CEN/TC251/WGIV - Technology for Interoperability in Health Care
The task of Working Group IV (WGIV) in the
CEN/TC251
Technical Committee of Health Informatics is to develop standards
which improve the interoperability of computerized health care information
systems made by different manufacturers. The idea is not
necessarily to develop standards from scratch if there are publicly
available specifications which can be confirmed to European Committee
for Standardisation (CEN) recommendations
after some or no modification through a fast, open process. Practise
has shown, however, that few are those specifications which do not
require further development. WG IV co-operates closely with
ISO/TC215/WG7
(in which some WG IV experts participate) and
IEEE 11073.
Working Group
IV has currently a relatively small number of active work items
(WI). This is due to the fact that medical device communication issues
are preferred to be solved with global and not just Europe specific
standards. Documents relating to WGIV's WIs can be found through the documents
section of the WGIV web site. In the past the WIs have included, e.g.:
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EN 1064, Medical Informatics - Standard Communications Protocol -
Computer-Assisted Electrocardiography, SCP-ECG EN 1064 has also been accepted in ISO
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Vital Signs Information
Representation Formerly ENV 13734 and in further
development in ISO/TC215/WG7 as ISO 11073-10101 and 11073-10201
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Analytical Instrument Interfaces Formerly ENV 13728 and
further developed in ISO/TC215/WG7 as ISO 18812
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Interoperability of Medical Devices Formerly ENV 13735, in
further development in ISO/TC215/WG7 in the ISO 11073-xxxxx series
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Evaluation of Physiological Analysis Systems
Published
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File Exchange Format for
Vital Signs ENV14271
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Interoperability of
Healthcare Multimedia Report Systems, CR 14300
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Maintenance of MEDICOM/DICOM, EN12052 Refers to
DICOM
The predecessors of WGIV have produced standard proposals
which can be obtained through CEN
Central Secretariat in Brussels, Belgium or through national
standards bodies. Many of these are already more or less out of date.
The leader (=convenor) of WGIV is Alpo Värri (Finland,
E-mail:
Alpo.Varri@tut.fi) nominated in September 2009 by CEN/TC251 and
the secretary is Arto Holopainen, Finland.
The standardisation work of WGIV is also followed with interest
by the
Finnish WGIV
mirror group which receives reports about WGIV meetings and other important
events in its area of interest. The responsible organisation of following
the CEN/TC251 in Finland is SFS.
Latest update 2010-03-15
Alpo Värri
Department of Signal
Processing, Tampere
University of Technology,
P.O. Box 553, FIN-33101 Tampere, Finland
Tel. +358-40-8490780, Fax. +358-3-31153857,
E-mail: Alpo.Varri@tut.fi.