Starting in 2003, a group of physicians, nurses, technologists and laypersons with an interest in making a change for the better using health information technology came together under the auspices of the standards body ASTM International.  The result of that grassroots effort has been the development, publication, and delployment of the CCR standard (ASTM E2369 -05), an open and free-of-royalty, W3C compliant content standard and XML schema, for capture and exchange of an individual's most relevant personal health information.

Over the past few years, the numbers of people, projects, documents, and resource information about the CCR standard have grown and become increasingly full of knowledge and experience, but until now they have been somewhat scattered and hard to locate for the newcomer.   

David C. Kibbe, MD and Steven Waldren, MD have started this Website to help organize these resources and present them to the growing community of CCR standard users.  We will be recruiting an Advisory Board to guide the future content of this site.   Feel free to help us collect, organize, and publish this information.   You can reach us via email at dkibbe@aafp.org and/or swaldren@aafp.org .  We do not receive any financial sponsorship for www.CCRstandard.com

About ASTM International -- The work of developing and maintaining the CCR standard is done under the auspices of ASTM International, http://www.astm.org , the world’s largest and one of its oldest standards development organizations.   The work is done by the E31 Healthcare Informatics Technical Committee, whose volunteer committee and subcommittee members include over 250 individuals and whose volunteer leadership includes the following individuals.

•     David C. Kibbe, MD, Chairman
•     Steven E. Waldren, MD, Vice-chairman
•     Brenda Hurley, Secretary    

Dan Smith is the staff coordinator from ASTM for E31, and can be reached at his email dsmith@astm.org for questions about joining ASTM as a member of E31, and for any details about the CCR standard itself.