The Continua Version One Design Guidelines

The Continua Health Alliance's Design Guidelines contains references to the standards and specifications that Continua selected for ensuring interoperability of devices. It also contains additional Design Guidelines for interoperability that further clarify these standards and specifications by reducing options in the underlying standard or specification or by adding a feature missing in the underlying standard or specification. These guidelines focus on the following interfaces:
PAN-IF - Interface to Personal Area Network health devices.
xHRN-IF - Interface between Disease Management Services (DMS) WAN devices (xHR Senders) and Electronic Health Record (EHR) devices (xHR Receivers).

These guidelines were specifically written for device manufacturers that intend to go through the Continua Certification process with their devices, companies that integrate Continua devices in systems and subsystems, and test labs that certify compliance to Continua specifications.

Guidelines Order Form

Continua members may download the Version One Design Guidelines for free.

Non-members are invited to purchase the design guidelines. If you would like to purchase a copy of the Continua Design Guidelines, please complete the Continua Guidelines Order Form.

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