第3章Requirements Analysis and Documentation的目的是:“The processes encourage requirement specification developers to focus on the underlying healthcare information requirements before mapping into the HL7 static reference models (e.g. Reference Information Model.)”。
所以第3章的Domain Analysis Model (DAM)不涉及到RIM。
RIM是在第4章Specification Design, Analysis, and Harmonization以后才用到的,A Design Information Model (DIM) is derived from the Reference Information Model (RIM).