This part of ISO 21549 establishes a common framework for the content and the structure of common objects
used to construct or referenced by other data-object data held on patient healthcare data cards.
It is applicable to situations in which such data are recorded on or transported by patient healthcards whose
physical dimensions are compliant with those of ID-1 cards as defined by ISO/IEC 7810.
This part of ISO 21549 specifies the basic structure of the data, but does not specify or mandate particular
data-sets for storage on devices.
The detailed functions and mechanisms of the following services are not within the scope of this part of
ISO 21549 (although its structures can accommodate suitable data objects specified elsewhere):
the encoding of free text data;
security functions and related services which are likely to be specified by users for data cards, depending
on their specific application, for example confidentiality protection, data integrity protection, and
authentication of persons and devices related to these functions;
access control services which may depend on active use of some data card classes such as
microprocessor cards;
the initialization and issuing process (which begins the operating lifetime of an individual data card, and
by which the data card is prepared for the data to be subsequently communicated to it in accordance with
this part of ISO 21549).
The following topics are therefore beyond the scope of this part of ISO 21549:
physical or logical solutions for the practical functioning of particular types of data card;
how the message is processed further “downstream” of the interface between two systems;
the form which data take for use outside the data card, or the way in which such data are visibly
represented on the data card or elsewhere.
Die ÖNORM ist anwendbar auf Situationen, bei der auf Gesundheitskarten des Patienten, die mit den physischen Dimensionen von ID-1-Karten gemäß ISO 7810 übereinstimmen Daten aufgezeichnet oder transportiert werden. Es wird ein gemeinsames Rahmenwerk für den Inhalt und die Struktur gemeinsamer Objekte erstellt, die für die Erstellung oder Referenzierung durch andere Datenobjekte auf der Gesundheitskarte des Patienten notwendig sind. Die ÖNORM legt jedoch lediglich die grundlegende Datenstruktur fest und nicht gewisse Datensätze für die Speicherung auf Geräten.