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Pier Angelo Sottile, Chairman of the Technical Committee UNINFO dealing with eHealth, presents standardization activities going on in UNI, CEN and ISO about health and applications (APPs)TRANSCRIPT
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Pier Angelo SottilePresidente Commissione UNINFO d’Informatica MedicaVice-convenor WG1, CEN TC251Coordinating Advisory Group 2, ISO TC215GESI Gestione Sistemi per l’InformaticaViale degli Ammiragli 67, - 00136 RomaTel +39-0639743413 Fax [email protected]://www.gesi.it
Activating Standards Developing Organizations around Apps
Milano, Politecnico di Milano
Laboratorio di Informatica Biomedica e Sanità Digitale
eHealth Lab
8 Maggio 2014
Commissione UNINFO “Informatica Medica”
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Agenda
Brief overview on SDOs in general and with respect to eHealth
This conference is about AppsOverview
Issues around Apps
The need
Standardisation around Apps: what is being done here and now
Getting back to standardisation developmentWhat is a standard
The overall process
Who writes standards
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Where do Standards come from?
CENELEC
National Bodies
ISOISO
CEN
IECJ T C 1
National Bodies
ITU
ETSI
NationalCommittees
CEN/CLC Forum
Standards Developing Organizations acknowledged by WTO
Italian SDOs acknowledged at European (CEN-CENELEC) and International (ISO-IEC) levels:
• CEI → “electric and electronic sectors”• UNI → “Everything else”
In ICT, several Fora and Consortiums are very active
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European and International SDOs Regarding Health
SDOs regarding eHealth/Health Informatics aspects (in Joint Initiative Council):
CDISC - Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium
CEN TC 251 – Health Informatics
GS-1 - Supply chain standards system
HL7 – Health level 7
IHTSDO - Not-for-profit association that owns and maintains SNOMED CT
ISO TC215 – Health Informatics
But more:ISO TC 12 Quantities and units (also for use in healthcare)
International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) - International Standards and Conformity Assessment for all electrical, electronic and related technologies – TC62
Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE), promoting the coordinated use of established standards though profiles
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Structure of ISO TC215
Technical Committee Plenary (TC) which acts as the formal decision-making body
CAG Advisory Group 1: Executive Council (EC) which provides strategic oversight
CAG Advisory Group 2: Coordinating Group (CG) responsible for operational matters
CAG Advisory Group 3: Cross-SDO Co-ordination Group
Working Groups (WGs 1-4) which have an on-going role across an underpinning area
Working Groups for a domain (WG-Ds) specific to defined business domains
Ad-hoc groups constituted for a specific purpose
WG1: concentrate on the underpinning modelling structures, processes and contexts
WG2: focus on data and device interoperability
WG3: concentrate on underpinning standards for terminologies (excluding specific content) and aspects of ‘semantics’, e.g. decision support, metrics, user interfaces
WG4: represent Privacy, Safety and Security, as an aggregation of a number of diverse Enterprise portfolios
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Structure of ISO TC215
Technical Committee Plenary (TC) which acts as the formal decision-making body
CAG Advisory Group 1: Executive Council (EC) which provides strategic oversight
CAG Advisory Group 2: Coordinating Group (CG) responsible for operational matters
CAG Advisory Group 3: Cross-SDO Co-ordination Group
Working Groups (WGs 1-4) which have an on-going role across an underpinning area
Working Groups for a domain (WG-Ds) specific to defined business domains
Ad-hoc groups constituted for a specific purpose
WG1: concentrate on the underpinning modelling structures, processes and contexts
WG2: focus on data and device interoperability
WG3: concentrate on underpinning standards for terminologies (excluding specific content) and aspects of ‘semantics’, e.g. decision support, metrics, user interfaces
WG4: represent Privacy, Safety and Security, as an aggregation of a number of diverse Enterprise portfolios
UNINFO eHealth Committee“Commissione Informatica
Medica”
Official Liaison to HL7, CEN, etc., apart from participating to JIC
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The UNI Picture
UNICHIM
Chimica
CIG
Gas
UNINFO
Informatica
CTI
Termotecnica
UNSIDER
Ferro e Metalli
UNIPLAST
Materie Plastiche
CUNA
Automobili
“UNINFO è una libera Associazione a carattere tecnico-scientifico e divulgativo senza fine di lucro (diretto o indiretto) che si prefigge di promuovere, realizzare e diffondere la normazione tecnica nel settore delle tecnologie dell'informazione e delle comunicazioni (in breve ICT) e delle loro applicazioni, sia a livello nazionale che europeo ed internazionale.”
Estratto dallo Statuto UNINFO
Commissione
“Informatica Medica”
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Many Examples of Apps in the Medical and Health & Fitness fields
Used for:
Improving or facilitating communications between clinicians and patients
Used for monitoring clinical parameters
Informative on pathologies, drugs, interactions, available services, etc.
AND MUCH MORE!
What do they do and where are they to get? See for yourself:
Several shall be presented in this international conference
iMedicalApps.com for manyexamples and reviews
Itunes Store
Google Store
Microsoft Store
… all running on ever more powerful smartphones and tablets!
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Issues around Apps in Healthcare
BIG numbers (as seen in May 2014 on appbrain.com and 148apps.biz)!
Apps on Google Store: 1.203.791, of which 33.905 regarding Health & Fitness and 16.316 regarding Medical topics
Apps on Itunes: 1.555.944, of which 31.737 regarding Health & Fitness and 24,836 regarding Medical topics
…
But what about App:
documentation (technical, about the provider, promoter, testing, and correct use)?
quality and safety (risks)?
data protection?
integration of App data with other patient/person data?
scientific/expert review of the app?
accreditation of the apps?
regulatory aspects?
usage in health organisations?
…
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A note Regarding Data Protection
It’s today’s news (6th of May 2014) that national body responsible for the protection of data will investigate privacy with respect to Medical Apps!
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The need regarding Apps in Healthcare
There is a need for the proper identification of the apps in the eHealth arena in order to allow:
proper use and deployment in healthcare delivery organisations
accreditation of apps
application of regulatory aspects
awareness and confidence in the app user
…
Use of standards and new ad-hoc norms to obtain:
conformity assessment procedures
assess manufacturer’s obligations
support the implementation of regulatory frameworks, accreditation, qualification, etc.
…
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The need regarding Apps in Healthcare
There is a need for the proper identification of the apps in the eHealth arena in order to allow:
proper use and deployment in healthcare delivery organisations
accreditation of apps
application of regulatory aspects
awareness and confidence in the app user
…
Use of standards and new ad-hoc norms to obtain:
conformity assessment procedures
assess manufacturer’s obligations
support the implementation of regulatory frameworks, accreditation, qualification, etc.
…
This is where SDOsshould start!
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What is being done
In the UNINFO eHealth Committee a working group has been activated, the scope of which is to prepare a document (technical specification or report) regarding apps and relevant characteristicsthat need to be provided by the manufacture/provider. A sort of standard ID Document for apps in healthcare, containing, for example:
Promoters of the apps
Services provided
Sector of application
Intended use
Intended user population
Conformance (to standards/regulations/...) statements
…
The topic has also been brought up at European (CEN TC 251) and international (ISO TC 215) eHealth Committees, to which the Italian result may be escalated.
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Many activities already being carried out Reference and evaluate
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Many activities already being carried out Reference and evaluate
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European Medical Device Directive and MEDDEV
Where the intended use of the app falls under the Medical Device Directive’s prescription, the following directives need to be taken into consideration:
1. 90/385/EEC Active Medical Devices
2. 93/42/EEC Medical Devices Directives (General devices)
3. 98/79/EC In-vitro Diagnostic Medical Devices
Amended by 2007/47/EC, to be seen with among others MEDDEV 2.1.6 Qualification and Classification of Stand Alone SW, released in 2012
Qualification and classification of a product as Medical Device with the consequent CE marking!
Expecting new regulation on topic? in 2015? Open question…
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Risk management is important, of course, but…
All of the previous examples deal with sole Medical Devices Directive aspects –fundamental and highly important due to risk management-but this however does not cover all apps dealing with Health and all other Healthcare-related aspects.
In order to recognise when to apply the Medical Device directives and anyhow implement a sound regulatory framework for apps dealing with health, it is necessary to
inform and educate manufactures, providers, and users
require that the relevant characteristics of the apps be documented as to easily identify where the app falls in terms of categorisation
This facilitates the application of regulatory frameworks in all cases
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Many activities already being carried out to reference and evaluate
But also otherscientific literature
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EN ISO 13485 Quality Systems
EN ISO 14971 Risk management
EN ISO 12967 Health Informatics – Service Architecture
ISO/IEC 25012 Systems and software engineering -- Systems and software Quality (and others in the 25000 series like: ISO/IEC 25010, ISO/IEC 25051:2014)
…
Also existing standards as reference!
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‘Standard’ means a technical specification, adopted by a recognised standardisation body, for repeated or continuous application, with which compliance is not compulsory, and which is one of the following:
‘international standard’ means a standard adopted by an international standardisation body;
‘European standard’ means a standard adopted by a European standardisation organisation ;
‘harmonised standard’ means a European standard adopted on the basis of a request made by the Commission for the application of Union harmonisation legislation;
‘national standard’ means a standard adopted by a national standardisation body;
Regulation (EU) No 1025/2012, OJEU L 316 14 November 2012
What is a standard?
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What is a standard?
Transparency Consensus
Voluntary Democracy
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CONSENSUS: approval through consensus of working group members
DEMOCRACY: all interested parties may participate to the task
TRASPARENCY: The SDO signals the steps of the approval process, sharing the project itself with the interested parties
VOLONTARY: standards are the reference that all parties take on spontaneously.
What is a standard?
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What is a standard?
StandardisationProcess
Durata Max 18 mesi
Editing of document
Publication
Final Ballot
Need
Initial Work Item Public Ballot
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Standards Development
Who writes standards?
You and me! ☺
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Thank you...Pier Angelo SottilePresidente Commissione UNINFO d’Informatica MedicaVice-convenor WG1, CEN TC251Coordinating Advisory Group 2, ISO TC215____________________________________GESI Gestione Sistemi per l’InformaticaViale degli Ammiragli 67, - 00136 RomaTel +39-0639743413 Fax [email protected]://www.gesi.it
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