本国际标准的范围是面向服务的医疗设备体系结构和通信协议规范，适用于需要交换数据或安全控制联网PoC医疗设备的分布式医疗系统（PoC）医疗设备和医疗IT系统。它确定了功能组件及其通信关系，以及组件和通信关系与协议规范的绑定。

The scope of this international standard is a service-oriented medical device architecture and communication protocol specification for distributed system of Point-of-Care (PoC) medical devices and medical IT systems that need to exchange data or safely control networked PoC medical devices. It identifies the functional components, their communication relationships as well as the binding of the components and communication relationships to protocol specifications.