ISO 13606的这一部分规定了需要或提供EHR数据的系统和服务之间的可互操作通信所需的信息架构。 ISO 13606的这一部分并不旨在指定这种系统的内部架构或数据库设计。 要传达的记录或记录摘录的主题是个人，通信的范围主要是针对该人的照顾。 将医疗保健记录用于其他目的（如管理，管理，研究和流行病学等），这些需要聚合个人的记录，并不是ISO 13606这一部分的重点，但这种二次用途也可能会使本文件有用。 ISO 13606的这一部分定义了一个原型模型，用于在存储库之间和原型服务之间进行通信时用于表示原型。它定义了可选的序列化表示，其可以用作用于传达各个原型的交换格式。例如，这种通信可以在原型库之间或在原型服务和EHR持久性或验证服务之间

This document specifies a means for communicating part or all of the electronic health record (EHR) of one or more identified subjects of care between EHR systems, or between EHR systems and a centralised EHR data repository. It can also be used for EHR communication between an EHR system or repository and clinical applications or middleware components (such as decision support components) that need to access or provide EHR data, or as the representation of EHR data within a distributed (federated) record system. This document will predominantly be used to support the direct care given to identifiable individuals, or to support population monitoring systems such as disease registries and public health surveillance. Uses of health records for other purposes such as teaching, clinical audit, administration and reporting, service management, research and epidemiology, which often require anonymization or aggregation of individual records, are not the focus of this standard series but such secondary uses might also find it useful. This document defines an Archetype Model to be used to represent Archetypes when communicated between repositories, and between archetype services. It defines an optional serialised representation, which may be used as an exchange format for communicating individual archetypes. Such communication might, for example, be between archetype libraries or between an archetype service and an EHR persistence or validation service.