1. Christopher G. Chute, M.D., Dr.P.H
Joint ITU-WHO Workshop on e-Health Standards and Interoperability (Geneva, Switzerland, 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
Geneva, Switzerland, April 2012

2. 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, April 2012

3. Published over 90 International Standards
Main results to date
Published over 90 International Standards
ISO Vocabulary of Terminological Systems
ISO 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 ) Devices
Geneva, Switzerland, April 2012

4. 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, April 2012

5. 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, April 2012

6. Contact details for further info
Lisa Spellman, ISO/TC215 Secretary
Limit to one slide, please!
Geneva, Switzerland, April 2012