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

11-09-2023

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…

CEN publishes a good practice guide for obtaining consent

21-07-2023

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…

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

30-05-2023

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…

Europe adopts ISO 13131 for telehealth services

28-11-2022

Recently, the 2021 revision of ISO 13131 Health informatics – Telehealth services – Quality planning guidelines has been published and adopted as a European standard. This standard will support the…

Next JIC Open Forum on 30 November 2022

04-11-2022

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…

CEN-ISO/TS 82304-2 continued: Label2Enable

30-06-2022

On June 1, 2022, Horizon Europe project ‘Label2Enable’ has started. Fourteen organizations from seven countries (Belgium, Croatia, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, the Netherlands, and Spain) have joined forces for two years…

Update on CEN ISO/TS 82304-2

14-06-2022

The world is looking at the CEN ISO technical specification for Quality and Reliability of Health and Wellness Apps, (CEN ISO/TS 82304-2), which was published in 2021. It provides quality…

Replacing EN 17269 with ISO 27269 – The International Patient Summary

04-03-2022

CEN/TC 251 took the initiative to develop the International Patient Summary (IPS) standard, based on the European Guideline for the cross-border exchange of patient summary data. This resulted in the…

New website for the IPS is launched

09-12-2021

During a very engaging JIC openForum on the International Patient Summary (IPS), the new website for the IPS was launched. The website showcases the collaboration between five contributing SDO’s and provides…

JIC openForum – 9th December 2021

12-11-2021

The International Patient Summary is the latest joint activity within JIC and includes most of the JIC participating standard development organizations. It has a global scope -on a clinical and…

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