Medical Device Communication to Other Information Systems/Technologies

Type	Standard / Implementation Specification	Standards Process Maturity	Implementation Maturity	Adoption Level	Federally required	Cost	Test Tool Availability
Implementation Specification	ITU H.810, H.811, H.812, and H.813	Final	Production		No	Free	Yes
Implementation Specification	Continua Design Guidelines	Balloted Draft	Production	Feedback Requested	No	Free	Yes

Limitations, Dependencies, and Preconditions for Consideration	Applicable Value Set(s) and Starter Set(s)
These ITU standards are Continua Design Guidelines, developed to provide a suite of open industry standards and specifications that provide several means to end-to-end interoperability between personal medical devices and health information systems. Unrestricted access to the implementation specification: http://www.pchalliance.org/continua-design-guidelines	System Authentication - The information and process necessary to authenticate the systems involved User Details - identifies the end user who is accessing the data User Role – identifies the role asserted by the individual initiating the transaction. Purpose of Use - Identifies the purpose for the transaction.

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