Christopher G. Chute, M.D., Dr.P.H 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 Geneva, Switzerland, 26-27 April 2012

Published over 90 International Standards 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 Geneva, Switzerland, 26-27 April 2012

Ongoing standards development work 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 Geneva, Switzerland, 26-27 April 2012

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… Geneva, Switzerland, 26-27 April 2012

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! Geneva, Switzerland, 26-27 April 2012