Component 9: Unit 3: Standards Developing Organizations

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:

  1. Explain why standards related to networking and health information exchange are important in the current environment.
  2. Standards development
    1. How standards are developed
    1. Who develops them
    1. How standards are accredited
    1. How standards are selected
  3. Understand different kinds of standards being developed and for what purpose
  4. Learn about Standards Developing Organizations and the standards they create
  5. 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

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