About CEN
The European Committee for Standardization is one of three European Standardization Organizations (together with CENELEC and ETSI) that have been officially recognized by the European Union and by the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) as being responsible for developing and defining voluntary standards at European level.
CEN/TC 251/WG 1 |
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Enterprise and Information |
Scope
WG 1 is concerned with standards and specifications for the safe and secure use of information within the eHealth domain, as well as its governance and management.
The scope includes, but is not limited to, standardization of:
- Various types of data, such as data about a person, a group, a cohort, population or organisation; be it related to genomic, social care, healthcare, medication, service, research or regulatory.
- Criteria for ‘use’ and ‘reuse’ of data, as well as emphasizing ‘quality’ outcomes and giving consideration to both ‘structure’ and ‘process’;
- Specifications belonging to the enterprise, information, and computational viewpoints, as defined by the ISO reference model for open distributed processing;
- Various types of artefacts, such as conceptual frameworks, architectures, records, registries, messages, analytics, detailed clinical models, archetypes, schemas and ontologies.