Description of 19/30376105 DC 2019

HISA specifies fundamental requirements for 'information infrastructure' and healthcare specific ‘service architecture’.

This part of ISO 12967 specifies the fundamental characteristics of the computational model to be implemented by a specific architectural layer of the information system (i.e. the service architecture) to provide a comprehensive and integrated interface to the common enterprise information and to support the fundamental business processes of the healthcare organization, as defined in ISO 12967-1. The computational model is specified without any explicit or implicit assumption about the physical technologies, tools or solutions to be adopted for its physical implementation in the various target scenarios. The specification is nevertheless formal, complete and non-ambiguous enough to allow implementers to derive an efficient design of the system in the specific technological environment which will be selected for the physical implementation.

The computational model provides the basis for ensuring consistency between different engineering and technology specifications (including programming languages and communication mechanisms) since they must be consistent with the same computational object model. This consistency allows open inter-working and portability of components in the resulting implementation.

This specification does not aim at representing a fixed, complete, specification of all possible interfaces that may be necessary for any requirement of any healthcare enterprise. It specifies only a set of characteristics – in terms of overall organization and individual computational objects, identified as fundamental and common to all healthcare organizations, and that are satisfied by the computational model implemented by the service architecture.

Preserving consistency with the provisions of this part of ISO 12967, physical implementations shall allow extensions to the standard computational model in order to support additional and local requirements. Extensions shall include both the definition of additional properties in the objects of the standard model and the implementation of entirely new objects.

Also, this standard specification shall be extendable over time according to the evolution of the applicable standardization initiatives. The specification of extensions shall be carried out according to the methodology defined in Clause 7 of ISO 12967-1:2019, which identifies a set of healthcare common information services, describing their need and the methodology through which they will be used.

These information services are only the minimal set identifiable according to the needs of the healthcare enterprise, and constituting the service architecture (i.e. the integration platform) to serve as the basis for healthcare applications, e.g. EHR or patient administration.

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