Standardisation in Healthcare, Informatics & Telematics

1 - About Standards

If you are not familiar with standards in Health Informatics & Telematics, please read this chapter first.

2 - NEWS on Standards

• CDISC - "EHRs, Medical Research, and the Tower of Babel"
• AMA to HHS - Finish E-Script Standards
• Industry agrees standardised interface for EPRs
• Implementing the ELINCS Standard: Technical Experience from the Field
• SNOMED-CT and Project E-vita TM Medical Records
• The ISO-HL7 PHR International Survey
• House considers new agency to lead healthcare IT standards development
• HL7 - EHR  "Coming to Terms" White Paper
• Open Source - the Ignorance of Crowds
• SNOMED International transferred, renamed
• SNOMED sold to new standards organisation
• New Software Method for Producing Medical Guidelines
• ELINCS: Developing a National Lab Data Standard for EHRs
• Open Source and Open Standards in Healthcare : Advantage Europe
• US - HL7 to Adopt and Maintain ELINCS Lab Standard
• EFMI 2005 -T300- Introduction into XML Standards
• SNOMED CT Helps Drive EHR Success

3 - Examples of Standards

• CDISC - Clinical data Interchange Standards Consortium
• ELINCS
• HL7
• ISO (Workshop to focus on the role of standards promoting corporate social responsibility - 12.04.02)
• New XML Standards (11.03.02)
• SNOMED

4 - Standards Organizations in the field of e-health

• ANSI (American National Standards Institute)
• CEN (Comité Européen de Normalisation / European Committee for Standardisation)
• Health Level Seven (HL7)
• Health Level 7 Australia (HL7 Australia)
• HL7 Finland r.y.
• IHTSDO  International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation
• IMIA - International Medical Informatics Association
• ISO (International Standards Organisation)
• National E-Health Transition Authority (NEHTA)
• Standards Australia (SA)

4 (A) - Organisations dealing with Standardisation:

• ACR (American College of Radiology) 
• ASTM (American Society for Testing and Materials)
• CDISC (Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium) 
• CEN/TC 251 (European Standardisation Committee, Technical Committee 251 - Medical Informatics)
• DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communication in Medicine)
• EEG9 (European Board for EDI/EC Standardisation Expert Group 9 for Healthcare)
• ETSI (European Telecommunication Standards Institute)
• EWOS (European Workshop for Open Systems) - This organization was closed in 1997; its successor is CEN's ISSS
• IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission)
• IMIA - WG16 - Working Group on Healthcare Informatics and Telematics Standards
• ITU (International Telecommunication Union)
• OMG (Object Management Group)
• OSF (Open Software Foundation)
• SFS (Finnish Standards Association)
• Standards Server of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.)

5 - Other Links:

• Linklist for Standards in Security and Cryptography
• DLNA (The Digital Living Network Alliance – Open Industry Standards )
• COPRAS : improving the interface between European R&D and Standards worldwide (CEN, CENELEC / WWW, OPEN GROUP)
• W3C :(allowing adding metadata to an XML document)
• OSGi : (define a standardized, component oriented environment for networked services)
• UPnP : the UPnP forum defines protocols for (peer-to-peer) connectivity between (and control of) networked devices, including PCs, wireless devices and other intelligent appliances. The forum's distributed, open networking architecture is build on technology such as IP, TCP, UDP, HTTP and XML and focuses on home, as well as office network environments.