healthcare needs standards but which and for what?
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HEALTHCARE NEEDS STANDARDS BUT WHICH
AND FOR WHAT?
LEVEL OF STANDARDS
• local• regional/national• European• global
COUNCIL DECISION 87/95/EEC
"Member States shall take the necessary steps to ensure that reference is made to:- European standards and European pre- standards….[and];- international standards when accepted in the country of the Contracting Authority;in public procurement orders relating to information technology so that these standards are used as the basis for the exchange of information and data and for ensuring systems interoperability."
A BODY COVERED BY PUBLIC LAW
“Any body financed, for the most part, by the State, or regional or local authorities or other bodies governed by public law, or subject to management supervision by those bodies, or having an administrative, managerial or supervisory board, more than half of whose members are appointed by the State, regional or local authorities or by other bodies governed by public law”.
CURRENT STANDARDS MAKING
Thinking horizontally without knowing what for
WG I - Information Models
WG II - Terminology & Knowledge Bases
WG III - Security, safety & quality
WG IV - Technology for Interoperability
CEN TC 251 STRUCTURE
PRIORITIES FOR THE APPLICATION OF ICT
STANDARDS
EHTEL T1 Report
TOP PRIORITY APPLICATIONS
• communications particularly prescribing• health records• protecting personal data
e-PRESCRIBING
• business model, structure of messages and content • medicinal products classification• organisation & patient identifiers• security, encryption, PKI• data card standards• payment• Web standards, quality, CoP
WHAT STANDARDS MAKERS NEED TO DO
• ally to policy makers• understand business needs for IT• analyse business needs (models)• identify standards required• gap analysis to see what needs to be done
TOP PRIORITY APPLICATIONS
• communications particularly prescribing• health records• protecting personal data
HEALTHCARE NEEDS STANDARDS BUT WHICH
AND FOR WHAT?
‘OTHER’ INTERNATIONAL
BODIES• IEEE• HL7• DICOM• WHO• SNOMED• W3C
THE STANDARDS WORLD
IEEE HL7 DICOM
ISO TC 2155 published
40 programmed
SNOMED CT WHO
CEN TC 25150 published
50 programmed
National Standards Bodies
Web and internet standards
General international standards e.g. ISO 17799
ALTERNATIVE WORLD VIEW
HL7
IEEE
ISO
CENDICOM
COUNTRY AFFILIATES
