Health informatics — Capacity-based eHealth architecture roadmap – Part 2: Architectural components and maturity model

This document provides a guide to best-practice business requirements and principles relating to information and communications technology (ICT) for the delivery and development of healthcare. It applies to countries and their subordinate health authorities that are planning or implementing ICT to support healthcare.

A business reference architecture is described in terms of components and capabilities that health authorities may use as a framework for building their own eHealth architectures. This can also be used to measure the maturity of their health systems' use of ICT to support the delivery and development of healthcare.

This document also proposes a maturity model and methodology that organisations may consider in developing and evolving particular eHealth capacities. The development of eHealth architectures based on the guidelines set out in this document will facilitate and optimise investments in health information systems.

Main sections:

· Scope

· Overview of business requirements

· Development and application of eHealth enterprise architectures

· Health architecture components and requirements

· Profiling countries with the eHAM8 Future Considerations

· Annex A: World Economic Forum — Global Health Data Charter

· Annex B: Generic component model

· Annex C: Health informatics — Service architecture (HISA)

· Annex D: Candidate standards supporting eHealth Architecture Model and Maturity Models

· Annex E: WHO Indicator and Measurement Registry (IMR)

· Annex F: Statistical Data and Metadata Exchange for the Health Domain (SDMX-HD)

· Annex G: List of figures and tables in this part of ISO 14639