Key criteria for standards within OpenHIE are:
- 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.