ISO/TC 215 NZ
This is our national mirror committee of the ISO/TC 215 Health informatics technical committee. Members are appointed by the Standards Approval Board of New Zealand. Our purpose is to have input to new and updated ISO standards through working groups and the ballot process. Having operated behind the scenes for a couple of years, we’re now sharing our work with the wider ehealthforum community.
Our role requires us to:
- Monitor international work items, drafts and ballots through relevant ISO online services
- Review the technical content of documents out ‘for comment’ and formulate a national perspective to International Standards development
- Inform Standards NZ of the consolidated comments reached on new ISO work proposals (NP), committee draft (CD), draft international standard (DIS) and final draft international standard (FDIS) documents
- Inform Standards NZ of the IRG vote on NP, CD, DIS and FDIS documents. With participating (P) membership there is an obligation to submit a vote on international ballots
- Provide a valid technical justification for any negative votes submitted by the mirror committee
- Inform Standards NZ of the consolidated position reached on International Standards under systematic review (each standard undergoes a 5 yearly systematic review)
- Consult with their organisation/employer/association in order to take the organisation’s position into IRG committee meetings for discussion towards a consolidated national position/vote on international matters
- Nominate a suitable expert to attend international meetings (if funding support is available to allow attendance)
- Besides contributing to international standards, ISO/TC 215 NZ makes recommendations to HISO on standards choices for national adoption.
AGENDA
- International Patient Summary (IPS) update @i.hunter (IPS maintenance agency) @alastairk and @keithduddy
- Update on recommended purchases of ISO standards
- Strategic Advisory Group on the Global Digital Health Certification Network - call for volunteers
- Around the other working groups (if you have an update)
- Upcoming ballots (see below)
- Any other business
Actions
- Add @nathanb to WG 2 - DONE
- Add @nathanb to TF 7 Task Force on Telehealth and Virtual Care (TVC) Standards - DONE
- Add @SamuelWong to WG 11 Personalized digital health - DONE
Around the working groups
- ISO/TC 215/SC 1 Genomics Informatics
- ISO/TC 215/WG 1 Architecture, Frameworks and Models @alastairk @keithduddy
- ISO/TC 215/WG 2 Systems and Device Interoperability @amyc
- ISO/TC 215/WG 3 Semantic content
- ISO/TC 215/WG 4 Security, Safety and Privacy
- ISO/TC 215/WG 6 Pharmacy and medicines business
- ISO/TC 215/WG 10 Traditional Medicine
- ISO/TC 215/WG 11 Personalized digital health @angela.pidd @SamuelWong
- ISO/TC 215/TF 7 Task Force on Telehealth and Virtual Care (TVC) Standards @i.hunter @atalagk @nathanb
Update from @i.hunter on first IPS MA meeting, 27 June 2024
Attendees from USA, Norway, Japan, Sweden, Canada, China, New Zealand and representatives of other ISO/TC 215 WGs
- It was confusing who was representing what group. Secretariat will sort this out.
- Some countries nominated more than one person – one country has one vote but can have more than one member from a country of this group.
- TOR discussed – had been agreed previously.
- Scope: add optional IPS features and sections and their corresponding data elements
- Change request form for IPS when received would be considered by the group either by a meeting or by email. Check if in ISO 27269 (IPS) scope or if needs to be sent to another standard group or if needs a bigger review of ISO 27269. Any changes will be published ISO online for downloading.
- Subgroup formed to develop change request form and process for processing requests for change – will meet in July 2024 and report back to wider group at September 2024 meeting.
- Next meeting September 2024 when draft change request form will be presented to rest of group.
Upcoming ballots
We’ll walk through these, make a decision on the no-brainers and allocate the rest for further investigation
Key to the various ballot types:
- Draft Technical Report (DTR)
- Committee Internal Ballot (CIB)
- Committee Draft (CD)
- Final Draft International Standard (FDIS)
- Systematic Review (SR)
- New Proposal (NP)
Any other business
None