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NATIONAL E-HEALTH STANDARDS DEVELOPMENT - 1 INTRODUCTION 15 MAR 2006

1	INTRODUCTION

E-Health may be defined as the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) 
to improve or enable health and healthcare.  

Australian Governments have collectively established a national e-health agenda, led by 
the National E-Health Transition Authority (NEHTA).   
 
Standards may be defined as qualities, measures, performance specifications or other 
attributes of goods or services to which their production and implementation should conform.  

Their purposes generally include greater safety and reliability, lower costs, economic 
development and facilitation of trade, and they are generally articulated in published 
documents.   
 
Standards are necessary for the widespread deployment of e-health capabilities.  

Without the adoption of common standards, information and communication technologies cannot 
be integrated to work together and the information and functionalities they provide 
cannot interoperate at the scale of the entire health sector. 
 
GREATER STANDARDIZATION IS CENTRAL TO AUSTRALIA'S E-HEALTH AGENDA

This Management Framework has been developed by NEHTA to guide changes in the 
Australian e-health standards development environment.  These changes include: 

a The establishment of a new national effort to develop, maintain and disseminate a 
  range of clinical data standards and terminologies, with the latter linked to a new 
  international standards development organisation, the SNOMED SDO; 

b The role of NEHTA in developing technical specifications for inclusion in Government 
  procurement processes, and the likely establishment of a national certification program 
  to encourage conformance with a range of standards and specifications; 

c The increasing application to health of information and communication technologies such as 
  Service Oriented Architectures [SOA] and web services, many of which have been 
  standardized via new industry collaboration rather than traditional standards organisations; and 

d The need for NEHTA, which has been established as a transitional agency with a finite 
  lifespan, to build long-term capacities within the sector to sustain ongoing development 
  and maintenance of e-health standards after its objectives are met. 
 
The purposes of this Framework are to inform key stakeholders – suppliers, purchasers 
and implementers of e-health technologies as well as organisations associated with 
standardization – and other interested parties about future directions for the 
development of e-health standards in Australia, and to encourage wider participation in 
standards development. 
 
This Management Framework has been developed by NEHTA in association with Standards Australia 
and targeted consultation with a range of stakeholders and e-health standards experts.  

It describes the roles and functions of Australian e-health standards developers and 
proposes mechanisms for maintaining coherence between them. 
 
The document is the first of three outputs that comprise the National E-Health Standards 
Plan, being produced by NEHTA.  

The other two outputs will address standards implementation support and include a Standards 
Catalogue.  

These subsequent papers will be completed during 2006. 
 
 
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