Study and application of medical standards in a collaborative healthcare information system

Abstract

newlineThe existing health care information systems are heterogeneous and newlinelack interoperability among them Hence standardization has become newlineimportant among healthcare service providers physicians researchers and newlineother relevant stake holders across the globe for processing retrieving newlinetransferring and storing this heterogeneous health care information newlineVarious ISO standards IEC standards and CENELEC standards are newlineavailable for production of health care equipment SGML HL7 and DICOM newlinestandards have become indispensable in the field of health information newlineprocessing transfer and storage newlineAs long as Healthcare field had limitations such as acquisition newlinestorage retrieval processing decision making and transmission in the recent newlinepast most of its usefulness could not be disseminated to everybody compared newlineto other fields which had adopted common procedure document developed by newlinestandard making bodies in a particular field Standardization of biosignal data newlinefiles strongly facilitates international and multicenter collaboration and newlinemultiple utility of the same data newline newline