IEEE Kicks Off Work on Personalized Health Infomatics Standard with Meeting in London.

January 24 and 25 Workshop to Create Action Plan for Standard to Create Health-Improvement Internet-Based Tools

PISCATAWAY, N.J. -- The IEEE has begun work on a standard to create a comprehensive personalized health informatics system that will give individuals a set of easy-to-use Internet tools to can help them stay healthy and improve their health. The working group creating this standard will hold a workshop in London, UK, on 24 and 25 January 2007 to form an action plan for developing the standard.

The meeting, the IEEE 2407 Personalized Health Informatics Workshop, will be hosted by Motorola and the Mobile Information and Network Technologies Research Centre at Kingston University. An agenda for the workshop is available at http://www.ieee2407.org/files//ws01_agenda.pdf

The workshop is open to all professionals interested in helping to develop IEEE 2407[TM], "Architecture and Framework Reference Implementation for Personalized Health Informatics (PHI)". IEEE 2407 will create an Internet-based system that places the individual at the center of a broad set of services designed to enhance health. This health-improvement system will encompass nutrition, environmental issues and other health information and help individuals manage all relationships that influence their health.

As now envisioned, PHI-compliant systems will be implemented by trusted third parties, such as banks, government agencies or private providers. The consumer would pay an annual fee to maintain an account with a PHI provider.

For information on the IEEE 2407 Working Group see http://www.IEEE2407.org. To register for the workshop, go to http://www.ieee2407.org/ws01.html.

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