DD CEN/TS 14271:2003 - Page 3

Health informatics. File exchange format for vital signs

This standard covers the off-line storage of biosignals, time-stamped measurement, events, enumerations and alerts. It defines a file data structure and not a message data structure. This standard does not support data compression. DD CEN/TS 14271 includes a method to encapsulate or refer to one of many medical images, digital video and audio files but the intention is neither to define a new format for medial or other images, video nor audio.