Overview

The ISO/IEEE 11073 family of standards enables communication between medical devices and external computer systems. It allows for automated detailed acquisition of personal vital data and functional parameters by using monitoring devices and therapy equipment, for example at an intensive care unit or in an operating theatre but also within domestic or private environment. The primary objectives are: - providing plug-and-play functionality and interoperability with patient-connected or personal medical devices for real-time applications; - simplification of the efficient interchange of measured vital data, relevant context information as well as operating data of the medical devices used. Here, "real time" means that data from several different medical devices, if appropriate, can be captured on time and can be represented and processed within fractions of seconds. "Plug-and-play" means that users only have to establish the communication link to a device. Its recognition by the system, the configuration of communication parameters and, if applicable, application and finally the initiation of data transmission take place automatically which means without human intervention. This standard extends the base nomenclature provided in ISO/IEEE 11073-10101:2004 to support terminology for implantable cardiac devices. Devices within the scope of this nomenclature are implantable devices such as pacemakers, defibrillators, devices for cardiac resynchronization therapy, and implantable cardiac monitors. This nomenclature defines the discrete terms necessary to convey a clinically relevant summary of the information obtained during a device interrogation. The nomenclature extensions may be used in conjunction with other IEEE 11073 standard components (for example ISO/IEEE 11073-10201) or with other standards, such as Health Level Seven International (HL7). The responsible committee is NA 063-07-02 AA "Interoperabilität" ("Interoperability") at DIN.

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Responsible national committee

NA 176-02-02 AA - Interoperability  

Responsible european committee

CEN/TC 251/WG 2 - Technology and Applications