ISO PUBLIC HEALTH
August 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE INTERNATIONAL Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) has launched detailed technical guidelines on the use and development of smart cards carrying health data that could be read by doctors and nurses worldwide. The standard ISO 21549 is the latest in a programme of work on harmonising medical records carried out by the Geneva-based organisation; three parts have now been published and five more will be released next year. Together, said an ISO note, they will "provide a uniform set of guidelines to ensure that healthcard data may be read by ...
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