ISO/TS 27527:2010提供了一个改进供应商正面识别的框架。“提供者”的识别包括个人和组织。ISO/TS 27527:2010包括识别个人提供者(即个人)所需的数据元素和识别组织提供者(即组织)所需的数据元素。ISO/TS 27527:2010中的“识别”既指能够识别个人和组织的过程，也指手动和从计算机处理角度支持该识别所需的数据元素。 ISO/TS 27527:2010适用于所有服务提供商、个人和组织。它详细介绍了收集和应用提供者识别信息的数据和过程。它定义了适合捕获和用于识别医疗保健环境中的提供者的人口统计和其他识别数据元素，并提供了关于其应用的指导。 ISO/TS 27527:2010规定: 数据元素的定义，以支持识别个人提供者和组织提供者，用于电子健康记录认证和授权、通信、角色定义、授权以及涉及多个学科的个人认证管理等目的； 关于来自多个潜在来源的提供者标识符的开发、人口、治理和持续管理的指导。这包括确定支持国家、多国和省/州或地方一级识别的流程。对于不同的目的，或者对于不同的始发组织，唯一标识符结构可以不同。因此，ISO/TS 27527:2010中给出了这些标识符结构的通用方法，以支持多个唯一标识符以及将这些标识符链接到相关提供商的能力。 附件A提供了支持医疗保健信息系统中提供者识别和实施过程的信息。 ISO/TS 27527:2010主要涉及用于临床和管理目的的提供者识别数据。ISO/TS 27527:2010旨在供创建、使用或维护提供者记录的健康和健康相关机构使用。在适当的情况下，企业在注册提供商时应使用ISO/TS 27527:2010收集数据。ISO/TS 27527:2010不包括开发唯一标识符的过程。在ISO/TS 22220中提供了用于开发标识符的标准。 满足识别目的所需的数据在很大程度上取决于识别的地点和目的。ISO/TS 27527:2010确定了一系列支持识别不同医疗保健环境中使用的个人或组织的数据。 ISO/TS 27527:2010并没有试图识别所包含的项目相关的所有用例；然而，提供数据元素是为了在发现它们适合于支持组织或管辖区的识别活动时允许它们的一致表示。

ISO/TS 27527:2010 provides a framework for improving the positive identification of providers. Identification of "providers" encompasses individuals and organizations. ISO/TS 27527:2010 includes data elements needed for identification of individual providers (i.e. individuals) and data elements needed for the identification of organization providers (i.e. organizations). "Identification" in ISO/TS 27527:2010 refers both to the process of being able to identify individuals and organizations, and the data elements required to support that identification manually and from a computer processing perspective. ISO/TS 27527:2010 can be applied to all providers of services, individuals and organizations. It details both data and processes for collection and application of identifying information for providers. It defines demographic and other identifying data elements suited to capture and use for the identification of providers in health care settings and provides guidance on their application. ISO/TS 27527:2010 provides:

• definitions of data elements to support the identification of individual providers and organizational providers for purposes such as electronic health record authentication and authorization, communications, role definitions, delegation of authority, and the management of certification of individuals where more than one discipline is concerned;
• guidance on the development, population, governance and ongoing management of provider identifiers from multiple potential sources. This includes identification of processes to support national, multinational and provincial/state or local level identification. Unique identifier structures may differ for different purposes, or with different originating organizations. For this reason, a generic approach to the structure of these identifiers is given in ISO/TS 27527:2010 to support multiple unique identifiers and the ability to link these to the relevant provider.
• Annex A provides information to support the process of identification and implementation of provider identification in health care information systems.

ISO/TS 27527:2010 is primarily concerned with provider identification data for clinical and administrative purposes. ISO/TS 27527:2010 is intended for use by health and health-related establishments that create, use or maintain records on providers. Establishments are intended to use ISO/TS 27527:2010, where appropriate, for collecting data when registering providers. ISO/TS 27527:2010 does not include the process for development of unique identifiers. Standards for the development of identifiers are provided in ISO/TS 22220. Data required to meet identification purposes is highly dependent upon the place and purpose of identification. ISO/TS 27527:2010 identifies a range of data that support the identification of an individual or organization used in different health care environments. ISO/TS 27527:2010 does not attempt to identify all the use cases for which the items included are relevant; however, the data elements are provided to allow their consistent representation where they are found appropriate to support identification activities of the organization or jurisdiction.