IEEE - The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers@ Inc.
Scope
The scope of this standard is nomenclature architecture for point-of-care (POC) and personal health devices (PHD) medical device communication (MDC). It consists of three parts: the body of the standard@ which defines the overall architecture of the organization and relationships among nomenclature components; normative Annex A and Annex B@ which provide specifications of semantics and syntaxes@ respectively; and informative Annex I@ the bibliography. This standard is intended for use within the context of IEEE Std 11073@1 which sets out the relationship between this and other documents in the POC and PHD MDC series. 1 Information on references can be found in Clause 3.