In May 2003, ITU-T Study Group 16 (Multimedia services, systems and terminals)
organized a Workshop on Standardization in E-health with the support of ITU-D
and participation of many key players in e-health standardization. The materials
relating to the Workshop including the Final Report are available on the ITU-T
website at the workshop web page at http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/worksem/e-health.
Among the recommendations from the workshop was the creation of a study Question in SG
16 to address the needs of multimedia standardization for e-health applications.
SG 16 took the recommendation and prepared the skeleton of the new Question
J/16, entitled "Multimedia framework for e-health applications", which was
approved in January 2004. The approval of the Question was announced in
TSB Circular 217 (of 5 March 2004). After the World Telecommunication
Standardization Assembly in October 2004, the Question was renumbered as
Question 28/16.
The Question is first working on creating a roadmap of what standards exist,
will coordinate its planned actions with other organizations developing e-health
standards via the e-Health Standardization Coordination Group (eHSCG) or
specific liaisons with other bodies and will provide support to the work in
ITU-D SG 2.
