Health Informatics. Harmonized data types for information interchange
This International Standard
provides a set of datatype definitions for representing and exchanging basic concepts that are commonly encountered in healthcare environments in support of information exchange in the healthcare environment;
specifies a collection of healthcare-related datatypes suitable for use in a number of health-related information environments;
declares the semantics of these datatypes using the terminology, notations and datatypes defined in ISO/IECÂ 11404, thus extending the set of datatypes defined in that standard;
provides UML definitions of the same datatypes using the terminology, notation and types defined in Unified Modelling Language (UML) version 2.0;
specifies an XML (Extensible Mark-up Language) based representation of the datatypes.
The requirements which underpin the scope reflect a mix of requirements gathered primarily from HL7 Version 3 and ISO/IECÂ 11404, and also from CEN/TS 14796, ISOÂ 13606 (all parts) and past ISO work on healthcare datatypes.
This International Standard can offer a practical and useful contribution to the internal design of health information systems, but is primarily intended to be used when defining external interfaces or messages to support communication between them.
| SDO | BSI: British Standards Institution |
| Document Number | ISO 21090 |
| Publication Date | March 31, 2011 |
| Language | en - English |
| Page Count | 206 |
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| Supercedes | |
| Committee | IST/35 |