Health informatics — Interoperability and compatibility in messaging and communication standards — Key characteristics

This document describes a set of key characteristics to achieve interoperability and compatibility in exchanging health information between systems. The key characteristics describe the inter-application interoperability needs of the healthcare community, in particular the subject of care, the healthcare professional or caregiver, the healthcare provider organisation and its business units, and the integrated delivery network.

The key characteristics offer criteria to be used by standards developers and implementers for messaging and communications in the healthcare domain, they also provide a guide for software developers and vendors, healthcare providers and end users.

Main sections:

· Scope

· References

· Trust constituency

· Principles and objectives

· Key characteristics (KC)

· Principles and objectives enabled by key characteristics

· Annex A: Exercise to validate the key characteristics set out in this technical report

· Annex B: RM-ODP viewpoints

· Annex C: RM-ODP enterprise viewpoint

· Annex D: RC-ODP architecture — Enterprise language