Approved standards
HISO (2010) standards are designed to be open and non proprietary. They are free of charge and may be downloaded from the links below.
- Health Information Exchange Architecture Building Blocks
- National Specialist Palliative Care
- National Cancer Core Data
- Connected Health Network Connectivity Standards
- Online Forms Architecture Technical Specification
- Health Information Security Framework (HISF)
- New Zealand Pathology Observation Code Sets (NZPOCS)
- Health Practitioner Index (HPI) (data and codeset standards)
- Referrals Status and Discharges (business process standard, messaging standard and implementation guide)
- Pathology and Radiology (messaging standard and implementation guide)
- Data Concept Repository
- Project for the Integration of Mental Health Data (PRIMHD) (business process standard, data and codeset standards)
- Epharmaceutical (business process and messaging standards)
- New Zealand Medicines Terminology Recommendation Report
Published standards should be considered ‘living’ documents. If the documents are no longer fit for purpose, we need to know so we can make appropriate changes.
Please advise us of any errors or omissions that are spotted when you are using or implementing any of these standards. This can be done by either sending an email direct to standards@moh.govt.nz or completing a change request form and sending it to standards@moh.govt.nz. For example, typing and/or grammatical errors, a missing code or an extention to a code set or any areas that may need further consideration.
If you would like to suggest that changes be made to any of the Standards above please download and complete the HISO change request form.
HISO (2010) has also endorsed a number of standards and protocols for use within New Zealand. Click here for further details.
