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Standards Development Organizations

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Standards are documents, established by consensus and approved by a recognised body. ISO is the international standards organization with membership from national standards bodies. US-based standards developers (SDOs) such as HL7 and DICOM are represented by ANSI. HL7 International is the leading SDO for healthcare interoperability and is described in more detail than the others. DICOM leads in medical imaging; IHTSDO for SNOMED CT. IHE develops standards profiles for specific purposes, Continua works on consumer medical devices and CDISC on clinical trials data. OpenEHR develops clinical models.

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  1. 1.

    See www.hl7.org

  2. 2.

    See www.ihtsdo.org

  3. 3.

    http://dicom.nema.org/

  4. 4.

    See www.ihe.net

  5. 5.

    See www.continuaalliance.org

  6. 6.

    See www.cdisc.org

  7. 7.

    See www.openehr.org

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Benson, T., Grieve, G. (2016). Standards Development Organizations. In: Principles of Health Interoperability. Health Information Technology Standards. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30370-3_6

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