Digitalization is not only changing the way we work, it has also reached government agencies and the healthcare system. Attitudes have gradually changed, and more and more people can now imagine reducing paper-based workflows in the healthcare sector.
The third part of our PDF/A series covers PDF/A-3, which is considered the current standard for archiving and e-invoices. This does not mean that PDF/A-1 or PDF/A-2 are no longer valid. Depending on the use case, older PDF/A formats can still be fully sufficient. PDF viewers are backward-compatible, so PDF/A-1 remains valid even though newer formats exist. Still, PDF/A-3 is currently treated as the standard format.
PDF/H was released in 2008. As indicated by the H designator, this format is designed for use in the healthcare industry and is not an ISO standard.
PDF/H incorporates a number of best-practice recommendations for the healthcare sector, which were compiled by the Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM), Adobe and an American business consortium. The objective: provide a trusted means of facilitating the capture, exchange, preservation and protection of information within the healthcare system.