title: Another HISA--the new standard: health informatics--service architecture.
abstract: In addition to the meaning as Health Informatics Society of Australia, HISA is the acronym used for the new European Standard: Health Informatics - Service Architecture. This EN 12967 standard has been developed by CEN - the federation of 29 national standards bodies in Europe. This standard defines the essential elements of a Service Oriented Architecture and a methodology for localization particularly useful for large healthcare organizations. It is based on the Open Distributed Processing (ODP) framework from ISO 10746 and contains the following parts: Part 1: Enterprise viewpoint. Part 2: Information viewpoint. Part 3: Computational viewpoint. This standard is now also the starting point for the consideration for an International standard in ISO/TC 215. The basic principles with a set of health specific middleware services as a common platform for various applications for regional health information systems, or large integrated hospital information systems, are well established following a previous prestandard. Examples of large scale deployments in Sweden, Denmark and Italy are described.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medcine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. gunnar.klein@ki.se
authors.forename: Gunnar O
authors.initials: GO
authors.lastname: Klein
authors.forename: Pier Angelo
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Sottile
authors.forename: Frederik
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Endsleff
mesh_terms: D001315:Australia; D003199:Computer Systems / Q000592:standards; D006751:Hospital Information Systems / Q000592:standards; D048088:Informatics / Q000592:standards*; D007256:Information Systems / Q000592:standards*; D012984:Software / Q000592:standards