WONCA and IHTSDO

On October 27 2009, The World Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA) and the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation (IHTSDO) launched a cooperative effort to facilitate the safe and effective use of information in general practice and family medicine. This effort focuses on enabling the complementary use of clinical classifications and standardized terminology.

"This joint effort brings the expertise Wonca has built over more than 30 years in a major step further. Our collaboration will substantially strengthen health informatics for primary care. At the same time, it will improve the value of classification and taxonomy, through its focus on the health and health problems of people in the community," says Professor Chris van Weel, Wonca World President. For more information, please read the press release.

About WONCA

WONCA is the World Organization of Family Doctors. It is made up of national colleges, academics or organizations concerned with the academic aspects of general family practice and has 120 member organizations in 99 countries. In all, the total membership of the member organizations of Wonca is over 250,000 general practitioners/family physicians. The mission of Wonca is to improve the quality of life of the peoples of the world through defining and promoting its values, and by fostering and maintaining high standards of care in general practice/family medicine by promoting personal, comprehensive and continuing care for the individual in the context of the family and the community, encouraging and supporting the development of academic organizations of general practitioners/family physicians, providing a forum for exchange of knowledge and information between member organizations of general/family physicians, and representing the educational, research and service provision activities of general practitioners/family physicians before other world organizations and forums concerned with health and medical care. More



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