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Sunday, September 5, 2010
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Last updated: 12/21/2009
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| Standards in Health Care Informatics |
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| Founded: 2002 |
| Membership: 6 |
| http://mi.hama-med.ac.jp/stds/index-en.html |
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| Chair |
Term of Office: 2009-2012 |
| Blobel, Prof. Bernd , PHD |
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| Head, eHealth Competence Center |
| University of Regensburg Medical Center |
| Regensburg Bavaria Germany 93053 |
| +49-941-944 6769 |
| +49-941-944 6766 |
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Goals & Objectives
Objectives:
- To advise about standards from an academic perspective.
- To promote the mutual identification of needed standards world-wide.
- To share information to facilitate mutual coordination of standards development in health informatics.
Expanded description of the content areas that will be worked on by the Working Group
- WG 16 itself does not create new standards; rather, it devotes its activity on promotion of mutual identification and coordination by posting and maintaining an inventory of health informatics standard activities.
- Usually, standard development activities are by volunteers, vendors, and immediate users. It is quite natural and fine for them to devote efforts to acquire fruitful outcomes. Sometimes, however, potential future users' profit could be underrated.
- IMIA is academically oriented, and is a world-wide organization which has connections with countries which participate less currently in existing standard development activities.
- Therefore, IMIA WG 16 inputs thoughtfulness for future users and for multi-cultural environments, as advisory to standard development activities.
Recent Activities:
Post and maintain an inventory of health informatics standard activities, for the purpose of promoting mutual identification between activities, as well as proliferation to users. A web site
(http://www.mi.hama-med.ac.jp/standardization.html) (Above has link to current updated URL contents inhttp://www.med.kyushu-u.ac.jp/info/std/ is maintained which reports up to date activities of ISO and CEN. This HP is updated and contains slides and handouts of the WG activities.
- A workshop was held at MEDINFO 2004 at San Francisco. Presenters were Ed Hammond, Gunnar Klein, Yun-Sik Kwak, Tim Benson, and Michio Kimura.
- At Cheju Korea, on Oct 7-9 2004, there was a joint meeting with APAMI standard WG, chaired by Yun-Sik Kwak.
- Workshop was held at MIE 2005 Geneva, Presenters are Gunnar Klein for CEN and ITU activities, Cor Loef for DICOM and IHE activities, Ken Toyoda for ISO TC 215 activities, and Yunkap Kwankam for WHO activities.
- A workshop was held at APAMI 2006 at Taipei, which focused on Global Vocabulary vs. Local Healthcare Cultures. It is co-organized with APAMI WG1 (chaired by Prof. Kwak)
- Presenters were: Chien Tsai Liu (TW); Jack Li (TW); Wansa Paoin (TH); Shinsuke Fujita (JP); C.P.Wong (HK); Yun Sik Kwak (KR) Abstracts and other information is seen at http://www.apami.org/apami2006/program.htm#10273
Future Activities:
- Provide advising from academy side to activities and ISO/TC215 and CEN TC 251. (IMIA is already a liaison of ISO/TC 215.)
- Supply advice to activities for them to be world-wide, with thoughtfulness of multi-cultural environment. Virtually, initial mission is to high-light differences of health and personal information handling caused by each country's health and medical cultural differences.
- Another workshop is planned at HIMSS AsiaPAC 07, at Singapore on May 16. The topic is "Interoperability".
- Another workshop is accepted and scheduled at MEDINFO 2007 Brisbane. Topic: Standards enable and empower interoperable EHR. Presenters: Kai Heitmann (Germany); Yoon Kim (Korea); Sik Il Kim (Korea); Charles Parisot (France).
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