Month: January 2012

Baru-baru ini ISO Internasional meluncurkan standard internasional  yang menjamin Data Kesehatan Pribadi yaitu ISO?TS 14265:2011 Tentang Kesehatan Informatika – Klasifikasi tujuan untuk memproses informasi kesehatan pribadi.

ISO has published a new technical specification which will increase protection of personal health information processed, stored and transferred by computer systems for subsequent use by clinicians and others in healthcare organizations. ISO/TS 14265:2011, Health informatics – Classification of purposes for processing personal health information, defines a set of high-level categories of purposes for which such personal health information can be processed .

Electronic health records (EHRs) are used more and more. They involve the systematic electronic collection of health information about individual patients or populations, such as information about the physical or and mental health of an individual or provision of health services.

Health information is usually documented by healthcare professionals as part of the process of delivering care, and subsequently used to support the continuing care of each patient. However, EHR information might also be needed and used to enable the healthcare organization (such as a hospital) to manage its services better and more safely, and for a wider range of purposes such as public health, education and research.

Information may at times need to be shared with other organizations (e.g. between a hospital and a general practitioner). For ethical and legal reasons, information should only be used for the purposes for which it was collected or created. Up to now there has been no standard listing of the possible kinds of purpose of use of personal health information.

ISO/TS 14265:2011, provides a framework for classifying the various specific purposes that can be defined and used by individual policy domains (e.g. healthcare organizations, regional health authorities, jurisdiction countries) as an aid to the consistent management of information in the delivery of healthcare services and for the communication of electronic health records across organizational and jurisdictional boundaries.

Elaine Sawatsky and Dipak Kalra, Project leaders of the committee that developed the standard comment: This important piece of work is now available to help organizations understand how to manage the personal health information that they hold, and how to ensure that the information is used appropriately and consistently.

(Sumber dari ISO)

ISO 14470:2011 adalah Standar internasional yang baru untuk mengatur standar keamanan dalam proses iradiasi / penyinaran makanan. Lebih jelasnya mari kita simak berita dari ISO Internasional.

A new ISO standard provides state-of-the art requirements for food irradiation, commonly used to improve quality and safety in food processing. The standard will benefit manufacturers, irradiation operators, regulators, customers and, ultimately, consumers.

ISO 14470:2011, Food irradiation – Requirements for the development, validation and routine control of the process of irradiation using ionizing radiation for the treatment of food, not only provides requirements, but also guidance for meeting them.

Food irradiation is the process where food is exposed to ionizing radiation in order to improve its safety and quality. It is intended to be used only on food that has been produced under Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) principles. The irradiation of food can be used for different purposes including control of pathogenic microorganisms and parasites, reduction of the number of spoilage microorganisms, inhibition of the sprouting of bulbs, tubers and root crops, extension of product shelf life or phytosanitary treatment.

The main objectives of ISO 14470:2011 are to:

• Provide requirements for the irradiation of food consistent with current standards and practices.
• Provide directions for a technical agreement between the customer and the irradiator operator.
• Establish a documentation system to support the controls on the food irradiation process.

Mariana Funes and Noelia Antonuccio, the two project leaders of the committee that developed the standard, comment: ISO 14470 will contribute to confidence and transparency among the different stakeholders operating in the food sector and will help provide regulators and consumer representatives with improved information on products, enabling better choices.

(Sumber diambil dari ISO)