1 Scope

This document specifies a general-purpose document registry framework for transmitting, storing and utilizing documents in clinical and personalized health environments. It is quite broad in its applicability to realise the goal of sharing health-related documents spanning a broad spectrum of health domains such as healthcare specialities covering laboratory, cardiology, eye care, etc. and the many areas of personalized health.

This document also supports shared document registration and retrieval via the federation of documents’ registries (IHE Cross-Community Access) in terms of individual users to reduce health information extrusion possibilities.

This document supports the sharing of documents of any standardized content in the context of healthcare and well-being. It describes the means of locating and accessing shared documents among a diverse set of health organizations. It is designed to leverage existing health informatics for structuring and semantically rich health information, if so desired. It does not require the development of new health informatics standards.