ISO/TC 215 NZ May 2025

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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

  1. International Patient Summary (IPS)
  2. Around the other working groups (if you have an update) @SamuelWong @angela.pidd @atalagk @nathanb
  3. Standards NZ convenes the convenors (SNZ modernisation, gender responsiveness, know your TCs) @alastairk
  4. Upcoming ballots (see below)
  5. Any other business

Previous meeting

2025-03-04T11:00:00Z | ISO/TC 215 NZ Hui March 2025

Attending today

@nathanb @SamuelWong @angela.pidd @keithduddy @Melete @alastairk @Evan

Actions

  • Check who can use Health NZ’s Standards NZ library subscription @alastairk. Alastair has checked with Standards NZ and the answer is that the subscription is available to HNZers only

1. International Patient Summary (IPS)

Notes from IPS Maintenance Agency @i.hunter

  • Various IPS groups interacting - IPS Coordination Committee (IPSCC), IPS MA, WG1 IPS V2 project team, SDOs (HL7, SNOMED International)
  • Anyone can ask for a change request and MA will respond by ballot in 20-30 days
  • Exploring online site for group document work as Jira not an option at present.
  • Have regular MA meetings (once a month) can be cancelled if nothing to action or if changes addressed by ballot and no discussion needed
  • Need to have increased clarity around what goes to MA and what goes to WG1
  • Latest evaluation form for change requests presented.
  • Next MA meeting 29 May 2025 in conjunction with ISO/TC 215.

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. Standards NZ Convene the Convenors 27 May 2025

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
1 DIS ISO/DIS 22532 Health informatics — Identification of medicinal products — Core vocabulary (terms and definitions) for the IDMP Standards 02 Jun 2025 No comments on DIS
2 SR ISO/IEEE 11073-20701:2020 Health informatics — Device interoperability — Part 20701: Point-of-care medical device communication — Service oriented medical device exchange architecture and protocol binding 04 Jun 2025 Revise
3 SR ISO/TS 17117-2:2022 Health informatics — Terminological resources — Part 2: Implementation Capability (TIC) 04 Jun 2025 Revise
4 SR ISO/TS 20405:2018 (vers 2) Health informatics — Framework of event data and reporting definitions for the safety of health software 04 Jun 2025 Abstain
5 SR ISO/TS 21089:2018 (vers 2) Health informatics — Trusted end-to-end information flows 04 Jun 2025 Revise
6 SR ISO/TS 21547:2010 (vers 4) Health informatics — Security requirements for archiving of electronic health records — Principles 04 Jun 2025 Confirm
7 SR ISO/TS 22835:2018 (vers 2) Health informatics — Information model of combination of decoction pieces in Chinese medicines 04 Jun 2025 Abstain
8 SR ISO/TS 23535:2022 Health informatics — Requirements for customer-oriented health cloud service agreements 04 Jun 2025 Abstain
9 CIB N4887 - POINT - Application for Category C liaison ISOTC 215 N4887 - POINT - Application for Category C liaison ISOTC 215 06 Jun 2025 Approve
10 FDIS ISO/FDIS 16843-2 Health informatics — Categorial structures for representation of acupuncture — Part 2: Needling 10 Jun 2025 Abstain
11 DPAS ISO/DPAS 24305 Health informatics — Guidelines for implementation of HL7 FHIR based on ISO 13940:2015, ISO 13606-1:2019 and ISO 13606-3:2019 10 Jun 2025 Approve
12 DIS ISO/DIS 12052 (Ed 3) Health informatics — Digital imaging and communication in medicine (DICOM) including workflow and data management 19 Jun 2025 NZ voted confirm at SR
13 DIS ISO/DIS 16791 (Ed 3) Health informatics — Requirements for international machine-readable coding of medicinal product package identifiers 04 Jul 2025 Refer to HNZ meds group
14 NP ISO/PWI TS 9472-20100 Health informatics — Personalized health navigation — Part 20100: Application: Food and nutrition 12 Jul 2025 @SamuelWong @angela.pidd
15 FDIS ISO/IEEE FDIS 11073-10103 (Ed 2) Health informatics — Device interoperability — Part 10103: Nomenclature — Implantable device, cardiac 25 Aug 2025 @vinay.nair
16 SR ISO/TS 5346:2022 Health informatics — Categorial structure for representation of traditional Chinese medicine clinical decision support system 02 Sep 2025 Abstain
17 SR ISO/IEEE 11073-10201:2020 (Ed 2) Health informatics — Device interoperability — Part 10201: Point-of-care medical device communication — Domain information model 02 Sep 2025 @vinay.nair
18 SR ISO 11240:2012 (vers 2) Health informatics — Identification of medicinal products — Data elements and structures for the unique identification and exchange of units of measurement 02 Sep 2025 Refer to HNZ meds group
19 SR ISO/TS 16843-6:2022 Health informatics — Categorial structures for representation of acupuncture — Part 6: Acupuncture effects 02 Sep 2025 Abstain
20 SR ISO 17115:2020 (Ed 2) Health informatics — Representation of categorial structures of terminology (CatStructure) 02 Sep 2025 @alastairk @Evan
21 SR ISO/HL7 21731:2014 (Ed 2, vers 2) Health informatics — HL7 version 3 — Reference information model — Release 4 02 Sep 2025 Withdraw proposed but check with HL7NZ

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)

5. Any other business

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It’s a pity that those ISO links are all inaccessible to people outside ISO. That sort of destroys half the value.

Open standards are so much more real.

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Couldn’t agree more @DrJo …
Luckily a lot of what comes out of ISO is often then directly translated into open standards, and can be reviewed and implemented/revised by all - I’m thinking in particular of International Patient Summary in the HISO case.

I’ve been on the border of just-inside/just-outside of ISO standards my whole career, and the same has been true of the useful standards from ISO that I’ve participated in, and then used in the past. One good example was RM-ODP, which is co-published by IEC and ITU/T, and now fully open: https://www.rm-odp.net/ [sadly their HTTPS cert is out of date, so your browser may warn you not to visit… Wikipedia provides a good intro as well https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RM-ODP]

This standard provides the technology-neural scaffold for all of my thinking about “open distributed processing”, and was a pre-web standard that applies just as well to web, cloud, and all the other distributed technologies that have arrived in subsequent decades. As you can tell, I’m a bit of an evangelist for it as a thinking framework for building network-based computing solutions of all kinds.

Keith

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Thank you @alastairk V important. For me at the clinical end I need to know about and to be available to you and other experts when clinical expertise is useful/needed. Understanding anything in WG6 domain will be helpful as we try and figure out what an EHR is in NZ. I don’t know what I don’t know and rely on the likes of Matt V, you and other technically informed colleagues. Thank you.

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And I agree with you too @DrJo and @keithduddy
Health NZ has an online library subscription to all NZS standards and a good number of ISO/TC 215 Health informatics standards, which is a start.
Standards NZ recognises the problem and is looking at ways to free up access to ISO standards.

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Great to have your expertise to turn to in the medicines area @Matt_Doogue

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280525 draft meeting notes.docx (27.8 KB)
Hi folks. We talked about adding this to the Teams meeting chat but I don’t seem to be able to do this, so am popping these in here.

Let me know if you can’t access them, there is always email lol.

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