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) news @i.hunter @alastairk @keithduddy
- Around the other working groups (if you have an update) @SamuelWong @angela.pidd @atalagk @nathanb
- Conference reports
- Upcoming ballots (see below)
- Any other business
Previous meeting
2025-11-04T11:00:00Z | ISO/TC 215 NZ Hui November 2025
Attending today
Actions
1. International Patient Summary (IPS) news
ISO 27269:2025 International Patient Summary (IPS) has been published
2. Around the working groups
- IPS Maintenance Agency @i.hunter
- 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
- 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
3. Related groups
- SNOMED International business meetings, April 2026
- Global Digital Health Partnership (GDHP) meeting
- ISO/TC 215 meeting
- HISO meetings
4. Upcoming ballots
We’ll walk through these, make a decision on the straightforward ones and allocate the rest for further investigation
| Item | Type | Reference | Title | Due date | Outcome/Action |
|---|
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)