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This International Standard defines the set of requirements that shall be met by an architecture incorporating systems and services that process, manage and communicate Electronic Health Record information: an EHR Architecture (EHRA). This is in order to ensure that these EHRs are faithful to the needs of health care delivery, are clinically valid and reliable, are ethically sound, meet prevailing legal requirements, support good clinical practice and facilitate data analysis for a multitude of purposes. This Standard does not specify the full set of requirements that need to be met by an electronic health record system for direct patient care or for other use cases, but the requirements defined by this standard may contribute to the requirements for EHR systems.