Preferred standards
- Health-RI
DATE: 23-08-2024 STATUS: ADOPTED
Health-RI enforces that data must be standardized but does not enforce specific data standards. However, Health-RI defines a number of preferred standards for certain areas of application. The preferred standards are described in this article.
The starting point is that the international and national preferred standards are taken into account as much as possible.
For semantic standards, the document ASSESS CT for the EU (Incl. UK) and for the Netherlands ‘Eenheid van Taal in de Nederlandse zorg’ of the Rivm (2018) are relevant.
See also Inventory of Omics and Sample types and associated data and metadata standards the article and the underlying articles for Omics standards.
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Preferred standard | Type | Scope |
|---|---|---|
 | Describe datasets and data catalogs. | |
 | Standard for the communication and management of medical image information and related data. | |
Ontology | Data Use Ontology: DUO makes it possible to semantically tag datasets with terms of use, making them automatically discoverable based on users' authorization level or intended use. | |
FHIR (STU3, R4, R4B of R5)Â | Â | Exchange standard |
 | Current classification of diseases | |
IDMP |  | IDMP stands for Identification of Medicinal Products. It is a set of five standards developed within the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) to facilitate the unique identification of medicines in the context of pharmacovigilance and the safety of medicines around the world¹. |
 | Standard ontology for laboratory requests and laboratory results, including  radiological determinations (formerly RadLex, maintained by the RSNA). | |
 | Minimum Information About BIobank data Sharing | |
 | International Standard for Naming Organs and Tumors | |
Protocol | OpenID Connect (OIDC) is an interoperable authentication protocol based on the OAuth 2.0 framework of specifications (IETF RFC 6749 and 6750). | |
 | Clinical data model for observational research | |
Ontology | Ontology for health data. In particular diagnoses, medical procedures and clinical findings, but also anatomy, pathogens and medical devices. |
Requirements in case of deviation from preferred standards
If the Health-RI preferred standard is deviated from by the data holder, metadata must be used to describe which standard is used and how it can be used in the exchange within the Health-RI architecture. Data holder is responsible for the correct functioning of the exchange within the Health-RI architecture.