a. From the list of standards organizations selected from Box 14-1 (pp. 216-217)
Provide 3 important bullet points about
i. National Institute of Standards and Technologies (NIST):
• A non-regulatory, federal research agency of the United States Department of commerce.
• A standards measurement laboratory that fosters innovation(technology), standards and measurements to strengthen and improve the U.S economy and quality of life of the people.
• One of the nation's oldest physical science laboratories that works with both the government and agencies.
ii. TC 215 :
• Standardization in the field of health informatics, to facilitate the coherent and consistent interchange and use of health-related data, information, …show more content…
HL7
• Referred to as the “non-standard standard.”.
• ANIS- accredited Standards Development Organization operating in the healthcare arena.
• It is a non- profit organization that is made of stakeholders.
• Level Seven in the health level seven standard refers to the seventh level of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) seven-layer communications model for Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) networks.
• Focuses on the administrative and clinical data domains, it defines data exchange for HL7 messages.
v. IEEE (not in Box 14-1 but important in standards development in healthcare)
• the world's largest, non-profit, technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology that is related to electricity.
• IEEE publishes a third of the world’s technical literature in electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics. Publishes a range of peer reviewed journals as well and sponsoring international technical conferences each year.
• one of the leading standards-making organizations in the world
• IEEE performs its standards making and maintaining functions through the IEEE Standards Association