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Within the context of the ISO/IEEE 11073 family of standards for device communication, this standard
defines a common framework for making an abstract model of personal health data available in transportindependent
transfer syntax required to establish logical connections between systems and to provide
presentation capabilities and services needed to perform communication tasks. The protocol is optimized to
personal health usage requirements and leverages commonly used methods and tools wherever possible.