Informatique de santé —Interoperabilité et compatibilité avec les normes de messagerie et de communication — Caractéristiques

This Technical Report describes a set of key characteristics to achieve interoperability and compatibility in trusted

health information interchange between communicant application systems.

The key characteristics describe inter-application interoperability needs of the healthcare community, in particular

the subject of care, the healthcare professional/caregiver, the healthcare provider organization, its business units

and the integrated delivery network.

The key characteristics offer criteria for standards developers and implementers of standards for messaging and

communications in the healthcare domain and provide a guide for software developers and vendors, healthcare

providers and end users.