Component 9: Unit 3: Standards Developing Organizations
Description:
This unit introduces students to the national and international organizations that create standards used in networking and health information exchange.
Objectives:
- Explain why standards related to networking and health information exchange are important in the current environment.
- Standards development
- How standards are developed
- Who develops them
- How standards are accredited
- How standards are selected
- Understand different kinds of standards being developed and for what purpose
- Learn about Standards Developing Organizations and the standards they create
- Demonstrate how to find, obtain, and use standards that are needed to facilitate networking and health information exchange
Component 9: Unit 3; Lecture 3a comp9_unit3a_lecture_slides
Health IT Standards: 1) Importance of standards; 2) Who makes standards
Component 9: Unit 3; Lecture 3b comp9_unit3b_lecture_slides
SDO Structure: 1) Competing and overlapping standards; 2) Redundancy in work and people; 3) Limited resources
Component 9: Unit 3; Lecture 3c comp9_unit3c_lecture_slides
How Standards are Made: 1) Types and categories of standards
Suggested Readings
ISO TC 215 www.iso.org/iso/iso_technical_committee?commid=54960
Health Level 7 www.hl7.org
CDISC www.cdisc.org
CEN www.cen.eu/cen/Sectors/Sectors/ISSS/Committees
GS1 www.gs1.org
NCPDP www.ncpdp.org
ASC X12N www.x12n.org
ASTM E31 www.astm.org/COMMIT/COMMITTEE/E31
IHE www.himss.org/ASP/topics_ihe
DICOM http://medical.nema.org/
IHTSDO www.ihtsdo.org
ONC http://healthit.hhs.gov/portal/server.pt?open=512&objID=1200&mode=2