Health informatics – Electronic health record communication –Part 2: Archetype interchange specification

This document is Part 2 of a 5-part series that sets out a system for communicating about electronic health records (EHRs). This system enables the communication of whole or partial EHRs between EHR systems, or between EHR systems and a centralised EHR data repository. Part 2 defines the Archetype Model to be used to represent Archetypes when communicating between repositories and archetype services.

In addition to the direct communication of EHRs, the system can also be used for decision support components, personal health applications and devices that need to access or provide EHR data, or the representation of EHR data within a distributed (federated) record system.

This document is primarily intended to support direct care given to identifiable individuals, self-care by individuals and population monitoring systems such as disease registries and public health surveillance. It may also be useful for other purposes such as teaching, clinical audit, administration and reporting, service management, research and epidemiology, which often require the anonymisation or aggregation of individual records.

Main sections:

· Scope

· Normative references

· Terms and definitions

· Conformance

· Archetype representation requirements

· Archetype object model

· Annex A: Archetype definition language

· Annex B: Example representation