PD ISO/TR 14639-1:2012 - Page 3

Health informatics. Capacity-based eHealth architecture roadmap. Overview of national eHealth initiatives | Status: Current

1 Scope This part of ISO/TR 14639 aims to identify the business requirements of an eHealth architecture as well as providing a generic and comprehensive context description to inform architectural structuring of Health Information Systems (HIS). This part of ISO/TR 14639 reviews international experiences in the construction of national eHealth architectures and introduces a methodology for strategic development of HIS[4], which will be elaborated upon in ISO/TR 14639-2. This part of ISO/TR 14639 is intended to assist nations which are in the early or mid stages of developing such systems.