TC 251

CEN/TC 251 (CEN Technical Committee 251) is a workgroup within the European Union working on standardization in the field of Health Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in the European Union. The goal is to achieve compatibility and interoperability between independent systems and to enable modularity in Electronic Health Record systems.

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Workgroups establish requirements for health information structure in order to support clinical and administrative procedures, technical methods to support interoperable systems. In addition they establish requirements regarding safety, security and quality.

Workgroups

• Information models (WG I)
• Terminology and knowledge representation (WG II)
• Security, Safety and Quality (WG III)
• Technology for Interoperability (WG IV)

See also

• ISO TC 215
• European Institute for Health Records
• ProRec
• openEHR Foundation
• Health Informatics Service Architecture (HISA)
• International Classification of Primary Care (ICPC)
• EHRcom
• CONTSYS
• HIPAA (USA)