ISO 22857:2013提供了有关数据保护要求的指南，以促进个人健康数据跨国家或管辖范围的传输。 它仅在个人健康数据的国际或跨司法管辖区交换方面具有规范性。但是，它可以为国家/管辖范围内的健康信息保护提供信息，并为参与制定和实施数据保护原则的国家或管辖机构提供协助。 ISO 22857:2013涵盖了适用于国际或跨司法管辖区传输的数据保护原则，以及组织为确保遵守这些原则而采取的安全政策。 ISO 22857:2013旨在促进涉及个人健康数据传输的国际和跨司法管辖区健康相关应用。它寻求提供一种方式，使与数据主体（如患者）相关的健康数据在发送到另一个国家/管辖区并在其内处理时得到充分保护。

ISO 22857:2013 provides guidance on data protection requirements to facilitate the transfer of personal health data across national or jurisdictional borders. It is normative only in respect of international or trans-jurisdictional exchange of personal health data. However it can be informative with respect to the protection of health information within national/jurisdictional boundaries and provide assistance to national or jurisdictional bodies involved in the development and implementation of data protection principles. ISO 22857:2013 covers both the data protection principles that apply to international or trans-jurisdictional transfers and the security policy which an organization adopts to ensure compliance with those principles. ISO 22857:2013 aims to facilitate international and trans-jurisdictional health-related applications involving the transfer of personal health data. It seeks to provide the means by which health data relating to data subjects, such as patients, will be adequately protected when sent to, and processed in, another country/jurisdiction.