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Yearb Med Inform 2014; 23(01): 105-109
DOI: 10.15265/IY-2014-0010
Original Article
Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart

Future Direction of IMIA Standardization

Report from the IMIA Standardization Working Group
J. Nakaya
1   Department of Medical informatics, School of Medicine, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
,
M. Kimura
2   Department of Medical Informatics, School of Medicine, Hamamatsu University, Hamamatsu, Japan
,
S. Ogishima
3   Department of Medical ICT, Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
,
A. Shabo
4   Head of Healthcare and Life Sciences Standards Program, Haifa Research Lab, IBM, Haifa, Israel
,
I. K. Kim
5   School of Computer Science & Engineering, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea
,
C. Parisot
6   GE Healthcare Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA and Buc, France
,
B. de Faria Leao
7   Health Informatics Consultant at Bleao Informática em Saúde, Brazil
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15 August 2014

Publication Date:
05 March 2018 (online)

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Summary

Objectives: Standardization in the field of health informatics has increased its importance and global alliance for establishing interoperability and compatibility internationally. Standardization has been organized by standard development organizations (SDOs) such as ISO (International Organization for Standardization), CEN (European Committee for Standardization), IHE (Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise), and HL7 (Health Level 7), etc. This paper reports the status of these SDOs’ activities.

Methods: In this workshop, we reviewed the past activities and the current situation of standardization in health care informatics with the standard development organizations such as ISO, CEN, IHE, and HL7. Then we discussed the future direction of standardization in health informatics toward “future medicine” based on standardized technologies.

Results: We could share the status of each SDO through exchange of opinions in the workshop. Some WHO members joined our discussion to support this constructive activity.

Conclusion: At this meeting, the workshop speakers have been appointed as new members of the IMIA working groups of Standards in Health Care Informatics (WG16). We could reach to the conclusion that we collaborate for the international standardization in health informatics toward “future medicine”.

Keywords

Standardization - ISO - health - HL7 - WHO