EHR-QTN Thematic Network on Quality Labelling And Certification of EHR Systems

Project Reference: 238912 Area: Objective 1.6 “Improving certification of eHealth products” Budget: 789.000 Execution: 01/02/2009 - 31/01/2012 Contract type: ICT Policy Support Programme TN Thematic Network http://www.eurorec.org & http://ehrqtn.eurorec.org

Most national health authorities are willing EHR-QTN is a Thematic Network project that to improve the quality, the functionality and prepares the health community across Europe for the interoperability of the existing systems on systematic and comparable quality assurance and their market. Users of those systems would like to certification of e-Health products, more specifically rely on a quality label when acquiring such an EHR of the Electronic Healthcare Record systems. The system. Suppliers of the systems understand that project fits with objective 1.6 of the 2nd Call for quality assurance can even be profitable for their Proposals for the CIP-ICT PSP program: business. “Improving certification of eHealth products”, more specifically where the work program refers Starting certification nevertheless requires to the “good practice requirements as elaborated perseverance as it is often difficult to deploy. by EuroRec”. EuroRec is offering tools to facilitate this deployment. A number of sometimes essential stakeholders on the other hand still needs to be Beneficiaries: convinced. • European Institute for Health Records: coordinator • ProRec Austria This project promotes certification by organising • ProRec national workshops in 27 different European • RAMIT - Belgium countries, by validating the EuroRec functional • ProRec Bulgaria - Bulgaria statements (over 1.400 statements), translating a • Hrvatsko drustvo za medicinsku informatiku - Croatia substantial set of them in over 20 different • Cypriotic Society for Medical Informatics - Cyprus European languages and by validating the EuroRec • České národní fórum pro eHealth, o.s – Czech Republic certification tools and certification procedures. The • MEDIQ A/S - focus functionalities of the validation and the • Eesti E-tervise Sihtasutus - translations to be addressed during the project will • ProRec - France be on medicinal product prescriptions, on • ProRec - Germany medication management, on summary records as • Foundation for Research and Technology – Greece well as on generic statements regarding reliability • National Institute for Strategic Health Research – ESKI – and trustworthiness of the systems and on security and access management. • ProRec Ireland - Irish Centre for Health Telematics Ltd • ProRec Italy The project will also deliver two complementary • CRP Henri Tudor - SANTEC - Luxembourg reports. The first report will be, for each of the • Stichting ProRec Nederland – The countries involved, an as complete as possible EHR • KITH AS - market overview encompassing the systems on • Marshal's Office of the Lodz Region - the market and their suppliers as well as user • Administraçao Central do Sistema de Saúde, I. P. – associations and the competent authorities, Portugal possibly involved in favouring or enforcing EHR • ProRec Romania - Romanian Association for Electronic certification. The second report will document Registration of Medical Data possible roadmaps to sustainable certification, be • ProRec Serbia - Srpsko udruženje za elektronski zdravstveni karton it on request of a supplier, nationally or even cross • ProRec Slovakia border. • Ustanova - ProRec Slovenia EHR-QTN is supported by the European • Universitario de Fuenlabrada - Spain Commission under the Competitiveness • Instituto de Salud Carlos III - Spain and Innovation Programme. • ProRec United Kingdom Associated partners: • Ministry for Social Policy - Malta • Centro Poliklinika Vilnius -

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