SN EN 1064 : 2005 + A1 2007

Foreword
Introduction
1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Terms and definitions
  3.1 Terms specific to this document
  3.2 Other technical terms related to this document
4 Abbreviations
5 Definition of the data contents and format
  5.1 General considerations
  5.2 Specifications for the data structure
  5.3 Pointer section - Section 0
  5.4 Header information - Patient data/ECG acquisition
       data - Section 1
  5.5 Huffman tables - Section 2
  5.6 ECG lead definition - Section 3
  5.7 QRS locations, reference beat subtraction zones
       and protected areas - Section 4
  5.8 Encoded type 0 reference beat data - Section 5
  5.9 Rhythm data - Section 6
  5.10 Global measurements - Section 7
  5.11 Storage of full text interpretive statements
       - Section 8
  5.12 Storing manufacturer specific interpretive statements
       and data overreading trail - Section 9
  5.13 Lead measurement block - Section 10
  5.14 Storage of the universal ECG interpretive statement
       codes - Section 11
6 Minimum requirements for encoding and compression of the
  ECG signal data
  6.1 Scope and field of application
  6.2 Introduction
  6.3 ECG compression methodology
  6.4 Main results from investigations on ECG data
       compression in the SCP-ECG project
  6.5 Minimum requirements for ECG data compression
Annex A (normative) Encoding of alphanumeric ECG data
                    in a multilingual environment
  A.1 General
  A.2 Scope
  A.3 References and definitions
  A.4 Values
  A.5 Control characters
  A.6 Character set encoding
  A.7 Language code
  A.8 Method for handling unsupported character sets
  A.9 Summary of the Escape sequences described in this
       annex for the encoding of free text in SCP-ECG
  A.10 Examples of encoded text strings
Annex B (normative) Definition of compliance with the
                    SCP ECG standard
  B.1 General
  B.2 Compliance specification
  B.3 Testing/validation of SCP-ECG data format compatibility
  B.4 Coding of SCP-ECG compliance
Annex C (normative) Methodology and conformance testing of
                    the recommended ECG signal compression
                    technique
  C.1 General
  C.2 Principles of 'HIGH' SCP-ECG data compression
  C.3 Equations for SCP-ECG data compression
  C.4 Numerical examples for SCP-ECG data compression
  C.5 Test set of ECGs for conformance testing
Annex D (informative) Definition of a minimum set of
                      control and query messages for the
                      interchange of ECG data
  D.1 General
  D.2 Message formats
  D.3 State diagrams
  D.4 Message sequence examples
  D.5 Use of advisory messages
Annex E (informative) Standard low-level ECG-Cart to host
                      protocol
  E.1 General
  E.2 Data link and physical functional layers
  E.3 Physical functional layer
  E.4 Remote connection
  E.5 Data link functional layer
Annex F (informative) Universal ECG interpretation
                      statements codes
  F.1 General
  F.2 Constraints
  F.3 Composition of the code and general syntax rules
  F.4 Acronyms for ECG interpretive statements
  F.5 Overreading of measurement results
Annex G (informative) Glossary
Bibliography
National and international standards
References from the ECG standards literature
Specific references with respect to ECG data compression

Defines the common conventions required for the cart-to-host as well as cart-to-cart interchange of specific patient data (demographic, recording, ...), ECG signal data, ECG measurement and ECG interpretation results.