Geneva, 23-25 May 2003
 Introduction
The development of advanced digital and telecommunications techniques has enabled the
development of very sophisticated equipment used in the medical area, as well as has
contributed to distributed learning. Unfortunately, most solutions have been developed
on a proprietary or ad-hoc basis, posing challenges to institutions working in the medical
area willing to integrate their infrastructure and procedures, as well as to share resources
with other institutions distributed in wide geographical area. These geographically distributed
scenarios include not only sharing of resources and data amongst institutions in the developed
countries but also serve to support provision of medical services and education in remote locations,
e.g. in developing countries as well as disaster areas. Shared databases can reduce costs and increase
efficiencies but can also enable early detection of epidemics and even bio-attacks.
Standardization in e-health has long been sought as a key element in support of these activities,
but has so far not produced a very high level interoperability desired by many. In organizing this
workshop, ITU-T, with the support of ITU-D and the participation of ISO, IEC and other SDOs, aims
at identifying the key issues needed in support of attaining this goal and to identify a possible
role to be played in ITU-T to promote such standards.
Workshop objectives:
- Bring together key players in e-health standardization and interoperability today
- Define a framework for standardization
- Identify areas of possible coordination and cooperation
- Prepare a standardization work plan, identifying possible ITU-T and ITU-D role.
Workshop Programme & Presentations
Convening letter (TSB Circular 151)
Steering Committee
Additional Information
CVs of speakers
Final
Report
ITU-T Guide for Beginners
The workshop was audio recorded. To listen to the archives, please go to:
http://www.itu.int/ibs/ITU-T/e-health/
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