Joint ITU-WHO Workshop on
e-Health Standards and Interoperability
(Geneva, Switzerland, 26-27 April 2012)
ISO TC 215 Health informatics
Current focus, status and challenges: ISO TC215
and e-health standardization
Christopher G. Chute, M.D., Dr.P.H
Chair, ISO/TC215
Mayo Clinic
chute@mayo.edu
Geneva, Switzerland, 26-27 April 2012
ISO/TC215 – Health informatics
Standardization of Health Information and
Communications Technology (ICT), to
allow for compatibility and interoperability
between independent systems.
Link to ISOTC215 ISO web page
Founded 1998
32 “P” Participating members
29 “O” Observing
300 people
Seven working groups
Structure, Interchange, Content, Security
Pharmacy, Devices, EHRs
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Main results to date
Published over 90 International
Standards
ISO 17115 Vocabulary of Terminological
Systems
ISO 21090 HIT Data Types
Convene Joint Initiative Council
Global partnership of Health Information
Technology Standards Organizations
CDISC, CEN TC251, GS1, IHTSDO, HL7
ISO/IEC JWG7 (IEC 80001-1) Devices
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Future activities
Ongoing standards development
work
Internal assessment & reorganization
Alignment with national member body
needs
Increase relevancy and quality
Ensure coherency across standards
In times of limited resources
Focus on smaller number, higher quality
Maximize collaboration opportunities
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Challenges, lessons learned
Tendency to accept all the children
Opportunistic standards tasks
Incoherent agenda and output
Quantity is not Quality
Too many threads
Too little harmonization
Variable quality in documents
Less is more…
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Contact details for further info
Lisa Spellman, ISO/TC215 Secretary
Lisa.Spellman@AHIMA.ORG
http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_technical
_committee?commid=54960
Limit to one slide, please!
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