Standards and E-health

E-health systems can potentially transform healthcare through mobile health delivery, personalized medicine, and social media e-health applications. Reaching the potential for advancements in e-health will only be achieved through information and communication technology standards efforts that facilitate interoperability among systems and devices, provide unqualified privacy and security, address the unique needs of the developing world, and leverage existing ubiquitous technologies such as social media applications and mobile devices.

E-health Standards and Interoperability (April 2012), by Dr Laura DeNardis of American University in Washington, DC.

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Technology Watch Report Standards and E-health (January 2011), by Dr Laura DeNardis:

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Related work in ITU

• ITU-T Study Group 16: e-health and standardization
   
• ITU-T Study Group 16, Question 28: Multimedia framework for e-health applications
• ITU-T Study Group 17, Question 9: Telebiometrics
• ITU-T Focus Group on Machine-to-Machine Service Layer
   
• ITU-D: ICT Applications for e-health

Publications

• ITU-T Technical Paper: Roadmap for Telemedicine
• ITU-D Study Group 2: Mobile eHealth solutions for Developing Countries (Question 14-2, Final Report)

Workshops

• Joint ITU-WHO Workshop on e-Health Standards and Interoperability (April 2012)
• ITU-T workshop on standardization in e-health (May 2003)
   

Other e-health standardization initiatives

• WHO eHealth Standardization Coordination Group
• ISO TC 215: Healthcare informatics
• CEN TC 251: Healthcare informatics
• Health Level Seven International (HL7)
• ISO/IEEE 11073

E-health resources

• WHO: Global Observatory for eHealth
• Institute for the Future: Health Care 2020 Perspectives