ABOUT ISO TC215

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Technical Committee 215 (TC215) focuses on the field of health informatics and has a number of working groups addressing specific areas, viz:

• TC 215/WG 1 Data Structure
• TC 215/WG 2 Data Interchange
• TC 215/WG 3 Semantic content
• TC 215/WG 4 Security
• TC 215/WG 5 Health cards
• TC 215/WG 6 Pharmacy and medication
• TC 215/WG 7 Devices
• TC 215/WG 8 Business Requirements for Electronic Health Records
• TC 215/WG 9 SDO Harmonization