ASTM Technical Committee E-31 on Health Informatics (http://www.astm.org/cgi-bin/SoftCart.exe/COMMIT/COMMITTEE/E31.htm?E+mystore) was established in 1970,reorganized in June 2006 and now consists of  3 Subcommittees. 

The Scope of this Technical Committee is: “The promotion of Knowledge and development of standard classifications, guides, specifications, practices, and terminologies for the architecture, content, storage and communication of information used within healthcare, including patient-specific information and medical knowledge. Standards also address policies for integrity and confidentiality and computer procedures that support the uses of data and healthcare decision-making. The Committee’s activities will be coordinated with those of other relevant committees and organizations internal and external to ASTM.”

E-31.01 Controlled Medical Vocabularies (Discontinued June 2006)

E-31.13 Clinical Laboratory Information Management (1976-2002 now transferred to CLSI as LIS Stds)

E-31.15 Healthcare Data Capture

• E1902 Standard Guide for Management of the Confidentiality and Security of Dictation, Transcription, and Transcribed Health Records

• E1959 Standard Guide for Requests for Proposals Regarding Medical Transcription Services for Healthcare Institutions

• E2117 Standard Guide for Identification and Establishment of a Quality Assurance Program for Medical Transcription

• E2184 Standard Specification for Healthcare Document Formats

• E2185 Standard Specification for Transferring Digital Voice Data Between Independent Digital Dictation Systems and Workstations

• E2344 Guide for Data Capture through the Dictation Process

• E2364 Standard Guide to Speech Recognition Technology Products in Health Care

E-31.19 Electronic Health Record Content and Structure(Discontinued June 2006)

E-31.20 Data Privacy, Confidentiality, Access  and System Security for Health Information (Discontinued June 2006)

E-31.22 Health Information Transcription and Documentation (Discontinued June 2006)

E-31.23 Modeling/Methodology in Healthcare (Discontinued June 2006)

E-31.25 Healthcare Data Management, Confidentiality, and Privacy

• E1239 Standard Practice for Description of Reservation/Registration-Admission, Discharge, Transfer (R-ADT) Systems for Electronic Health Record (EHR) Systems

• E1340 Standard Guide for Rapid Prototyping of Computerized Systems

• E1384 Standard Practice for Content and Structure of the Electronic Health Record (EHR)

• E1633 Standard Specification for Coded Values Used in the Electronic Health Record

• E1714 Standard Guide for Properties of a Universal Healthcare Identifier (UHID)

• E1715 Standard Practice for An Object-Oriented Model for Registration, Admitting, Discharge, and Transfer (RADT) Functions in Computer-Based Patient Record Systems

• E1744 Standard Practice for View of Emergency Medical Care in the Computerized-Based Patient Record

• E1762 Standard Guide for Electronic Authentication of Health Care Information

• E1869 Standard Guide for Confidentiality, Privacy, Access, and Data Security Principles for Health Information Including Electronic Health Records

• E1985 Standard Guide for User Authentication and Authorization

• E1986 Standard Guide for Information Access Privileges to Health Information

• E1987 Standard Guide for Individual Rights Regarding Health Information

• E1988 Standard Guide for Training of Persons who have Access to Health Information

• E2017 Standard Guide for Amendments to Health Information

• E2084 Standard Specification for Authentication of Healthcare Information Using Digital Signatures

• E2085 Standard Guide on Security Framework for Healthcare Information

• E2086 Standard Guide for Internet and Intranet Healthcare Security

• E2145 Standard Practice for Modeling in Health Informatics

• E2147 Standard Specification for Audit and Disclosure Logs for Use in Health Information Systems

• E2171 Standard Practice for Rating-Scale Measures Relevant to the Electronic Health Record

• E2182 Standard Specification for Clinical XML DTDs in Healthcare

• E2183 Standard Guide for XML DTD Design, Architecture and Implementation

• E2211 Standard Specification for Relationship Between a Person (Consumer) and a Supplier of an Electronic Personal (Consumer) Health Record

• E2212 Standard Practice for Healthcare Certificate Policy

• E2369 Standard Specification for the Continuity of Care Record (CCR)

• E2436 Standard Specification for the Representation of Human Characteristics Data in Healthcare Information Systems

• E2473 Standard Practice for the Occupational/Environmental Health View of the Electronic Health Record

E-31.28 Consumer Health Records(Discontinued June 2006)

E-31.35 Healthcare Data Analysis and Interoperability

• E2087 Standard Specification for Quality Indicators for Controlled Health Vocabularies

• E2210 Standard Specification for Guideline Elements Model (GEM)-Document Model for Clinical Practice Guidelines

• E2457 Standard Terminology for Health Informatics