Polish Journal of Public Health

¹ Izba Gospodarcza Medycyna Polska, Warszawa

² Katedra i Zakład Stomatologii Wieku Rozwojowego, Uniwersytet Medyczny w Lublinie

³ Polski Komitet Normalizacyjny, Warszawa

⁴ Lubelski Oddział Wojewódzki NFZ w Lublinie

Standardization is one of the important tools for the implementation of EU policies to ensure the competitiveness of enterprises and the elimination of barriers to trade within the EU. The European Commission “e-Health Action Plan” (2004) recognized the interoperability of information systems in health care as one of its priorities. Standardization, in turn, is a prerequisite to ensure interoperability.

The authors examined the extent to which standardization is reflectead in the key acts on the informatization of health care:

Lack of effective comprehensive legal solutions in the field of standardization, especially at the statutory level has been confirmed. This complicates the process of informatization in terms of interoperability. According to the authors this lack meant that in most of the implemented systems generally no valid standardization solutions were implemented and thus the interoperability. The standardization initiative under the responsibility of the Polish Committee for Standardization was not used either.

health care, IT systems, standardization