PD ISO TR 28380-3-2014 PDF

Full title and description

Health informatics — IHE global standards adoption — Part 3: Deployment. This Technical Report defines a practical methodology to analyse interoperability requirements for a use case, to select and combine relevant IHE Profiles and to plan and execute deployment and testing activities that achieve standards-based interoperability across healthcare settings.

Abstract

ISO/TR 28380-3:2014 describes a methodology that supports the adoption and deployment of IHE (Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise) profile-based solutions. It illustrates the approach with worked examples, proposes a high-level way to quantify benefits from profile-based interoperability, and discusses strategies for testing interoperability from the standards/profile level up to business use cases, including deployment considerations across organizational and home-care boundaries.

General information

• Status: Published.
• Publication date: December 2014 (published 2014-12-18 / edition 2014-12).
• Publisher: International Organization for Standardization (ISO).
• ICS / categories: 35.240.80 (IT applications in health care technology).
• Edition / version: Edition 1 (2014).
• Number of pages: 18 pages (official ISO Technical Report length).

Scope

This Technical Report provides guidance for analysing interoperability requirements for a given healthcare use case and for mapping those requirements to IHE Profiles and related standards. It covers selection and combination of profiles, deployment considerations, approaches to testing and validation of interoperability, and a discussion of expected benefits when deploying profile-based solutions within and across healthcare organizations and home settings. The scope is practical and deployment-focused rather than normative.

Key topics and requirements

• Methodology to analyse interoperability requirements for clinical and administrative use cases.
• Guidance on selecting and combining relevant IHE Profiles to meet use-case needs.
• Worked examples demonstrating the methodology applied to small use cases.
• High-level approach to quantify benefits of profile-based interoperability (cost/benefit and operational gains).
• Recommendations for testing and validating interoperability from standards/profile level up to business use cases.
• Deployment considerations for intra- and inter‑organizational settings, including home-care scenarios.

Typical use and users

This report is intended for healthcare IT architects, system integrators, project managers, standards implementers, testing laboratories, and policy makers who plan, specify or oversee deployment of interoperable healthcare systems. It is useful for teams adopting IHE Profiles and for organisations seeking a structured way to plan testing and to estimate deployment benefits.

Related standards

Companion and related documents include ISO/TR 28380-1 and ISO/TR 28380-2 (other parts of the IHE global standards adoption series). The report is used alongside IHE technical profiles and with domain standards commonly used in health IT such as HL7 and DICOM; it was developed under the remit of ISO/TC 215 (Health informatics).

Keywords

health informatics, IHE, interoperability, deployment, profiles, standards adoption, eHealth, testing, implementation guidance, ISO/TR 28380

FAQ

Q: What is this standard?

A: ISO/TR 28380-3:2014 is a Technical Report providing deployment-focused guidance for adopting IHE profile-based interoperability in healthcare systems; it explains methodology, gives examples and discusses testing and benefit quantification.

Q: What does it cover?

A: It covers methods to analyse interoperability requirements, how to select and combine IHE Profiles for a use case, worked examples, approaches to measure benefits, and practical advice for interoperability testing and deployment across care settings.

Q: Who typically uses it?

A: Healthcare IT architects, implementers, integrators, project managers, conformance/test laboratories and policy or procurement teams involved in planning or validating standards-based interoperability projects.

Q: Is it current or superseded?

A: ISO/TR 28380-3 was published in December 2014 and remains the published Technical Report from that date; users should verify on the ISO catalogue or with their national standards body for any revisions or newer related publications (information checked as of February 24, 2026).

Q: Is it part of a series?

A: Yes — it is Part 3 of the ISO/TR 28380 series addressing IHE global standards adoption; Parts 1 and 2 provide complementary material on process and profile catalogues.

Q: What are the key keywords?

A: Interoperability, IHE Profiles, deployment, testing, health informatics, eHealth, standards adoption, ISO/TR 28380.