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International and National Standards Development Organisations active in the area of Health Information Technologies
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American National Standards Institute
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Comité Européen de Normalisation -
European Committee for Standardisation
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Health Level 7
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International Standards Organisation
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"ANSI accredited association
founded by Johns Hopkins Medicine and leading US professional medical societies that aims
to develop information technology standards for healthcare education and competence assessment."
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| references |
Klein GO.
Standardization of health informatics--results and challenges.
Methods Inf Med. 2002;41(4):261-70. Review.
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OBJECTIVES: This review article aims to highlight the importance of standards for effective communication and provides an overview of international standardization activities. METHODS: This article is based on the experience of the author of European standardization in CEN, which he leads, and the global work of ISO, where he is leading the security working group, and an overview of the work of DICOM, IEEE and HL7, partly using their web presentations. RESULTS: Health communication is highly dependent of the general development of information technology with standards coming from ISO/IEC JTCI, ITU and several other organizations e.g. IETF, the World Wide Web consortium and Open group. A number of standardization initiatives have been in progress for more than ten years with the aim to facilitate different aspects of the exchange of health information. Electronic record architecture, Message structures, Concept representation, Device communication including imaging and Security are the main areas. CONCLUSIONS: Important results have been achieved, and in some fields and parts of the world, standards are widely used today. Unfortunately, we are still facing the fact that most healthcare information systems cannot exchange information with all systems for which this would be desired. Either the existing standards are not sufficiently implemented, or the required standards and necessary national implementation guidelines do not yet exist. This causes unacceptable risks to patients, inefficient use of healthcare resources, and sub-optimal development of medical knowledge. Fortunately, the different bodies are now largely co-operating to achieve global consensus.
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Lacroix A, Lareng L, Padeken D et al.
International concerted action on collaboration in telemedicine: recommendations of the G-8 Global Healthcare Applications Subproject-4.
Telemed J E Health. 2002 Summer;8(2):149-57.
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The main objectives of the G-8 Global Healthcare Applications Subproject-4 (G-8 GHAP-SP-4) were to establish an international concerted action on collaboration in telemedicine, telehealth, and health telematics (hereafter referred in this paper as telemedicine). In order to promote and facilitate the implementation of telemedicine or health telematics networks around the world, it was considered necessary to address certain key issues. Five thematic solution-seeking forums were held between May 1998 and December 1999. Each addressed a key issue, including interoperability of telemedicine and telehealth systems, impact of telemedicine on health care management, evaluation and cost effectiveness of telemedicine, clinical and technical quality and standards, and medico-legal aspects of national and international applications. The main objectives of these forums were to establish best practices and a thorough review of the issues and discussions among experts to determine the best solutions for the facilitation of global international telemedicine networks. More than 650 invited participants from 16 countries attended the five forums, which were of 2-3 days in duration. These forums provided a foundation for the exchange of ideas resulting in the initiation of collaborative activities. Based on these deliberations, a series of 21 recommendations were prepared by the national representatives of the G-8 GHAP SP-4. These recommendations propose to political leaders and health care managers of the G-8 and other countries roadmaps to follow in order to accelerate the achievement of a Global Society of Healthcare via Telemedicine, Telehealth, and Health Telematics. The 21 recommendations are presented in this report.
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Entry on OpenClinical: 2002
Last update: 18 December 2004
Redesign and restructure 0.3: 15 August 2006
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Standards in Medical Informatics, introductory educational material (and some worthwhile polemic) by Jeremy Rogers, Manchester University