This European Prestandard specifies general administrative messages for electronic Information exchange between healthcare information systems

The messages defined in this European Prestandard provide for an identification framework for both administrative and non-administrative purposes

The messages identified in this European Prestandard pay especial attention to identification of both the individual and records pertaining to them and the registration of the individual on healthcare information systems

The messages identified in this European Prestandard, whilst containing information relating to responsibility for payment for healthcare delivery, do not cover resource usage and resource notification including billing/financial transactions nor the clinical aspects of health care delivery

The messages identified in this European Prestandard provide for the possibility to link existing personal data for administrative, medical/clinical, financial and other health care purposes

The provisions of this European Prestandard have been validated in the domain and for the purposes described above. Messages conforming to this European Prestandard may be considered by some user communities to meet their needs for purposes outside this scope. Use of the messages in these circumstances is not precluded by the scope

This European Prestandard is not applicable to the electronic interchange of clinical messages, such as the requesting or reporting of results for diagnostics tests

The messages defined in this European Prestandard provide an identification framework for patients that may be used within other healthcare messages. The use of these messages or parts thereof for such purpose is not precluded by the scope.