Overview

The Pack for Healthcare includes schemas with data definitions for significant healthcare industry standards. The schema in these packages depict the structure, relationships, and data element attributes as described in published specification documents. In practical terms, this means data that meets the specification requirements is considered valid, while data that does not meet the requirements is rejected. Other schemas attributes include the following:

• Compatibility with other IBM product offerings.
• Flexibility to modify or merge with other schemas.
• Ability to support reliable and efficient mapping.
• Easily maintainable.

The schemas install within the imported project.

There are two kinds of schemas in the packages: the schemas that define the data exchange formats associated with Healthcare industry data standards and the schemas that describe data formats used by application maps in the packages.

The schemas for healthcare application maps are described in "Compliance Checking" documentation.