An important milestone for global e-health standardization has been achieved with final approval of a new standard that will better enable interoperability between e-health devices. The standard – Recommendation ITU-T H.810 – contains Continua Health Alliance’s Design Guidelines providing “Interoperability design guidelines for personal health systems”. The Continua Design Guidelines provide for end-to-end, plug-and-play connectivity in personal connected health devices, which are based on global industry standards for interoperability