CAN/CSA-ISO/TS 17090-2-05

CSA Preface

This is the first edition of CAN/CSA-ISO/TS 17090-2, Health informatics - Public key infrastructure - Part 2: Certificate profile, which is an adoption without modification of the identically titled ISO (International Organization for Standardization) Technical Specification 17090-2 (first edition, 2002-10-15).

At the time of publication, ISO/TS 17090-2:2002 is available from ISO in English only.

Scope

This part of ISO/TS 17090 specifies the certificate profiles required to interchange healthcare information within a single organization, between different organizations and across jurisdictional boundaries.

It details the use made of public key infrastructure (PKI) digital certificates in the health industry and focuses, in particular, on specific healthcare issues relating to certificate profiles.