New ISO/TR 17522 – Mobile Device Health Apps

ISO/TR 17522, “Health informatics – Provisions for health applications on mobile/smart devices,” has just been released.  It addresses the challenges faced by those developers working on health and healthcare applications for smart phones, tablets and other mobile devices.  Industry expects such applications to vastly improve the quality of health and healthcare the world over.  This technical report covers a broad array of capabilities like health sensors, information systems, and support for call center services.

What does the ISO/TR 17522 address?  The Technical Report takes a look at the current status of these types of applications and the architectural requirements they’ll need.  Since this is a new area, the report does not provide you with concrete definitions of requirements but is more investigative in nature.

What material is in the ISO/TR 17522?  It has the usual scope section.  There’s no referenced standards, since this is a new area of interest for the committee ISO/TC 215, which deals with health informatics.  Then  a lengthy definitions section follows along with a symbols and acronyms clause.    The real “meat” of the standard is found in the balance of the clauses.

Clause 5 covers the concept of registry and repository issues used in these types of applications.  Clause 6 reviews applications that a health provider might rely on, like scheduling office visits, managing chronic care, etc.  Clause 7 is focused on the end user, with discussion of mobile medical applications and the differences between processing patient information and actually functioning as a medical device.  Clause 8 is an analysis of the probable required architectures for what’s called “mHealth.”  The 24-page report finishes up with a 42-item bibliography, which I’m sure all document users will find to be exceptionally helpful.

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