AAMI EC71 : 2001 : R2007

Committee representation
Foreword
Introduction and field of application
1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Definitions
  3.1 Description of terms specific to this standard
  3.2 Description of other technical terms related to
       this standard
  3.3 Description of general medical informatics terms
4 Abbreviations
5 Definition of the data contents and format within the
  standard ECG communications protocol
  5.1 General considerations
  5.2 Specifications for the data structure
  5.3 Specification of the pointer section - Section 0
  5.4 Specification of the header information - Patient
       data/ECG acquisition data - Section 1
  5.5 Specification of the Huffman tables - Section 2
  5.6 Specification of the ECG lead definition -
       Section 3
  5.7 Specification of QRS locations, reference beat
       subtraction zones, and protected areas - Section 4
  5.8 Specification of the encoded type 0 reference
       beat data - Section 5
  5.9 Specification of the rhythm data - Section 6
  5.10 Specification of the global measurements -
       Section 7
  5.11 Specifications for the storage of full text
       electro-cardiographic interpretive statements -
       Section 8
  5.12 Specifications for storing manufacturer specific
       interpretive statements and data related to the
       overreading trail - Section 9
  5.13 Specification of the lead measurement block -
       Section 10
  5.14 Specifications for the storage of the universal
       ECG interpretive statement codes - Section 11
6 Minimum requirements for encoding and compression of the
  electrocardiographic signal data
  6.1 Scope and field of application
  6.2 Introduction
  6.3 ECG compression methodology
  6.4 Main results from the investigations on ECG data
       compression in the SCP ECG project
  6.5 Minimum requirements for ECG data compression
       6.5.1 Categories of compression schemes
       6.5.2 Minimum requirements for ECG data encoding
             and compression
7 Definition of a minimum set of control and query messages
  for the interchange of ECG data
  7.1 Introduction
  7.2 Message formats
       7.2.1 Identification data interchange (Message
             type = 'I').
       7.2.2 Request (Message type = 'R')
       7.2.3 Status (Message type = 'S')
       7.2.4 Advisory (Message type = 'A')
       7.2.5 Done (Message type = 'D')
       7.2.6 Numbered Notes for clauses 7.2.1 - 7.2.5
       7.2.7 Minimum Functionality
  7.3 State diagrams
       7.3.1 Establishment of Session State Diagram
       7.3.2 Query Messaging System State Diagram
  7.4 Message sequence examples
       7.4.1 ECG Transfer
       7.4.2 Patient List Request
       7.4.3 ECG List Request
       7.4.4 ECG Report Request
  7.5 Use of advisory messages
8 Standard low-level ECG-cart to host transport protocol
  8.1 Scope
  8.2 Datalink and physical functional layers
  8.3 Physical functional layer
       8.3.1 General description
       8.3.2 Local connections
       8.3.3 Remote connection
  8.4 Data link functional layer
       8.4.1 General description
       8.4.2 Transmit machine
       8.4.3 Receive machine
       8.4.4 Format of the data blocks
       8.4.5 CRC error detection algorithm
       8.6.4 State Transition Diagrams (STD)
       8.4.7 Communication scenario
ANNEX A
  A.0 - Introduction
  A.1 - Scope
  A.2 - References and definitions
  A.3 - Values
  A.4 - Control characters
  A.5 - Character set encoding
  A.6 - Language code
  A.7 - Method for handling unsupported character sets
  A.8 - Summary of the escape sequences described in this
        annex for the encoding of free text in SCP-ECG
  A.9 - Examples of encoded text strings
ANNEX B
  B.0 - Introduction
  B.1 - Compliance specification
  B.2 - Testing/validation of SCP-ECG data format
        compatibility
  B.3 - Coding of SCP-ECG compliance
ANNEX C
  C.0 - Introduction
  C.1 - Principles of 'High' SCP-ECG data compression
  C.2 - Equations for SCP-ECG data compression
  C.3 - Numerical examples for SCP-ECG data compression
  C.4 - Test set of ECGs for conformance testing
ANNEX D
  D.0 - Introduction
  D.1 - Constraints
  D.2 - Composition of the code and general syntax rules
  D.3 - Acronyms for ECG interpretive statements
  D.4 - Overreading of measurement results
ANNEX E - Glossary
ANNEX F
  F.0 - National standards
  F.1 - References from the ECG standards literature
  F.2 - Specific references with respect to ECG date
        compression

Defines the two-way digital transmission of remote requests and results between digital electrocardiographs (ECG carts) and heterogeneous computer systems (hosts).