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Online Forms Architecture Technical Specification

The purpose of the Online Forms Architecture Technical Specification is to allow healthcare organisations to rapidly develop and safely deploy interactive online form applications to replace current paper-based or customised forms systems, thereby promoting an approach that will significantly reduce the costs and reduce the time taken to deploy such forms. Moreover, this specification provides a mechanism by which forms can be pre-populated with information by the user system and for securely transmitting them which streamlines the form process for the end-user and reduces human error.

The specification defines the following four individual components of the subscribing system:

  • User Application
  • Forms Viewer
  • Forms Engine
  • Submission Gateway

The fifth component of the subscribing system - the form manager - is out of scope of this specification.

Online Forms Architecture Technical Specification (PDF.931KB)