10.3.1-8 Message Highlighting

Software capabilities should be provided to annotate transmitted data with appropriate highlighting to emphasize alarm/alert conditions, priority indicators, or other significant information that could affect message handling.

Additional Information:
Highlighting will aid the handling and interpretation of messages. Such annotation might be provided automatically by software logic (e.g., a computer-generated date-time stamp to indicate currency), or might be added by the sender of a message to emphasize some significant feature (e.g., attention arrows), or by the receiver of a message as an aid in filing and retrieval.