UNE-EN ISO 21549-5:2024

This document describes and defines the basic structure of the identification data objects held on

healthcare data cards, but it does not specify particular data sets for storage on devices.

This document does not apply to the detailed functions and mechanisms of the following services

(although its structures can accommodate suitable data objects elsewhere specified):

security functions and related services that are likely to be specified by users for data cards

depending on their specific application, e.g. confidentiality protection, data integrity protection and

authentication of persons and devices related to these functions;

access control services;

the initialization and issuing process (which begins the operating lifetime of an individual data

card, and by which the data card is prepared for the data to be subsequently communicated to it

according to this document).

The following topics are therefore beyond the scope of this document:

physical or logical solutions for the practical functioning of particular types of data card;

the forms that data take for use outside the data card, or the way in which such data are visibly

represented on the data card or elsewhere.