title: Future Direction of IMIA Standardization. Report from the IMIA Standardization Working Group.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Standardization in the field of health informatics has increased its importance and global alliance for establishing interoperability and compatibility internationally. Standardization has been organized by standard development organizations (SDOs) such as ISO (International Organization for Standardization), CEN (European Committee for Standardization), IHE (Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise), and HL7 (Health Level 7), etc. This paper reports the status of these SDOs' activities.
  
  
  METHODS
  In this workshop, we reviewed the past activities and the current situation of standardization in health care informatics with the standard development organizations such as ISO, CEN, IHE, and HL7. Then we discussed the future direction of standardization in health informatics toward "future medicine" based on standardized technologies.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We could share the status of each SDO through exchange of opinions in the workshop. Some WHO members joined our discussion to support this constructive activity.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  At this meeting, the workshop speakers have been appointed as new members of the IMIA working groups of Standards in Health Care Informatics (WG16). We could reach to the conclusion that we collaborate for the international standardization in health informatics toward "future medicine".
authors.affiliation: Jun Nakaya, Tohoku University School of Medicine, 1-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-8573,Japan, Tel: +81 22 717 7501, Fax: +81 22 273 6280, E-mail: junnaka@med.tohoku.ac.jp.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Nakaya
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kimura
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ogishima
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Shabo
authors.forename: I K
authors.initials: IK
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Parisot
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: de Faria Leao
mesh_terms: D057208:Health Level Seven; D008490:Medical Informatics / Q000592:standards*; D008491:Medical Informatics Applications; D009938:Organizations
keywords: HL7; ISO; Standardization; WHO; health