Dear colleagues
I beg your indulgence to allow me to give some information/promotion for what I hope you will agree is a cause - even if you are not personally riveted by the subject of health informatics standards. This is the first release of the draft ISO EHR ad hoc group report on EHR standards requirements. I would encourage list members with an interest in open standards to read the draft report which can be downloaded from http://www.openehr.org/ISOAdHoc.htm. I would also welcome comments either on through the openhealth list and/or via the EHR ad hoc group list which has subscribe details below. This is a temporary list which has been set up specifically for this project and will cease to exist when the ad hoc final report is completed and presented to ISO in August. This draft report is being distributed to the national standards organisations in over fifty countries for review and comment. The guidelines sent to them for comments are as follows: Contribution & Feedback Guidelines: A. Objectives The objectives of the ad hoc group are provided below to offer you a framework from which to consider the overall content and flow of the report and upon which to structure some of your feedback. The specific objectives Specific objectives for the EHR ad hoc Group are to use components of accepted models and business requirements for an EHR architecture and its associated environment as points of reference to: * Identify the standards requirements for each component; * Identify where these EHR standards are being developed; * Identify the overlaps and gaps; and * Characterize the most appropriate type of organisation or group to undertake the development of required standards. B. Specific Areas of Feedback In order to complete the work in Sections 7 (Overlaps and Gaps) and 8 (Recommendations to TC 215) of the report, we welcome contributions from each member nation on the following sections: a.) Section 6: Current EHR standards development work in: ? ISO TC215 ? Object Management Group ? Europe - CEN/TC 251 b.) Annex 7: Nation-specific summaries about EHR standards: ? Established EHR standards, ? Emerging EHR standards, or ? Priorities for future EHR standards development. Annex 7 also asks each contributing nation to provide three (3) recommendations to TC215 for priority work in the area of EHR standards development. (Note please: Your contributions in Annex 6 and 7 will be taken into consideration along with the feedback received from the TC215 Heads of Delegation nation contributions.) C. Optional Contributions Comments and suggestions for improving the body of the report are welcomed, as well. Please submit your feedback to, preferably, your ISO TC215 Head of Delegation or, if that is not possible, to either Pat Jeselon or Peter Schloeffel before June 30. Any feedback provided after that time may not be included in the final report. Anyone interested in joining the EHR ad hoc group list serv can do so as follows (thanks to Horst Herb who kindly set up this list): Mail list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Help address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscription address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Policies: no commercial advertising In order to subscribe, you simply send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] No subject / message text neccessary The mail server sends you a confirmation ticket - when you reply to the confirmation, you are subscribed. For unsubscribing, you simply send a blank mail to the unsubscribe address For comprehensive list of commands / mailing list facilities, just send a blank mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Regards Peter Schloeffel Co-Chair ISO/TC 215 EHR ad hoc group
