1. HIMSS STANDARDS INITIATIVES
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2. GOAL
Industry Affairs – The expertise and knowledge of healthcare information professionals frame and lead healthcare legislation, regulations, policies, standards and practices.
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3. Strategic Objective
HIMSS is the recognized organization of expertise in healthcare information legislation, regulations, policies, standards and practices.
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4. Standards Initiatives
United States Technical Advisory Group (US TAG)
International Organization for Standardization Technical Committee for Health Informatics (ISO/TC 215)
Electronic Health Record
E-Prescribing
Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise
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5. United States Technical Advisory Group US TAG Activities
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6. Focus on Standards Initiatives
2003: HIMSS appointed secretary of ISO/TC 215 and administrator of the US technical advisory group (US TAG) by American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
2005: Standards activities include:
HIMSS committees, task forces and work groups
National and International involvement
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7. US Technical Advisory Group
Who
US citizens who are specifically interested in a particular area of knowledge, in this case Health Informatics
Experts, could be University faculty or informatics specialists
Vendors, who use or market products that use standards
End Users, using the product within their area of knowledge or practice
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8. US TAG for ISO/TC 215
Each country that holds membership in an international technical committee has a national special interest group
In the US this group is called a technical advisory group (TAG)
This TAG is specifically organized to work with health informatics
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9. US TAG
What
United States technical advisory group to the international Organization of Standardization (ISO) technical committee (TC) 215 Health Informatics
TAG members decide the US position on new and updated health informatics standards
Provide content expertise to health informatics standards development
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10. US TAG
When
This group meets 2 times a year, March and November
Communication occurs in several ways
Telephone conferences
Face-to-face meetings
Web conferences (coming soon)
Membership
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11. TAG Member Functions
Initiate and approve new work items within the TAG for possible inclusion into the ISO/TC 215 work program
Be a part of the consensus building process for draft ISO standards
Represent the US on the ISO/TC 215 international committee
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12. Member Functions
Nominate US experts to serve on an ISO/TC 215 working group
Establish liaison with other US TAG committees with similar field of interest
Recommend that ANSI invite ISO committees to hold meetings in the US
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13. TAG Membership Benefits
Opportunity to collaborate with National and International experts, vendors and end users in a collegiate atmosphere
Become a delegate to an International ISO Plenary meeting- each Spring May
Participate in building US consensus on draft ISO deliverables
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14. Overview of ISO/TC 215 Health Informatics Standardization
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15. ISO TC 215 Health Informatics
Chair : Yun Sik Kwak, MD, PhD (Korea/USA) until 2006
Secretariat : ANSI (USA)
Secretary : Audrey Dickerson, MS, RN (HIMSS, USA))
Scope : Standardization in the field of information for health, and Health Information and Communications Technology (ICT) to achieve compatibility and interoperability between independent systems. Also, to ensure compatibility of data for comparative statistical purposes (e.g. classifications), and to reduce duplication of effort and redundancies.
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16. Diagram of the TC 215 Organization
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17. Work Group Topics 1 – Data Structure 2 – Data Interchange
3 –Semantic Content
4 – Security
5 – Health Smart Cards
6 –E-Pharmacy and Medication Business
7- Devices
8-Business Requirements for an EHR
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18. Task Forces in TC 215
E-Health – global initiative that includes telehealth and internet health
COPOLCO – Consumer health group dedicated to assisting understanding of health standards
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19. ISO TC 215 Membership
‘P' (Participating/Voting Country) Member Bodies = 24
Africa : Kenya South Africa
N America : Canada USA (Secretariat)
S America : None
Asia : Israel Japan Korea   Turkey
Europe : Austria Belgium Denmark
Finland  France Germany
     Italy Netherlands Norway Russian Federation Serbia Spain Sweden United Kingdom
Oceania : Australia  New Zealand            
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21. What can You do? Participate – Participate – Participate
Lead change with the HIMSS & the US TAG
To learn more, contact:
Audrey Dickerson at
230 E. Ohio ST. Suite 500
Chicago, Illinois 60611
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