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ICT products conforming to ITU standards listed in public database
New ITU conformity database seen as key enabler for e-Health market
Geneva, 19 December 2014 – ITU has launched the ‘ICT
product conformity database’ to provide industry with a means to publicize
the conformance of ICT products and services with ITU-T’s international
standards. E-Health products covering 23 classes of technology have been
volunteered for inclusion in the database at its launch, with the intention of
assisting buyers in their efforts to select standards-compliant products.
The new database showcases ICT products and services found
to comply with ITU-T standards by conformance tests carried out by third-party
test labs. The e-Health devices populating the database were tested for
compliance with the specifications of
Recommendation ITU-T H.810 “Interoperability design guidelines for personal
health systems”, a key standard approved in December 2013, which contains
the Continua Design Guidelines. The recently issued Continua 2014 Design
Guidelines are adopted to ITU specifications and feature interface between
personal area network (PAN), local area network (LAN) and touch area network
(TAN) health devices and application hosting devices (AHDs) including NFC
(near-field communication), USB and Bluetooth Smart Technology (Low Energy); and
consent enforcement via wide area network (WAN) and Health Record Network (HRN)
health devices.
“ITU and the World Health Organization (WHO) have been
collaborating closely on e-Health, and it is very encouraging to see the
e-Health industry taking the lead in submitting its products for inclusion in
ITU’s conformity product database,” said ITU Secretary-General Hamadoun I. Touré.
“This data will be of great value in improving interoperability, which we know
to be absolutely critical in the e-health sphere.”
Rob Havasy, Continua Executive Director and Vice President
of the Personal Connected
Health Alliance (PCHA): "Interoperability driven by open standards in mobile
and personal connected health solutions, along with machine-to-machine
communications, will be a key enabler for the e-Health market, which is expected
to grow exponentially in coming years.”
“With the support of ITU membership, we have developed a
market-driven conformity and interoperability programme which will be of
particular benefit to developing countries,” said Malcolm Johnson, Director, ITU
Telecommunication Standardization Bureau. “It is a long-term programme, which
will have a positive impact on public health worldwide.”
The test suites employed in testing the conformance of
e-Health products with ITU-T H.810 were developed by Continua and will be
published as 32 standards in the ITU-T H.821-H.850 series. These standards
provide conformance-testing regimes, including over 1000 test cases, for the
functions implemented by personal health devices, such as thermometers, blood
pressure meters and pulse meters. They also test the conformance of gateways
that consolidate measurements from various devices and transmit such records to
health-record databases.
Conformance with international standards is one of the
core principles underlying the global interoperability of ICT networks and
devices. The new ITU conformity product database forms part of the
ITU
Conformity and Interoperability (C&I) Programme initiated at the request of
ITU’s membership in light of the challenges faced by developing countries in
improving interoperability.
For more information, please contact:
Sanjay Acharya
Chief, Media Relations and Public Information
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About Continua
Continua, an international not-for-profit industry group, is the leading
organization convening global technology industry standards to develop
end-to-end, plug-and-play connectivity for personal connected health. Continua
is a member of the Personal Connected
Health Alliance (PCHA), an international non-profit organization established
by Continua Health Alliance, mHealth
Summit and HIMSS to represent the
consumer voice in personal connected health. Continua is dedicated to the
development of Design Guidelines and test tools to expedite the deployment of
personal connected health devices and systems that will empower information-driven
health self-management and facilitate the incorporation of health and wellness
into the day-to-day lives of consumers. Continua is a pioneer in establishing
standards-based guidelines and security for connected health technologies such
as sensors, remote monitoring devices, tablets, gateways and smart phones as
well as networked and cloud solutions through its Guideline releases. The
Continua Council features leading technology, medical device and health care
industry leaders and service providers: Fujitsu, Intel, Oracle, Orange, Philips,
Qualcomm Life, Roche Diagnostics, Sharp and UnitedHealth Group. For more
information visit:
www.continuaalliance.org
.