eHealth

A critical topic for future discussion is the convergence between clinical information interoperability standards—such as ISO 13606, ISO 13940, and HL7 FHIR—and emerging standards for artificial intelligence under development within ISO/TC 215 Task Force 5 and ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42. This alignment is essential for operationalising the EU Artificial Intelligence Act in synergy with the Medical Device Regulation (MDR), particularly for high-risk AI systems deployed as medical technologies.

Synergies Among Health Data Projects with Cancer Use Cases based on Health Standards. Stud Health Technol Inform. Gyrard A, Gribbon P, Hussein R, Abedian S, Bonmati LM, Cabornero GL, et al. Accepted (Full-paper). In: Medical Informatics Europe 2024 (MIE 2024). In press.

Amelie Gyrard, Philip Gribbon, Rada Hussein, Somayeh Abedian, Luis Marti Bonmati, Gibi Luisa Cabornero, George Manias, Gabriel Danciu, Stefano Dalmiani, Serge Autexier, Rick van Nuland, Mario Jendrossek, Ioannis Avramidis, Eva Garcia Alvarez

I am often asked, “What is eHEALTH?”  

Suno Wood, Chair, ETSI TC eHEALTH

Working we are developing in ISO TC 215 WG1 - AWI TR 24305 "Health informatics - Guidelines for implementation of HL7/FHIR based on ISO 13940 and ISO 13606", and specifically in mapping FHIR resources with ISO13606-3 Clinical Reference Information Structures (CRIS) based on ISO13606-1 archetypes and CONTSYS concepts, we have identified a certain number of challenges and limitations and expect from the community contributions to address the challenges. For example: 
Should we map FHIR profiles or FHIR resources?

eHEALTH issues are often high on the list of potential applications of AI - but these are difficult to quantify and narrow down to the clear focus required for a standardization Work Item. We are looking for a way to address this. eHEALTH concerns include Human Rights and support for health living for the elderly, but most AI applications are for a much wider audience. Can you recommend an eHEALTH application for AI which needs a new standard to be written? or do we wait for other groups to pick up the baton?

• Knowledge Engineering Framework for IoT Robotics Applied to Smart Healthcare and Emotional Well-Being. Amelie Gyrard, Kasia Tabeau, Laura Fiorini, Antonio Kung, Eloise Senges, Marleen De Mul, Francesco Giuliani, Delphine Lefebvre, Hiroshi Hoshino, Isabelle Fabbricotti, Daniele Sancarlo, Grazia D’Onofrio, Filippo Cavallo, Denis Guiot, Estibaliz Arzoz-Fernandez, Yasuo Okabe, Masahiko Tsukamoto. International Journal of Social Robotics 2021.

Dear experts.

Health data is personal data and thus falls under the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Hence data security and privacy preservation should be addressed in every step of the data processing flow.