Welcome to the Open Forum on ICT Standardization and eHealth
Governments around the world hope that eHealth can contribute to increased safety, choice and productivity in the health care sector. While these overriding hopes are common, the approaches to ehealth differ. This forum is devoted to several issues relating to the role of ICT standardization in healthcare:
- How can ICT standardization best contribute to the development of eHealth services and systems?
- What important lessons can be drawn from experiences around the world, including Europe and the USA?
- To what extent should governments intervene in the standardization process to reach eHealth objectives?
- Is it feasible that ICT standards enable patient choice and mobility; also across international borders?
Background Material:
Exclusive interview with David Ingram, Founding Chairman of openEHR:
Part I: The Future of eHealth (article)
Part II: eHealth in an international perspective (article)
Part III: Openness, implementation and governance (article)
EU and US Policy:
New US Policy for EHR (article)
EU eHealth Status and Progress (article)
The discussion will be built upon the articles to the right using the comment field.
With this said, I declare the forum open!
Mattias Ganslandt
ICT Standardization and eHealth
recent ARTICLES
eHealth Forum- A Summary
Posted By Mattias Ganslandt on March 1st, 2010
On Thursday February 25, Talkstandards hosted a lively open forum on ICT Standardization and eHealth.
Ajit Jaokar spoke of the possibility that eH...
ICT Standards and eHealth
Posted By Jay Kesan on February 25th, 2010
In the e-health sector, ICT standards are obviously important since ICT solutions for healthcare are heavily data and information driven and having sea...
Can Web 2.0 Trump eHealth Interoperability Issues?
Posted By Denise Silber on February 24th, 2010
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: le...
What’s Missing in US eHealth Policy?
Posted By Keith W Boone on February 24th, 2010
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 Integr...
The Future Challenges of The Post-Bureaucratic Age
Posted By Helen Disney on February 24th, 2010
Most European patients are still experiencing the healthcare of yesterday in which the patient was patient, the doctor knew best and the technology was...
Will e-health Take Off In Emerging Markets and If So, What Are the Implications?
Posted By Ajit Jaokar on February 24th, 2010
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 id...
Best Approach to eHealth Standardization is Learning-by-Doing
Posted By Mattias Ganslandt on February 24th, 2010
In an exclusive interview with Talkstandards, Professor David Ingram of openEHR, one of the most innovative players in the eHealth field, outlines some...
Significant Challenges to eHealth in Europe
Posted By Mattias Ganslandt on February 24th, 2010
In an exclusive interview with Talkstandards, Professor David Ingram of openEHR, one of the most innovative players in the eHealth field, outlines some...
openEHR Favors Empirical and Practical Approach to eHealth
Posted By Mattias Ganslandt on February 23rd, 2010
In an exclusive interview with Talkstandards, Professor David Ingram of openEHR, one of the most innovative players in the eHealth field, outlines some...
Background: EU eHealth Status and Progress
Posted By Mattias Ganslandt on February 22nd, 2010
eHealth development and implementation are prioritized areas in Europe, both on EU and National level. In March, a ministerial meeting on eHealth will ...
Background: New US Policy for EHR
Posted By Mattias Ganslandt on February 19th, 2010
The Obama Administration has made eHealth deployment a prioritized issue and through American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009, approxim...
recent COMMENTS
comment by Gerard Freriks
Semantic Interoperability in healthcare cross-enterprise and cross-border in Europe can not become a reality unless a few things are in ...
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comment by Jay Kesan
Mattias, Yes, I see your point. It is not clear to me that ...
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comment by Jay Kesan
Ajit, For example, private standards setting organizations could be working on schema for document (text, ...
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comment by Jay Kesan
Keith, I fear that simply reusing (as opposed to adapting and enhancing) existing IT sector ...
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comment by Jay Kesan
Helen, I agree with your comments very much. My fear is that in the name of patient privacy, which ...
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comment by adesina
Some key points from the OECD eHealth report eHealth is not about technical standardization alone but it requires institutional, human and ...
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comment by Ajit Jaokar
Keith Yes, this is a complex area and I watch it with interest. I see the same principles in another domain ...
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