NATIONAL FOREWORD

This Indian Standard (Part 5) which is identical with ISO 21549-5 : 2015 ‘Health informatics — Patient healthcard data — Part 5 : Identification data’ issued by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) was adopted by the Bureau of Indian Standards on recommendation of the Health Informatics Sectional Committee and approval of the Medical Equipment and Hospital Planning Division Council.

This Indian Standard is published in several parts. Other parts in this series are:

Part 1 General structure

Part 2 Common objects

Part 3 Limited clinical data

Part 4 Extended clinical data

Part 6 Administrative data

Part 7 Medication data

Part 8 Links

The text of ISO Standard has been approved as suitable for publication as an Indian Standard without deviations. Certain terminologies and conventions are, however, not identical to those used in Indian Standards. Attention is particularly drawn to the following:

a) Wherever the words ‘International Standard’ appear referring to this standard, they should be read as ‘Indian Standard’.

b) Comma (,) has been used as a decimal marker, while in Indian Standards, the current practice is to use a point (.) as the decimal marker.