---
type: "codesystem"
title: "Device Metric Category"
codesystem: "metric-category"
---
# Device Metric Category

- **Official URL**: http://hl7.org/fhir/metric-category
- **Version**: 6.0.0
- **Status**: active
- **Name**: DeviceMetricCategory
- **Title**: Device Metric Category
- **Publisher**: HL7 (FHIR Project)
- **Description**: Describes the category of the metric.
- **Case Sensitive**: true
- **Content**: complete

## Concepts

| Code | Display | Definition |
| --- | --- | --- |
| measurement | Measurement | Observations generated for this DeviceMetric are measured. |
| setting | Setting | Observations generated for this DeviceMetric is a setting that will influence the behavior of the Device. |
| calculation | Calculation | Observations generated for this DeviceMetric are calculated. |
| unspecified | Unspecified | The category of this DeviceMetric is unspecified. |

## CodeSystem XML



```xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<CodeSystem xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir">
  <id value="metric-category"/>
  <extension url="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-wg">
    <valueCode value="dev"/>
  </extension>
  <extension url="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-standards-status">
    <valueCode value="normative"/>
  </extension>
  <extension url="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-fmm">
    <valueInteger value="2"/>
  </extension>
  <url value="http://hl7.org/fhir/metric-category"/>
  <identifier>
    <system value="urn:ietf:rfc:3986"/>
    <value value="urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113883.4.642.4.649"/>
  </identifier>
  <identifier>
    <use value="old"/>
    <system value="urn:ietf:rfc:3986"/>
    <value value="urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113883.4.642.1.633"/>
  </identifier>
  <identifier>
    <use value="old"/>
    <system value="urn:ietf:rfc:3986"/>
    <value value="urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113883.4.642.2.338"/>
  </identifier>
  <version value="6.0.0"/>
  <name value="DeviceMetricCategory"/>
  <title value="Device Metric Category"/>
  <status value="active"/>
  <experimental value="false"/>
  <date value="2021-01-05T10:01:24+11:00"/>
  <publisher value="HL7 (FHIR Project)"/>
  <contact>
    <telecom>
      <system value="url"/>
      <value value="http://hl7.org/fhir"/>
    </telecom>
    <telecom>
      <system value="email"/>
      <value value="fhir@lists.hl7.org"/>
    </telecom>
  </contact>
  <description value="Describes the category of the metric."/>
  <caseSensitive value="true"/>
  <valueSet value="http://hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/metric-category"/>
  <content value="complete"/>
  <concept>
    <code value="measurement"/>
    <display value="Measurement"/>
    <definition value="Observations generated for this DeviceMetric are measured."/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="setting"/>
    <display value="Setting"/>
    <definition value="Observations generated for this DeviceMetric is a setting that will influence the behavior of the Device."/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="calculation"/>
    <display value="Calculation"/>
    <definition value="Observations generated for this DeviceMetric are calculated."/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="unspecified"/>
    <display value="Unspecified"/>
    <definition value="The category of this DeviceMetric is unspecified."/>
  </concept>
</CodeSystem>
```