International Organization for Standardization

Health informatics — Document registry framework - First Edition
 N TS 27790

Annotation

This Technical Specification specifies a general-purpose document registry framework for transmitting, storing and utilizing documents in clinical and personalized health environments. It is quite broad in its applicability to realise the goal of sharing health-related documents spanning a broad spectrum of health domains such as healthcare specialities covering laboratory, cardiology, eye care, etc. and the many areas of personalized health.

This web services-based registry framework includes a document registry and associated repository to allow the sharing of any form of health documents including HL7 CDA (clinical document architecture). It specializes in health, W3C Web Services Standards, ISO 15000 (ebXML registry standards) and OASIS ebXML Registry Information Model 3.0 through the use of the IHE Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing (XDS) from the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) Information Technology Infrastructure (ITI) technical framework, quoting from the Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing (XDS) Profile:

"The Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing IHE Integration Profile facilitates the registration, distribution and access across health enterprises of patient and citizen electronic health records. Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing (XDS) is focused on providing a standards-based specification for managing the sharing of documents between all health enterprises, ranging from private physician offices to clinics to acute care in-patient facilities to personal heath record systems. The XDS IHE Integration Profile assumes that these enterprises belong to one or more affinity domains. An affinity domain is a group of healthcare enterprises that have agreed to work together using a common set of policies and that share a common registry infrastructure."