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- Easily Implementable - The standard should be easy to implement in point of care systems and within the HIE as countries will have to support and maintain these with a low number of skilled informatics specialists.
- Size efficient - The messages should be size efficient due to possible bandwidth restrictions in low resource settings.
- Understandable - The standard should be easily understandable and not require informatics professionals to work with the standard or understand the standard.
- Mature tooling - The standard should have some mature tooling to assist application to implement the needed functionality.
- We can influence the standards - It is important that we as the OpenHIE community can influence the standards development organizations such that the needs of low resource setting can be fully realised and met.
Currently, the community believes that there are a few standards that exist that we should be looking at for use within the SHR, these are:
- Custom profiles of HL7 v2
- HL7 Custom profiles of HL7 v3
- IHE profiles
- FHIR profiles
Each of these has are described in more details below:
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