The Joint Initiative Council for Global Health Informatics Standardization to further the important role of health informatics standards to:
- Enable interoperability of information and processes across health domains
- Support the timely, efficient delivery of safe, coordinated, accountable, high-quality health services to individuals, communities and populations
- Facilitate effective global markets for health information systems
The Council, operating as a council of equals and as a liaison group under ISO/TC 215, consists of the respective leaders and appointed liaison members of the participating SDOs to a maximum of three members per SDO. Members include: CDISC, CEN Health Informatics TC251, DICOM, GS1, HL7, IHE, ISO TC215, and SNOMED.