Health Informatics Service Architecture

The European Committee for Standardisation (CEN) Standard Architecture for Healthcare Information Systems (ENV 12967), Health Informatics Service Architecture or HISA is a standard aimed at enabling the development modular open systems to support healthcare. It provides a formal standard for a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), specific for the requirements of health services, based on the principles of Open Distributed Processing. The HISA standard builds on previous work by RICHE, NUCLEUS, EDITH and HANSA in this field.

The CEN HISA standard was adopted by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in 2009, with the stated aim of ISO 12967 being to provide guidance on:

• the description, planning and development of new electronic health systems; and
• the integration of existing electronic health systems, both intra- and inter-organisationaly, through architecture that integrates common data and business logic into middleware, which is then made available throughout whole information systems.

Classes of common services

• Healthcare-related Common Services (HCS)
• Generic Common Services (GCS)

See also

• Archetype (information science)
• Clinical Document Architecture (CDA)
• Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC)
• EN 13606
• Electronic Health Record (EHR)
• Electronic medical record
• European Institute for Health Records
• Health Level 7
• Healthcare Services Specification Project
• OpenEHR
• Public Health Information Network