Progress in Standardization in Health Care Informatics

In Europe, standardization activities in healthcare informatics officially started in the 90s. The papers featured in this publication were presented at a conference which presented the current standing of important activities connected with healthcare informatics/telematics standards and to explore the ways of ensuring international coordination and cooperation worldwide. The publications shows interest from communities from Europe, United States, Australia and Japan. This guarantees the elaboration of high quality implementable healthcare informatics standards, which play an important role in the achievement of better healthcare to the benefit of the patient.De Moor, Georges J. E. is the author of 'Progress in Standardization in Health Care Informatics' with ISBN 9789051991147 and ISBN 9051991142.