News & events

UNICOM Final Event

17-04-2024

On the 25th and 26th of April 2024 the UNICOM Final Event will take place! This two-day event marks the culmination of years of collaborative effort between 41 esteemed beneficiaries, dedicated…

xShare project for personal health data portability

12-12-2023

The xShare project has started on 1 December 2023 and will run for three years. CEN/TC 251 experts play an important role in this project, specifically in the creation of…

ISO/TC 210 plenary week on medical-device standardization in Paris, France (December 2023)

07-12-2023

From 11 till 15 December 2023 ISO/TC 210 ‘Quality management and corresponding general aspects for products with a health purpose including medical devices’ will meet in Paris, France. CEN TC…

IHE publishes the Sharing of IPS (sIPS) Profile

27-11-2023

CEN/TC 251 has been the initiator of and regular contributor to the International Patient Summary (IPS) set of standards and specifications. We are happy to announce that a new IHE profile…

A short and clear introduction to the International Patient Summary (IPS)

11-09-2023

The International Patient Summary is a minimal and non-exhaustive set of basic clinical data of a patient, specialty-agnostic, condition-independent, but readily usable by all clinicians for the (un)scheduled patient care…

CEN publishes a good practice guide for obtaining consent

21-07-2023

CEN has just published CWA 17933: Digital health innovations — Good practice guide for obtaining consent for the use of personal health information for research and innovations. Scope Since digital…

XpanDH kicks off to help enable individuals and organisations to adopt the European Electronic Health Records Exchange format

30-05-2023

You may already have seen mention of a new project on Expanding Digital Health across Europe – the XpanDH project. CEN/TC 251 is proud to be involved in the XpanDH…

Europe adopts ISO 13131 for telehealth services

28-11-2022

Recently, the 2021 revision of ISO 13131 Health informatics – Telehealth services – Quality planning guidelines has been published and adopted as a European standard. This standard will support the…

Next JIC Open Forum on 30 November 2022

04-11-2022

Quality Labelling of Digital Tools Transcending national boundaries and organisations, the Joint Initiative Council’s standards development organisations work collaboratively to provide global, coordinated—not competitive—standards that address real-world healthcare issues. In…

CEN-ISO/TS 82304-2 continued: Label2Enable

30-06-2022

On June 1, 2022, Horizon Europe project ‘Label2Enable’ has started. Fourteen organizations from seven countries (Belgium, Croatia, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, the Netherlands, and Spain) have joined forces for two years…

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