data-src="https://cdn.who.int/media/images/default-source/big-stories/international-classification-of-deseases/icd-11-02.tmb-1920v.jpg?sfvrsn=b663c61c_3" data-image="https://cdn.who.int/media/images/default-source/big-stories/international-classification-of-deseases/icd-11-02.tmb-1920v.jpg?sfvrsn=b663c61c_3" title="ICD-CODES-HERO-IMAGE" alt="Graphical representation of relationships between ICD codes" /> </div> </div> <div id="PageContent_C118_Col01" class="sf_colsIn col-md-6" data-sf-element="Column 2" data-placeholder-label="Column 2"> <div class="sf-content-block content-block" > <div ><p>The WHO Family of International Classifications and Terminologies includes:</p><ul><li>the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD),<br /></li><li>the <span style="background-color:transparent;text-align:inherit;text-transform:inherit;white-space:inherit;word-spacing:normal;caret-color:auto;">International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF),<br /></span></li><li><span style="background-color:transparent;text-align:inherit;text-transform:inherit;white-space:inherit;word-spacing:normal;caret-color:auto;">and the International Classification of Health Interventions (ICHI). </span></li></ul><p><span style="background-color:transparent;text-align:inherit;text-transform:inherit;white-space:inherit;word-spacing:normal;caret-color:auto;"></span><span style="background-color:transparent;text-align:inherit;text-transform:inherit;white-space:inherit;word-spacing:normal;caret-color:auto;">These Reference Classifications serve as the global standards for health data, clinical documentation and statistical aggregation.</span></p><div class="button button-orange-background"><a href="https://icd.who.int/dev11/#/" target="_blank" data-sf-ec-immutable="">WHO-FIC Maintenance Platform</a></div></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row" data-sf-element="Row"> <div id="PageContent_C122_Col00" class="sf_colsIn col-md-6" data-sf-element="Column 1" data-placeholder-label="Column 1"> <div class="sf-content-block content-block" > <div ><h2>Benefits of WHO-FIC</h2><p><strong>ICD-11, ICF and ICHI </strong>are key for effective knowledge representation and data transfer.</p><p><strong>WHO Family of International Classifications (WHO-FIC) </strong>allows all healthcare workers (and patients) to communicate using one (technical) language.</p><p>In a hyper-connected world, <strong>WHO-FIC with their shared terminology </strong>are key for supporting natural language processing (NLP).</p><p><strong>WHO-FIC with their shared terminology </strong>are key for effective text mining or text analytics (the process of deriving high-quality information from plain and unstructured text).<br /></p></div> </div> </div> <div id="PageContent_C122_Col01" class="sf_colsIn col-md-6" data-sf-element="Column 2" data-placeholder-label="Column 2"> <div class="sf-content-block content-block" > <div ><h2>Used by</h2><ul><li><strong>Governments </strong>to allocate resources</li><li><strong>Researchers </strong>to collaborate across borders</li><li><strong>Doctors </strong>to document their cases</li><li><strong>Health providers </strong>in algorithms for decision support</li><li><strong>Hospitals</strong> to count the frequency of health problems</li><li><strong>Laboratories</strong> to exchange investigative data</li><li><strong>Insurance companies</strong> for billing purposes</li><li><strong>International organizations</strong> to assess trends in public health</li></ul></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="section-heading"> <h1>Reference Classifications</h1> </div> <div class="row" data-sf-element="Row"> <div id="PageContent_C105_Col00" class="sf_colsIn col-md-4" data-sf-element="Column 1" data-placeholder-label="Column 1"> <div class="sf-content-block content-block" > <div ><div class="navigation-title"><p> </p><div class="navigation-title" style="text-align:center;"><p><img sf-custom-thumbnail="true" src="https://cdn.who.int/media/images/default-source/2021-dha-images/icd-11-logo.jpg?sfvrsn=d6476082_2" style="background-color:transparent;color:#3c4245;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;text-align:inherit;text-transform:inherit;white-space:inherit;word-spacing:normal;caret-color:auto;display:block;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;" sf-constrain-proportions="true" width="160" alt="" sf-size="14970"><span style="background-color:transparent;text-align:inherit;text-transform:inherit;white-space:inherit;word-spacing:normal;caret-color:auto;"></span></p><p><span style="background-color:transparent;text-align:inherit;text-transform:inherit;white-space:inherit;word-spacing:normal;caret-color:auto;">International Statistical Classification of Diseases and related health problems: </span><br><span style="background-color:transparent;text-align:inherit;text-transform:inherit;white-space:inherit;word-spacing:normal;caret-color:auto;">Diagnoses, injuries, findings, primary care...</span></p></div></div></div> </div> </div> <div id="PageContent_C105_Col01" class="sf_colsIn col-md-4" data-sf-element="Column 2" data-placeholder-label="Column 2"> <div class="sf-content-block content-block" > <div ><p><p> </p><div class="navigation-title"></div></p><p><div class="navigation-title"><img sf-custom-thumbnail="true" src="https://cdn.who.int/media/images/default-source/classifications/icf/icf-logo.png?sfvrsn=135580a7_1&Status=Master" style="display:block;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;" sf-constrain-proportions="true" width="160" alt="" sf-size="35151"></div><div class="navigation-title" style="text-align:center;"><br>International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health: <br>Describes functional health status and social impact (bio-psycho-social model)...</div><div class="navigation-title"></div><p></div> </div> </div> <div id="PageContent_C105_Col02" class="sf_colsIn col-md-4" data-sf-element="Column 3" data-placeholder-label="Column 3"> <div class="sf-content-block content-block" > <div ><p> </p><div class="navigation-title"><div class="navigation-title"><p style="text-align:center;"><img sf-custom-thumbnail="true" src="https://cdn.who.int/media/images/default-source/classifications/ichi/ichi-logo.png?sfvrsn=d1fda7db_1&Status=Master" style="display:block;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;" sf-size="27918" width="160" alt="" sf-constrain-proportions="true"><br><span style="text-align:center;background-color:initial;color:#313131;font-family:Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;font-size:inherit;text-transform:inherit;white-space:inherit;word-spacing:normal;caret-color:auto;">Interventions for treatment, prevention and diagnostics: </span><span style="text-align:center;background-color:initial;color:#313131;font-family:Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;font-size:inherit;text-transform:inherit;white-space:inherit;word-spacing:normal;caret-color:auto;"></span><span style="text-align:center;background-color:initial;color:#313131;font-family:Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;font-size:inherit;text-transform:inherit;white-space:inherit;word-spacing:normal;caret-color:auto;">Medical, nursing, rehabilitation, laboratory, imaging, ultrasound, public health...</span></p></div></div><ul></ul></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row" data-sf-element="Row"> <div id="PageContent_C131_Col00" class="sf_colsIn col-md-8" data-sf-element="Column 1" data-placeholder-label="Column 1"> </div> <div id="PageContent_C131_Col01" class="sf_colsIn col-md-4" data-sf-element="Column 2" data-placeholder-label="Column 2"> </div> </div> <div class="section-heading"> <p>Common Foundation - Terminology components</p> </div> <div id="PageContent_C108_Col00" class="sf_colsIn container" data-sf-element="Container" data-placeholder-label="Container"> <div class="sf-content-block content-block" > <div ><p>The Foundation Component represents the entire WHO-FIC universe. <sup id="cite_ref-Foundation_User_Guide_13-0"></sup>It is a multidimensional collection of interconnected entities and synonyms. These entities consist of diseases, disorders, injuries, external causes, signs and symptoms, functional descriptions, interventions, and extension codes. ICD-11 statistical core (MMS) is derived from this foundation, ICF and ICHI will follow. Currently, with over hundred thousand entities and the ontological design of the foundation component, more than one million terms can be captured<strong>.</strong> </p><p>The Foundation Component also includes WHO terminologies such as: <br /></p><ul><li>WHO INN (non proprietary names - medicaments)/ATC</li><li>WHO Devices</li><li>Histopathology (tumours)</li><li>Anatomy</li><li>Details of external causes</li><li>Severity</li><li>Infectious agents</li><li>Sites and activities </li><li>Rare diseases</li></ul></div> </div> </div> <div class="row" data-sf-element="Row"> <div id="PageContent_C090_Col00" class="sf_colsIn col-md-12" data-sf-element="Column 1" data-placeholder-label="Column 1"> <div class="sf-content-block content-block" > <div ><p><strong style="background-color:transparent;font-size:25px;text-align:inherit;text-transform:inherit;white-space:inherit;word-spacing:normal;caret-color:auto;"></strong><strong style="background-color:transparent;font-size:25px;text-align:inherit;text-transform:inherit;white-space:inherit;word-spacing:normal;caret-color:auto;">Derived classifications</strong></p><p><strong></strong>Derived classifications are extensions of reference classifications, and are created for use within a specialty setting and are derived from the common foundation.</p><ul><li><a target="_blank" href="/standards/classifications/other-classifications">See all derived classifications</a><strong> </strong><strong> </strong></li></ul><h2><strong>Related classifications</strong></h2><p>Related classifications are complementary to reference and derived classifications, and cover specialty areas not otherwise described in the Family of International Classifications (FIC). </p><ul><li><a target="_blank" href="/standards/classifications/other-classifications">See all related classifications</a></li></ul></div> </div> <div class="section-heading"> </div> <div class="section-heading"> <h1>News</h1> </div> <div class="list-view vertical-list vertical-list--image"> <div class="list-view--item vertical-list-item"> <a href="https://www.who.int/news/item/22-10-2024-who-explores-collaboration-with-snomed-international-for-linkage-between-icd-11-and-snomed-ct" class="link-container table" aria-label="WHO explores collaboration with SNOMED International for linkage between ICD-11 and SNOMED CT" role="link"> <div class="table-cell"> <div class="thumb"> <div class="background-image background-image--small" data-image="https://cdn.who.int/media/images/default-source/headquarters/teams/data-analytics-delivery-for-impact-(ddi)/data-and-analytics-(dna)/data-exchange-(dex)/who_013540-1920px.tmb-768v.jpg?sfvrsn=b5f2aac4_1" style="background-image: url('https://cdn.who.int/media/images/default-source/headquarters/teams/data-analytics-delivery-for-impact-(ddi)/data-and-analytics-(dna)/data-exchange-(dex)/who_013540-1920px.tmb-131v.jpg?sfvrsn=b5f2aac4_1')"></div> </div> </div> <div class="table-cell info"> <div class="date"> <span class="timestamp">22 October 2024</span> <div class="sf-tags-list"> <div class="sf-tags-list-item">Departmental update</div> </div> </div> <p class="heading text-underline">WHO explores collaboration with SNOMED International for linkage between ICD-11 and SNOMED CT</p> </div> </a> </div> <div class="list-view--item vertical-list-item"> <a href="https://www.who.int/news/item/08-02-2024-icd-11-2024-release" class="link-container table" aria-label="ICD-11 2024 release" role="link"> <div class="table-cell"> <div class="thumb"> <div class="background-image background-image--small" data-image="https://cdn.who.int/media/images/default-source/classifications/icd/icd11/icd-11-2024-release.tmb-768v.png?sfvrsn=91c4d2a6_1" style="background-image: url('https://cdn.who.int/media/images/default-source/classifications/icd/icd11/icd-11-2024-release.tmb-131v.png?sfvrsn=91c4d2a6_1')"></div> </div> </div> <div class="table-cell info"> <div class="date"> 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