scope:

This part of ISO 21549 establishes a common framework for the content and the structure of identification data held on healt hcare data cards. This part of ISO 21549 specifies the basic s tructure of the data, but does not specify particular data-set s for storage on devices. The detailed functions and mechanism s of the following services are not within the scope of this p art of ISO 21549 (although its structures can accommodate suit able data objects elsewhere specified):;security functions and related services that are likely to be specified by users f or data cards depending on their specific application, e.g. co nfidentiality protection, data integrity protection and authen tication of persons and devices related to these functions;;access control services that may depend on active use of some data card classes such as microprocessor cards