DigitalSENSE Business News:
The
International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
has launched the Information and Communication Technology known as ‘ICT product conformity database’ to provide the industry
with a means to publicize the conformance of ICT products and services with
ITU-T’s international standards, reports DigitalSENSE Business
News.
ITU also told DigitalSENSE Business
News that electronic health (e-Health) products covering 23 classes of
technology have been volunteered for inclusion in the database at its launch.
This, DigitalSENSE Business
News gathered would assist buyers in their efforts to select
standards-compliant products.
Equally, DigitalSENSE Business
News reports that the new database showcases ICT products and services
found to comply with ITU-T standards by conformance tests carried out by
third-party test labs.
The e-Health devices, DigitalSENSE Business
News reports populated the database were tested for compliance with the
specifications of Recommendation ITU-T H.810 “Interoperability design guidelines
for personal health systems”, based on a key standard approved in December
2013, which contains the Continua Design Guidelines.
DigitalSENSE Business
News further gathered that the recently issued Continua 2014 Design
Guidelines were adopted to ITU specifications and feature interface between
personal area network (PAN), local area network (LAN) and touch area network
(TAN) health devices and application hosting devices (AHDs) including NFC
(near-field communication), USB and Bluetooth Smart Technology (Low Energy);
and consent enforcement via wide area network (WAN) and Health Record Network
(HRN) health devices.
By Chuks Egbuna:
+Remmy Nweke +ITU +Remmy Nweke (ITRealms)
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