Health informatics — Functional and structural roles

This standard defines a model for expressing functional and structural roles for health professionals and consumers and populates the model with a basic set of roles for international use in health applications.

Functional roles (for example, a provider who is a member of a therapeutic team, attending physician, prescriber) are bound to the realisation of actions and are highly dynamic. Structural roles (e.g. licensed general practitioner, transcriptionist) are relatively static, often lasting for many years.

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Main sections:

· Scope

· Normative references

· Terms and definitions

· Abbreviated terms

· Modelling roles in an architectural context

· Formally modelling roles

· Use cases for the use of structural and functional roles in an interregional or international context

· Annex A: ISCO-08 sample mapping

· Annex B: Sample certificate profile for regulated healthcare professional