CEN/TC 251 is a workgroup within the European Union

European Union

The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 independent member states which are located primarily in Europe. The EU traces its origins from the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Economic Community , formed by six countries in 1958...

 working on standardization in the field of Health Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in the European Union

European Union

The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 independent member states which are located primarily in Europe. The EU traces its origins from the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Economic Community , formed by six countries in 1958...

. The goal is to achieve compatibility and interoperability between independent systems and to enable modularity in Electronic Health Record

Electronic Health Record

An electronic health record is an evolving concept defined as a systematic collection of electronic health information about individual patients or populations...

 systems.

Workgroups establish requirements for health information structure in order to support clinical and administrative procedures, technical methods to support interoperable systems. In addition they establish requirements regarding safety, security and quality.

Workgroups

• Information models (WG I)
• Terminology and knowledge representation (WG II)
• Security, Safety and Quality (WG III)
• Technology for Interoperability (WG IV)

See also

• ContSys
• EHRcom
• European Institute for Health Records
  European Institute for Health Records
  The European Institute for Health Records or EuroRec Institute is a non-profit organization founded in 2002 as part of the ProRec initiative. On 13 May 2003, the institute was established as a non-profit organization under French law. Current President of EuroRec is Prof. Georges De Moor...
  
  
• Health Informatics Service Architecture (HISA)
• HIPAA (USA)
• Health Level 7
  Health Level 7
  Health Level Seven , is an all-volunteer, non-profit organization involved in development of international healthcare informatics interoperability standards...
  
   International
• International Classification of Primary Care
  International Classification of Primary Care
  The International Classification of Primary Care is a classification method for primary care encounters. It allows for the classification of the patient’s reason for encounter , the problems/diagnosis managed, primary or general health care interventions, and the ordering of the data of the...
  
   (ICPC)
• ISO TC 215
• openEHR
  Openehr
  openEHR is an open standard specification in health informatics that describes the management and storage, retrieval and exchange of health data in electronic health records . In openEHR, all health data for a person is stored in a "one lifetime", vendor-independent, person-centred EHR...
  
   Foundation
• ProRec
  ProRec
  The ProRec initiative of 1996 is a network of national non-profit organisations . The initiative was a consequence of the conclusions of the Concerted Action MEDIREC regarding the reasons why Electronic Health Record systems were not used more widely in any of the European Union...
  
  

External links

• CEN/TC 251
• CEN/TC 251 - Published standards
• CEN/TC 251 is a member of the Joint Initiative on SDO Global Health Informatics Standardization
• Joint Initiative Council