Title page -- Preface and acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Table of Contents -- Standardisation in Health Care Informatics and Telematics in Europe: CEN TC 251 Activities -- ANSI's Health Informatics Planning Panel (HISPP) - the purpose and progress -- Standards of Medical Informatics in Japan -- Developments in Health Informatics within the Standards Associations of Australia and New Zealand -- Health Care Telematics in the European Communities -- Activities of EFMI WG IlI on Standards in Health Care Informatics -- Health Care Informatics: Data Development for Medical Effectiveness Research -- Recommendations for an Object Oriented Healthcare Information Model -- Medical Informatics Vocabulary -- American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Healthcare Informatics Standards Planning Panel -- A Proposed Standard for Registration of Coding Schemes -- Structure for classification and coding of surgical procedures -- Computer-based Medical Terminology and Knowledge Representation -- A Model for Coding and Multiaxial Classification Examplified -- Models for Representation of Terminologies and Coding Systems in Medicine -- ASTM E31.15 on Health Knowledge Representation: the Arden Syntax -- Standardisation Work in the European Workshop for Open Systems' Expert Group Healthcare (EG MED) -- Investigation of Syntaxes for Existing Interchange Formats to be used in Healthcare -- Development of Standard Healthcare EDI Messages -- Communication of Structured Medical Information by Computers: the Oxford Experience -- Development and Current Use of ASTM/HL7 Messages for Health Care Communications in the USA -- HEALTH LEVEL 7 A Protocol for the Interchange Of Healthcare Data -- Medical EDI Message Specification and Interchange Formats -- UN EDIFACT - an EDI standard for Health Care