CEN/TC 224/WG 12 - Health applications

CEN/TC 224/WG 12 is a Working Group within the European Committee for Standardization (CEN). It is named "Health applications" and is responsible for: Standardisation of machine readable card characteristics to address the application requirements in the areas of health care, health care coverage or health care entitlement. This includes aspects such as physical characteristics, recording techniques, card identification, logical organisation of data, security. This committee has published 2 standards.

CEN/TC 224/WG 12 develops CEN standards. The scope of work includes: Standardisation of machine readable card characteristics to address the application requirements in the areas of health care, health care coverage or health care entitlement. This includes aspects such as physical characteristics, recording techniques, card identification, logical organisation of data, security. Currently, there are 2 published standards from this working group.

The European Committee for Standardization (CEN) is a public standards organization that brings together the national standardization bodies of 34 European countries. CEN provides a platform for developing European Standards (ENs) and other technical documents in relation to various products, materials, services, and processes, supporting the European Single Market.

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