Partners
On this page, you’ll find more information regarding the organisations that shape SDO Netherlands, as listed in alphabetical order.
GS1 Nederland is a not-for-profit organization and is represented in more than 100 countries. GS1 provides international standards for unique identification and for capturing and sharing data through barcodes, central article databases and electronic messages. Within the healthcare sector, GS1 is active, among other things, with traceability of medical devices and administration registration of medicines. With GS1 barcodes and GS1 Data Source Healthcare (part of the Global Data Synchronization Network – GDSN) we can help you comply with (inter)national laws and regulations such as the agreements ‘Unambiguous coding medical devices’ (ADC), registration in the LIR, the European Medical Device Regulation (MDR) and the Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD)
Health Base is an independent, multidisciplinary, not-for-profit organisation that develops care information for doctors, pharmacists and patients. These care information products make a demonstrable contribution to effective, safe and well-targeted care.
Our products are based on information from the PharmaBase database. PharmaBase was founded in 1978, making it one of the oldest databases in Dutch healthcare. The information in PharmaBase supports healthcare professionals in choosing the right medicines and therapies for their patients, in recording their treatments in a structured manner, and in the safe and effective delivery of medicines. PharmaBase also contains patient-friendly information on more than 14,000 medicines. This information can be personalised based on age, sex and condition.
To ensure maximum exchangeability of information, and to support scientific research into treatment outcomes, Health Base maintains conversion tables for national and international code systems. By doing so, Health Base’s activities perfectly align with SDO-NL’s efforts to achieve maximum interoperability within different care domains and across standards.
Health Base’s care information products are used in the Netherlands, Belgium and Suriname.
Health-RI is the Dutch health care initiative to build an integrated health data infrastructure for research and innovation.
To improve health for citizens and patients, a new generation research infrastructure is required. In 2017, several Dutch research organizations have jointly developed the Health-RI initiative. It offers a clear vision and roadmap to establish a single interconnected national infrastructure for personalized medicine and health research.
Health-RI organizes this infrastructure and implements the Dutch ‘Open Science’ and FAIR data policy by making knowledge, equipment and research data optimally accessible for research and innovation.
HL7 stands for Health Level Seven: the worldwide standard for secure, electronic information exchange in healthcare. The different HL7 standards defines various types of data in all healthcare domains and healthcare sectors. The standards are developed and managed by the international HL7 organization, which is active in more than 30 countries, including the Netherlands by means of the HL7 Netherlands Foundation.
The mission of HL7 Netherlands is to provide models and standards for information exchange and multiple use of information in healthcare by healthcare providers and patients. With this, we support the healthcare sector in optimizing healthcare processes, in promoting quality and uniformity in healthcare and in the exchange of knowledge between all stakeholders, in order to improve care for and with patients.
IHE Nederland helps healthcare providers and suppliers with a framework that helps to describe the problem, find a technical solution, build and test. In this framework, standards, protocols, and agreements are recorded. This ensures interoperability between systems. Thanks to this approach, information from billions of patients is now shared worldwide.
Proper agreements on products, methods and services are important, but if it is a matter of safety, they are absolutely vital. Think for example about the safety of toys, fire safety of decorations and counterterrorism. Widely supported agreements, make international trade, innovation, safety, efficiency and sustainability possible.
At NEN, the Royal Netherlands Standardization Institute, we connect parties and stakeholders and ensure that they reach agreements in standards and guidelines. NEN is the Netherlands Standardization Institute and supports the standardization process in the Netherlands, at national, European (CEN / CENELEC) and global (ISO / IEC) level. NEN’s position is neutral.
Specialties in healthcare
Exchange of health information: information security (NEN 7510, 7512, 7513, 7524, NTA 7516), standards for unity of information and technology and exchange of data within pharmacy;
Medical Devices with a focus on the European Regulations in which European standards play an important role in demonstrating compliance with the statutory requirements;
Quality in health care with a focus on quality management, patient safety and ISO 9001/HKZ certification schemes for various subsectors in the regular care and cure sector.
Nictiz is the Dutch competence centre for electronic exchange of health and care information. Nictiz develops and manages standards that enable electronic information exchange. We ensure that healthcare information can be recorded and exchanged unambiguously. We also collect and share knowledge on electronic information exchange in healthcare, focussing not only on the Netherlands but on international developments as well.
The National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) is an agency of the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare & Sport (VWS) and has been committed to a healthy population in a healthy living environment for more than 100 years.
On behalf of the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport and the World Health Organization, RIVM translates, manages and maintains the WHO health classifications for use in health information facilities in the Netherlands and promotes the implementation of these classifications through training, provision of information and advice with regard to the classifications and their (possible) applications.
SNOMED CT (SNOMED) is an international medical terminology system. On behalf of the Netherlands, Nictiz is affiliated with SNOMED International.
At the SNOMED National Release Center SNOMED localized.
SNOMED International is an international non-profit organization that develops and maintains terminology standards. To use SNOMED in the Netherlands, hospitals, IT suppliers and other organizations can apply for a license from the National Release Center.
Vektis offers building blocks and declaration standards to organize operational care processes in a smart and efficient way. Vektis Streams standardizes information in widely used building blocks such as the AGB register on the one hand and standards for exchanging information on the other. As a result, processes such as healthcare procurement and declaration run smoothly and efficiently. This way, Vektis contributes to reducing administrative burdens and at the same time collecting valuable healthcare data. Vektis Intelligence provides insight into the use of healthcare based on that data.
Z-Index is an intermediary in customized healthcare information and identifies, structures, collects, checks, enriches, links, manages and distributes data of healthcare products via the G-Standaard. This data supports the prescription, delivery, ordering, declaration and reimbursement of healthcare products and is used by all healthcare providers, governments and health insurers in the Netherlands.