Next JIC Open Forum on 30 November 2022

4 November 2022

Quality Labelling of Digital Tools

Transcending national boundaries and organisations, the Joint Initiative Council’s standards development organisations work collaboratively to provide global, coordinated—not competitive—standards that address real-world healthcare issues. In its recently released white paper, the JIC explores the desired future of a digital health ecosystem where high-quality data is available to the right people, at the right place and at the right time for high-quality decisions and care.

Other articles

A short and clear introduction to the International Patient Summary (IPS)

11 September 2023

The International Patient Summary is a minimal and non-exhaustive set of basic clinical data of a patient, specialty-agnostic, condition-independent, but readily usable by all clinicians for the (un)scheduled patient care away from the patient’s home health system. Created originally by a CEN/TC 251 Project Team, in close collaboration with HL7 and IHE, the International Patient … Continued

CEN publishes a good practice guide for obtaining consent

21 July 2023

CEN has just published CWA 17933: Digital health innovations — Good practice guide for obtaining consent for the use of personal health information for research and innovations. Scope Since digital health innovations are still under development, or within the evaluation process, formal consent is usually needed for all stages of the development cycle. This CEN … Continued

XpanDH kicks off to help enable individuals and organisations to adopt the European Electronic Health Records Exchange format

30 May 2023

You may already have seen mention of a new project on Expanding Digital Health across Europe – the XpanDH project. CEN/TC 251 is proud to be involved in the XpanDH project, which kicked off early in 2023. This project aims to expand the use of the European Electronic Health Record Exchange Format (EEHRxF) for use … Continued