ANSI Standards in Information Technology
The American National Standards Institute offers standards for information technology. ANSI's Healthcare International Standards Panel covers health care-specific IT standards, while the International Committee for Information Technology Standards handles more broad-based IT standards.
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ANSI
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The ANSI Federation facilitates voluntary consensus standards and ensures the integrity of those standards. ANSI coordinates standards through panels and forums involving homeland security, nanotechnology, health care information technology, identity theft prevention and identity management, bio fuels, chemical regulations and nuclear energy. The Institute plays a role in international standardization, serving as the sole U.S. member of the International Organization for Standardization and the International Electrotechnical Commission.
HITSP
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The Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel promotes interoperability among healthcare software applications. The Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel fosters a partnership between the private and public health sectors to ensure that health care records software programs and systems work at the local, state and national levels. Topics covered include electronic health record laboratory results reporting; biosurveillance; consumer empowerment; emergency responder electronic health records; consumer empowerment and access to clinical information via media; quality; medication management; personalized health care; consultations and transfers of care; immunizations and response management; public health case reporting; patient-provider secure messaging; remote monitoring; maternal and child health; newborn screening; home-based medical care; and clinical research.
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INCITS
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The International Committee for Information Technology Standards, an ANSI-accredited forum, helps to create ways for IT developers, producers and users to create and maintain formal IT standards. ANSI provides rules to ensure that voluntary standards are subject to the consensus of the organizations whose interests the standards affect. Subgroups of the forum include those dealing with security, storage and information services.
Geographic Information Systems
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U.S. and Canadian scientific volunteers from INCITS Technical Committee L1 and the Canadian General Standards Board Committee on Geomatics collaborated to develop geographic metadata content for revising the standard -- ISO 19115 -- that "defines the schema for geographic information services," according to the ISO, to meet the requirements of both countries. This standard enables users to locate, access, evaluate, deliver and integrate geographic and geospatial data sets through the consistent use of metadata entities.
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