The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE). First edition, 2004-12-15. 504p. The scope of this standard is nomenclature architecture for point-of-care (POC) medical device communication (MDC). It consists of three parts: the body of the standard, which defines the overall architecture of the organization and relationships among nomenclature components; normative Annex A and Annex B, which provide specifications of semantics and syntaxes, respectively; and informative Annex C, the bibliography.