International Healthcare Modeling Standards Development Organization

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The International Healthcare Modeling Standards Development Organization (IHMSDO) is a global organization specializing in the standardization of health telematics in healthcare . IHMSDO is an international group of standards that develops and supports industry standards for interoperability between clinical computer systems. Her focus is on data processing for medical data and administrative data, in particular in communication between clinical information systems.

The IHMSDO standards enable interoperability between hospital information systems (HIS) and thus the electronic patient record . Typical HISs are laboratory information management systems (LIMS), radiology information systems ( RIS), practice management systems (PVS) and systems for service accounting .

At the international level, IHMSDO is associated with ISO and IHTSDO as a standards body .

origin

IHMSDO emerged from a merger of the existing HL7 , DICOM and IHE (Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise) organizations. In the years 2011–12, HL7 in particular struggled with the issue of internationalization. This then led to the merger with DICOM and the foundation of IHMSDO.

The Accra Declaration assured the IHMSDO standards developers the support of the open source community, in particular the Mozilla Foundation , Canonical and openMRS . This enabled an accelerated acceptance and dissemination of the IHMSDO predecessor standards in countries of the third world .

The elected chairman is Dilip Kanwar and the current managing director is Jan Rasmussen.

Application and dissemination

In Germany, the IHMSDO standards are mainly used within and between hospitals, less for the exchange of data in the private sector of the health care system. Informal cooperation exists with DIN with the aim of national standardization, so in 2008 a standard proposal for the adoption of ISO standard 10781 was submitted.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.IHMSDO.org/History-Mission.htm International Healthcare Modeling Standards Development Organization - Mission and History (English)
  2. ↑ http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.83.8535&rep=rep1&type=pdf G Câmara "Information policies and open source software in developing countries"
  3. ↑ Jan S. Rasmussen (LinkedIn profile)
  4. ↑ DIN annual report (2007; PDF file; 2.30 MB)
  5. ↑ DIN EN ISO DIS 10781, edition 2008-05, draft