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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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