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Medical Image Communication Standardization |
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Developing standards for health informaticsInformation and communication technologies will increasingly become ubiquitous in the inpatient, outpatient and administrative areas of healthcare. The speed of technological advances stands in contrast to the requirement for a reliable long-term availability of medical data. Securing investments for an appropriate number of years is also an essential requirement given the increasing costs of the healthcare sector. These requirements can only be met with standards. Since the healthcare sector is distributed and structured, the standardization of interfaces from the conceptional level down to technical levels is of prime importance, also for the development of new services, e. g. tele-medicine. The following international committees are engaged in the development of standards for health informatics:
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