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About HISO (2010)

The Health Information Standards Organisation (2010) is an advisory group to the National Health IT Board, which sits under the National Health Board (NHB). The HISO committee is supported by an office located within the Ministry of Health's National Health Board Business Unit.

HISO members are drawn from the following organisations and groups:

What we do

The role and key tasks of HISO (2010) include:

  • providing standards related advice to support the National Health IT Plan and the agenda set by the IT Health Board, including recommending the way forward in relation to health information standards, their development and implementation
  • promoting the benefits of health information standards across the health and disability sector
  • ensuring that the health information standards developed are needs-based, fit for purpose, useful and implementable
  • ensuring that health information standards developed are in accordance with the foundation principles of standards development
  • formally validating appropriately developed health information standards and approving them for publication
  • reviewing, and revising as required, the processes around the health information standards lifecycle. 
  • reviewing new proposals from and providing oversight of standard based activity to the Sector Architects Group

 

Terms of reference

The HISO (2010) Terms of Reference (PDF 168 KB) are available as a download.

Our support office

The role of the HISO Office is to support the HISO committee to enable them to achieve their goals by:

  • providing the sector with expert advice on the development of standards, including any relevant international standards that could be adopted or adapted for use in New Zealand
  • seeking assistance from sector experts, including the Sector Architects Group, in the development of the all technical specifications 
  • facilitating the preparation of proposals for the development of new health information standards and the ongoing maintenance of existing health information standards
  • promoting the use of health information standards across the health and disability sector
  • providing secretariat support.