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The Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) within the Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is collaborating with:

• The International Organization for Standardization/Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (ISO/IEEE 11073 (X73) Medical Device Communications and
• The Integrated Health Enterprise - Patient Care Devices (IHE-PCD) domain working groups.
• The Personal Health Devices (PHD) working group.

We are engaged with the medical device industry and provide resources to develop conceptual information-based frameworks and test tools that ensure device implementations are conformant to medical device standards. This effort ultimately contributes to high priority needs to reduce medical errors, promote patient safety and provide accurate information into electronic medical and health record systems.

NIST is an active member in both the IHE-PCD and X73 working groups in order to understand needs, requirements (with regard to testing), and develop test methods to help promote a standards based approach. Our XML schema and test tools were, and are, developed (in part) to contribute to the momentum of the IHE-PCD domain. Our methodology is built upon the base medical device communication standard ISO/IEEE X73.

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Date created: September 18, 2007
Last updated: September 21, 2007

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