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Introduction

This is a joke!...there are so many "Standards" Organization that it is impossible to know who even has the authority to do what they are saying they are doing...

However...big money is involved...and that always brings out the "pigs." ...and yeah there are some very good organizations such as LOINC.

General Meta-Sites

  • United States Health Information Knowledgebase The United States Health Information Knowledgebase (USHIK) is a health metadata registry. The United States Health Information Knowledgebase (USHIK) provides and maintains a metadata registry of health information data element definitions, values and information models that enable browsing, comparison, synchronization and harmonization within an uniform query and interface environment.

The Following organizations claims to have "Intellectual Property Rights" !

International Family of Economic and Social Classifications

Reference classifications of the family are those economic and social classifications that are a product of international agreements approved by the United Nations Statistical Commission or another competent intergovernmental board, such as that of the International Labour Organization (ILO ), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), World Health Organization (WHO), or the World Customs Organization (WCO) depending upon the subject matter area. Thus reference classifications have achieved broad acceptance and official agreement and are approved and recommended as guidelines for the preparation of classifications. They may be used as models for the development or revision of other classifications, both with respect to the structure and with respect to the character and definition of the categories.

Expenditures according to Purpose

  • Classification of the Functions of Government (COFOG)

  • Classification of Individual Consumption according to Purpose (COICOP)

  • Classification of the Purposes of Non-Profit Institutions Serving Households (COPNI)

  • Classification of Outlays of Producers according to Purpose (COPP)

Employment, Occupation and Education

  • International Classification of Status in Employment (ICSE)

  • International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO)

  • International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED)

Social and Health

  • International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD)

  • International Classification of Impairments, Disabilities, and Handicaps (ICIDH)

Country and Area

  • Standard Country or Area Codes for Statistical Use (M49)

Other

  • Geographic

  • Time use

 

Individual Sites

  • ADA Dental Product Guidelines and Standards

  • ANA American Nurses Association

  • ANSI – American National Standards Institute

  • ASTM A component of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) that has a subcommittee (E31) for general healthcare informatics. This E31 Subcommittee on Healthcare Informatics develops standards related to the architecture, content, storage, security, confidentiality, functionality, and communication of information used within healthcare and healthcare decision making, including patient-specific information and knowledge.

  • CEN TC 251 (European). European Committee for Standardization Technical Committee for Health Informatics. "Task force XML has been established by CEN/TC 251 to investigate various aspects of using XML syntax for health messages and documents as this is the coming syntax of the World Wide Web. The task force is open to experts of all working groups. The Task force performed a series of workshops and provided a lot of valuable advice to CEN/TC 251 (see final report under documents for download above). Since XML message implementations are now informative parts of all new CEN/TC 251 standards and a work item for a general method for XML mapping is planned for in co-operation with ISO/TC 215 the Task Force XML was formally closed 1999-06-29"

  • CHI Consolidated Health Informatics. The Consolidated Health Informatics (CHI) began as an eGov initiative that establishes a portfolio of existing health information interoperability standards (health vocabulary and messaging) enabling all agencies in the federal health enterprise to "speak the same language" based on common enterprise-wide business and information technology architectures. CHI is currently managed under the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Informational Technology's (ONC) Federal Health Architecture (FHA) Program Management Office.

  • CISB – United Kingdom Clinical Information Standards Board.  In the UK, the CISB is responsible for approving clinical standards, in areas such as, clinical datasets terminology and clinical messages for direct patient care.

  • DICOM Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine The Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) Standard was developed for the transmission of images and is used internationally for Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS). This standard was developed by the joint committee of the ACR (the American College of Radiology) and NEMA (the National Electrical Manufacturers Association) to meet the needs of manufacturers and users of medical imaging equipment for interconnection of devices on standard networks

  • Health Information Standards Board (HISB). A subgroup of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). The American National Standards Institute's Healthcare Informatics Standards Board (ANSI HISB) provides an open, public forum for the voluntary coordination of healthcare informatics standards among all United States' standard developing organizations. Every major developer of healthcare informatics standards in the United States participates in ANSI HISB. The ANSI HISB has 27 voting members and more than 100 participants, including ANSI-accredited and other standards developing organizations, professional societies, trade associations, private companies, federal agencies, and others

  • Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS)

  • HL7 is an accredited ANSI standard organization that produces the HL7 messaging standard. It is the accepted messaging standard for communicating clinical data. It is supported by every major medical informatics system vendor in the US. The HL7 mission is to provide a comprehensive framework and related standards for the exchange, integration, sharing, and retrieval of electronic health information that supports clinical practice and the management, delivery and evaluation of health services. Specifically, to create flexible, cost effective standards, guidelines, and methodologies to enable healthcare information system interoperabilityandsharingofelectronichealthrecords.TheHL7ReferenceInformation

  • IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. Sets standards for computers and languages.It is primarily standard for a medical information BUS for bedside instruments.

  • IHE IHE is an initiative by healthcare professionals and industry to improve the way computer systems in healthcare share information. IHE promotes the coordinated use of established standards such as DICOM and HL7 to address specific clinical need in support of optimal patient care. Systems developed in accordance with IHE communicate with one another better, are easier to implement, and enable care providers to use information more effectively

  • IOM committee on Patient Satety Data Standards.This group within the Institute of Medicine has the charge of producing a detailed plan to facilitate the development of data standards applicable to the collection, coding, and classification of patient safety information

  • ISO – International Organization for Standardization

  • ISBT 128. ISBT 128 sets a global standard for the identification, labeling and information processing of human blood, tissue and organ products across international borders and disparate health care systems. The standard has been designed and perfected over a period of almost two decades to ensure the highest levels of accuracy, safety and efficiency for the benefit of donors, patients and official ISBT 128 licensed facilities worldwide

  • LOINC -Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC®). A set of universal names and identifiers codes for laboratory and clinical observations. The purpose of the LOINC database is to facilitate the exchange and pooling of results, such as blood hemoglobin, serum potassium, or vital signs, for clinical care, outcomes management, and research.

  • National Center for Health Statistics

  • National Health Information Infrastructure (NHII)

  • National Association for Healthcare IT –NAHIT

  • National Council for Prescription Drug Programs (NCPDP). Retail drug sales billing standard

  • NCVHS National Committee on Vital Statistics.Serve as an advisory body to the Department of Health and Human Services on health data, statistics and national health information policy. It fulfills important review and advisory functions relative to health data and statistical problems of national and international interest, stimulates or conducts studies of such problems and makes proposals for improvement of the Nation’s health statistics and information systems.

  • Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine - Clinical Terminology (SNOMED-CT)

  • UMLS Unified Medical Language System The UMLS is a long term research and development project of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) that began in 1986. This project develops and distributes multi-purpose, electronic "Knowledge Sources" and associated lexical programs. System developers can use the UMLS products to enhance their applications -- in systems focused on patient data, digital libraries, Web and bibliographic retrieval, natural language processing, and decision support. Researchers will find the UMLS products useful in investigating knowledge representation and retrieval questions.

  • WASPaLM  World Association of Societies of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

  • X12N Dominant standard for electronic commerce. The American National Standards Institute Accredited Standards Committee X12 (ASC X12) selected X12N as the standard for electronic data interchange (EDI) used in administrative and financial health care transactions (excluding retail pharmacy transactions) in compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. Used for external financial transactions, financial coverage verification and insurance transactions and claims.

Medical Education

  • MedBiquitous. MedBiquitous is the ANSI-accredited developer of information technology standards for healthcare education and competence assessment. Our XML and Web Services Standards enable communications among diverse entities in professional medicine and provide opportunities to seamlessly support the clinician learner. MedBiquitous has developed standards for healthcare learning objects (HLOs), discrete units of online instruction that may be used at the time of need, as well as standards for communicating clinician profile information, education and certification activities, journal information, and educational metrics. These standards will facilitate collaboration across organizations and make it easier to track licensure, certification, and educational changes or activities.
  • NCPDP - National Council for Prescription Drug Programs NCPDP creates and promotes standards for the transfer of data to and from the pharmacy services sector of the healthcare industry. The organization provides a forum and support wherein our diverse membership can efficiently and effectively develop and maintain these standards through a consensus building process. NCPDP also offers its members resources, including educational opportunities and database services, to better manage their businesses
  • Unified Code for Units of Measure (UCUM).The Unified Code for Units of Measure is a code system intended to include all units of measures being contemporarily used in international science, engineering, and business. The purpose is to facilitate unambiguous electronic communication of quantities together with their units. The focus is on electronic communication, as opposed to communication between humans. A typical application of The Unified Code for Units of Measure are electronic data interchange (EDI) protocols, but there is nothing that prevents it from being used in other types of machine communication.

Research

 

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