HIMSS STANDARDS INITIATIVES

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HIMSS STANDARDSINITIATIVES

• 2004

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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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Strategic Objective

• HIMSS is the recognized organization of expertise
  in healthcare information legislation,
  regulations, policies, standards and practices.

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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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United StatesTechnical Advisory GroupUS TAG
Activities
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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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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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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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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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US TAG

• When
• This group meets 2 times a year, March and
  November
• Communication occurs in several ways
• E-mail
• Telephone conferences
• Face-to-face meetings
• Web conferences (coming soon)
• Membership
• E-mail adickerson_at_himss.org

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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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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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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- 2005 May
• Participate in building US consensus on draft ISO
  deliverables

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Overview of ISO/TC 215 Health Informatics
Standardization
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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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Diagram of the TC 215 Organization
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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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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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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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What can You do?

• Participate Participate Participate
• Lead change with the HIMSS the US TAG
• To learn more, contact
• Audrey Dickerson at adickerson_at_himss.org
• 230 E. Ohio ST. Suite 500
• Chicago, Illinois 60611
• 312-915 9233