Which standards are commonly used to structure clinical data in telemetry systems?

• A. HL7 and FHIR.
• B. FTP and SMTP.
• C. DNS and DHCP.
• D. HTML and CSS.

Answer: (A)

In telemetry systems, sharing and making sense of patient data relies on standardized health information exchange. HL7 provides widely used messaging standards for moving clinical information between systems, and FHIR builds on that with a modern, flexible approach that uses modular resources and web-based APIs to represent and retrieve data like patient demographics, observations, device data, and encounters. This combination ensures consistent encoding of clinical information and supports interoperability across telemetry devices, electronic health records, and analytics platforms.

The other options are not about structuring clinical data. They focus on moving files, sending email, handling network addresses, or presenting web content, none of which define how clinical telemetry data should be organized or exchanged.