The Belgian EASI team was founded in November 2006. The team underscored the international EASI goals, being:
- Improvement of the communication between clinicians and laboratory medicine specialists
- Standardization of tests for autoantibody detection
- Harmonization of tests, algorithms and interpretation of results
The Belgian EASI team started on initiative of Prof. X. Bossuyt (Catholic University Leuven) and is set-up as a national collaboration between different laboratory medicine experts in the field of autoimmune diagnostics. The group is also working in close collaboration with the Expert Committee Non-infectious Serology of Sciensano (Clinical health | EQA clinical biology | sciensano.be) and the Royal Belgian Society of Reumatology (RBSR) (r-euma.be).