BS EN ISO 21090:2011

Foreword
Introduction
1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Terms and definitions
4 Abbreviated terms
5 Conformance
6 Datatypes overview
7 Datatypes
Annex A (normative) - XML representation
Annex B (normative) - UML support types
Annex C (informative) - RM-ODP viewpoint mappings
Annex D (informative) - HL7 V3 Abstract Data Types mapping
Annex E (informative) - Schema for XML representation
Bibliography

Gives a set of datatype definitions for representing and exchanging basic concepts that are commonly encountered in healthcare environments in support of information exchange in the healthcare environment.

This International Standard

• provides a set of datatype definitions for representing and exchanging basic concepts that are commonly encountered in healthcare environments in support of information exchange in the healthcare environment;

• specifies a collection of healthcare-related datatypes suitable for use in a number of health-related information environments;

• declares the semantics of these datatypes using the terminology, notations and datatypes defined in ISO/IEC11404, thus extending the set of datatypes defined in that standard;

• provides UML definitions of the same datatypes using the terminology, notation and types defined in Unified Modelling Language (UML) version 2.0;

• specifies an XML (Extensible Mark-up Language) based representation of the datatypes.

The requirements which underpin the scope reflect a mix of requirements gathered primarily from HL7 Version 3 and ISO/IEC11404, and also from CEN/TS 14796, ISO13606 (all parts) and past ISO work on healthcare datatypes.

This International Standard can offer a practical and useful contribution to the internal design of health information systems, but is primarily intended to be used when defining external interfaces or messages to support communication between them.