There has been a lot of interest in governments liberating data. The overall intention is: Data owned by the government in many cases is locked up and could be better by third parties (example Ordnance Survey data).
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On Thursday February 25, Talkstandards hosted a lively open forum on ICT Standardization and eHealth.

Ajit Jaokar spoke of the possibility that eHealth will take off in emerging markets and what the implications thereof could be. As an illustration, Jaokar mentioned the M-Pesa mobile payment service which took off in Kenya, serving 6.5 million subscribers by May 2009
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In the e-health sector, ICT standards are obviously important since ICT solutions for healthcare are heavily data and information driven and having seamless access to such information is a foundational matter.
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One of the barriers to the adoption of eHealth is the adoption of standards. And there are in turn unending barriers to the adoption of standards: legal, cultural, administrative, financial, organizational, and of course technical constraints not to omit the lack of incentives. Hence an interesting Norwegian paper by Riita Hellmann which speaks of “ubiquitous heterogeneity.”
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Five years ago the eHealth solutions shown on this map of the world: http://tinyurl.com/wwxds did not exist, but they now provide better quality and more productive healthcare for millions of patients. The happy accident that led to the Cross Enterprise Document Sharing (XDS) and XDS for Imaging (XDS-I) profiles in Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise would not have occurred without the supporting International communication standards and the dedicated experts and companies that supported their development. Many regional and Federal initiatives in the US successfully adopted the previously mentioned profiles and their underlying standards.
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Most European patients are still experiencing the healthcare of yesterday in which the patient was patient, the doctor knew best and the technology was outdated. But the attitudes and drivers needed to push us into a new healthcare experience are coming fast. The leader of the British Conservative Party, David Cameron, has called this
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With all the high profile initiatives in USA and Europe, it is tempting to think that e-health is a ‘western’ concept. While it is true that the idea of e-health is getting a lot of coverage in the West, it may actually arise earlier in emerging markets.

This is not as far-fetched as it first sounds.
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In an exclusive interview with Talkstandards, Professor David Ingram of openEHR, one of the most innovative players in the eHealth field, outlines some of his expectations for the future of ICT in the health care sector. This transcript has been prepared from notes taken during a telephone interview on February 22nd.

Part III: Openness, implementation and governance
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In an exclusive interview with Talkstandards, Professor David Ingram of openEHR, one of the most innovative players in the eHealth field, outlines some of his expectations for the future of ICT in the health care sector. This transcript has been prepared from notes taken during a telephone interview on February 22nd.

Part II: eHealth in an international perspective
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In an exclusive interview with Talkstandards, Professor David Ingram of openEHR, one of the most innovative players in the eHealth field, outlines some of his expectations for the future of ICT in the health care sector. This transcript has been prepared from notes taken during a telephone interview on February 22nd.

Part I: The Future of eHealth
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