IS/ISO/TR 20514 : 2005 : Health Informatics - Electronic Health Record - Definition, Scope and Context

NATIONAL FOREWORD

This Indian Standard which is identical with ISO/TR 20514 : 2005 ‘Health informatics - Electronic health record - Definition, scope and context’ issued by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) was adopted by the Bureau of Indian Standards on the recommendation of the Health Informatics Sectional Committee and approval of the Medical Equipment and Hospital Planning Division Council.

This standard establishes a set of categories and definitions for electronic health records in order to describe the scope of application of the family of EHR standards.

The primary purpose of EHR standards is to maximize interoperability between electronic records and systems that are specifically intended to be shareable, irrespective of the technologies they use and the platforms on which they reside.

However, a variety of health information systems may include features and functionality that could be characterized as belonging to an EHR system. Similarly, many health information systems may produce output in the form of EHR extracts or entries, as described in ISO/TS 18308, irrespective of whether their primary purpose or application is as a shareable EHR.

The text of IEC Standard has been approved as suitable for publication as an Indian Standard without deviations. Certain conventions and terminologies 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.