Health informatics — Point-of-care medical device communication – Part 20702: Medical devices communication profile for web services

This standard defines a communication protocol specification for a distributed system of point-of-care (PoC) medical devices and medical IT systems that need to exchange data, or safely control networked PoC medical devices by profiling web service specifications. Additional web service specifications are also part of this standard.

Main sections:

· Scope

· Purpose

· Normative references

· Definitions, terminology, notational conventions, and normative statements

· General messaging

· Dynamic discovery

· Service description

· Eventing

· Streaming

· Safe data transmission

· Security considerations

· Message serialisation

· Conformance

· Annex A: (normative) Constants

· Annex B: (informative) Scope of streaming specification

· Annex C: (informative) Streaming and safe data transmission examples

· Annex D: (informative) Discovery and description retrieval sequence diagrams

· Annex E: (informative) Bibliography