Health informatics- Device interoperability - Part 10201: Point-of-care medical device communication - Domain information model (ISO/IEEE 11073-10201:2020)

The scope of this project is to define a general object-oriented information model that may be used to
structure information and identify services used in point-of-care (POC) medical device communications.
The scope is primarily focused on acute care medical devices and the communication of patient vital signs
information.

Medizinische Informatik - Kommunikation patientennaher medizinischer Geräte - Teil 10201: Bereichs-Informationsmodell (ISO/IEEE 11073-10201:2020)

Informatique de santé - Communication entre dispositifs médicaux sur le site des soins - Partie 10201: Modèle d'information du domaine (ISO/IEEE 11073-10201:2020)

Le domaine d'application du présent projet consiste à définir un modèle d'information général orienté objet pouvant être utilisé pour structurer l'information et identifier les services utilisés dans les communications entre dispositifs médicaux sur le site des soins (PoC). Le domaine d'application est principalement axé sur les dispositifs médicaux de soins actifs et la communication des informations relatives aux signes vitaux des patients.

Zdravstvena informatika - Interoperabilnost naprav - 10201. del: Komunikacija medicinskih naprav na mestu oskrbe - Informacijski model domene (ISO/IEEE 11073-10201:2020)

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SLOVENSKI STANDARD
SIST EN ISO 11073-10201:2020
01-september-2020
Nadomešča:
SIST EN ISO 11073-10201:2005
Zdravstvena informatika - Interoperabilnost naprav - 10201. del: Komunikacija
medicinskih naprav na mestu oskrbe - Informacijski model domene (ISO/IEEE
11073-10201:2020)
Health informatics- Device interoperability - Part 10201: Point-of-care medical device
communication - Domain information model (ISO/IEEE 11073-10201:2020)
Medizinische Informatik - Kommunikation patientennaher medizinischer Geräte - Teil
10201: Bereichs-Informationsmodell (ISO/IEEE 11073-10201:2020)
Informatique de santé - Communication entre dispositifs médicaux sur le site des soins -
Partie 10201: Modèle d'information du domaine (ISO/IEEE 11073-10201:2020)
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: EN ISO/IEEE 11073-10201:2020
ICS:
35.240.80 Uporabniške rešitve IT v IT applications in health care
zdravstveni tehniki technology
SIST EN ISO 11073-10201:2020 en,fr,de
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.

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EN ISO/IEEE 11073-
EUROPEAN STANDARD
10201
NORME EUROPÉENNE

EUROPÄISCHE NORM

June 2020
ICS 35.240.80 Supersedes EN ISO 11073-10201:2005
English Version

Health informatics - Device interoperability - Part 10201:
Point-of-care medical device communication - Domain
information model (ISO/IEEE 11073-10201:2020)
Informatique de santé - Interopérabilité des dispositifs Medizinische Informatik - Kommunikation
- Partie 10201: Communication entre dispositifs patientennaher medizinischer Geräte - Teil 10201:
médicaux sur le site des soins - Modèle d'informations Bereichs-Informationsmodell (ISO/IEEE 11073-
du domaine (ISO/IEEE 11073-10201:2020) 10201:2020)
This European Standard was approved by CEN on 2 May 2020.

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European Standard the status of a national standard without any alteration. Up-to-date lists and bibliographical references
concerning such national standards may be obtained on application to the CEN-CENELEC Management Centre or to any CEN
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European foreword
This document (EN ISO/IEEE 11073-10201:2020) has been prepared by Technical Committee ISO/TC
215 "Health informatics" in collaboration with Technical Committee CEN/TC 251 “Health informatics”
the secretariat of which is held by NEN.
This European Standard shall be given the status of a national standard, either by publication of an
identical text or by endorsement, at the latest by December 2020, and conflicting national standards
shall be withdrawn at the latest by December 2020.
Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of
patent rights. CEN shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights.
This document supersedes EN ISO 11073-10201:2005.
According to the CEN-CENELEC Internal Regulations, the national standards organizations of the
following countries are bound to implement this European Standard: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria,
Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland,
Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of
North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and the
United Kingdom.
Endorsement notice
The text of ISO/IEEE 11073-10201:2020 has been approved by CEN as EN ISO/IEEE 11073-
10201:2020 without any modification.

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INTERNATIONAL ISO/IEEE
STANDARD 11073-
10201
Second edition
2020-04
Health informatics — Device
interoperability —
Part 10201:
Point-of-care medical device
communication — Domain
information model
Informatique de santé — Interopérabilité des dispositifs —
Partie 10201: Communication entre dispositifs médicaux sur le site
des soins — Modèle d'informations du domaine
Reference number
ISO/IEEE 11073-10201:2020(E)
©
IEEE 2019

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IEEE Std 11073-10201™-2018
(Revision of
IEEE Std 11073-10201-2004)
Health informatics—Point-of-care medical device communication

Part 10201: Domain Information Model
Sponsor

IEEE 11073™ Standards Committee
of the
IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society


Approved 5 December 2018

IEEE-SA Standards Board

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Abstract: Within the context of the ISO/IEEE 11073 family of standards for point-of-care medical
device communication, an abstract, object-oriented domain information model that specifies the
structure of exchanged information, as well as the events and services that are supported by
each type of object, is provided in this standard. All data structure elements are specified using
abstract syntax (ASN.1) and may be applied to many different implementation technologies,
transfer syntaxes, and application service models. Core subjects include medical, alert, system,
patient, control, archival, communication, and extended services. Model extensibility is supported,
and a conformance model and statement template is provided.
Keywords: abstract syntax, alarm, alert, ASN.1, DIM, domain information model, IEEE 11073-
10201™, information model, medical device communications, medical information bus, MIB,
object-oriented, patient, POC, point-of-care, remote control

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Participants
At the time this IEEE standard was completed, the Point-of-Care Devices Working Group had the
following membership:
John Rhoads, Chair
Michael Faughn, Subgroup Chair
Bjoern Anderson David Gregorczyk Tracy Rausch
Malcolm Clarke Kai Hassing Stefan Schlichting
Todd Cooper John Hatcliff Paul Schluter
Chris Courville Stefan Karl Masato Tanaka
Kenneth Fuchs Martin Kasparick Eugene Vasserman
John Garguilo Koichiro Matsumoto Stan Wiley
Frank Golatowski Joerg-Uwe Meyer Jan Wittenber
Stephan Poehlsen
The following members of the individual balloting committee voted on this standard. Balloters may have
voted for approval, disapproval, or abstention.
Bjoern Andersen Kai Hassing Stefan Schlichting
Michael Bayer Werner Hoelzl Paul Schluter
Keith Chow Noriyuki Ikeuchi Walter Struppler
Malcolm Clarke Atsushi Ito Ganesh Subramanian
Michael Faughn Stefan Karl Thomas Tullia
David Fuschi Piotr Karocki Jan Wittenber
David Gregorczyk Martin Kasparick Oren Yuen
Randall Groves H. Moll Daidi Zhong
John Rhoads
When the IEEE-SA Standards Board approved this standard on 5 December 2018, it had the following
membership:
Jean-Philippe Faure, Chair
Gary Hoffman, Vice Chair
John D. Kulick, Past Chair
Konstantinos Karachalios, Secretary
Ted Burse Xiaohui Liu Robby Robson
Guido R. Hiertz Kevin Lu Dorothy Stanley
Christel Hunter Daleep Mohla Mehmet Ulema
Joseph L. Koepfinger* Andrew Myles Phil Wennblom
Thomas Koshy Paul Nikolich Philip Winston
Hung Ling Ronald C. Petersen Howard Wolfman
Dong Liu Annette D. Reilly Jingyi Zhou
*Member Emeritus
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Introduction
This introduction is not part of IEEE Std 11073-10201-2018, Health informatics—Point-of-care medical device
communication—Part 10201: Domain Information Model.
ISO/IEEE 11073 standards enable communication between different medical devices and between medical
devices and other IT systems for information and for command and control. The primary goals are to:
 Provide real-time plug-and-play interoperability for patient-connected medical devices
 Facilitate the efficient exchange of patient related data and medical device related data, acquired at
the point-of-care (POC), in all health care environments
“Real-time” means that data from multiple devices can be retrieved, time correlated, and displayed or
processed in fractions of a second.
“Plug-and-play” means that when a device or system is connected to another device or system, detection,
configuration, and the initiation of communication all occur automatically andwithout any other human
interaction.
“Efficient exchange of medical device data” means that information that is captured at the POC (e.g.,
patient vital signs data) can be archived, retrieved, and processed by many different types of applications
without extensive software and equipment support, and without needless loss of information. This standard
is especially targeted at acute and continuing care devices, such as patient monitors, ventilators, infusion
pumps, ECG devices, etc. It is a member of a family of standards that can be layered together to provide
connectivity optimized for the specific devices being interfaced.


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Contents
1. Scope . 9
2. Normative references . 9
3. Definitions, acronyms, and abbreviations . 10
3.1 Definitions . 10
3.2 Abbreviations and acronyms . 13
4. General requirements . 14
5. Domain information model (DIM) . 15
5.1 General . 15
5.2 Package diagram–Overview . 18
5.3 Model for the Medical Package . 19
5.4 Model for the Alert Package . 23
5.5 Model for the System Package . 25
5.6 Model for the Control Package . 27
5.7 Model for the ExtendedServices Package . 30
5.8 Model for the Communication Package . 33
5.9 Model for the Archival Package .
...

SLOVENSKI STANDARD
oSIST prEN ISO 11073-10201:2020
01-januar-2020
Zdravstvena informatika - Medobratovalnost naprav - 10201. del: Komunikacija
medicinskih naprav na mestu oskrbe - Informacijski model domene (ISO/IEEE
FDIS 11073-10201:2019)
Health informatics- Device interoperability - Part 10201: Point-of-care medical device
communication - Domain information model (ISO/IEEE FDIS 11073-10201:2019)
Medizinische Informatik - Kommunikation patientennaher medizinischer Geräte - Teil
10201: Bereichs-Informationsmodell
Informatique de santé - Communication entre dispositifs médicaux sur le site des soins -
Partie 10201: Modèle d'information du domaine
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: prEN ISO 11073-10201
ICS:
35.240.80 Uporabniške rešitve IT v IT applications in health care
zdravstveni tehniki technology
oSIST prEN ISO 11073-10201:2020 en,fr,de
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.

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FINAL
INTERNATIONAL ISO/IEEE/
DRAFT
STANDARD FDIS
11073-10201
ISO/TC 215
Health informatics — Device
Secretariat: ANSI
interoperability —
Voting begins on:
2019-11-13
Part 10201:
Voting terminates on:
Point-of-care medical device
2020-04-01
communication — Domain
information model
This document is circulated as received from the committee secretariat.
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IEEE Std 11073-10201™-2018
(Revision of
IEEE Std 11073-10201-2004)
Health informatics—Point-of-care medical device communication
Part 10201: Domain Information Model
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IEEE 11073™ Standards Committee
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Abstract: Within the context of the ISO/IEEE 11073 family of standards for point-of-care medical
device communication, an abstract, object-oriented domain information model that specifies the
structure of exchanged information, as well as the events and services that are supported by
each type of object, is provided in this standard. All data structure elements are specified using
abstract syntax (ASN.1) and may be applied to many different implementation technologies,
transfer syntaxes, and application service models. Core subjects include medical, alert, system,
patient, control, archival, communication, and extended services. Model extensibility is supported,
and a conformance model and statement template is provided.
Keywords: abstract syntax, alarm, alert, ASN.1, DIM, domain information model, IEEE 11073-
10201™, information model, medical device communications, medical information bus, MIB,
object-oriented, patient, POC, point-of-care, remote control

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Participants
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following membership:
John Rhoads, Chair
Michael Faughn, Subgroup Chair
Bjoern Anderson David Gregorczyk Tracy Rausch
Malcolm Clarke Kai Hassing Stefan Schlichting
Todd Cooper John Hatcliff Paul Schluter
Chris Courville Stefan Karl Masato Tanaka
Kenneth Fuchs Martin Kasparick Eugene Vasserman
John Garguilo Koichiro Matsumoto Stan Wiley
Frank Golatowski Joerg-Uwe Meyer Jan Wittenber
Stephan Poehlsen
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voted for approval, disapproval, or abstention.
Bjoern Andersen Kai Hassing Stefan Schlichting
Michael Bayer Werner Hoelzl Paul Schluter
Keith Chow Noriyuki Ikeuchi Walter Struppler
Malcolm Clarke Atsushi Ito Ganesh Subramanian
Michael Faughn Stefan Karl Thomas Tullia
David Fuschi Piotr Karocki Jan Wittenber
David Gregorczyk Martin Kasparick Oren Yuen
Randall Groves H. Moll Daidi Zhong
John Rhoads
When the IEEE-SA Standards Board approved this standard on 5 December 2018, it had the following
membership:
Jean-Philippe Faure, Chair
Gary Hoffman, Vice Chair
John D. Kulick, Past Chair
Konstantinos Karachalios, Secretary
Ted Burse Xiaohui Liu Robby Robson
Guido R. Hiertz Kevin Lu Dorothy Stanley
Christel Hunter Daleep Mohla Mehmet Ulema
Joseph L. Koepfinger* Andrew Myles Phil Wennblom
Thomas Koshy Paul Nikolich Philip Winston
Hung Ling Ronald C. Petersen Howard Wolfman
Dong Liu Annette D. Reilly Jingyi Zhou
*Member Emeritus
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Introduction
This introduction is not part of IEEE Std 11073-10201-2018, Health informatics—Point-of-care medical device
communication—Part 10201: Domain Information Model.
ISO/IEEE 11073 standards enable communication between different medical devices and between medical
devices and other IT systems for information and for command and control. The primary goals are to:
 Provide real-time plug-and-play interoperability for patient-connected medical devices
 Facilitate the efficient exchange of patient related data and medical device related data, acquired at
the point-of-care (POC), in all health care environments
“Real-time” means that data from multiple devices can be retrieved, time correlated, and displayed or
processed in fractions of a second.
“Plug-and-play” means that when a device or system is connected to another device or system, detection,
configuration, and the initiation of communication all occur automatically andwithout any other human
interaction.
“Efficient exchange of medical device data” means that information that is captured at the POC (e.g.,
patient vital signs data) can be archived, retrieved, and processed by many different types of applications
without extensive software and equipment support, and without needless loss of information. This standard
is especially targeted at acute and continuing care devices, such as patient monitors, ventilators, infusion
pumps, ECG devices, etc. It is a member of a family of standards that can be layered together to provide
connectivity optimized for the specific devices being interfaced.
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Contents
1. Scope . 9
2. Normative references . 9
3. Definitions, acronyms, and abbreviations . 10
3.1 Definitions . 10
3.2 Abbreviations and acronyms . 13
4. General requirements . 14
5. Domain information model (DIM) . 15
5.1 General . 15
5.2 Package diagram–Overview . 18
5.3 Model for the Medical Package . 19
5.4 Model for the Alert Package . 23
5.5 Model for the System Package . 25
5.6 Model for the Control Package . 27
5.7 Model for the ExtendedServices Package . 30
5.8 Model for the Communication Package . 33
5.9 Model for the Archival Package . 35
5.10 Model for the Patient Package . 37
5.11 DIM—Dynamic model . 37
6. DIM class definitions . 42
6.1 Overview . 42
6.2 Top class . 51
6.3 Medical package . 52
6.4 Alert package . 89
6.5 System package . 95
6.6 Control package .115
6.7 ExtendedServices package .129
6.8 Communication package .142
6.9 Archival package .149
6.10 Patient package .156
7. Service model for communicating systems .159
7.1 General .159
7.2 Communicating systems .159
7.3 General service model overview .160
7.4 General object management services definition .162
8. MDIB nomenclature .167
9. Conformance model .168
9.1 Applicability .168
9.2 Conformance specification .168
9.3 ICSs .169
Annex A (informative) Bibliography .175
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