5. Medical data exchange

International standards for healthcare technologies and services cover three areas:

• global management of healthcare systems, using IT to optimize national infrastructures;

• hospital management (e.g. management of care procedures), medical analysis laboratories and medical equipment production;

• the technical performance and safety features of medical devices.

The main standards currently used in the field of e-health are listed below, with the reference of their original standards body:

• ANSI X12 (EDI): transaction protocols used to transmit patient and billing data;

• CEN TC 251 provides DMP standards in Europe, including :

  • EN 13606, DMP data...