News & events

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…

Update on CEN ISO/TS 82304-2

14-06-2022

The world is looking at the CEN ISO technical specification for Quality and Reliability of Health and Wellness Apps, (CEN ISO/TS 82304-2), which was published in 2021. It provides quality…

Replacing EN 17269 with ISO 27269 – The International Patient Summary

04-03-2022

CEN/TC 251 took the initiative to develop the International Patient Summary (IPS) standard, based on the European Guideline for the cross-border exchange of patient summary data. This resulted in the…

New website for the IPS is launched

09-12-2021

During a very engaging JIC openForum on the International Patient Summary (IPS), the new website for the IPS was launched. The website showcases the collaboration between five contributing SDO’s and provides…

JIC openForum – 9th December 2021

12-11-2021

The International Patient Summary is the latest joint activity within JIC and includes most of the JIC participating standard development organizations. It has a global scope -on a clinical and…

Health and wellness apps: New international guidelines to help to sort the best from the rest

01-09-2021

From counting calories to tracing COVID-19, there are hundreds of thousands of health and wellness apps on the market, and the thirst for them is only growing. However, many have access to highly…

CEN ISO TS 82304-2 ‘Health software – Quality and reliability of health and wellness apps’ has been approved. Publication is expected in August 2021

14-07-2021

The CEN and ISO committees on Health informatics as well as IEC/TC 62A have approved CEN ISO 82304-2 in ballot. 95% of the participating countries voted positive. The project team…

Second openForum of the Joint Initiative Council: Recordings published

15-06-2021

The second openForum of the Joint Initiative Council was held on Wednesday 9 June 2021. Various speakers from the participating standards developing organisations focused on the infrastructure for the reliable…

eHealthsummit – The biggest digital health event takes place 1st and 2nd of June – Open Registration

20-05-2021

The Shared Services of the Ministry of Health (SPMS, EPE), along with the Ministry of Health and the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the European Union (PPUE), is organizing…

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