Created by the American National Standards Institute’s Executive Standards Council in December 1995 to replace the Health Informatics Standards Planning Panel (HISPP). Their basic objective is to achieve a high level of support of the health care users, providers, and business partners for development and use of health care information standards in a cooperative environment. HISB developed an inventory of candidate standards for consideration as possible Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) standards. In this forum, American health care providers, information systems vendors, organized users, and interested parties work together with Standards Development Organizations (e.g., Health Level 7, American Society for Testing and Materials, and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.) to resolve the many issues around harmonizing and coordinating standards evolution.