One of the oldest and most important Electronic Health Record standards development organizations is Health Level 7 (HL7). HL7 and Chuck Jaffe, its CEO, are at the center of U.S....
The Obama Administration has committed to creating an “unprecedented level of openness in government,” made possible by an equally ambitious utilization of information technology. How that technology, and the standards...
...above the surrounding desert, rising 9,200 feet beyond sea level at its highest point. 1,600,000 acres of the Kaibab — the greatest part - are designated as a National Forest...
...versions of the specification(s) designated on the public list posted at http://www.microsoft.com/interop/osp/, unless otherwise noted with respect to a particular specification (see, for example, specific notes related to web services...
...2006, this time in Trondheim, Norway....During the meeting, the committee created the Final Draft of the Office Open XML v1.0 format. The committee, with representation from all Ecma member organizations...
...the cause of internationalism. That cause, if not necessarily the ITU as custodian, was being championed by a number of countries that resented the rights retained by the United States Department of Commerce. Those...
...one thing for accuracy's sake: while people commonly refer to ISO approval as a shorthand convenience, the actual approving body is a joint committee formed years ago by both ISO,...
...have become down right testy. The following is the verbatim text of National Body Contribution ISO/IEC JTC 1 N 8494, titled South Africa Comments on the PAS Process, and dated...
...backward compatibility for existing Office documents, and offering OASIS the opportunity to augment the ODF standard. Japan (brief response): "[OOXML] seems to be competing and incompatible with [ODF]." Japan appears to...
...would proceed on schedule, despite the unusual level of commentary received from qualified ISO/IEC members, many of whom had objected to the brief time (30 days) allowed to digest the...