BS 8421-1:2003

BS 8421-1:2003 gives general guidance, within health informatics, on the application of standards, specifications and recommendations to the domains of the producers and users of the results of healthcare service procedures. It describes the communication of the results of healthcare service procedures into the remainder of the healthcare arena in the context of
patient records as a whole. It also reviews presentation of results using health informatics standards and other more general information technology standards relevant to the communication of results from healthcare service departments to end-users.

This part of BS 8421 uses BS ISO/IEC 10746 to provide a framework for understanding the communication of results from healthcare service departments to end-users for the purposes of producing system specifications for interoperability.

Recommendations are made for the use of healthcare standards profiles for the results of healthcare procedures.