本标准的范围是ISO/IEEE 11073医疗设备通信标准（MDC）下信息交换的上层[即国际标准化组织（ISO）的开放系统互连（OSI）应用程序、表示层和会话层]服务和协议。 本标准是通过欧洲标准化委员会（CEN）和ISO协调的ISO/IEEE 11073-20000医疗器械应用概要（MDAP）的基础标准。

The scope of this standard is upper layer [i.e., the International Organization for Standardization's (ISO's) open systems interconnection (OSI) application, presentation layer, and session layer] services and protocols for information exchange under the ISO/IEEE 11073 standards for medical device communications (MDC). This standard is the base standard of the ISO/IEEE 11073-20000 medical device application profiles (MDAP), as harmonized through the Committee for European Normalization (CEN) and the ISO.