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WELCOME TO IMIA! with care givers, consultants, vendors, International and vendor-based researchers; General • leading the international medical and Medical Informatics The International Medical Informatics health informatics communities Association Association is an independent organi- throughout the 21st century; zation established under Swiss law in 1989. • promoting the cross-fertilization of health informatics information and IMIA BOARD The organization was established in 1967 as Technical Committee 4 of the Inter- knowledge across professional and President: geographical boundaries; and Nancy Lorenzi, United States national Federation for Information • serving as the catalyst for ubiquitous 2004-2007 Processing (IFIP). In 1979, it evolved from worldwide health information infra- Past President: a Special Interest Group of IFIP to its current K.C. Lun, Singapore status as a fully independent organization. structures for patient care and health 2004-2005 IMIA continues to maintain its relationship research. Secretary: with IFIP as an affiliate organization. Diarmuid UaConaill, Ireland The organization also has close ties with Membership 2003-2006 the World Health Organization (WHO) as IMIA membership consists of National, Treasurer: a NGO (Non Government Organization). Institutional and Affiliate Members and Batami Sadan, Israel The working language of IMIA is English. Honorary Fellows. 2004-2007 National Members represent individual Vice Presidents: Purpose, Goals, Objectives countries. A member is a society, a MedInfo IMIA plays a major global role in the group of societies, or an appropriate Antoine Geissbuhler, Switzerland body, which is representative of the (2004-2007) application of information science and medical, and health informatics activi- Services technology in the fields of healthcare and ties within that country. In the absence
Reinhold Haux, Germany (2002-2005) research in medical, health and biomedical Membership informatics. The basic goals and objectives of a national member society, IMIA ac- Vimla Patel, United States (2003-2006) of the association are to: commodates involvement by individu- Working & Special Interest Groups als through a ”Corresponding” member- Evelyn Hovenga, Australia (2003-2006) • promote informatics in health care and ship in developing countries and pro- Special Services research in health, bio and medical vides encouragement to form a represen- Hiroshi Takeda, Japan (2004-2007) informatics; tative society. • advance and nurture international IMIA Executive Director: National IMIA members may organize into Steven A. Huesing, Canada (2004-2008) cooperation; • stimulate research, development and regional groups. Currently, such regions IMIA Web site: www.imia.org routine application; exist for Latin America and the Caribbean • move informatics from theory into (IMIA LAC), Europe (EFMI), Asia/Pacific Regional Groups practice in a full range of health delivery (APAMI) and Africa (Helina). Institutional Members consist of corpo- EFMI: European Federation settings, from physician’s office to rate and academic members. Corporate for Medical Informatics acute and long term care; • further the dissemination and exchange members include vendor, consulting, Liaison: technology firms as well as national profes- Assa Reichertz, Israel of knowledge, information and technology; sional organizations. Academic members IMIA-LAC: Federation of Health • promote education and responsible include universities, medical centres, re- Societies in Latin America behaviour; and search centres and other similar institu- President: • represent the medical and health infor- tions. Lincoln de Assis Moura, Brazil matics field with the World Health Affiliate Members consist of international APAMI: Asian Pacific Organization and other international organizations that share an interest in the Association for Medical professional and governmental broad field of health and medical Informatics organizations. informatics. In addition to WHO and IFIP, President: the International Federation of Health Yun-Sik Kwak, Korea In its function as a bridge organization, Records Organizations (IFHRO) is an af- African Region: IMIA’s goals are: filiate member of IMIA Coordinator: • moving theory into practice by linking Honorary Fellows are individuals who Sedick S. Isaacs, South Africa academic and research informaticians have demonstrated exceptional meritori-
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International ous service in furthering the aims and Activities interests of the IMIA; fellowship is con- MEDInfo’s ferred for life. In 2004 the honour of fellow- Medical Informatics IMIA organizes the internationally ac- ship was awarded to Dr. K.C. Lun, IMIA claimed tri-annual ”World Congress on Past President, from Singapore for his dem- Association Medical and Health Informatics”, onstrated leadership and his many years MedInfo. MedInfo 2007 will be held in of self-less service to IMIA (Continued) Brisbane, Australia August 20-24, 2007. Potential participants and exhibitors are Governance encouraged to visit their web site at www. IMIA is governed by a General Assembly medinfo2007 .org. The Health Informatics that consists of one representative from Society of Australia Ltd (HISA) is the each IMIA National and Institutional hosting society for MedInfo 2004. This member, Honorary Fellows, Chairs of marks the 1st time that a MedInfo has been IMIA’s Working Groups and a held ”Down Under”. representative from IFIP, the World Health Previous MedInfo’s have been held in Organization, and each of IMIA’s Regions. Stockholm, Sweden (1974), Toronto, Only National Members have full voting Canada, (1977), Tokyo, Japan (1980), rights. The General Assembly meets Amsterdam, The Netherlands (1983), annually. Washington, USA (1986), Beijing/ The Board of IMIA, elected by the General Singapore (1989), Geneva, Switzerland Assembly, conducts the association’s (1992), Vancouver, Canada (1995), Seoul, affairs. The day-to-day operations are Korea (1998) London, United Kingdom supported by the IMIA’s Executive (2001) and San Francisco, USA (2004). Director who is also responsible for IMIA’s electronic services. Working and Special Interest Groups The officers of the Board and IMIA’s vice The IMIA family includes a growing
presidents vigorously pursue IMIA’s number of Working and Special Interest mission to: Groups, which consist of individuals who • Monitor the range of special interest share common interests in a particular focal areas and focus support on new field. The groups hold Working Confer- developments. ences on leading edge and timely health, • Capitalize on the synergies and medical and bio-medical informatics issues. collective resources of IMIA’s Current and future activities of the Working constituents. and Special Interest Groups are posted on • Minimize fragmentation between the IMIA Website at www.imia.org. scientific and professional medical informaticians. • Ensure successful adaptation to Activities & Initiatives changes in the medical informatics IMIA code of Ethics marketplace and discipline. IMIA reached a major milestone by the • Raise the profile and awareness of IMIA adoption of the ”IMIA Code of Ethics for within and outside of the IMIA Health Information Professionals”. The organization. approval of the code in 2002 was the • Encourage cooperation between the culmination of years of ongoing effort on scientific and commercial health the part of IMIA’s Working Group on Data informatics communities. Protection in Health Information Systems • Equitably balance support to emerging under the leadership of Prof. Ab Bakker and existing IMIA members. (The Netherlands). The primary author of • Establish and maintain cooperation and the code, based on the contributions of a harmony with organizations that multiplicity of individuals, agencies and emerge to address medical informatics organizations, is Dr. Eike-Henner W. Kluge issues. (Canada). The code has been translated • Continue to position IMIA as the into several languages and is freely avail- gatekeeper for medical informatics is- able to the public at IMIA’s website sues in the international community www.imia.org.
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IMIA-UMIT Medical Informatics Award zation by better meeting the needs of mem- International of Excellence bers and the global health informatics com- Medical Informatics Through the generosity of TILAK, one of munity worldwide. It is anticipated that IMIA’s Corporate Institutional members, this will result in the development of a Association IMIA approved the creation of the tri- strategic plan for IMIA at the 2005 IMIA annual IMIA-UMIT Medical Informatics General assembly meeting. (Continued) Award of Excellence. This honour is awarded to an individual whose personal General commitment and dedication to Medical IMIA continues to develop its communi- Informatics has made a lasting contribution cation capabilities through its web-site to medicine and health care through their www.imia.org. The site contains pro- achievements in research, education, files on its members, working groups development or application in the field of and activities. A dynamic database is medical informatics. The Award includes a employed to facilitate user-friendly com- Diploma, a cash prize and the opportunity munications for news, announcements, to give the IMIA/UMIT Medical and an events calendar for the public, Informatics Award Lecture at a plenary and access to e-mail communications, session at MedInfo 2004. minutes, reports and association informa- The first recipient of this prestigious award tion for its members. was Prof. Francois Grémy. Prof. Grémy In addition, IMIA has reached an agree- established TC4, a Technical Committee ment with one of its corporate members, within the International Federation for Schattauer GmbH, whereby Methods of Information Processing (IFIP) in 1967. As Information in Medicine, publishes IMIA the first chairman and moderator of TC4, news and a Calendar of events in each Grémy is considered to be the one of the issue of the journal. founders of its renamed and refocused Schattauer’s Methods of Information in successor, the International Medical Medicine and Elsevier Science’s Informatics Association (IMIA). International Journal of Medical Informatics were accorded the status of ”an Official IMIA Strategic Alignment Survey Journal of the International Medical IMIA has instituted a project to collect the Informatics Association” in 2003. opinions and thoughts of its members in IMIA is constantly striving to further respect to where IMIA needs to be going the services it provides to its members over the next 6 Years. Dr. Nancy Lorenzi, and the informatics community in gen- IMIA President, championed this process eral by promoting free interaction among in early 2004 in order to determine how and between its member network and the IMIA members can shape IMIA’s future - medical and health informatics commu- to be a more visible and important organi- nity at large.
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The IMIA General Assembly met during - Biomedical Pattern Recognition Progress Report by the Medinfo Conference, September, 2004, (WG 07) San Francisco, California, USA. A number - Biomedical Statistics and the President of of items were discussed. The following are Information Processing (WG 12) several of the most significant. - Consumer Health Informatics IMIA Approximately 73 people were present for (WG2) some portion of the meeting. Participants - Data Protection in Health Infor- President: included national and regional mation Systems (WG 04) Nancy M. Lorenzi, Ph.D. representatives, corporate and academic - Dental Informatics (WG 11) Professor of Biomedical Informatics and members, corresponding delegates and - Health and Medical Informatics Assistant Vice Chancellor for Health general guests. This was the largest IMIA Education (WG1) Affairs General Assembly meeting in our history. - Health Informatics for Development Vanderbilt University Medical Center Nashville, Tennessee, USA The IMIA leadership was thankful for this (WG 09) Email: [email protected] showing of commitment and support. - Health Information Systems (WG 10) - Informatics in Genomic Medicine Medinfo 2004 (IGM) - Intelligent Data Analysis and Data Medinfo 2004 was a tremendous success. Mining (WG 03) Patrice Degoulet reported to the General - Medical Concept Representation Assembly as the IMIA Vice President of (WG 06) Medinfo. The Organizing Committee was - Mental Health Informatics (WG 08) chaired by Ted Shortliffe; the Scientific - Open Source Health Informatics Program Committee was chaired by Mario - Organizational and Social Issues Stefanelli and Casimir Kulikowski; and the (WG 13) Editorial Committee was chaired by Marius - Primary Health Care Informatics Fieschi. There were 100 student competi- (WG 05) tion papers from 45 countries, 20% of them - SIG NI Nursing Informatics
from countries outside North America and - Standards in Health Care Europe. The ratio was North America 45%, Informatics (WG 16) Europe 35%, others 20%. The main tracks - Technology Assessment & Quality were Clinical Informatics and Knowledge Development in Health Informatics Management. Over 180 events were had (WG 15) been scheduled, and space was a limiting - Telematics in Health Care (WG 18) factor. More than 2,200 people had pre- registered for this conference—too many to fit in the ballroom for the opening The IMIA Yearbook ceremony, and closed circuit television Beginning in 2004 the IMIA Yearbook is was provided to accommodate the overflow available in both print and CD format. IMIA in another venue. The keynote speaker is currently in the process of reviewing the was excited Alan Kay, a dynamic and future of the Yearbook. To many the thought provoking speaker. Yearbook has represented the best place The next Medinfo conference will be in to see an integrated compilation of the Brisbane, Australia in 2007. We are looking “best of the best” articles on specific topics. forward to 2007 and participation in the However, reprinting papers is largely next world congress—Medinfo 2007! obsolete. Therefore, IMIA has begun the process of determining what the “Yearbook” of the future will be. If you Working Groups have any comments, consult the IMIA web site (see above) for contact IMIA has nineteen working groups. These information. groups are responsible for organizing conference on relevant topics. Readers of this report are encouraged to check the Review of IMIA Statutes IMIA website (www.imia.org) for the most recent news about the activities of each of The IMIA bylaws/statutes had not been the following IMIA working groups. reviewed in several years and the IMIA
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Board approved a review of the statutes to • That IMIA would move to a true inter- Progress Report by bring them in accord with current opera- disciplinary thrust, not restricted to tional practice. The Statutes are located doctors and nurses. the President of on the IMIA website. We anticipate a • There is a need for IMIA to gain greater preliminary assessment to be completed recognition from other groups. IMIA (Continued) by the IMIA Board meeting in March of • There is a need for IMIA to establish 2005 and followed by a presentation to the liaison relationships with other IMIA General Assembly in August of professional organizations. 2005. • That IMIA must look at what its membership should be, and focus on the areas identified. Financial Issues • That IMIA could organize itself along The IMIA 5 Year Budget that is based on lines of topics rather than as a United fundamental conservative principles was Nations. presented. The IMIA 5 year budget was • There was a request for a better approved. However, it is clear that IMIA definition of national representatives’ needs to consider alternative sources of functions. income to be able to effectively meet its • That IMIA covers such a wide area of many plans and obligations. interest that it needed a framework and a focus for its activities. • That IMIA needs better objectives at IMIA Strategic Planning the national level • That IMIA needs both the topical and Nancy Lorenzi presented the “the IMIA the national approach. The Working Possibility Framework” from her editorial Groups can be strong on topics. in Methods of Information in Medicine as • That IMIA establishes its website as a cornerstone to building the IMIA the international repository and strategic plan in order to support what learning resource.
IMIA “wants to be”! A survey of IMIA members was the first step in the strategic Nancy announced that she will appoint a planning process. The survey collected team to prepare a draft strategic plan for the data on what our mission could be. Survey next General Assembly meeting in 2005. responses included: IMIA being the leading worldwide organization and main meeting place in the field; an advisor to IMIA and YOU WHO; recognized by international bodies IMIA is growing organization representing and influencing governments; a source of the field of medical informatics world-wide. authoritative opinion, advice and IMIA membership and conferences provide publications. an opportunity for participation by all After the initial presentation Nancy asked, interested people. We hope that you will “what should be included?” Several other join us and help to make our organization comments included: even stronger in the future.
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Dr. William C. Abbot Prof. Dr. Otto Rienhoff Honorary Fellows Hartland Bideford, United Kingdom Georg-August-University Goettingen Goettingen, Germany Prof. Dr. Ab Bakker Noordwijk, The Netherlands Jan Roukens European Commission Dr. Marion J. Ball Luxembourg Healthlink Incorporated Baltimore, MD, USA Dr. Davied Shires The Woodlands, TX, USA Dr. Morris Collen The Permanente Medical Group Prof. Edward H. Shortliffe Oakland, USA Columbia University Medical Center New York, USA Prof. Malcolm Forsythe University of Canterbury Ian H. Symonds Canterbury, United Kingdom Wellington Pathology Ltd. Waikanae Beach, New Zealand Prof. Shigekoto Kaihara Medical Information System Development Prof. Jan H. van Bemmel Centre (MEDIS-DC) Ersamus University Toyko, Japan Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Prof. Donald A.B. Lindberg Prof. Valerio Yacubsohn National Library of Medicine San Isidro, Argentina
Bethesda, USA
Prof. Hans E. Peterson Bromma, Sweden
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National Members National and Argentina Argentine Association of Medical Informatics Australia Health Informatics Society of Australia Ltd. HISA) Corresponding Austria Austrian Computer Society Working Group Medical Informatics Members Belgium Belgian Medical Informatics Association Bosnia & Society for Medical Informatics of Bosnia and Herzegovina Herzegovina Brazil Brazilian Society of Health Informatics Canada COACH: Canada's Health Informatics Association China China Medical Informatics Association Croatia Croation Society for Medical Informatics Cuba Cuban Society of Medical Informatics Czech Republic Czech Society for Biomedical Engineering and Medical Informatics Denmark Danish Society for Medical Informatics Finland Finnish Social and Health Informatics Association (FinnSHIA) France French Medical Informatics Association (AIM) Georgia Georgian Association of Medical Informatics and Biomedical Engineering (Observer Status) Germany German Association for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology Greece Greek Health Informatics Association Hong Kong Hong Kong Society of Medical Informatics Hungary Biomedical Section of John von Neumann Society for Computing Sciences Iran Iranian Medical Informatics Association Ireland Healthcare Informatics Society of Ireland Israel The Israeli Association for Medical Informatics Italy Italian Medical Informatics Society AIIM) Japan Japan Association for Medical Informatics Kazakstan Medical Pharmaceutical Information Association (MedPharmInfo) Korea The Korea Society of Medical Informatics (KOSMI) Malaysia Malaysian Health Informatics Association (MHIA) Mexico Mexican Medical Informatics Association (Observer Status) The Netherlands VMBI, Society for Healthcare Informatics New Zealand Health Informatics New Zealand Norway The Norwegian Society for Medical Informatics Peru Peruvian Health Informatics Association (Observer Status) Philippines Philippine Medical Informatics Society, Inc. Poland Polish Society of Medical Informatics Romania Romanian Society of Medical Informatics Singapore Association for Medical Bio-Informatics, Singapore (AMBIS) Slovak Republic Slovak Society of Biomedical Engineering and Medical Informatics Slovenia Slovene Medical Informatics Society (SIMIA) South Africa South African Health Informatics Association Spain Spanish Society of Health Informatics Sweden Swedish Federation for Medical Informatics Switzerland Swiss Society for Medical Informatics Turkey Turkish Medical Informatics Association (TURKMIA) Ukraine The Ukraine Association for Computer Medicine (Observer Status) United Kingdom British Computer Society Health Informatics Committee Uruguay Uruguay Society of Health Informatics USA American Medical Informatics Association Corresponding Members Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Cameroon, Chile, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Kenya, Mexico, Moldova, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Peru, Portuga.l, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tanzania, United Arab Emirates, Venezuela, Yemen, Zimbabwe IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics 2005 17 Information on IMIA
CORPORATE MEMBERS Institutional American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) Chicago, IL - USA Advertorial see page X Members Cerner Corporation Kansasa City, MO - USA Elsevier Science, Health Sciences Division Advertisement see pp. 532, 576, 578, London - UK 580-582 Healthcare Informatics, McGraw-Hill Healthcare Information Group Edina, MN - USA Healthcare Information & Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Chicago, IL - USA Healthlink Incorporated Houston, TX- USA Ormed Information Systems Ltd. Edmonton, AB - Canada Schattauer GmbH Stuttgart - Germany Siemens Medical Solutions Health Services Corporation Malvern, PA - USA TILAK Tiroler Landeskrankeanstalten GmbH Innsbruck - Austria Advertorial see page 38
ACADEMIC MEMBERS Academic Medical Center (AMC) Amsterdam - The Netherlands Central Queensland University Rockhampton, NSW - Australia Advertorial see page 8
Centre for Health Informatics, Research and Development (CHIRAD) Winchester - UK Centre for Healthcare Informatics, University College Dublin Dublin - Ireland Columbia University Medical Center New York, NY - USA Advertorial see page 102 Erasmus MC - University Medical Center Rotterdam, Dept. of Medical Informatics Rotterdam - The Netherlands Advertorial see page 20 Erasmus University Medical Center, Intitute of Health Policy and Management Rotterdam - The Netherlands Advertorial see page 16 Galil Center for Telemedicine and Medical Informatics Haifa - Israel Georg-August-University Goettingen Goettingen - Germany Harvard MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology Boston, MA - USA Advertorial see page 4 Indiana University Indianapolis, IN - USA Mayo College of Medicine, University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN - USA Medical Informatics Foundation (Fundacion de Informatica Medica) Miami Beach, FL - USA National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Athens - Greece National Health Service (England) Yorkshire - United Kingdom National Library of Medicine Bethesda, MD - USA Oregon Health and Science University Portland, OR - USA Advertorial see page 24 18 IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics 2005 Information on IMIA
Politecnico di Milano Institutional Milan - Italy St George's Hospital Medical School Members London - United Kingdom Stanford University School of Medicine (Continued) Stanford, CA - USA Taiwan Association for Medical Informatics Taipei -Taiwan Technical University of Braunschweig Braunschweig - Germany The Commission on Accreditation for Health Informatics and Information Management Education (CAHIIM) of AHIMA Chicago, IL - USA University College London (UCL) London - United Kingdom Advertorial see page 12 University Department of Rural Health, Tasmania Launceston, Tasmania - Australia University of Alabama at Birmingham Birmingham, AL - USA University of California Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA - USA University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, School of Nursing Denver, CO - USA Advertorial see page 84 University of Heidelberg Heidelberg - Germany University of Iowa, College of Nursing Iowa City, IA - USA University of Maryland, School of Nursing
Baltimore, MD - USA Advertorial see page 114 University of Missouri-Columbia Columbia, MO - USA University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA - USA University of Sydney Lidcombe, NSW - Australia University of Texas School of Health Information Sciences at Houston Houston, TX - USA University of Washington Seattle, WA - USA University of Waterloo Waterloo, ON - Canada Advertorial see page 298 University of Wisconsin - Madison Madison, WI - USA University of Wollongong Wollongong, NSW - Australia Vanderbilt University Medical Center Nashville, TN - USA
Yearbook Advertorial IMIA Institutional Members are offered the opportunity to publish an advertorial, i.e. a corporate description of their institute's or company's activities linked to Medical Informatics in the IMIA Yearbook. The number of the page on which you can find an advertorial of an institutional member is indicated on the list of institutional members (see above).
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Argentina President: IMIA Representative: Tomas A. Sandor, Eng. Dr. Nora Oliveri Argentine Association of Medical Informatics Ministry of Health CEO and Vice-President of Asociación Argentina de Informática Médica (AAIM) Buenos Aires Ibero-American Projects http://www.aaim.org.ar Tel: +54 911 4446 1569 Medical Informatics Foundation E-mail: [email protected] Miami Beach FL Tel: +1 305 479 6324 National Office: Vice-President: E-mail: [email protected] Av. Libertador 5674 Piso 5 Carlos Porta, MD Dpto A University of Buenos Aires Buenos Aires, Argentina Buenos Aires E-mail: [email protected]
Australia Chair & IMIA Representative: Vice-Chair: Prof. Dr. Michael Legg Steve W. Tipper, Health Informatics Society of Australia Ltd. (HISA) Michael Legg & Associates Business Manager http://www.hisa.org.au Caringbah, New South Wales University of New South Wales Tel: +61 2 9531 0612 Randwick NSW HISA Executive Director: Fax: +61 2 9501 3853 Tel: +61 2 9385 1264 Ms. Joan Edgecumbe E-mail: michael_legg Fax: +61 2 9385 1813 Health Informatics Society of Australia Ltd. @optusnet.com.au E-mail: [email protected] 413 Lygon Street Brunswick East 3057 Secretary: Treasurer: Victoria, Australia Mr. Marcus Wise Ms. Robyn Cook Tel: +61 3 9388 0555 Senior Project Manager ISD Fax: +61 3 9388 2086 Department of Health; Human Sydney, New South Wales E-mail: [email protected] Services E-mail: Robyn.Cook Devonport, Tasmania @swsahs.nsw.gov.au E-Mail: marcus.wise @dhhs.tas.gov.au
Austria President: IMIA Representative: Prof. Bernhard Tilg Prof. Dr. Reinhold Haux Working Group Medical Informatics (AKMI) of the University for Health Informatics Rector Austrian Society for Biomedical Engineering (ÖGBMT) and Technology Tyrol (UMIT) University for Health Informatics and of the Austrian Computer Society (ÖCG) Hall in Tyrol, Austria and Technology Tyrol (UMIT) Tel: +43 50 8648 3800 Innsbruck, Austria Arbeitskreis Medizinische Informatik (AKMI) der Fax: +43 50 8648 3850 Tel: +43 50 8648 3800 Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Biomedizinische E-mail: [email protected] Fax: +43 50 8648 3850 Technik (ÖGBMT) und der Österreichischen E-mail: [email protected] Secretary/Treasurer: Computergesellschaft (ÖCG) Dr. Andreas Holzinger http://www.imsb.umit.at/akmedinf.htm Graz University Graz, Austria Office Address: Tel: +43 316 385 3883 Eduard Wallhoefer-Centre 1 Fax: +43 316 385 3590 Hall in Tyrol E-mail: andreas.holzinger@ Austria kfunigraz.ac.at
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Belgium President: IMIA Representative: Dr. Etienne De Clercq Prof. Francis H. Roger France Belgian Medical Informatics Association Ecole de Santé Publique - SESA Université Catholique de http://www.bmia.be Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels Louvain Tel: +32 2 764 4711 Office Address: Clos Chapelle aux Champs, 30.41 Fax: +32 2 764 4717 Rue Bon Air 2 1200 Brussels E-mail: [email protected] 1470 Basiy-Thy, Belgium Tel: +32 2 764 3262 Fax: +32 2 764 3031 Secretary: E-mail: [email protected] Dr. Philippe Piette E-mail: p.piette@hopiteaux- gilly.be
Bosnia and Herzegovina President and IMIA Secretary: Representative: Dr. Ahmed Novo Society for Medical Informatics of Bosnia and Prof. Dr. Izet Masic Sarajevo Herzegowina Medical Faculty Tel: +387 61 165 101 Center for Medical Informatics E-mail: [email protected] Mose Pijade 6, 71000 Sarajevo Tel/Fax: +387 71 444 714 E-mail: [email protected]
Brazil President : Secretary/Treasurer: Dr. Lincoln de Assis Moura Jr. Ms. Fabiane Bizinella Nardon Brazilian Society of Health Informatics Atech Foundation CTO VIDATIS - Health Sociedade Brasileira de Informática em Saúde - SBIS São Paulo SP Information Systems http://www.sbis.org.br Tel: +55 11 30453 3771 São Paulo SP Fax: +55 11 3089 6750 Tel: +55 11 3853 3774 SBIS Office Address: E-mail: [email protected] Fax: +55 11 3053 3760
Rua Afonso Braz 656 - sala 12 E-mail: fabiane.nardon PO Box 20397 -CEP: 04041-990 IMIA Representative: @vidatis.com.br São Paulo SP - Brazil Dr. Umberto Tachinardi São Paulo Heart Institute Tel: +55 11 3069 5477 Fax: +55 11 3069 5311 E-mail: Umberto.Tachinardi @incor.usp.br
Canada President: Executive Director: Dr. Don Newsham Ms. Elizabeth Di Chiara COACH, Canada's Health Informatics Association Sierra Systems COACH: Canada's Health http://www.coachorg.com Calgary, AB Informatics Association Tel: +1 403 264 0955 Toronto ON National Office: Fax: +1 403 233 2108 Tel: +1 416 979 5551 Ext. 242 1304 - 2 Carlton Street E-mail: donnewsham Fax: +1 416 979 1144 Toronto, Ontario M5B 1J3 @sierrasystems.com E-mail: [email protected] Tel: +1 416 979 5551 Fax: +1 461 979 1144 Vice-President: Secretary/Treasurer: E-mail: [email protected] Ms Shelagh Maloney Ms. Linda Miller Sallumatics Alberta Health - Business Mississauga, ON Operations and Contracting Tel: +1 905 362 2234 Edmonton, AB Fax: +1 905 362 2245 Tel: +1 780 415 1501 E-mail: shelagh.maloney@ Fax: +1 780 422 1960 salumatics.com Email: [email protected]
IMIA Representative: Dr. Kathryn J. Hannah University of Calgary Calgary AB E-mail: [email protected]
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China President: IMIA Representative: Prof. Debing Wang Dr. Ling Zhu China Medical Informatics Association (CMIA) Peking University, Beijing Member of the Board of CMIA China Medical Informatics Association of Chinese Tel: +86 10 8280 299 Beijing Institute of Electronics E-mail: [email protected] Tel: +86 10 6616 1107 E-mail: [email protected] http://www.cmia.org.cn Secretary: Mr. Ying I. Liang National Office: China Medical Informatics 17 Zhengjue Jiadao Association Xinjiekou, Xicheng District Tel: +86 10 6616 1107 Beijing 100035 Fax: +86 10 6616 1393 P.R. China E-mail: [email protected]
Croatia President: IMIA Representative: Prof. Dr. Gjuro Dezelic Prof. Dr. Josipa Kern Croatian Society for Medical Informatics (CSMI) Medical School Andrija Stampar School of Hrvatsko drustvo za medicinsku informatiku University of Zagreb Public Health http://www.snz.hr/wnew/csmi.html Tel: +385 1 290 2536 Medical School Fax: +385 1 290 2595 University of Zagreb Office Address: E-mail: Tel: +385 1 290 2536 Rockefellerova 4 [email protected] Fax: +385 1 290 2536 Zagreb, Croatia E-mail: [email protected] Treasurer: Dr. Inge Heim Secretary: Institute for Cardiovascular Ms. Mira Hercigonja-Szekeres Prevention and Rehabilitation Polimedika, Ltd., Zagreb Zagreb Tel: +385 1 663 6500 Tel: +385 1 4612 308 E-mail: mira.hercigonja-
Fax: +385 1 4612 343 [email protected] E-mail: [email protected]
Cuba President and IMIA Secretary/Treasurer: Representative: Ms. Maria Vidal Cuban Society of Medical Informatics Prof. Dr Esperanza O'Farrill Ministry of Public Health Sociedad Cubana de Informática Médica Center of Cybernetics Applied Centro de Desarollo Informatico http://www.cedisap.sld.cu to Medicine (CECAM) de Salud Publica Ciudad de la Habana Ciudad de la Habana Office Address: Tel: +537 21 1354 Tel: +537 55 3325 CEDISAP E-mail: [email protected] Fax: +537 55 2222 Calle 23 No. 177 entre N y O, E-mail: [email protected] Vedado, Plaza Ciudad de la Habana, Cuba
Czech Republic President: IMIA Representative: Dr. Jaromir Cmíral Prof. Dr. Jana Zvárová Czech Society of Biomedical Engineering National Army Institute Charles University and and Medical Informatics Prague Academy of Sciences Ceska spolecnost biomedicinskeho inzenyrstvi a Tel: +420 9 7321 9004 Prague 8 E-mail: [email protected] Tel: +420 2 6605 3097 lekarske informatiky Fax: +420 2 8658 1453 http://www.cls.cz/ Executive Director: E-mail: [email protected] Hana Vicarov Czech Medical Socieity J.E. Secretary/Treasurer: Office Address: Purkyne Jiri Holcik Sokolska 33 Prague 2 Technical University Brno Prague, Czech Republic Tel: +420 2 2426 6201-4 Tel: +420 5 4114 9546 Fax: +420 2 2426 6201-4 Fax: +420 5 4114 9542 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: holcik@ dbme.fee.vutbr.cz IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics 2005 27 Addresses of IMIA Member Societies
Denmark President : IMIA Representative: Prof. Ole Hejlesen Dr. Knut E. Bernstein The Danish Society for Medical Informatics Aalborg University MEDIQ - Medical Informatics Dansk Selskab for Medicinsk Informatik Head of Medical Informatics Group and Quality Development http://www.dsmi.dk Tel: +45 9635 8808 Brønshøj E-mail: [email protected] Tel: +45 3092 2272 Office Address: E-mail: [email protected] Dansk Selskab for Medicinsk Treasurer: Informatik Mr. Kaj Jessen St. Kongensgade 59 A Competence Manager Copenhagen, Denmark CSC Scandihealth Tel: +45 8745 7469 Fax: +45 8745 7270 E-mail: [email protected]
Finland President and IMIA Treasurer: Representative: Kauko Hartikainen Finnish Social and Health Informatics Association Dr. Mikko Korpela Association of Finnish Local and (FinnSHIA) Research Director Regional Authorities Sosiaali - ja terveydenhuollon tietojenkäsittely University of Kuopio Helsinki Kuopio Tel: +358 9 771 2647 -yhdistys ry ry Tel: +358 17 16 2811 Fax: +358 9 771 2291 http://www.oskenet.fi/tty Fax: +358 17 282 5566 E-mail: Kauko.Hartikainen@ E-mail: [email protected] Kuntaliitto.fi
Executive Director: Ms. Ursula Cornér National Research and Development Centre for Welfare and Health (STAKES) Helsinki Tel: +358 9 3967 2329 Fax: +358 9 3967 2443 E-mail: [email protected]
France President: IMIA Representative: Prof. Pierre Le Beux Prof. Patrice Degoulet French Medical Informatics Association (AIM) Laboratoire d'Informatique Pompidou University Hospital Association française d'Informatique Médicale Médicale Hospital Informatics Department http://videostream.uni-rennes1.fr/~aim/ Rennes Paris Tel: +33 2 9928 42 15 Tel: +33 1 5609 2030 Fax: +33 2 9928 4160 Fax: +33 1 5609 2052 E-mail: patrice.degoulet@ egp.ap-hop-paris.fr
Georgia IMIA Representative: Prof. Gaioz S. Vasadze Georgian Association of Medical Informatics and 51 Iv. Javakhishvili str. Biomedical Engineering (GAMIBE) 380002 Tbilisi, Georgia Tel: +995 32 953 418 Fax: +995 32 960 300 E-mail: [email protected]
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Germany President: IMIA Representative: Prof. Dr. H.-Erich Wichmann Prof. Dr. Herbert Witte German Association for Medical Informatics, Biometry Institute for Epidemiology Institute of Medical Statistics, and Epidemiology GSF - National Research Center Computer Sciences and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Medizinische Informatik, for Environment and Health Documentation Oberschleißheim Friedrich Schiller University Jena Biometrie und Epidemiologie (GMDS) e.V. Tel: +49 89 3187 4066 Jena, Thuringia http://www.gmds.de Fax: +49 89 3187 4499 Tel: +49 3641 933 133 E-mail: [email protected] Fax: +49 3641 933 200 Office Address: E-mail: [email protected] GMDS-Geschäftsstelle Schedestraße 9, Bonn Tel: +49 228 24 222 24 E-mail: [email protected]
Greece President and IMIA Treasurer: Representative: Anna Paidi Greek Health Informatics Association Prof. John Mantas Health Informatics Consultant http://www.ghia.nurs.uoa.gr Dean of the Faculty Health Care Regional Centre of National and Kapodistrian Athens National Office: University of Athens Tel: +30 210 6425 692 5, Navarchou Apostoli Street Athens Fax: +30 210 6459 919 Athens, Greece Tel: +30 1 746 1459 x1460 E-mail: [email protected] Fax: +30 1 746 1461 E-mail: [email protected] Secretary: Mr. Iossif Liaskos Research Fellow University of Athens Tel: +30 210 7461 448 Fax: +30 210 7461 491
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Hong Kong President and IMIA Secretary/Treasurer: Representative: Anthony Cheung Hong Kong Society of Medical Informatics Dr. Chun Por Wong Senior Systems Manager http://www.hksmi.org Chief of Integrated Medical Services IT Division, Hospital Authority Ruttonjee Hospital 147B Argyle Street Office Address: 266 Queens’s Road East Kowloon, Hong Kong c/o Dr.CP Wong Wanchai, Hong Kong Tel: +852 2300 6538 Ruttonjee Hospital Tel: +852 2291 1345 Fax: +852 2300 5395 266 Quenn's Road East Fax: +852 2291 1335 E-mail: [email protected] Wanchai, Hong Kong E-mail: [email protected]
Hungary President and IMIA Representative: Biomedical Section of John von Neumann Society for Prof. Dr. Attila Naszlady Computing Sciences Polyclinic of Hospitaller Bros. http://www.njszt.iif.hu of St John of God Budapest Tel: +36 1 4388 432 Fax: +36 1 212 5378 E-mail: naszlady.attila @irgalmas.hu
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Iran President and IMIA Executive Director: Representative: Dana Winner Iranian Medical Informatics Association Dr. Ramin Moghaddam IMTAS, Tehran http://www.IrMIA.org Head Master of Medical Tel: +98 21 235 3926 Informatics Group Fax: +98 21 691 0599 Office Address: Iranian Social Security E-mail: [email protected] P.O. Box 14665 Organization Tehran Tehran Treasurer: Iran Tel: +98 21 6450 2512 Dr. Daryoush H. Talab Fax: +98 21 6931 614 President E-mail: Dr_Moghaddam Medcom, Tehran @Medical-Informatics.Net Tel: +98 21 873 2573 Fax: +98 21 874 7385 E-mail: [email protected]
Ireland President: IMIA Representative: Prof. Jane Grimson Diarmuid UaConaill Healthcare Informatics Society of Ireland Trinity College, Dublin Consultant Biochemist (retired) Cumann Riomheolais Sláinte Tel: +353 1 608 1780 Portmarnock Co. http://www.hisi.ie Fax: +353 1 608 2512 Dublin E-mail: [email protected] Tel: +353 1 846 0634 Office Address: E-mail: [email protected] 58 Eccles Street Executive Director: Dublin 7 Gerard Hurl Secretary: Republic of Ireland Mater Misericordiae University Ms. Ann J. Sheridan Hospital University College Dublin Dublin Dublin Tel: +353 1 830 7958 E-mail: [email protected] Fax: +353 1 830 7728 E-mail: [email protected]
Israel President and IMIA Secretary/Treasurer: Representative: Ms. Dorit Shaul The Israeli Association for Medical Informatics Dr. Batami Sadan ILA/The Israeli Association for Shamir Health Information Services Medical Informatics Office Address: Tivon Tel Aviv P.O. Box 50043 Tel: +972 3 648 5382 Tel: +972 3 773 1001 Tel Aviv, Israel Fax: +972 3 6349 0903 Fax: +972 3 634 5345 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected]
Italy President and IMIA Representative: Italian Medical Informatics Society (AIIM) Dr. Cristina Mazzoleni Associazione Italiana di Informatica Medica Fondazione Salvatore Maugeri, http://www.aiim.it IRCCS Pavia Office address: Tel: +39 382 529 161 c/o MGA Fax: +39 382 592 081 Viale Mazzini, 145 E-mail: [email protected] Rome, Italy
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Japan President: IMIA Representative: Prof. Dr. Hiroshi Tanaka Prof. Ken Toyoda Japan Association for Medical Informatics Tokyo Medical and Dental Director http://jami.umin.ac.jp University BearingPoint Co. Tokyo Healthcare Group Office Address: Tel: +81 3 5803 5839 Tel: +81 3 3266 8512 Koyasu-building 5F Fax: +81 35803 0247 Fax: +81 3 3266 7839 1-12-5 Yushima E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Bunkyo-ku Tokyo, Japan
Kazakstan President : IMIA Representative: Prof. Azat Abdrakmanov Prof. Temirhan Bekbosinov Medical Pharmaceutical Information Association MedPharmInfo Association Vice President (MedPharmInfo) Tel: +7 3272 7565 78 MedPharmInfo Association http://www.med.kz Fax: +7 3272 7559 32 Tel: +7 3272 4534 04 E-mail: [email protected] Fax: +7 3272 4559 32 Office address: E-mail: [email protected] 47 Mynbaev Street Executive Director: Almaty Dr. Aliya Kusherova Republic of Kazakstan 480008 MedPharmInfo Association Tel: +7 3272 4790 54 Fax: +7 3272 4575 78 E-mail: [email protected]
Korea President: IMIA Representative: Dr. Yun Sik Kwak Prof. Hune Cho Korea Society of Medical Informatics (KOSMI) School of Medicine Associate Professor http://www.kosmi.org Taegu Kyungpook National University Tel: +82 53 420 6050 School of Medicine Office address: Fax: +82 53 420 6059 Taegu Chongno-gu Myungryun-dong 2 ga 237 E-mail: [email protected] Tel: +82 53 420 6051 Anam Apt #301-204 Fax: +82 53 420 6059 Seoul, Korea Chair: E-mail: [email protected] Dr. Myeni-Ki Kim Associate Professor Seoul National University Seoul Tel: +82 2 740 8791 Fax: +82 2 763 7763 E-mail: [email protected]
Mexico IMIA Representative: Dr. Cesar Colina Ramirez Mexican Medical Informatics Association Universidad Nacional Autonoma Assucion Mexicana de Informatica Medica (AMIM) de Mexico Tel: +52 623 24 85 Fax: +52 623 24 80 E-mail: ccolina@ drbaz.fmedic.unam.mx
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The Netherlands President and IMIA Secretary: Representative: Hans H. Maring Society for Healthcare Informatics Prof. Johan van der Lei Consultant, Health Informatics Vereniging voor informatieverwerking in de zorg Head of the Department of University Medical Center Utrecht (VMBI) Medical Informatics Tel: +31 30 250 6822 Erasmus MC- University Fax: +31 30 254 2028 http://www.vmbi.nl Medical Center Rotterdam E-mail: [email protected] Rotterdam Office Address: Tel: +31 1040 87050 Treasurer: VMBI-bureau E-mail: J.vanderlei Dr. Peter P.J. Branger Postbus 986 @erasmusmc.nl University Medical Center Zeist, Utrecht, The Netherlands Utrecht Tel: +31 30 2507 183 Fax: +31 30 2542 028 E-mail: P.J.Branger @umcutrecht.nl
New Zealand Chair and IMIA Representative: Vice-Chair: Dr. Kannan Subramaniam Ms. Robyn RL Carr Health Informatics New Zealand Chief Executive Officer Director Informatics Project http://www.hinz.org.nz LactoPharma Contracting (IPC) Auckland Waikato Office Address: Tel: +64 9 4374 9467 Tel: +64 7 823 7984 PO Box 32 515 Fax: +64 9 379 8323 Fax: +64 7 823 7985 Devonport E-mail: kannan.subramaniam E-mail: [email protected] Auckland, New Zealand @fonterra.com
Norway President: IMIA Representative: Mr. Karl Oyri Ms. Irma Iversen
Norwegian Society for Medical Informatics Nurse Manager Pasientombudet for Akershus Forum for Databehandling i Helsesektoren (FDH) The Interventional Centre Fylkeskommune http://www.fdh.no Rikshospitalet Oslo Oslo Tel: +47 221 70491 Tel: +47 2307 0000 Fax: +47 221 75270 Office Address: Fax: +47 2307 0110 E-mail: [email protected] FDH c/o Karl Oyri E-mail: karl.oyri Jegerveien 2c @rikshospitalet.no Oslo, Norway
Peru President and IMIA Secretary/Treasurer: Representative: Dr. Jorge Ballon Echegaray Peruvian Health Informatics Association Dr. Crisogono Rubio Nieto Unversidad Nacional San Agustin Asociacion Peruano de Informatica en Salud (APIS) Telefonica Data Peru S.A.A, Arequipa http://www.APISnet.org Lima Tel: +51 54 233 803 Tel: +51 1 210 4592 E-mail: [email protected] Fax: +51 1 422 0591 Office Address: E-mail: [email protected] Av. Brasil 1008 Brena, Lima Peru
Philippines President: IMIA Representative: Dr. Herman D. Tolentino, Dr. Alvin Marcelo Philippine Medical Informatics Society, Inc. UP College of Medicine UP College of Medicine, Manila http://www.pmis.org Medical Informatics Unit Tel: +632 522 9231 Manila Fax: +632 522 9231 Office Address: Tel: +632 526 4254 E-mail: amarcelo UP College of Medicine Fax: +632 874 6992 0918 @cm.upm.edu.ph Medical Informatics Unit +632 874 9040 294 547 Pedro Gil Street E-mail: hermant Ermita, Manila, Philippines @cm.upm.edu.ph
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Poland President and IMIA Secretary: Representative: Ms. Mariana Bazavan Polish Society of Medical Informatics Prof. Dr. Edward Kacki Center for Health Computing Technical University of Lódz Statistics and Medical Tel: +48 42 329 757 Documentation Fax: +48 42 303 414 Bucharest E-mail: [email protected] Tel: +40 21 314 0890 Fax: +40 21 311 2998 E-mail: [email protected]
Romania President and IMIA Secretary: Representative: Ms. Mariana Bazavan Romanian Society of Medical Informatics Prof. Dr. George I. Mihalas Project Manager Societatea Romana de Informatica Medicala Victor Babes University of Center for Health Computing, http://medinfo.umft.ro/rsmi/ Medicine and Pharmacy Statistics and Medical Timisoara Documentation Office Address: Tel: +40 256 490 288 Bucharest Spl. T.Vladimirescu 14 Fax: +40 256 490 288 Tel: +40 21 314 0890 Timisoara, Romania E-mail [email protected] Fax: +40 21 311 2998 E-mail: [email protected]
Singapore President: IMIA Representative: Dr. Chow Yuen Ho Prof. Kwok-Chan Lun Association for Medical and Bio-Informatics, Director Medical Informatics School of Biological Sciences Singapore (AMBIS) Singapore General Hospital (NTU) http://www.ambis.org.sg Tel: +65 6326 6276 Singapore E-mail: chow.yuen.ho Tel: +65 6316 2812 Office Address: @singhealth.com.sg Fax: +65 6791 3856
Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R) E-mail: [email protected] 21 Heng Mui Keng Terrace Secretary: Singapore Mr. Paul Tan Thiam Joo Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R) Tel: +65 6874 8233 Fax: +65 6774 8056 E-mail: [email protected]
Slovak Republic President: IMIA Representative: Prof. Peter Kneppo Dr. Mikuláš Popper Slovak Society of Biomedical Engineering A. Dubcek University of Trencin Comenius University and Medical Informatics Tel: +421 3274 44129 x202 Bratislava Spolocnost biomedicínského inzinierstva a medicínskej Fax: +421 3274 44112 Tel: +421 2 5441 3356 E-mail: [email protected] Fax: +421 2 5441 3356 informatiky pri Slovenskej lekárskej spolocnosti E-mail: [email protected] http://www.fmed.uniba.sk/~biofyzika/engin.html Secretary: Dr. Milan Tyšler Office Address: Institute of Measurement Science Institute of Measurement Science Bratislava Slovak Academy of Sciences Tel: +421 7 5477 5950 Cesta 9 Fax: +421 7 5477 5943 Bratislava E-mail: [email protected]
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Slovenia President: IMIA Representative: Ms. Smiljana V. Slavec Dr. Marjan Premik Slovene Medical Informatics Society (SIMIA) INFONET, Kranj Institute for Social Medicine http://www.simia.org Tel: +386 4 280 0900 Ljubljana E-mail: [email protected] Tel/Fax: +386 61 131 4210 E-mail: premik@ Secretary: ibmi.mf.uni-lj.si Drago Rudel E-mail: [email protected]
South Africa President: IMIA Representative: Dr. Sedick S. Isaacs John D. Tresling South African Health Informatics Association Groote Schuur Hospital/ Meditech SA, Halfway House http://www.sahia.org.za University of Capetown Tel: +27 11 805 1631 Observatory Western Cape Fax: +27 11 805 1430 Office Address: Tel: +27 21 404 2058 E-mail: [email protected] c/o 61 St. Leger Road Fax: +27 21 404 2070 Claremont, South Africa E-mail: seisaacs@ Secretary/Treasurer: pawc.wcape.gov.za Ms. Lyn A. Hanmer Medical Research Council Tygerberg Western Cape Tel: +27 21 938 0343 Fax: +27 21 938 0315 E-mail: [email protected]
Spain President: IMIA Representative: Prof. Luciano Saez-Ayerra Dr. Fernando J. Martin-Sanchez Spanish Society of Health Informatics Director Institute of Health "Carlos III"
Sociedad Española de Informática de la Salud (SEIS) Institute of Health "Carlos III" Head of the Medical http://www.seis.es Madrid Bioinformatics Department Tel: +34 91 387 7835 Majadahonda Madrid Fax: +34 91 387 7790 Tel: +34 91 509 7027 Office Address: +34 62 937 1639 Fax: +34 91 509 7917 CEFIC (SEIS Secretary) E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] C/Olimpo, 33 1° C 28043 Madrid, Spain Secretary: Dr. Salvador Arribas Hospital Universitario La Paz Madrid Tel: +34 91 350 2600 x 1156 E-mail: [email protected]
Sweden President: IMIA Representative: Dr. Magnus Fogelberg Prof. Rolf E. Nikula Swedish Federation for Medical Informatics Convenor CEN TC 251 WGII Assist. Professor Svensk Förenig för Medicinsk Informatik Uddevalla hospital Orebro University http://www.sfmi.org Uddevalla Orebro Tel: +46 73 9864 717 E-mail: [email protected] Fax: +46 31342 2383 Office Address: E-mail: magnus.fogelberg@ 15 Trollebergsvagen vgregion.se Lund, Sweden Secretary/Treasurer: Claes Schonqvist Uppsala County Council Uppsala Tel: +46 18 611 6055 Fax: +46 18 611 6299 E-mail: [email protected]
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Switzerland President: IMIA Representative: Dr. Martin Denz Prof. Dr. Antoine Geissbuhler Swiss Society for Medical Informatics (SSMI) FMH Verbindung der Schweizer Geneva University Hospital Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Medizinische Bern Division of Medical Informatics Informatik Tel: +41 31 359 1111 Tel: +41 22 372 6201 E-mail: [email protected] Fax: +41 22 372 6255 Société Suisse d'Informatique Médicale E-mail: antoine.geissbuhler http://www.sgmi-ssim.ch Executive Director: @hcuge.ch Ms. Anita Eymann SSMI Secretariat: Sekretariat SGMI c/o VSAO Secretary: SGMI / SSIM Bern Mr. Felix Heer PO Box 229, Daelhoelzliweg 3 Tel: +41 31 436 4499 CIO, Universitätsspital Zürich Bern 6, Switzerland Fax: +41 31 436 4498 Zürich E-mail: [email protected] Tel: +41 1 255 2700 E-mail: [email protected]
Turkey President: MIA Representative: Dr. Osman Saka Dr. K. Hakan Gülkesen Turkish Medical Informatics Association (TURKMIA) Akdeniz University School of Akdeniz University, Antalya Tip Bilisimi Dernegi Medicine Tel: +90 532 775 7910 http://www.turkmia.org Antalya E-mail: hgulkesen Tel: +90 532 2337 835 @akdeniz.edu.tr Office Address: Fax: +90 242 2274 482 Gazi Universitesi Tip Secretary: Fakultesi Nukleer Tip AD Dr. Tamer Calikoglu Besevler, Ankara, Turkey Oncology Hospital Ankara Tel: +90 312 435 5343 Fax: +90 312 435 4006
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Ukraine IMIA Representative: Prof. Oleg Y. Mayorov, Ph.D., The Ukraine Association for "Computer Medicine" M.D., Dr.Sc. (UACM) Ministry of Healthcare http://www.uacm.kharkov.ua Kharkiv Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education Kharkiv Tel: +380 57 711 8032 Fax: +380 57 711 8052 E-mail: [email protected]
United Kingdom Chair: Treasurer: Dr. Glyn Hayes Prof. Graham Wright British Computer Society Health Informatics Family Physician Centre for Health Information, Committee E-mail: glyn@ Research and Development http://www.bcshic.org conline.demon.co.uk Winchester Hampshire Tel: +44 1980 863 953 Office Address: IMIA Representative: E-mail: graham.wright Chair, British Computer Society HIC Peter Murray @winchester.ac.uk 1 Sanford Street Telematics Consultant Swindon, Wiltshire, UK CHIRAD Lincoln, Lincolnshire E-mail: imiaukrep @btinternet.com
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Uruguay President: IMIA Representative: Dr. Jorge Stanham Dr. Alvaro Margolis Uruguayan Society of Health Informatics Medical Advisor Escuela de Graduados Sociedad Uruguaya de Informática en la Salud (SUIS) British Hospital Facultad de Medicina http://www.suis.org.uy Montevideo Tel: +598 2 487 3480 Tel: +598 2 487 1020 Fax: +598 2 487 3480 Office Address: Fax: +598 2 487 4080 E-mail: [email protected] Bvar. Artigas 1515 E-mail: jstanham Montevideo, Uruguay @mednet.org.uy
USA President: IMIA Representative: Dr. Don E. Detmer Dr. Nancy M. Lorenzi American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) American Medical Informatics Vanderbilt University Medical http://www.amia.org Association Center Bethesda, MD Nashville TN AMIA Office: Tel: +1 301 657 1291 Tel: +1 615 936 1423 4915 St. Elmo Avenue, Suite 401 Fax: +1 301 657 1296 Fax: +1 615 936 1427 Bethesda, MD 20814 USA E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: nancy.lorenzi@ vanderbilt.edu Chair: Dr. Charles Safran Treasurer: Associate Clinical Professor Dr. Justin B. Starren Harvard Medical School Columbia University Newton MA New York, NY Tel: +1 617 332 2275 Tel: +1 212 305 3443 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: starren @dbmi.columbia.edu Secretary: Dr. Eta S. Berner University of Alabama Birmingham Birmingham AL Tel: +1205 975 8219 E-mail: [email protected]
EFMI (IMIA Europe) President: Vice-President: Dr. Robert Baud George Mihalas European Federation for Medical Informatics Hospital of Geneva University of Medicine and http://www.efmi.org Div. Informatique Médicale Pharmacy Rue du Crest Dept. of Medical Informatics CH-1211 Geneva 14 P-ta Eftimie Murgu 2 Switzerland 1900 Timisoara, Romania Tel: +41 22 372 6203 Tel: +40 56 193 082/ 190 288 Fax: +41 22 372 6255 Fax: +40 56 190 626/ 190 288 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected]
Vice-President IMIA: Information Officer: Dr. Assa Reichert Dr. Rolf Engelbrecht SAREL, Supplies & Services for MEDIS - Institut Medicine GSF-National Research Center Zone south Netanya POB 8466 for Environment and Health Netanya, Israel Ingolstädter Landstr. 1 Tel: +972 9 892 2005 D-85764 Oberschleißheim Fax: +972 9 892 2123 Germany E-mail: [email protected] Tel: +49 89 3187 4138 Fax: +49 89 3187 3008 E-mail: [email protected]
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EFMI (IMIA Europe) (Continued) Executive Officer: Secretary: John Bryden Dr. Jacob Hofdijk Bryden Consulting Ltd. HISCOM Public Health & Health Schipholweg 97 Information consultant NL-2316 XA Leiden 34 Sherbrooke Drive Netherlands Glasgow C41 5AA Tel: +31 71 525 6708 Tel: +44 141 427 2959 Fax: +31 71 521 6675 Fax: +44 709 201 2511 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Publication Officer: Prof. Dr. Arie Hasman Treasurer: University Maastricht Patrick Weber Dept. of Medical Informatics Nice Computing P.O. Box 616 Rte de Fey NL-6200 MD Maastricht CH-1414 Rueyres The Netherlands Tel: +41 21 887 6031 Tel.: +31 43 3882 240 Fax: +41 212 887 6031 Fax: +31 43 367 1052 E-mail: patrick.weber@ E-mail: [email protected] nicecomputing.ch
IMIA-LAC (Latin America) President and IMIA Representative: Federation of Health Societies in Latin America Dr. Lincoln de Assis Moura Jr. Atech Foundation São Paulo SP Tel: +55 11 3053-3771 Fax: +55 11 9182 7495
E-mail: [email protected]
APAMI (IMIA Asia Pacific) IMIA Representative: Prof. Yun Sik Kwak Asia Pasific Association for Medical Informatics Professor and Chairman http://www.apami.net Department of Medical Informatics Kyungpook National University Hospital 50 Samduk-Dong, 2-Ga, Choong-Gu Taegu 700-721, Korea Tel: +82 53 423 4700 Fax: +82 53 420 6059 E-mail: [email protected]
Helina (African Region) IMIA Representative: Dr. Sedick S. Isaacs Groote Schuur Hospital/ University of Cape Town Observatory, Western Cape Tel: +27 21 404 2058 Fax: +27 21 404 2070 E-mail: seisaacs@ pawc.wcape.gov.za
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The Argentine Association of Medical academic Centers, Business firms, and Argentina Informatics “AAIM” is an academic insti- Health Institutions. tution born as an encompassing organi- • Transmit and expand the Health zation created to fulfill the needs related to Informatics knowledge the development and application of • Represent all associates into national Medical/Health Informatics in Argentina. and international institutions AAIM is open to all representatives of Since 1996, AAIM is the national Repre- business and academic groups, and sentative of IMIA. Activities of AAIM are independent profetionals, which produce performed in coordination with the Medical developments in the field of Medical/Health Informatics Foundation (Fundacion de Informatics all over the country. Informatica Medica de Argentina) AAIM Objectives are as follows: (www.informaticamedica.org) • Promote the development and applica- AAIM Periodical Congress: Argentine tion of Medical Informatics in the scope Chapter of „Informedica“: Hispano- of improving patient health care. american Virtual Congress of Medical • Implement teaching programs in the Informatics in Internet Health area (www.informedica.org) • Develop Health care Administration programs and investigation projects AAIM Publications: Argentine Chapter of Nora Oliveri, IMIA Representative • Promote the knowledge interchange „Informedica Journal“ between national and international (www.informedicajournal.org)
HISA Vision HISA Objectives Australia Improving health care through health • A national focus for health informatics informatics in Australia • Management and administration of HISA Mission HISA HISA is a member-friendly, professional • National assistance to members and organisation, focusing on healthcare others informatics with benefits for practitioners, • Publishing through print and electronic disciplines and sectors of healthcare in media any geographic region of Australia and • Information collection, analysis and the world. distribution Member services are developed with the • Research promotion, support and co- aim of value-adding knowledge for the ordination individual member and enhancing net- Host organisation MEDINFO 2007, working opportunities between members. Brisbane Australia
Computers and information systems have Biomedical Informatics becomes more and Austria become very important for medicine and more relevant because of the huge for the health sciences. At the beginning of synergies between medical informatics and the 21st Century, information technology, bioinformatics. computer science, knowledge management The Austrian working group for Medical and communication engineering are of Informatics aims at bringing together increasing importance as interfaces informaticians and engineers together with between patients, health professionals and clinicans and with other health health organisations. Improved medical professionals for further enhancement of technology has helped doctors to raise the the health services. The working group is level of health care. Advanced part of the Austrian Society of Biomedical Bernhard Tilg, President communication technology enables Engineering (ÖGBMT) and of the Austrian modern telemedicine applications. Computer Society (OCG).
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Topics: • Clinical Bioinformatics Austria (Continued) • Health Information Systems • Biomedical Signal and Image Processing • Human-Computer Interaction • Multimedia and e-Learning in Health • Information Systems Education • Internet and Intranet • Quality Management • Knowledge Management • Standards • Knowledge Technology • Telemedicine
Reinhold Haux, IMIA Representative
The Belgian Society for Medical Informa- informatics in society and its ethical aspects Belgium tics ("MIM") was established in 1974 to are discussed. promote and develop medical information International related medical informatics science and technology in Belgium. It is a societies: national bilingual (French and Dutch) socie- • The MIM is the Belgian member of ty consisting of about 300 members, all EFMI (European Federation for Medical involved or interested in the use of comput- Informatics) and of IMIA (International ers and telematics in the health-care Medical Informatics Association). As environment. The administrative board such, the MIM is involved in the setting includes 15 members (physicians, up of whose congresses, scientific engineers and computer specialists) from events and publications. academic institutions, hospitals, • The MIM cooperates closely with the computers and the software industry. Etienne De Clercq, President Dutch (VMBI), French (AIM) and The MIM is a scientific society. Its major Swiss (SSIM) medical informatics activities focus on improving communi- societies to organize annual scientific cation among researchers and developers meetings: the «Medish Informatica in the field of medical computing and tele- Congres» (MIC) and the «Journées matics. It is also the place of choice where Francophones d'Informatique problems related to the role of medical Médicale» (JFIM).
Francis H. Roger France, IMIA Representative
The Society of Medical Informatics of The Society carries out the following Bosnia and Bosnia and Herzegovina (DMI BiH) was activities: founded 1988, as member of former a) Promotion and improvement of Herzegovina Yugoslavian Association of Medical informatics within the health-care Informatics, founded also in 1988, and system, health insurance and bio- member of EFMI in 1990. The Society has medical research, b) Engagement of experts in the field of now over 100 members. The Society become medical informatics in B&H on develop- member of EFMI in 1994 (EFMI Council in ment and establishment of health care Lisbon), and member of IMIA in 1994 information systems (General Assembly in Dresden). National c) Assistance in research, development representative in EFMI and IMIA is current and professional work in the field of president prof. dr. Izet Masic. medical informatics in B&H d) Distribution and development of Izet Masic, President technical information in the field of medical informatics in B&H
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e) Assistance in education of medical Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina informatics experts Slovenia and few neighbour countries from (Continued) f) Exchange of professional experience southeast Europe and the congress was on national and international level opened by actual EFMI chair, prof. dr. g) Publishing activities in the field of Attila Naszlady. Second congress of medical informatics Medical informatics was also, held in Since 1993, twice a year, the Society for Sarajevo, and had international character, Medical Informatics of Bosnia and and on plenary meeting, papers presented Herzegovina continuously publish its own members of the EFMI Board: Assa Reichert, professional magazine «ACTA INFOR- John Braiden, Robert Baud, Rolf MATICA MEDICA» where papers from Engelbrecht, Jakob Hofdyk, Patrick Veber, area of medical informatics have been as well as colleagues from Canada, published. Croatia,Slovenia and etc. During the congress, from 18 to 20 April 2004, there The Society for Medical Informatics of were organized the EFMI Board meeting in Bosnia and Herzegovina organizes the facilities of the Rector office of annually, its professional meetings with University of Sarajevo. Papers from the actual topics from medical informatics. congress were published in the magazine During past years, the following meetings «MEDICINSKI ARHIV» and could be and workshops were held: Classification retrieved on Medline database. EFMI Board systems in health care, Health and meeting was organized in order to promote information systems, Electronic medical candidature of both societies for Medical records, Appliance of expert systems in Informatics of Bosnia and Herzegovina health care, Tele-education in health care and Croatia as potential organizers of MIE systems, etc. 2009 in Sarajevo. Candidature of MIE 2009 Also, the Society has organized two in Sarajevo officially was presented on congresses of Medical informatics in EFMI Council meeting in Munich on 14 Bosnia and Herzegovina with international June 2004 and the final decision on participation; first held in 1999 in Sarajevo organization of MIE 2009 will be made in with over 100 participants, mostly from Athens in spring of 2005.
The Brazilian Health Informatics that lead to experience and knowledge Brazil Association - SBIS - aims at improving the exchange; quality and reducing the costs of healthcare - Joining individuals, groups and via the use of Health Informatics tech- organizations together; niques, concepts and technologies, by: - Cooperating with sister societies; - Stimulating educational activities - Contributing to the construction of related to Health Informatics; healthcare policies; - Stimulating scientific research and - Promoting of Health Informatics as a technical development in Health means to reduce costs and improve the Informatics; quality of healthcare services; - Organising conferences, symposiums, - Promoting the use of standards for courses, seminars, and other activities healthcare information. Lincoln de Assis Moura Jr., President
Umberto Tachinardi, IMIA Representative
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Celebrating its 30th Anniversary in 2005, Key activities include the newly released Canada COACH: Canada’s Health Informatics on-line version of the Guidelines for the Association, represents a strong com- Protection of Health Information, available munity of approximately 900 members from through the COACH Web site, and a broad range of health care related back- partnering with the Canadian Institute for grounds who are committed to advancing Health Information the practice of health informatics as a (CIHI) in the annual delivery of e-Health, a profession. COACH is an organization major national conference on health dedicated to promoting a clear under- informatics in addition to the development standing of health informatics within the of programs and services for members. Canadian health system through educa- Don Newsham, President tion, information, advocacy, networking COACH provides an excellent opportunity and communication in order to achieve its for networking among members and with vision of taking Health Informatics other related organizations locally, “mainstream”. It is also works to ensure nationally and internationally. that the profession is recognized and accepted by health sector leaders and others.
Kathryn Hannah, IMIA Representative
The China Medical Informatics support from Ministry of Information Association (CMIA), established in 1980, Industry, Ministry of Health, State
China is an academic organization constituted by Economy and Trade Commission, State physicians, researchers, technologists, and Drug Administration, etc. CMIA has built administrators who are researching how to up broad relationship with hospitals, utilize computer science and information universities, academic institutions and science in health care field. CMIA is a industries. National Member in International Medical Medical informatics is developed with a Informatics Association (IMIA), and is the rapid speed in today’s China. CMIA’s only representative of China in IMIA. There goals and objectives are to advance the are more than 5,700 members, 31 understanding and use of information professional committees and 22 regional technologies in China health care; to Debing Wang, President branches in CMIA. support the development of medicine and The development of CMIA, also named as pharmacy; to build up the bridges among China Medical Informatics Association of researchers, scientists, practitioners, Chinese Institute of Electronics, has won suppliers, managers in health care field.
Ling Zhu, IMIA Representative
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The Croatian Society for Medical Informa- The recent meeting “Medical Informatics Croatia tics is a non-profit organization concerned 2003” was held on the 26th of November with the scientific field of medical 2003. There were 21 presented papers, informatics, which comprises the theory published in Proceedings of the 6th and practice of information science and Symposium of Medical Informatics (ISSN technology within health care and health 1330-1799). care science. The basic objectivities of the The meeting ended with a round table CSMI are as follows: discussion on medical informatics as a profes- (1) to advance dissemination of informa- sion as well as on the status of medical tion in the field of MI in Croatia, informatics professionals in Croatia. (2) to promote high standards in the The CSMI initiated the establishment of application of work in this field, Technical Committee for standardization (3) to promote research and development Gjuro Dezelic, President in medical informatics. It follows work of in this field, CEN TC251 and ISO TC215 and assists in (4) to encourage high standards in educa- the health care information system tion in this field, development in the Republic of Croatia. (5) to advance international cooperation in this field. IMIA Recommendation on Health and Medical Informatics Education and IMIA Since 1993 the CSMI has organized Code of Ethics were translated into Croatian professional and scientific meetings with language and published on CSMIs web site. international contributions (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czech Republic, Slovenia, The Society publishes a bulletin with and Spain). The meetings named “Medical papers of the CSMI members, and relevant Josipa Kern, IMIA Representative Informatics”; have been held biannually. information two times a year.
The Cuban Society of Medical Informatics movement towards generalizing Medical Cuba groups specialists of different fields Informatics is being developed through working on Medical and Health Informatics the creation in Provincial and Municipal throughout the country. Health Research Health Administrative Levels as well as in Centers, Medical Sciences Faculties, most Health Institutions of Health Specialized Informatics Centers working Informatics Groups. This groups are in on Medical and Health Computerized charge of training the current staff of health Applications are also involved. The main organizations and institutions on the use goal of the Society is to develop and of computers and the application of specific widespread scientific and updated Medical and Health Informatics Systems informatic knowledge in all medical and performed. A National Policy on Health Esperanza O’Farrill, health fields supporting the Health Policy Informatics is ongoing with the active President and IMIA Representative of the National Health System. A major support of the Society
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The Czech Society of Biomedical conferences on medical informatics were Czech Republic Engineering and Medical Informatics is held in Prague 1981 and 1988, and IMIA one of the medical societies gathered in the international working conference took Czech Association of Medical Societies of place in Prague in 1985 and 1990. J.E. Purkyne. The Medical Informatics The proceedings of the IMIA working Section of the Czech Society of Biomedical conferences were published by Elsevier Engineering has been established in 1978. Publishing Company (North Holland) Through this section the activities in the under the titles „Diagnostic Strategies and field of medical informatics has been Expert Systems“ and „Knowledge, developed. Nowadays the Society is mostly Information and Medical Education“. concerned with activities in three sections: In 2004 the Society organized or co- "Medical Informatics", "Clinical organized several national and international Engineering", and "Biophysics". conferences e.g. Biosignal, Brno and 51st The Czech Society of Biomedical Neurophysiological Congress, Srní. It Engineering is the member of International highly co-operated in the IMIA working Medical Informatics Association (IMIA), conference „Statistical Methodology in European Federation for Medical Bioinformatics and Clinical Trials“ held in Informatics (EFMI) and International frame of the International Joint Meeting Federation for Medical and Biological EuroMISE 2004 in Prague, Czech Republic, Engineering (IFMBE). April 12-14, 2004 (www.euromise2004.org). The Society is ruled by the general board The programme committee of the IMIA of eleven elected society members. The confernce was chaired by Casimir A. president of the Czech Society of Kulikowski, USA and Norbert Victor, Biomedical Engineering and Medical Germany. The programme was divided into Informatics is J. Cmíral, the Medical 8 scientific sessions covering topics on Informatics Section is headed by J. Zvárová bioinformatics, bridging hospital informa- (IMIA representative), the Clinical tion systems and clinical trials, microarrays
Jaromir Cmíral, President Engineering Section by V. Grospic and analysis, statistical methods in clinical Biophysics Section by Z. Grossman. research and epidemiology, decision The Czech Society of Biomedical support and data mining, computational Engineering and Medical Informatics has statistics and clinical genetics. The issued the journal „Physician and proceedings of abstracts were published Technology“, edited by J. Zvárová. The (ISBN 80-903431-0-4) and full versions of journal is published bimonthly and basic selected papers will be published in a information about the journal can be found special issue of the journal Methods of at the www address: lat.euromise.cz. Information in Medicine. The medical informatics section of the The Society is the main organizer of the Society has organized the main activities in forthcoming EMBEC’05 - 3rd European the field of medical informatics. Apart from Medical & Biological Engineering Jana Zvárová, IMIA Representative several national seminars held on different Conference, Prague, Czech Republic 20.11.- topics of medical informatics each year, the 25.11.2005.
The interest in medical informatics, or more care network programme (MedCom) has Denmark appropriate - health care informatics - is been made a permanent activity. More increasing in the Danish community. The than 1,5 million health care messages are awareness among health care professionals sent via the network every month. is growing, the topic is clearly on the political (www.health-telematics.dk ) The Ministry agenda, and the marketplace is expanding. of Health is supporting 10 project regarding It is interesting to note, that the Govern- the development of Danish electronic ment has published its IT strategy - where patient records. An increasing number of health care has a very high priority. An hospitals are starting to use electronic agreement has been reached with the health care records. (www.hep.dk) The Counties (which runs the hospitals) for a National Panel for Standardisation of Medical Informatics has published a popular Ole Hejlesen, President strategy and the financing of an expansion of IT use in hospitals. The national health booklet on standardisation of electronic
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health care records the use of Internet in Other meetings have been successfully Denmark (Continued) health care is increasing. The Danish organised on Intranetworking, the Master Medical Association has established a of Information Technology programme at medical intranet and supplies all Danish Aalborg University, Usability seminar, the doctors with free Internet access. Internet patient and The New Danish The Danish Society for Medical Informatics National IT- Strategy etc. In 2000 there will - Dansk Selskab for Medicinsk Informatik be organised conferences and meetings (DSMI) was established in 1966. It is an on EPR, clinical databases, a joint Danish/ independent society with an associated Brasilien Conference, etc. Meetings are status to the Danish Medical Societies. also organised in cooperation with the The aim of the society is to compile and Danish Society for Quality Assurance, the disseminate theoretical and practical Danish National Board of Health and the knowledge in medical informatics, and to Virtual Center for Health Informatics at stimulate research and the use of medical Aalborg University. information systems. The 429 members are The Society is represented in various physicians, nurses and others who work groups, i.e. the Ministry of Health’s with theoretical or practical aspects of advisory group and the Danish Standardi- medical information technologies. sation Committee. The Society publishes a DSMI organises meetings, conferences and newsletter with abstracts of the meetings, courses to pursue the goals of the papers, book reviews, announcements of society.One of the largest efforts for the international conferences and other Society was the organisation of MIE’96 in relevant information. The DSMI homepage Copenhagen. More that 1000 participants is playing a large role in the communication participated in the high quality scientific with the members: www.dsmi.dk Knut Bernstein, IMIA Representative programme and the large exhibition.
The Finnish Social and Health Informatics The activities of the association focus on Finland Association was founded in 1974 and it international relations (IMIA, EFMI and organised the MIE conference in 1985. HUSITA), expanding the membership base, After that the association’s activities and maintaining a web site and an e-mail list decreased and it became dormant by the for information dissemination. The main mid 1990s. event of the association is the annual national Social and Health Care Informatics Since research, education and develop- Research Days (SoTeTiTe- ment projects in health informatics have tutkimuspäivät), the sixth of which will be been increasing strongly in Finland held in May 2003. recently, the association was re-vitalised in May 2000. The scope of the association was expanded to social services informatics Mikko Korpela, IMIA Representative in June 2001.
AIM, the acronym for the Association meetings devoted to medical informatics. France pour les Applications de l’Informatique en AIM is the official representative of France Médecine , was created in 1968. Since its within the IMIA and EFMI boards and beginning, the association has been counts approximately 500 affiliate members. involved in the promotion of computer AIM currently organizes one or two applications in health care through the meetings per year. Proceedings are organization of scientific meetings, publi- published by in the collection “Infor- cations and various educational efforts. matique et Santé” from the Springer-Verlag In the early seventies, AIM was directly (Paris) under the direction of Patrice involved in the organization of the Journées Degoulet and Marius Fieschi - http:// d’Informatique Médicale de Toulouse, www.cybermed.jussieu.fr/Broussais/ which were among the first international InforMed/InfoSante.html) P. Degoulet, IMIA Representative
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The GMDS, Deutsche Gesellschaft für The GMDS issues a national scientific Germany Medizinische Informatik, Biometrie und journal: Biometrie, Informatik und Epide- Epidemiologie (German Association for miologie in Medizin und Biologie (Gustav Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epide- Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart, Eugen Ulmer miology) is the only scientific organization Verlag, Stuttgart). The journal includes a in this field and as such the official national newsletter of the national society. member within EFMI and IMIA. It closely Besides a spring congress on Hospital Infor- cooperates with two professional organiza- mation Systems and some smaller working tions: the Berufsverband Medizinischer conferences, the GMDS annually organizes Informatiker (BVMI) and the Deutsche Ver- one large national meeting with about 700 band Medizinischer Dokumentare (DVMD). to 900 participants. The 2003 GMDS congress The scientific association GMDS was was held in Münster. The 2004 congress will founded in the Fifties and is with more be held in Innsbruck, Austria (Sept. 26th- Herbert Witte, IMIA Representative than 1600 members one of the largest 30th; http://www .gmds2004.de/). All scientific societies in this field in the world. national congresses have been published in The basic structure of the GMDS consists proceedings volumes. of four divisions (medical informatics, As education is a main concern of GMDS medical biometry, epidemiology and it has published a national strategic plan medical documentation), with a wide variety for education in medical informatics as well of working groups. The management board as for medical biometry. The GMDS is also of the GMDS is led by its president (Prof. actively involved in the definition of the Lehmacher, Köln, 2001-2003, Prof. Wich- medical curriculum and of the content of mann, Oberschleißheim, 2003-2005, Dr. CME for physicians and for certified further Zöllner, Stuttgart, 2005-2007). The full struc- professional qualification of medical infor- ture of the GMDS and its work is described maticians, biometricians, epidemiologists H.-Erich Wichmann, President in www.gmds.de. and medical documentalists.
Scope: The Greek Health Informatics Activities: The scientific Greek Health Greece Association aims to evolve and promote Informatics Association (GHIA) the scientific field of Health Informatics. specializes in research, training and Health Informatics is the scientific documentation of Health Informatics in discipline concerned with the systematic terminology, documentation and processing of data, information and standardization. knowledge in health care. Its domain Members: Members of GHIA can become covers computational and informational university graduate individuals who have aspects of processes and structures in a special scientific interest in the evolving health care. Its aim is to study all the and study of Health Informatics. applications of informatics and computer science in Health Sciences (Medicine, Establishment: GHIA first was established John Mantas, President Nursing, Dentistry, Biology, and by a court decision on 1997 and an and IMIA Representative Pharmacy) and health care. amendment was endorsed in 2000.
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The Hong Kong Society of Medical development of medical informatics. Informatics was founded in April 1987 by Hong Kong The most important projects a group of medical practitioners with special undertaken by the Society were the interests in medical informatics and hosting of the series of five Hong Kong computing. It expanded rapidly and now encompasses all workers in the health care Asia-Pacific Medical Informatics information technology industry. In 2002, Conferences since 1990. The Society the Society had more than 300 members. has also acted as the technical organizer in the Medical Informatics Pavilions of The specific objectives of the Society are: various computer exhibitions in Hong 1. To promote applications of computers Kong.We coordinate most of the health and information technology in medi- informatics activities in Hong Kong, cine, and to maintain knowledge on infor- where 95% of the hospitals are being mation science and computer basics for computerized in a single platform health care workers in Hong Kong. serving 6.7 million population. 2. To provide a forum for the exchange of ideas and experience in medical We look forward to a joint effort in Asia computing among its members. Pacific countries to further promote the 3. To hold lectures, seminars, exhibitions standing of Medical Informatics in the and conferences on subjects related to region to a more prominent level in the medical informatics. global scene, and more importantly, to 4. To liaise with overseas medical assist under-developed countries to Chun Por Wong, President informatics organizations, in order to develop and improve the medical and IMIA Representative capture first-hand information on the informatics development in their region.
The Iranian Medical Informatics Associa- Mission Iran tion (IrMIA) is a not-for-profit organization. The mission of the Iranian Medical Infor- It was founded on February 2003 by Dr matics Association is to facilitate continu- Ramin Moghaddam, a pioneer in Iranian ous quality improvement in health through Healthcare Informatics with over a decade advocating and advancing the use of of academic and professional experience advanced information & communication with Medical/ Health Informatics in the technologies throughout the country. country. Goals IrMIA was established in response to the • To be the premier membership and peer need for education and awareness of communication association in Medical/ Medical/Health Informatics as a key to Health Informatics continuous quality improvement in the • Heighten awareness amongst Iranian Health industry. For several years, there healthcare professionals & to also raise had been a growing recognition that a public awareness with respect to professional body specializing in Medical/ Medical/Health Informatics usage in Healthcare Informatics was needed, how- the community health improvement ever, it was necessary to await emergence • Promote Medical/Health Informatics of greater awareness in the Iranian Medical/ as a viable and respected profession in Healthcare Professional Community before the country IrMIA could be established. • To encourage IMIA to establish a new IrMIA, as a burgeoning association, is IMIA Region (MEAMI: Middle East looking forward to joining and working Association for Medical Informatics)in with the IMIA and other professional the Middle East in collaboration with bodies that would offer advice and other regional societies (e.g. Saudi assistance in achieving its goals and Arabia, UAE, Kuwait, etc.) objectives. • To foster enhanced collaboration and Vision establish relationships with relevant The Iranian Medical Informatics organizations world wide Association is the premier professional • To further foster and enhance research, association to advance and advocate the development, and the diffusion and Ramin Moghaddam, use of information & communication dissemination of Medical/Health President and IMIA Representative technologies at every level in the delivery Informatics to solve healthcare issues of healthcare and medical services in Iran. and lend their weight to the continuous IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics 2005 47 Information on IMIA Societies
quality improvement process in the and international arena of Medical/ Iran (Continued) healthcare industry Health Informatics • Engages in holding scientific, technical Objectives and educational forums in the field of • To serve as an authoritative body in Medical/Health Informatics the field of Medical/Health Informatics • Stimulates & collaborates with other and to provide local representation in regional societies to assist IMIA to international-related forums establish a new IMIA Region (MEAMI: • To strengthen and support Medical/ Middle East Association for Medical Health Informatics activities in Iran. It Informatics)in the Middle East. brings together a professional associa- • Provides a medium for the exchange of tion solely devoted to Medical/Health ideas, development of problem-solving Informatics, and will benefit from the skills, and coordinated action with collage of recognized world leaders that respect to Medical/Health Informatics. have made major contributions to field. • Provides a locus for the development • Promote Medical/Health Informatics of native Medical/Health Informatics in undergraduate and postgraduate standards involving collaboration with education recognized international bodies • Assist in the coordination of Medical/ • Provide a locus for the development of Health Informatics-related activities National Health Information Strategy with international organizations and involving collaboration with experts institutes around the world • Plan and conduct domestic scientific, • To serve in an advisory role to the govern- technical, and educational meetings ment, organizations and institutes in a and programs with respect to the project management & consulting role Medical/Health Informatics field • To stimulate, conduct, and sponsor • Help to foster intra-discipline liaisons research into the application & evalua- across the spectrum between those tion of Medical/Health Informatics with involved in the healthcare field and the involvement of world experts
those involved in the field of informa- • Provide world class proposals that will tion & communication technologies serve to attract needed funding for • Distribute educational materials about implementation of national Medical/ the Medical/Health Informatics field Health Informatics projects utilizing international donations targeted for Activities that specific purpose • Represents Iran in both the regional
From 1976 to 1996, Healthcare Health Care Specialist Group was disbanded, Ireland Informatics interests in the Republic of and its functions, assetts and liabilities Ireland were represented by the Health transferred to the new Society, which then Care Specialist Group of the Irish became affiliated to the Irish Computer Society. Computer Society. This group repre- The Healthcare Informatics Society of Ireland sented Ireland at the European Federa- was inaugurated formally at its First Annual tion for Medical Informatics (EFMI) Conference in the Burlington Hotel, Dublin, and the International Medical Infor- on Thursday 10th October 1996. The new matics Association (IMIA). It hosted society incorporates the Healthcare Infor- the European Medical Informatics matics section of the Royal Academy of conference, MIE 82, and was associated Medicine in Ireland. Thus the Healthcare Infor- with the IMIA Working Group 8 matics Society is in a position to build bridges international symposium on Nursing between computer professionals interested Informatics held in Dublin in 1988. in health care, and health care professionals In May 1996 the members of the Health interested in computing, while supporting Care Specialist Group formed a new and embracing the new professionals of health society, the Healthcare Informatics care informatics. There are currently some 270 Society of Ireland (Cumann Ríomheolais members, drawn from information technology, Sláinte), in order to broaden the base of medicine, nursing, other professions allied to membership and increase the range of medicine, education, government and Diarmuid UaConaill, IMIA Representative services offered. By formal agreement industry. with the Irish Computer Society, the 48 IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics 2005 Information on IMIA Societies
The officers of the Society are: of the use of informatics in health care. Ireland (Continued) President: Prof. Jane Grimson, Trinity 2. To promote research and education in College, Dublin. health care informatics. 3. To participate internationally with Chair: Mr. Gerard Hurl, Mater Misericordiae bodies of similar interests. Hospital, Dublin. Secretary: Ms. Ann Sheridan, University In pursuit of the third objective, the College, Dublin. Healthcare Informatics Society of Ireland has been accepted as a member of the Treasurer: Mr. Diarmuid UaConaill, European Federation for Medical Infor- Portmarnock, Co. Dublin. matics, and the International Medical The objectives, as set out in the Informatics Association. Constitution, are: For further information, see our website at: 1. To develop and disseminate knowledge http://www.hisi.ie
The Israeli Association of Medical • Advance cooperation among health Israel Informatics(ILAMI) was established in 1983 professionals in the field of Medical with the following goals: Informatics *Provide fourms for • To promote knowledge of Medical exchange of information and ideas Informatics by organizing scientific and • Present the interest of health professional conferences, seminars professionals in goverment committees courses and exhibitions. and other bodies.
Batami Sadan, President and IMIA Representative
The Italian Association for Medical (c) Correspondent members, including Italy Informatics (AIIM) was founded 1975 to representatives of other Organizations and promote the applications of informatics in Associations having similar aims; the different areas of medicine. (d) Promoter members The objectives of the AIIM are the The President of AIIM and the national dissemination and exchange of information council(10 members), are elected every four on medical informatics, for support patient years by the membership. care, teaching, research and health care administration; to advance international At present, AIIM organize a National cooperation in medical informatics; to Congress every two years, and annually promote medical informatics education and other meetings and workshops on specific to organize courses for health services topics. The previous AIIM National personnel. Congresses have been held in Parma (1977), Catania (1985), Firenze (1988), Como (1989), AIIM is a Member of the European Cassino (1990), Catania (1991), Genova Federation for Medical Informatics (1992), Roma (1994), Venezia (1996), (EFMI)and the International Medical Taranto(1998) and Padova (2001). In 2003 Informatics Association (IMIA). hosted the European Federation of Medical The Membership categories are: Informatic Special Topic Conference. (a) Regular members including physicians, AIIM organized in Rome the Seventh nurses, dentists, teachers, researchers, European Congress on Medical Informatics biomedical engineers, health services (MIE 1987)- about 1,000 participants administrators, other health care coming from 32 countries all over the world professionals who have a strong interest in took part in the Congress. medical informatics; Cristina Mazzoleni, President and IMIA (b) Honorary members: very important The proceedings of the national Representative persons in the field of medical informatics; congresses published by AIIM are an IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics 2005 49 Information on IMIA Societies
important source of information for the approved during the national Congress in Italy (Continued) knowledge of medical informatics progress Venice(1996) with the participation of in Italy. representatives of governmental and military health organizations, health AIIM cooperates with governmental and professionals and scientific associa- not governmental Authorities as an adviser tions,researchers, telecommunication and in the field of medical informatics. information technology companies and Guidelines on Telemedicine and Telematics industries, national research council, and in Health Care and on Health Cards, were citizen’s associations.
Activities of the Japan Association for Informatics“ was held on November 22-24 Japan Medical Informatics (JAMI) are mainly at Makuhari city. The chairperson of the performed through 5 commitees and 15 organization committee was Mr. Ken research groups supported by 2,350 Toyoda, BearingPoint. The main theme members. was „IT that supports HealthCare - Think about the origin of Medical Informatics“. The new president of JAMI, Dr. Hiroshi More than 2,200 members participated and Tanaka, Professor of Tokyo Medical and about 500 papers were presented. Dental University was elected Nov. 2003. The 5th China-Japan-Korea Joint Six issues of „Iryo Jouhou Gaku“ (Japan Symposium on Medical Informatics was Journal of Medical Informatics), the official held with APAMI & KOSMI Conference journal of JAMI, have been published in 2003 on October 20-22 in Daegu, Korea. Hiroshi Tanaka, President 2004 (Volume 24). Included are two supplements for „The JAMI Symposium“ The 24rd Joint Conference on Medical and „The 24nd Joint Conference on Medical Informatics will be held in conjunction with Informatics“. The 6th China-Japan-Korea Joint Symposium on Medical Informatics at
The „JAMI Symposium 04“ entitled Nagoya city on November 26-28, 2002. The „Development of Local Area Networks for chairperson of the organization committee Medical care based on EMR: from Patient’s is Pro. Kazunobu Yamauchi, Nagoya View Point“ was held at Mielparque in University. Hiroshima city on June 10 and 11. There For more information about JAMI, contact were 480 attendees. to [email protected] or the home page Ken Toyoda, IMIA Representative „The 23nd Joint Conference on Medical of JAMI (http://jami.umin.ac.jp/).
MEDICAL PHARMACEUTICAL INFOR- The need for such association was due to Kazakstan MATION ASSOCIATION MedPharmInfo an absolute necessity of an operational is a non-governmental, voluntary, non- and professional information for specialists commercial public organization registered engaged in various healthcare organiza- in the Republic of Kazakhstan in tions. First and foremost, this provides an accordance with the effective laws. opportunity to obtain the full code of laws and standard Acts, regulating public Background: healthcare activity, production and supply MedPharmInfo Association (medical - of medicines and medical products etc. In pharmaceutical information) was the course of professional activities medical established in March, 2000 on the basis of men quite often search for specialized The Information Center and Institute of information covering different fields of Standardization, Metrology and medical sciences as well as practical issues. Certification jointly with an inquiry- Population lacks accessible sources of information bureau under private company popular information as to preventive ZdravTechStandard. Besides mentioned methods, diseases, treatment and so forth. organizations founders of the Association The list of problems can be extended further. include several non-governmental medical Taking into account the aforesaid grounds, Azat Abdrakmanov, President centers, pharmaceutical companies, founders of the Association set a goal to educational and scientific institutions. create a public organization uniting all the
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concerned medical and pharmaceutical large pharmaceutical companies in Almaty, Kazakstan organizations, scientific institutions, Astana, Aktyubinsk, Atyrau, Karagandy, (Continued) chemists, institutes of higher education Kokshetau, Kostanai, Pavlodar, and colleges, industrial enterprises etc., Petropavlovsk, Semipalatinsk, Taraz, Ust- which are in need of access to contemporary Kamenogorsk, Shymkent. information technologies. The Association The Center’s information database has initiated the creation of a large specialized been updated every day. Electronic informational center, which already versions of any information are available at comprises highly qualified specialists the first request. Analytical data as to the (doctors, pharmacists, marketing and population’s requests allow obtaining extra information experts, computer program- information on the demand for certain mers, electronics engineer etc.). medications. Modern material and logistic support is For the first time in Kazakhstan The Center being created, new communication and is publishing information materials on technological solutions are in the process diverse healthcare issues in the Internet - of implementation. This Center is meant for on the website http://www.med.kz, which a large-scale information support in the enlarges possibilities of the users to get field of healthcare in Kazakhstan, medical necessary information such as code of achievements and rendering various laws and standards Acts on pharmaceutical information to both specialists and vast and medical undertakings in the Republic population strata. of Kazakhstan; medical equipment Activities: producers and manufacturers; wholesale pharmaceutical companies; pharmacists in In the sake of the users large marketing and Almaty; medicines registered in analytical research of the pharmaceutical Kazakhstan, wholesale and retail prices; market is being conducted in Kazakhstan, international conferences and exhibitions, wholesale and retail prices for medications and many other aspects. and medical equipment are being
monitored. The Center has developed Since August 2000 there was launched a unique schemes for gathering and process- project „Telemedicine in Kazakhstan“ http:/ ing of information concerning wholesale /www.tele.med.kz, within which framework and retail pricing in Almaty and other the Association started to implement regions of Kazakhstan. educational projects - monthly seminars Contemporary Internet technologies in the A free of charge round-the-clock phone healthcare sphere (for free), and quarterly inquiry office Medicines and Medical 3-day computer courses for medical Services is successfully working under the specialists. jurisdiction of the Association. Every month more than 70000 citizens use its The Association is intended to widen up services by multi-line telephone (3272) 50- its services in the future for local and 50-60. This number is constantly growing. foreign organizations. It’s planned to establish international co-operation in The Center regularly publishes information informational support for the healthcare bulletins: „Wholesale Prices for Medicines system. in Almaty, Kokshetau, Karagandy, Petropavlovsk and Shymkent“(twice a Conferences: month), „Average Retail Process for Medicines in Almaty City» (monthly), and Conferences and meetings are being held „Cost of Medical Services in Almaty“ (at on the regular basis. Conference request). The bulletins are being Achievements of Internet Technologies in distributed at pharmacists and clinics, in Healthcare was arranged.
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The Korean Society of Medical Informatics as the first formal graduate study program (KOSMI) was founded in 1987 with a spe- in College of Nursing, Seoul National Uni- Korea cific aim to promote and collaborate versity. multidisciplinary specialties in medicine With the continuing efforts of KOSMI, the and health care. For the last 17 years, the Korean Society of Medical Education rec- research activities in medical informatics ognizes the suggestions of the Medical are rapidly increasing to become a major School Objectives Project by American focus of the medical community. Domestic Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC). KOSMI conferences have been carried out Also, the medical informatics curriculum biannually. Due to the increasing number set out by IMIA WG1 is highly recom- of paper submissions, biannual publica- mended to be included in the regular medi- tion of the Journal of KOSMI has been cal school course work. Although medical promoted to quarterly. education in Korea is in transition, the role During the 1990s, tremendous efforts were of medical informatics should include more put into the development and implementa- than computer literacy to play a critical role tion of hospital information systems for in the medical education reform. major hospitals, and a great amount of Standardization is another major thrust in funding support was provided simulta- medical informatics. Due to rapid prolifera- neously. As a result, Korea is probably tion of computer technology in both hos- regarded as one the most well-informatized pitals and medical practices throughout country in the globe at the present time. the world, system developers became aware Network infrastructure is established of the significance of information stan- enough to support not only electronic dards in healthcare networking. In this commerce in general but also small busi- regard, the Health Informatics Standard- ness units such as the PC chamber (or PC- ization Committee was formed in KOSMI in bang in Korean). 1999 in order to participate in the interna- Ubiquitous computing based on wireless tional standardization (ISO TC215, Health
technology is another new fad in healthcare Informatics) activities. The Standardiza- settings. As applications of e-Commerce tion Committee in KOSMI plays a central appear to be in its continuous expansion, e- role in several government agencies: Ko- Health (and/or u-Health) is expected to settle rean Agency for Technology and Stan- in seamlessly in the foreseeable future. dards (KATS), the Ministry of Commerce, In addition to clinical applications of medi- Industry and Energy (MOCIE), Korea cal informatics, two major topics of medical Health Industry Development Institute informatics are of interest: education and (KHIDI), Ministry of Health and Welfare standardization. (MOHW), and Ministry of Communica- tion (MOC), just to name a few. Recently, There are 41 medical schools (including 10 an ambitious project has been on-going in national universities)in Korea, and most an effort to develop a national information schools are now considering education infrastructure to exchange and share clini- reform. Because patient needs are con- cal information among healthcare inst stantly on the rise, lecture based medical education methods are found to be ineffi- Because of successful progress and imple- cient as societal and clinical environmental mentation of health informatics standard- Yun Sik Kwak, President changes pervade. MEDINFO ’98 in Seoul ization, we are not surprised to find that was found to provide great momentum for Professor Yun Sik Kwak, the President of promoting medical informatics in many KOSMI, has been appointed to take posi- respects in Korea. Medical education for tion of the Chair of ISO/TC215 Health example, the first academic department of Informatics during 2003-2006. medical informatics was inaugurated at All members of KOSMI are determined to Kyungpook National University School of accomplish multidisciplinary objectives Medicine in 1999. Medical informatics has that we all face up to now, and we have no been gradually recognized as a standard doubt that the spirit of KOSMI will con- curriculum in many medical schools. Re- tinue and prosper. cently, nursing informatics was launched Hune Cho, IMIA Representative
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The Malaysian Health Informatics enhancing local IT development in Malaysia Association (MHIA) is a nonprofit organi- healthcare through participations in zation registered with the Registrar of international conferences, meetings and Societies under Societies Act 1966 of paper presentations. Malaysia. (Registration Number: 2575/96, MHIA plays a pivotal role in educating, W.P.) promoting IT concepts and adoptions, and MHIA is an association consisting of business development of the e-Health healthcare and IT professionals, market in Malaysia. It also provides a institutions, and corporations dedicated platform for health informatics to enhancing the development and professionals and other interested parties/ innovation of health informatics, and individuals to interact and collaborate to Abu Bakar Suleiman, President increasing the utilization of Information advance their mutual interests and Technology to improve Malaysian knowledge through MHIA organized healthcare services and outcomes. conferences, workshops and meetings. MHIA is the official Malaysian MHIA also serves an advisory role to representative to the International Medical Malaysian healthcare stakeholders in the Informatics Association (IMIA) and Asia adoption, policy development, innovation Pacific Association for Medical Informatics in health informatics and e-Health. (APAMI). MHIA collaborates with inter- URL: www.ehealth.org.my national health informatics organizations, HM Goh, IMIA Representative authorities and academic institutions in Email: [email protected]
The goal of the VMBI, the Dutch Society the center of the country, most of them in The Netherlands for Health Care Informatics,is to promote the late afternoon / early evening, annual research, development, and applications two-day Conferences (called MIC, Medical in medicine and health care, and in the Informatics Conference), together with the biological sciences. The Society is a meeting Belgian Society for Medical Informatics place for people in medical informatics in MIM, where about 600 people meet around the broadest sense, i.e. physicians, nurses, lectures, workshops and a large exhibition, informaticians, physicists, hospital this conference is alternately held in The administrators, and health care managers. Netherlands and Belgium. The VMBI publishes an electronic magazine called All hospitals in The Netherlands have I&Z (Informatie & Zorg, in english: systems installed to support administration, Information & Care). communication and patiënt care. In primary care, over 95% of GPs, all retail pharmacists, Over the past years, several IMIA Working dentists, and the majority of physio- Conferences have been organized in The therapists have systems in use. An Netherlands on subjects such as increasing number of systems are Telematics in Health Care, Hospital interconnected by EDI and networks. Information Systems, Electronic Patient Development of computer-based patient Records in Medical Practice and Software records has much attention in R&D Engineering in Health Care. institutions. The Dutch professional In 2006 the VMBI will be hosting the medical societies play a major role in the Medical Informatics Europe (MIE) promotion of information systems in conference. healthcare. The VMBI developed a strategy to Most universities offer some training in reinforce the relationships with medical informatics as part of the curriculum. professional medical societies and to This dynamic activity is a very healthy increase its membership of practicing environment for the VMBI. physicians. A working group has been The activities of the VMBI include meetings established to develop concrete plans to (lectures, demonstrations) in Utrecht, in widen the scope of the Society. Johan van der Lei, President and IMIA Representative
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Vision Goal 1 To promote the development and sharing New Zealand Health Informatics New Zealand (HINZ) of health informatics knowledge seeks to facilitate improved health care outcomes through the dissemination and Goal 2 utilisation of information, knowledge and To influence Information Management & technology. Technology policy (development and implementation) at organisational, regional, Mission national and international levels To foster throughout New Zealand the Goal 3 development of knowledge and the To represent NZ and collaborate with utilisation of Informatics within all areas of international organisations clinical practice, education, and the provision of healthcare in general. Benefits for our members: Goals - Secure members-only website with The HINZ Executive committee through enriched information on news, consultation with our members has resources, current projects, and identified three key goals for our adminstrative information organisation. Each goal has a set of - Quarterly seminars expanding the objectives and action points, which enables knowledge of health informatics our organisation to obtain and maintain our - Annual conference inviting national purpose and service our members. These and international speakers to showcase goals are dynamic representation of our local and global initiatives organisation purpose and will evolve over - Regular forums to share knowldege time to reflect our changing internal and and information on health informatics Kannan Subramaniam, external environments. - Financial assistance to attend relevant IMIA Representative conferences, workshops or seminars.
The Norwegian Society for Medical institutional members. Most of the Norway Informatics - Forum for Databehandling i individual members are health care workers Helsesektoren (FDH) was established in FDH organizes meetings, seminars and 1972 as a special interest group of The courses to share knowledge and Norwegian Informatics Society - Den information with the members as well as to Norske Dataforening (DND). Since 1989 promote involvement of medical informatics FDH has been an independent society in the Norwegian health care system. with primary interest in medical informatics and an associated status to DND. FDH has FDH arranges seminars and meetings a long-established membership in EFMI regularly on topics like EPR, Data Security, and IMIA. Trusted Third Parties, Legal Issues and Healthcare Legislation, Healthcare Politics. The society has both individual and Karl Øyri, President
Irma Iversen, IMIA Representative
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The Philippine Medical Informatics The PMIS is a strong partner in the Philippines Society is an acknowledged proponent of Standards for Health Information in the open source development for health. Philippines project as well as the Realizing the public health is for the public BuddyWorks Telehealth Project and the good, it maintains that all health upcoming Philippine National Health applications must be open to peer review Information Infrastructure. The Society’s and analysis. Among the activities it has bias is for the deployment of health offered through its eight years were infromation systems in support of national lectures from international medical development and poverty alleviation informatics experts, seminars on use of through the full implementation of the online bibiliographic databases, handheld Primary Healthcare Approach. Among the devices, electronic health records, and benficiaries of its technical seminars are security of electronic health information. community health workers, government midwives, and private practitioners.
The Romanian Society for Medical meetings Romania Informatics, RSMI, is a scientific, - collaboration with Romanian Academy professional, non-governmental organiza- and the Academy of Medical Sciences tion aimed to promote the activities in the in medical informatics research; development of medical informatics in - collaboration with medical universities Romania and to represent the activities in in developing education and training the country and abroad. in medical informatics. RSMI was founded in 1990 and has now Romania was represented as a cor- over 120 members: physicians, computer responding member in IMIA since 1986 scientists, engineers, mathematicians and and RSMI has become a full member in other professionals working in the field of 1994, having now representatives in several medical informatics. It continues the active working groups of IMIA and EFMI.
tradition of a group of specialists who In the same year 1994 RSMI also joined started to work in this field in 1977. EFMI. The activities of RSMI concern stimulation RSMI members serve in several profes- and co-ordination of the activities of its sional and scientific committees and also members in promoting medical informatics in various expert groups of the Ministry of in the country and to support international Health and the Ministry of Education. RSMI co-operation in this field, which implies: president was recently elected as EFMI vice-president. RSMI is an institutional - organizing scientific and professional member of „Prorec Romania“, a national conferences, symposia, courses and society promoting implementation of EHR exhibitions and collaboration in such in Romania. activities with related organizations; During 2004 RSMI members participated in - publication of scientific, professional two major international events: STC2004 in and educational documents and papers Muenchen and MEDINFO 2004 in San in the field of medical informatics; Francisco. - dissemination of information about conferences, publications and links to At a national scale RSMI kept the tradition websites web sites on medical and of yearly conferences, The 27th Confer- health informatics ence, organized in co-operation with the - promoting scientific and professional University of Medicine and Pharmacy in contacts with similar societies at the Targu-Mures took place in October 14-16, international level; 2004. The 2006 event will be organized in George I. Mihalas, President and - active involvement to support Timisoara, April 5-8, as a joint conference IMIA Representative scientists to attend international with EFMI: 2006 Special Topic Conference.
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The Association for Medical and Bio- and healthcare delivery organisations are Singapore Informatics, Singapore (AMBIS) is an not exempted. organisation that promotes excellence in AMBIS is at the forefront of such activities Medical and Bio-Informatics and advances and is best positioned to initiate projects in the development of this exciting discipline these areas. Some of the past achievements in Singapore. Previously, AMBIS was of AMBIS (when it was known as AIMS) known as the Association for Informatics include the successful MEDINFO in Medicine, Singapore (AIMS). In 2003, it conference, the pioneering initiation of was unanimously agreed that AIMS should Medical Websites in Singapore, and be expanded into informatics in the life achieving world’s firsts in this area, as well science, ie. both Medical and Bio Infor- as initiating the formation of the Asia Pacific matics. Today, there is a tremendous need Association for Medical Informatics for all organisations to understand how APAMI by our illustrious past president, new technologies such as the Internet are Professor KC Lun. Our future initiatives KC Lun, IMIA Representative revolutionising the way they operate. The include the forthcoming Asia Pacific practice of medicine, life science research Telemedicine consortium initiative.
[The following regards only the Medical In addition to these, diverse smaller or Slovak Republic Informatics branch of the Society] small scale (local) seminars are held in frame of various establishments or as Annually 2-3 larger scale country-wide accompanying sessions of more general events organized: professional events, e.g. regular seminars · Conference on Hospital Information held at the · Institute of Medical Physics Systems NIS-’200x - addressing and Biophysics, Medical Faculty, professionals from application domain, Comenius University, · Institute of as well as vendors Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics, ·‘On Current Issues in Medical and Physics, and Informatics, Comenius Healthcare Informatics and their University, · Faculty of Electrical implementations,’ addressing Engineering and Informatics, Slovak Peter Kneppo, President managerial personnel in the country’s Technical University. · Annual Slovak and healthcare establishments Czech conference on Artificial Intelligence · Workshop on Developments in and Cognitive Science, Medical Informatics - an accompanying event held in the frame of the The Society’s steering board meets 3-4 SLOVMEDICA exhibition times in a year (i.e. approx. quarterly).
Mikulas Popper, IMIA Representative
The South African Health Informatics · Stimulating appropriate conditions of South Africa Association (SAHIA) was formed to service for Health Informaticians promote the professional application of · Participating in the definition of Health Informatics in South Africa. standards of education and profes- The goals of the organisation include: sionalism of Health Informatics at - to represent South African Health Infor- Universities, Schools of Public Health matics nationally and internationally; and Technikons - to stimulate the advancement of Health · Promoting human resource develop- Informatics in South Africa; ment in Health Informatics - to promote and uphold the status of the · Promoting the use of Health Informatics Health Informatics profession by in the planning and delivery ofhealth · Striving for the recognition of Health services Informatics as a specialty registrable · Promoting the interests of IMIA in with the Health Professions Council of South Africa; John D. Tresling, President South Africa - to promote the interests of members.
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The Spanish Society of Health Informatics on Health Informatics that, in a annual Spain is a non-profit scientific society, build up basis, has had six editions until date. In in 1976 and joining today more than five addition to this general congress hundred professionals, technicians or (INFORSALUD), the society organises health scientists with interest in the more specific congresses targeted to promotion of the use of Information and professional sectors (Pharmacy and Communication Technologies in the health Informatics, Medical Informatics, Nursery sector. In this way it arises as a common and Informatics, Bioinformatics)or debate forum for the professionals of technological aspects (Internet in Health, medicine, informatics, pharmacy, nursery, medical data protection, ...). biology, and all the other Health Sciences, SEIS periodically publishes technical as well as for the students of any related reports on several aspects related to career. applications of IT in Healthcare and a Among the multiple activities and projects bimonthly journal (I+S) (Informatica y Fernando Martin-Sanchez, developed by the society in the recent Salud). IMIA Representative years, outstands the National Congress
The Swedish Federation for Medical Our main objective is to create a platform Sweden Informatics is an association of persons for discussion and information exchange with an interest in issues of medical in the Medical Informatics field. We arrange informatics. Anyone working in health care an annual Conference „IT in Health Care“ and dental care is welcome as a member and a scientific seminar at the annual regardless of profession. The Federation general meeting for doctors. is also a section of The Swedish Society of Medicine founded in 1807;the oldest organisation for the medical profession in
Europe.
Rolf E. Nikula, IMIA Representative
A Short Presentation of the Swiss Society Swiss informatics Societies being the Swiss Switzerland for Medical Informatics national society and a member of IFIP. Before February, 1985, the date of the Naturally, the SSMI became an IMIA and creation of the Swiss Society for Medical EFMI member, within the Swiss IFIP Informatics (SSMI), most of the medical Chapter, and the former place of TC4 activities related to the application of (Technical Committee 4) is held by the computer sciences, were held within the IMIA representative delegated by the Swiss Society for Biomedical Engineering SSMI. It follows that our IMIA national where, as expected, most of the profes- society is associated with all the other sionals were engineers. The SSMI, on the computer science activities handled by the contrary, has been set up and led, since its IFIP special interest groups as well as its creation, by a majority of health-care technical committees. professionals: physicians as well as nurses. More information on the society and its Already from its first year the SSMI became various activities can be found on its Antoine Geissbühler, a member of the Swiss Federation for website: http://www.sgmi-ssim.ch IMIA Representative Informatics, which regroups all the other
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TURKMIA is a nonprofit membership health and medical informatics, organize Turkey organization, dedicated to guiding meetings and publish materials to shape development and organisation of health public opinion. and medical informatics in Turkey. - to inform, sensitize and stimulate the TURKMIA was founded in 1999 in Ankara. decision making and administrating It organized First Medical Informatics people and organizations about the Symposium in November 1999. issues related to medical informatics. Aims of TURKMIA include: Activities of TURKMIA: - to collect, process and distribute - TURKMIA started SBS 2000 (Health information about the activities related Information Strategies of Turkey in the to health and medical informatics of New Millenium) project in June 2000 by companies, governmental and non- a meeting in Ankara. Preliminary reports governmental organizations. of the study groups was discussed in - to stimulate all the professionals related the First Congress of Medical to health and medical informatics to Informatics which was held in 28-29th reach the contemporary level of April 2001 in Istanbul. Final reports knowledge and skills, prepare the were collected in a book. This book background for communication and have been presented to the interaction between the professionals governmental and civil organizations, in the field, promote multidisciplinary healthcare institutions, professional study. associations, commercial companies - to determine the problems related to and non governmental organizations health and medical informatics domain which are active in the healthcare sector in Turkey, suggest solutions to these in order to establish the health problems, collaborate with other information vision, goals, strategy and organizations to realize the projects, politics of Turkey announce the results of the projects or - TURKMIA organizes regular meetings
applications. in Turkey, to bring together people - to enhance the knowledge of health responsible of and/or interested in Hakan Gülkesen, IMIA Representative care providers and demanders about health information systems.
The British Computer Society Health Group: London United Kingdom Informatics Committee (BCS HIC) is the - BCS Health Informatics Specialist leading voice in the UK, through its own Group: North East activities and those of its constituent - BCS Health Informatics Specialist specialist and liaison groups, regarding Group: Northern informatics to support health. The British - BCS Health Informatics Specialist Computer Society (BCS), through HIC, is Group: Scotland also the internationally recognised body - BCS Health Informatics Specialist for health informatics in the UK. BCS HIC Group: South West acts as co-ordinator of the activities of the The formation of other groups covering BCS Health Informatics Spcialist Groups aspects of, or clinical groups within, health (SGs) and is responsible for developing informatics, including Allied Health and proposing new SGs when relevant. It Professions, is under active exploration. provides funding for special activities of ASSIST (the Association of ICT the SGs and funds for SG members to do Professionals in Health and Social Care) pieces of work and to participate in are in the process of joining the BCS as a accredited international conferences. specialist group, bringing an additional Currently BCS HIC is an umbrella body for 2,000 members, many of whom work seven established health SGs: directly in information management in the - BCS Health Informatics Specialist National Health Service (NHS) in the UK. Group: Nursing This process will consolidate the - BCS Health Informatics Specialist development of a Health Informatics Group: Primary Care Forum within BCS, and a higher profile for Peter Murray, IMIA Representative - BCS Health Informatics Specialist health informatics.
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In addition to informatics professionals Other specific activities of HIC currently United Kingdom working within healthcare delivery and include: (Continued) research, HIC represents clinical profes- - the publication of Ethics Guidance for sionals and health managers with a Health Informaticians; significant interest and involvement in - workshops considering how the informatics to support health. HIC works in Department of Health (DoH) strategies conjunction with over 40 Liaison Groups can be achieved; who attend HIC as observers. These - commenting on all major reports, constitute all the major organisations con- consultations and proposals from cerned with healthcare IT across the UK. government in health and other HIC, which has been established for over pertinent areas; 30 years, has a threefold role: - liaison with senior members of the - to assist its constituent groups; Department of Health and NHS, and - to act for the BCS in all aspects of health latterly the Department of Social and healthcare matters; and Services; and - to run its own activities. - working with the NHS, the Medical Royal Colleges, nursing professional HIC has collective objectives addressing: bodies, NHS IT organisations and other - the provision of a focus and point of bodies towards developing health contact for health informatics for and informatics professionalism in the UK. about the UK, both nationally and, increasingly, on an international basis. Through the BCS, HIC appoints the UK The coalition of relevant bodies for the representatives to relevant international purpose of exchanging ideas, health informatics bodies, including the promoting developments, maximising International Medical Informatics synergy and co-ordinating efforts; Association (IMIA) and the European - the effective dissemination of the Federation of Medical Informatics (EFMI). message of sound principles and good The current representatives are Dr Peter J.
practice in health informatics; Murray at IMIA and Dr.Helen Betts at - the submission of informed comment EFMI. on topical issues and major initiatives; In keeping with HIC’s role of acting for the and BCS on healthcare matters, it has recently - the facilitation of communication of provided expert opinion and commentary UK activity in health informatics on a on important issues affecting health wider basis. informatics and the health services in the The most important of HIC’s activities is UK. Among recent activities, HIC has the management of an annual conference commented on reports commissioned by and exhibition (and contribution to similar the chancellor of the Exchequer to help focused specialist group events) as a inform the Government’s Spending recognised national forum for these objec- reviews. HIC has also been involved in tives. The annual Healthcare Computing evaluating the proposals for the NHS (HC) Congress, is the largest such event University, commenting on Government in Europe, attracting over 1200 conference policy on open source software, and in attendees and approaching 5,000 commenting on major policy initiatives in exhibition visitors. It is held annually in the National Health Service, such as the March in Harrogate; the twenty second National Programme for IT (NPfIT). event will be held on 21-23 March 2005. HIC also has an established series of Each of the HC conferences results in a thinktank meetings (held since 2002) on book (or recently CD-ROM) of innovative ways to move forward proceedings, carrying the full text of all the informatics in support of health, the ‘Radical papers presented. HIC has also published Steps’ series. After an invited workshop or a series of books on a range of topics in the thinktank meeting, involving from a few field of health informatics. The Specialist dozen to several hundred attendees, wide Groups also organise their own consultation has been invited on key conferences and meetings, details of which themes such as confidentiality, information can be found on their own websites or governance, implementation management, through the HIC website. standards, procurement, partnership with
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industry, ensuring capacity and Technology (IT). BCS holds a Royal Charter United Kingdom coordinating change. This model has been (Information Science) and has over 40,000 (Continued) expanded to thinktank forums on other members world-wide, with approx. 5,000 of issues, including open source software them involved in the health domain. With and health informatics education. Full members in over 100 countries around the reports on these events and all consultation world, the BCS is the leading professional response documents are available through and Learned Society in the field of the HIC website. computers and information systems. HIC is involved in leading the creation of The BCS exists to provide service and an umbrella organisation to bring together support to the IT community, including IT existing professional bodies and interest practitioners and employers of IT groups and develop a register of practitioners. The Society also acts to professionals who are ‘fit to practice’ health generate public awareness and informatics through the establishment of appreciation of the concomitant social and the UK Council for Health Informatics economic benefits IT. The BCS was formed Professions (UKCHIP - www.ukchip.org).. to establish and maintain appropriate Partnership working has established standards of education and experience for voluntary registration and regulation persons engaged in the profession or processes, with the parallel requirements practice of IT and computing or those for continuing professional development entering upon courses of study in (CPD), a Code of Conduct, and procedures computing and allied subjects. for removal from the register. Full and latest information on HIC and the The British Computer Society BCS Health Informatics Specialist Groups (www.bcs.org.uk) is the industry body for is available through the website: IT professionals, and a Chartered www.bcshic.org Engineering Institution for Information
Leaders shaping the future of health dees participate in the Annual Symposium United States of information technology. featuring scientific paper presentations, panel discussions, tutorials, workshops, The American Medical Informatics system demonstrations, posters and com- America Association (AMIA) was incorporated in mercial product exhibits.The Proceedings the District of Columbia in 1988 following of the Annual Symposium reflects the body more than a year of discussions among the of work that is accomplished each year in boards of directors of the American medical informatics in the United States Association for Medical Systems and and abroad and is indexed by the National Informatics, the American College of Library of Medicine. Medical Informatics, and the Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care The American Association for Medical (SCAMC). It brings together a professional Systems and Informatics (AAMSI) was association solely devoted to medical formed in 1981 through a merger of the informatics, the organization responsible Society for Computer Medicine and the for the major annual meeting in the field, Society for Advanced Medical Systems. and the College of recognized leaders who This union of two organizations with nearly have made major contributions to the field. 500 members each resulted in the largest membership society in the country at that The oldest of the three organizations was time, with a principal interest in the the Symposium on Computer Applications advancement of medical informatics. A in Medical Care. The Symposium was first tradition was established of a spring conducted in 1977 as a regional effort in the meeting held annually on the West Coast, Washington-Baltimore area. Two years known as the AAMSI Spring Congress. later, SCAMC expanded its horizon, and quickly grew to a meeting attracting more In response to a perceived need for the than 2,000 participants. The name of the recognition of experts and leaders in the meeting was eventually changed to the medical informatics field, the American Nancy Lorenzi, IMIA Representative AMIA Annual Symposium. Now over 100 College of Medical Informatics was organizations/companies and 2,000+ atten- established in 1985. Candidates are 60 IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics 2005 Information on IMIA Societies
proposed by the Fellows and elected by necessary, suitable, and proper for the United States of America mail ballot. ACMI meets three times each fulfillment of the Association’s (Continued) year, which includes an ACMI Symposium charitable, scientific, literary and and meetings held in conjunction with the educational purposes. AMIA Annual Symposium and the AMIA These objectives are accomplished Spring Congress. through a variety of activities and services By 1987 it had become clear that the that AMIA offers: leadership of the three organizations created - Holding scientific, technical and an interlocking directorate. It appeared to educational meetings; many that the interests of the organizations - Publishing and disseminating white and of the field would best be served by a papers, reports, digests, proceedings merger. Early in 1988 representatives of the and other pertinent documents and three organization began meeting and in contributing to the professional November, 1988 they formed the American literature; Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), - Publishing the Journal of the American a society that can speak with one voice to Medical Informatics Association the United States and to the international (JAMIA) - the top journal in medical medical informatics community. informatics; - Sponsoring professional interest Purpose Working Groups (WGs); The purpose of AMIA is to advance the - Representing the United States in the public interest through charitable, international arena of informatics and scientific, literary and educational activities health information technology; and by promoting the development and - Advising and coordinating matters of application of medical informatics in the mutual interest to its members. support of patient care, teaching, research The American Medical Informatics and health care administration. Association (AMIA) appointed Don E.
AMIA shapes the future of health Detmer, MD, MA to serve as the President information technology by: and Chief Executive Officer for the - Serving as the integrating force in the association. At the time of the publication field of medical informatics through of this Yearbook, AMIA was working on a which the country creates and manages strategic vision to be released in 2005. the science and knowledge base of Membership Categories health care; - Providing expert counsel to leaders in - Regular Member: AMIA’s regular government and industry; membership is for any individual - Educating the next generation of interested in medical informatics from informatics leaders; research, development, or applied per- - Supporting the development of spective. AMIA’s members span a international informatics standards; wide spectrum of health care profes- - Disseminating information about sionals and include physicians, nurses, current innovations and innovators in dentists, biomedical engineers, health information; computer scientists, systems develop- - Linking developers and users of health ers and analysts, educators, research- information technology; ers, medical librarians, and others. - Hosting the world’s most compre- Regular members receive JAMIA (both hensive annual conference on medical print and on-line versions), AMIA informatics - the AMIA Annual ePublications, AMIA Yearbook & Symposium; Directory and the IMIA Yearbook of - Publishing and distributing educational Medical Informatics at no extra charge. materials through various media; Regular members also receive - Coordinating medical informatics membership in any of AMIA’s working activities with other national and groups as part of their membership fee. international organizations to advance Discounts for AMIA Annual the public’s interest; and Symposium, and Spring Congress - Carrying on other activities as are apply, as well as the opportunity for
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special discounts on other publications Member Services United States of America and meetings throughout the year. Membership in AMIA provides a means of $250/year (Continued) staying abreast of the rapid changes in - Institutional Member: AMIA’s medical systems and informatics, and is institutional membership is designed open to anyone with interest in the field. for non-profit organizations that have AMIA offers a growing array of services members, departments, faculty, or staffs designed to meet professional needs: with an interest in health care infor- - Web Site: AMIA’s Web site is a matics. Institutional members of AMIA comprehensive resource for medical include hospitals, other clinical informatics. It provides valuable infor- settings, colleges and universities, mation to members and prospective libraries, and associations. All regular members about the association, but member benefits apply for one indivi- also contains current, relevant dual designated as the AMIA contact information about academic and training person. Additional benefits include programs, conferences, public policy JAMIA on-line access for the institu- initiatives, news and developments in tion, conference publications and the field, current research and white promotional opportunities offering papers, and grant information. Be sure support and exposure. $450/year to visit the site at www.amia.org. - Corporate Member: For-profit corpora- - Meetings & Conferences: AMIA holds tions that are supporters of the medical two major meetings each year, the informatics community. Numerous AMIA Spring Congress and the AMIA corporate membership benefits apply Annual Symposium usually held in late at the four levels of membership-bronze, October or early November. The AMIA silver, gold, and platinum. Corporate 2005 Spring Congress will be held in members have representatives that Boston, MA April 11-13, 2005 on the receive all the benefits of regular topic: Best practices for Ambulatory members plus additional advertising Care Provider Order Entry and and sponsorship opportunities. $1,500, Population Management with $3,500, $7,500 or $12,500/year Electronic Health Records: Maximizing - Retired Member: Retirees at least 65 the Value of Electronic Health Record years of age who have been members Investments. AMIA will be hosting its of AMA for the past two years or Annual Symposium in Washington, longer. All benefits of regular DC, October 22-26, 2005. The title of the membership apply. $100/year meeting is Biomedical and Health - Student Member: Full-time under- Informatics: From Foundations to graduate students, graduate students, Applications, to Policy. medical residents, and post-doctoral - Working Group Program: AMIA fellows. A certified letter attesting to members are encouraged to join and the student’s full time status at an participate in the association’s working academic institution is required along groups. The working groups conduct with membership application. JAMIA programs and activities and produce is not included in student membership products to benefit AMIA and the fees, but students may subscribe at a medical informatics community. special rate of $45 for a year’s sub- Working groups are also important in scription (6 issues) and on-line access. helping members develop personal Students are automatic members of the networks within specific professional student working group and may apply or topic areas. to any other working groups at no - Continuing Education Credits: By additional charge. Special conference attending the AMIA Annual discounts apply. $35/year Symposium and Spring Congress, - Associate Member: Individuals may members may earn valuable continuing join one working group or special medical education credits and nursing interest group for one year only. No contact hours. regular member benefits apply. No - Job Exchange: An excellent resource journals or conference discounts will for those looking for or trying to fill be given. $30/year positions in the field of informatics.
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- President’s Club: AMIA’s Member- publication includes the best papers in United States of America Get-A-Member Campaign: Any AMIA medical informatics from an (Continued) member can participate in the campaign. international arena. Each new member who signs-up for Journal of the American Medical Informa- membership and indicates the name of tics Association (JAMIA) AMIA’s the AMIA member who sponsored his/ bimonthly journal, JAMIA, presents peer- her membership, will earn the current reviewed articles that assist physicians, AMIA member one point toward the informaticians, scientists, nurses, and other campaign. All current AMIA members health care professionals develop and earning at least one point in the apply medical informatics to patient care, campaign will be invited to the teaching, research, and health care admi- President’s Club Reception held at the nistration. JAMIA has rapidly established Annual Symposium where awards are a reputation for presenting high-quality, given. cutting-edge information. Each issue Publications contains state-of-the-art reviews, discus- sion forums, and invited editorials AMIA members have the opportunity to presented as brief reviews or full-length subscribe at discounted rates to numerous papers. A variety of formats acco- publications. We also offer the following mmodates work at all stages, from model periodical publications when you join: formulation through definitive studies. - JAMIA - The Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association: JAMIA received an impact factor for 2003 AMIA’s timely and informative journal of 2.51 from the Thomson Institute for is the primary source of information for Scientific Information (ISI). The Impact professionals in medical informatics. Factor is a measure of the frequency with All regular, institutional, corporate and which the „average article“ in a journal has retired members receive JAMIA bi- been cited in a particular year. This impact monthly and receive 24 hour on-line factor is a ratio between citations and
access. Students may order JAMIA at recent citable items published. The impact a special student member rate (which factor is useful in clarifying the significance also includes on-line access). of absolute citation frequencies. This - AMIA News Bytes: e-mailed to all rating places JAMIA #1 among 19 other members, this is a weekly summation of journals in the field of medical informatics articles on the field that appeared in for 2003. trade publications, or other general The Journal is indexed in Index Medicus, news media. MEDLINE, EMBASE/Excerpta Medica, - AMIA eNewsletter: e-mailed monthly CINAHL, Science Citation Index, Social to all members, provides updates on Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), SciSearch, the work of the Association. Social SciSearch, Research Alert, Current - AMIA Yearbook & Directory: This Contents/Social & Behavioral Sciences, valuable networking tool, available and Current Contents/Clinical Medicine. exclusively to AMIA members for noncommercial purposes, provides JAMIA is owned, copyrighted and completed address, phone, fax and e- sponsored by AMIA and is an automatic mail information for each AMIA member benefit to most AMIA members. member. When subscribing to JAMIA, members - IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics: also receive access to the on-line version Published by the International Medical of the journal available at www.jamia.org. Informatics Association, this annual Outside subscriptions are also available.
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Uruguay is a small Country, located in the reached up to two hundred registrants Uruguay Southern Cone of South America. SUIS, its for the electronic health records health informatics society, was created in Conferences. It is currently giving an 1996, and currently has about 100 active introductory course on health members. information systems, described in the IMIA-LAC chapter. SUIS goals are: - The importance and use of informatics - To create a favorable environment for among health professionals was the development of health informatics. stressed, and computer literacy courses - To promote the inclusion of informatics were promoted by SUIS and its in the education of health profes- members. This was one factor leading sionals. to about 75% of Uruguayan physicians - To create multidisciplinary links among using computers on a regular basis, professionals. according to the 2001 National Medical - To create ties with similar societies in Survey. the Americas and the World. - Infosuis, a Society bulletin, has been - To promote the use of standards in published since 1998 (see health informatics. www.suis.org.uy). Starting in 2002, - To contribute to regulate the integrity InfoSuis has an Internacional Standard and confidentiality of electronic medical Serial Number (ISSN 1688-0994 online records. and ISSN 1510-2173 hard copy). - To disseminate the importance and use - Regarding the development of National informatics among health standards for clinical information in professionals. electronic format, SUIS participated, It has been active in trying to reach the with several of its authorities and above-mentioned goals, in the following members, in the definition of a ways: regulation requested by the Secretary - Fifteen educational activities were of Health. Therefore, a regulation was organized since SUIS was created, approved by the Uruguayan including courses, congresses, inter- Government regarding the electronic national and national videoconfer- health record and health informatics ences, seminars and workshops; with standards: please see http:// local, regional and international experts. www.presidencia.gub.uy/decretos/ Some of the subjects addressed were: 2003093001.htm the electronic patient record, privacy - In the international arena, SUIS is a of health information, health infor- member of IMIA, IMIA-LAC and of the matics standards, quality improvement telemedicine and health informatics and health informatics, nursing Spanish - Latin American CYTED informatics, telemedicine and distance working group. Alvaro Margolis, IMIA Representative education in health. Attendance
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Evelyn J.S. Hovenga IMIA’s Working Groups and Guest-editor Special Interest Groups:
Head of School, Information Systems Program Director, Health Informatics Ubiquitous Health Care Systems Faculty of Informatics and Communication Central Queensland University Rockhampton MC Qld 4702 Health information systems first relied in mainframe computing, then this Australia changed to a greater reliance on personal computers. The third significant ‘wave’ is about using computing technologies in a way that makes this invisible to the user, a phenomenon often referred to as ‘ubiquitous computing’1 . Such unobtrusive, active and non-invasive technologies are especially useful to create awareness, suggest, prompt, urge or undertake any number of functions or activities to assist health care consumers, carers and providers to better manage health care. Such technologies may be used to minimise the impact on lifestyle of specific deficiencies such as cognitive or functional impairments. As a consequence their effective use will enable the continuation of independent living of the elderly and make healthcare available everywhere and at anytime. IMIA does not yet have a specific working group promoting the necessary research, development and adoption of these types of computing applications.
There is an existing international network of researchers, practitioners, educators and others working in this area although these scientists are not specifically concerned with the application of these technologies to support consumer health and wellbeing. The last international conference on ubiquitous computing did not include one health related paper2 . The technologies and concepts covered in this area are many and varied. It includes wearable computing, telepresence, smart rooms, human computer interaction, interactive workspaces, integrated design, handheld devices, distributed and mobile computing, vision based systems, display technologies, automatic identification, networked sensors, biometrics, embedded web servers, voice recognition, wireless networking, motion tracking, on-line communities and more. Such technologies have many potential applications within the health industry to benefit all of us once employed effectively to suit both provider work practices and consumer lifestyles. Perhaps this yearbook will stimulate some to establish a new working group to promote the adoption of these technologies in this manner. Meanwhile we have many very active working groups and a special interest group undertaking many activities in support of IMIA’s mission. We may well see some working groups changing to become special interest groups in line with IMIA’s constitutional definitions of these groups as each reviews its future directions. It is with great pleasure that I present you with their reports detailing current objectives and future activities.
1 Morris M, Lundell J 2003 Ubiquitous Computing for Cognitive Decline: Findings from Intel’s Proactive Health Research. http://www.alz.org/Research/Care/Intel_UbiquitousComputing.pdf accessed 24 November 2004. 2 Ubicomp2004 Sixth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing held in Nottingham, England http://ubicomp.org/ubicomp2004/prg.php?show=papers_technotes accessed 25 November 2004
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IMIA Special Interest Group on Nursing Informatics (IMIA-NI) provides a key Nursing forum for promoting nursing informatics worldwide. To ensure that IMIA-NI continues to move forward in the right direction and achieve its objectives, it has Informatics revisited its strategy. A draft strategy has been developed for discussion at The (Special Interest IMIA-NI General Assembly being held during MEDINFO 2004. It describes IMIA-NIs vision, principles, aims and objectives, implementation responsibilities Group 1) and monitoring arrangements. IMIA-NIs vision is to provide leadership in the development, implementation, and evaluation of Nursing Informatics world wide, Chair: as an inter-related component of Health Informatics, to ensure Nursing Heather Strachan, RGN, Dip N, MSc Informatics supports the nursing profession, organizations, communities and (UK) (2003-2006) patients in pursuing and achieving health for all. The principles on which its Clinical Governance Manager activities are based include leadership, patient and public focus, ethics, innovation NHS Argyll and Clyde Clinical and evidence. Implementation will be guided by the 3 Ps, the Past – learning Development Centre Dykebar Hospital from; the Profession - informing, involving and consulting; and the Possibilities Paisley UK PA2 7DE – developing creative solutions. It will be implemented by its officers, national and E-mail: [email protected] honorary members and working groups and monitored by IMIA-NI Executive and the IMIA Board. Vice Chair and Treasurer: Robyn Carr (NewZealand) (2003-2006) Activities: Director • IMIA-NI, its working groups and the nursing profession were well represented Informatics Project Contracting (IPC) in the scientific programme of MEDINFO 2004. Activities included 5 panels, & Associates 2 workshops, 34 papers and 18 posters. 3J / 220 Victoria Street West • The publication of the proceedings from the working conference that Auckland New Zealand 1005 E-mail: [email protected] followed NI2003 “Improving Patient Safety with Technology.” has been distributed to conference participants and delegates of NI2003
Secretary: • The next IMIA-NI conference will be held in Seoul, South Korea in 2006. Dr Heimar Marin (Brazil) (2003-2006) Planning is well underway and the organizing committee will shortly issue Professor invitations to participate. Nursing Informatics Group, • Two bids to host NI 2009 by Switzerland and Finland were presented at the Federal University of Sao Paulo IMIA-NI General Assembly at MEDINFO 2004 and Finland was chosen to Rua Napoleao de Barros 754 host NI2009 Sao Paulo Brazil Cep:04024.002 • The IMIA-NI Honorary Members Forum held its first meeting at MEDINFO E-mail: [email protected] 2004. Homepage: • A number of the 10 IMIA-NI working group held meetings, workshops, http://www.imia.org/ni/index/html/ panels and presented papers at MEDINFO 2004 and continue to focus on a range of activities within their topic area. These topics include consumer health informatics, education, evidence based practice, nursing informatics history, nursing informatics management, nursing concept representation, nursing informatics research, telematics, standards, and open source. Some specific activities are listed below. • Nursing Informatics Management Working Group held a meeting during MEDINFO to explore improving collaboration with nurse managers. • Members of Consumer Health Informatics Working Group from USA, Korea and South Africa have presented papers and workshops at a range of nursing and health informatics events. The working group plans to revisit the conceptualisation of CHI in different countries and re-issue its survey and review its website. • USA and UK are compiling a history of nursing informatics for their respective countries. • An International Certificate of Nursing Informatics Specialist has been developed; the criteria and process are presently being piloted. • The Open Source Nursing Informatics Working Group have established a
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website and mailing list; held meetings, tutorials and workshops at AMIA Nursing Informatics 2003, UK Open Steps Think Tank meeting, HC2004, Summer Institute in Nursing Informatics 2004; contributed to UK Government consultation on (Special Interest Open Source Policy; and are working closely with the IMIA OSWG. Its Group 1) (Continued) activities will continue to support the sharing of knowledge and ideas to promote benefits of Open Source in nursing through its website, which it intends to translate into other languages, at conferences and in partnership with IMIA OSWG.
In addition to the activities listed above national members contribute to a wide range of activities in their own countries. National reports relating to these activity are available on IMIA-NI website.
Many of the national members, honorary members and working groups members met during MEDINFO 2004 to consolidate the work they have undertaken since they met last year at NI2003 in Brazil and to plan future strategies to help realise the vision of IMIA-NI.
Objectives: WG 1 - Health and • To disseminate and exchange information on Health and Medical Informatics Medical Informatics (HMI) programs and courses. • To promote the IMIA HMI database on programs and courses on HMI Education education. • To produce international recommendations on HMI programs and courses.
Chair: • To support HMI courses and exchange of students and teachers. Prof. Dr. John Mantas (2003-2006) • To advance the knowledge of: (1) how informatics is taught in the education University of Athens of health care professionals around the world, (2) how in particular health and Department of Nursing medical informatics is taught to students of computer science/informatics, Laboratory of Health Informatics and (3) how it is taught within dedicated curricula in health and medical PO Box 77313 informatics GR-17510 Athens, Greece E-mail: [email protected] Fax: +61-749 309 729 Recent Activities: • The recommendations of the IMIA on Education in Health and Medical Co-chair: Informatics have now been translated into Spanish, Chinese, Italian, Turkish, William R. Hersh, MD (2003-2006) Czech and Japanese. Anyone undertaking further translations must (1) Department of Medical Informatics formally seek permission from Schattauer, the publisher of the and Outcomes Research recommendations, (2) notify Dr Reinhold Haux at ([email protected]) Oregon Health Sciences University and (3) forward the URL to Dr. John Mantas so that a link can be established 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Road on the WG 1 website. Portland, OR 97201, USA Phone: 503-494-4502 • IMIA HMI has a mailing list and anyone interested is able to join this list by Fax: 503-494-4551 via the IMIA webpages. E-mail: [email protected] • Webpages are accessible via the IMIA homepage at http://www.imia.org • The Book ‘ Global Health Informatics Education’ edited by Hovenga E.J.S Homepage and IMIA HMI database and Mantas J published by IOS Press was released for sale in San Francisco. on health/medical informatics: The book can be purchased at half price ($US80) directly from the IMIA http://www.imia.org/wg1 office while stocks last. • A meeting was held during September, 2004, in San Francisco, in conjunction with the Medinfo2004, the next meeting will be held in Geneva in conjunction with MIE2005.
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Objectives: WG 2 - Consumer • To provide a forum to enhance collaboration, share experiences, and promote research in Consumer Health Informatics (CHI.) Health Informatics • To increase communication with other working groups at IMIA and other informatics organizations relevant to CHI. Chairs: • To establish itself as a group for funding agencies to consult on issues related Alejandro (Alex) R. Jadad, MD DPhil to information technology projects in health care. FRCPC (2003-2006) University of Toronto and Toronto General Hospital Background: Eaton Wing, EN 6-242 The Consumer Health Informatics Working Group (CHIWG) became an official Toronto, Ontario M5G 2C4, Canada IMIA Working Group in 2000. The CHIWG is concerned with electronic Tel +1 416 240 4800 Ext. 6823 information related to health care available to the public (e.g. Internet, wireless, standalone electronic media). For its purposes, it defines Consumer Health Betty L. Chang, DNSc (2003-2006) Informatics as “the use of modern computers and telecommunications to support School of Nursing, Box 956918 consumers in obtaining information, analyzing unique health care needs and University of California, Los Angeles helping them make decisions about their own health” (U.S. General Accounting Los Angeles, CA 90095-6918, USA Office, 1996, p.1.), in which the consumer interacts with the applications directly Tel: +1 310 206 3834 Fax: +1 310 206 0914 with or without the presence of health care professionals. The group’s interests focus on, but are not limited to, world wide web sites that offer advice about Gunther Eysenbach, MD (2003-2006) healthy living, research findings, and recommendations on specific disease University of Toronto conditions, descriptions of products, medications, and self-care health programs Toronto General Hospital available to the public. Issues of concern may be the evaluation of the quality of R. Fraser Elliott Building, 4th Floor information, education of the public, ethical issues related to electronic information Room # 4S435 and its effect on a person’s health care and relationship with health care 190 Elizabeth Street providers. Toronto, ON M5G 2C4, Canada Tel: +1 416 340 4800 Ext. 6427 1. Recent Activities: Fax +1 416 340 3595 a. IMIA –NI CHI Working Group presented a workshop at the 8th International Congressin Nursing Informatics in Rio de Janeiro entitled, Consumer Health Informatics within a Nursing Framework. b. Paper Presentation by Nolwazi Mbananga on Health Medical Terms: A foundation for Consumer Health Informatics. c. Paper Presentation by Betty L. Chang on results of USA CHI scope and definitions survey d. Paper Presentation by Jeongeun Kim on results of Korea and USA comparison on definitions of CHI. e. Poster presentation by Graduate Students at the University of California, Los Angeles (Peggy Thomas, et al.): Sources of Consumer Health Information for Alternative and Conventional Therapy. f. Presentation by Nolwazi Mbananga entitled, Challenges Facing Nursing Informatics Education and Research in South Africa. g. Chairing sessions at NI 2003 conference
2. Discussion of Activities for 2003-2004: a. Working Group discussions indicated a desire to: Revisit current conceptualizations of Consumer Health Informatics in the different countries. b. Re-evaluate to see if our WEBSITE current survey taps domains under current conceptualizations. c. Modify survey according to conceptualizations. d. Add sociodemographics to survey: type of training, education, age, gender, number of years in training.
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Members discussed ways of distributing the survey. Leadership positions for Consumer Health survey will reside with IMIA – NI Sig CHI Working Group members.
Informatics (IMIA 3. Follow-up Activities (after Rio de Janeiro conference) WG 2) (Continued) a. WEBSITE Concepts pertaining to consumer health informatics in nursing were circulated for input by all NI CHI working group members. Several modifications and revisions were made based on comments and additions of group members. b. CHI WG Chair drafted a proposal, “Perceptions of Concepts” based on the above discussion (attached, circulated to WG members)....this idea needs to be revisited to see if group wants to go ahead. WG also needs to examine this activity in view of strategic plan for the NI SIG (from Heather Strachan) c. Summary and recommendations of AMIA Spring 2003 Congress has resulted in the following publication: Betty L. Chang, Suzanne Bakken, S. Scott Brown, Thomas K. Houston, Gary L. Kreps, Rita Kukafka, Charles Safran, and P. Zoe Stavri, Bridging the Digital Divide: Reaching Vulnerable Populations, J. Am. Med. Inform. Assoc. 2004;11(6):448-457. PrePrint published November 1, 2004.
4. Looking to the future. a. Acertain agreement on WEBSITE modifications. Submit for implementation on website. b. Re-evaluate proposal drafted based on previous discussions, and make a decision about action(s). c. Identify issues of critical importance to nursing and consumer health informatics. For example:
(1) nurses’ role and responsibilities in information and health literacy for consumers. (2) critical challenges in education for consumer health informatics. (3) review NI CHI WG goals, and develop a plan for the next 3-5 years.
Objectives: WG 3 - Intelligent • To increase the awareness and acceptance of intelligent data analysis and data mining methods in medical community. Data Analysis and • To foster scientific discussion and disseminate new knowledge on AI-based Data Mining methods for data analysis and data mining techniques applied to medicine. To promote the development of standardized platforms and solutions. Chair: • To provide a forum for presentation of successful intelligent data analysis and Prof. Dr. Riccardo Bellazzi data mining implementations in medicine, and for discussion of best practices (2003-2006) in introduction of these techniques in medical and health-care information and Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica decision support systems. Università di Pavia via Ferrata 1 Recent Activities: 27100 Pavia, Italy • A joint effort to disseminate the results and practice of DM methodologies has Tel: +39 0382 505511 been planned with the Special Interest Group on Data Mining and Knowledge Fax: +39 0382 505373 Discovery of AMIA (chair: J. Holmes) during last AMIA business meeting. E-mail: [email protected] • A workshop co-sponsored by the IMIA WG and the AMIA SIG on KDD held at Medinfo2004: • The IDAMAP 2004 workshop was held in Stanford on September 6th, just prior Medinfo 2004.
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Future Activities: Intelligent Data • The working group will focus on specific topics of interest for the scientific Analysis and Data community. In particular, the following issues will be explored: - the exploitation of predictive data mining in clinical medicine. Mining (IMIA WG 3) - knowledge-based functional genomics and temporal data mining. • The working group’s web site will be further enriched, in order to offer a list (Continued) of most relevant publications, technical notes and recent results to the general audience. Co-chair: • A Special Issue is foreseen as the outcome of last IDAMAP workshop. Assist. Prof. Dr. Blaz Zupan (2003-2006) Faculty of Computer and Information Sciences University of Ljubljana Trzaska 25 SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia Department of Human and Molecular Genetics Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA Tel: +1 386 1 4768 402 Fax: +1 386 1 4264 647 E-mail: [email protected]
Objectives: WG 4 - Data To examine the issues of data protection and security within the health-care environment. The Data Protection in Health Information Systems Working
Protection in Health Group addresses state-of-the-art security of distributed electronic patient records Information Systems (EPR). Recent Activities: Chair: • Working conference “Realizing Security of the Electronic Health Record” Jochen R. Moehr, MD, PhD May 31-June 3 2003 at Varenna Italy. Proceedings have been published as Professor a special issue of the Int. Journ. Medical Informatics, Volume 73, Issue 3, School of Health Information Science Pages 215-331 (31 March 2004) Realizing Security into the Electronic Health University of Victoria Record, Edited by Barry Barber, Dimitris Gritzalis, Kees Louwerse and Human and Social Development Francesco Pinciroli. Building, Room A202 Victoria, V8W 3P5, Box 3050 • In the discussions during the Varenna working conference the following STN CSC Canada items were identified that were considered to deserve attention from IMIA: Tel: +1 250 721 8581 - The question whether for the EHR it is necessary to be able to reproduce Fax: +1 250 472 4751 its contents for a certain patient as it would have been presented to a E-mail: [email protected] specified health professional at a specified point in time in the past (the “time-machine”). This to be able to assess his professional behavior in view of the information he did retrieve from the EHR or could have retrieved from the EHR. The consequences of such functionality were briefly explored and found to be huge. The working conference suggests to the board to raise wider interest for this question not only of the IMIA members, but also of other professional associations. - A more active role of IMIA in the EHR modeling domain in co-operation with other professional associations and bodies (e.g. WHO), to stimulate transparency and coherence of the modeling activities. - Case descriptions of implementation of access control and authorization management were considered to be quite useful. A problem is how the effort involved could be rewarded. It was recommended that IMIA 70 IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics 2005 Information on IMIA Working Groups and Special Interest Groups Data Protection in stimulates the development of such case descriptions and makes these accessible through the IMIA website. The Security working group could Health Information develop and maintain a list of aspects that at least should be addressed in a case description. Systems (IMIA WG 4) - A need was recognized for a better definition of the health information professional. This could go hand in hand with a better positioning in general (Continued) of Medical Informatics. In this respect a link with the IMIA working group on Education is important. It is also part of Information Governance. Other contact person: Although several groups are addressing this idea of core competencies, Kees Louwerse (secretary) a more active role of IMIA was considered to be necessary. LUMC Central Information • The Ethical Code of Practice was endorsed by the IMIA AGM 2002 (at Processing Department Taipei). PO Box 9600 2300RC Leiden • The Code has been translated in several languages (Croatian, Czech, Dutch, The Netherlands Finnish, French, Japanese, Greek, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish), more Tel: +31 71 5263240 translations are in preparation. Fax: +31 71 5248240 • From Brazil the issue was raised that the Code ought to be applicable also to Email: [email protected] paper records. Eike Kluge has prepared some changes in the Code to take this into account. A separate memo on this issue will probably be on the EFMI Representative: agenda. A complication could be that if we adapt the Code, then all Bernd Blobel translations would have to adapted as well. The GA in Rome discussed this Otto-von-Guericke University issue it was decided not to change the Code, rather it was proposed that each Institute of Biometrics and Medical member country could amend the Code to deal with records other than Informatics electronic records. On this proposal no vote was taken. Jochen Moehr was Dept of Medical Informatics elected as Chair of the Working group by e-mail ballot and appointed by the Leipzigerstrasse 44 IMIA GA at its meeting in Rome in October 2003. D-39120 Magdeburg • The working group is preparing its next working conference in Dijon France Germany Tel: +49 391 6713536 in 2006. Francois Allaert (FR) is Chair of the Local Organizing Committee Fax: +49 391 6713542 and Francis Roger France (B) Chair of the Scientific Program Committee. Email: [email protected] One Planning Teleconference involving the WG Chair and the Chairs of the magdeburg.de OC and SPC has taken place. The date suggested for the conference is Thursday April 27 to Sunday April 30, 2006. In keeping with the preceeding discussions, the Theme will be “Time and space independent security in health data”. A meeting of the Scientific program Committee was held on Friday Sep. 10, during Medinfo 04. • An e-mail survey among the WG membership was conducted in October regarding the - Mission and Name of Working Group - Membership in Working Group - Awarding of Conference Sites - Other Considerate responses were received, compiled and presentated to the membership during a business meeting of the WG on Thu. Sep. 9, 2004 during Medinfo in San Francisco. The revision of the IMIA By-laws will impact these activities. They are therefore watched closely.
Future activities: • Preparation of a draft Security Policy Framework. Little progress has been made in this matter since the leader of this effort, Barry Barber has retired from active professional activities. • Further objectives, beyond the EHR may include usability of high technology, telecommunication security, genomic/proteomic/metabolomic data bases, long term data security, etc. The setting of priorities among these alternatives is subject to further discussion in the working group.
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Objectives: WG 5 - Primary To promote primary care computing by: • acting as a forum for exchange of ideas between its members. Health Care • providing information to its members to assist them in progressing primary Informatics care computing in their own country. • increasing the understanding of primary care computing issues with a view Co-chairs: to publishing the results of these discussions. Dr. Michael Kidd, M.D. (1999-2004) Recent Activities: Head Department of General Practice The University of Sydney • The journal, Informatics in Primary Care, has been relaunched by Radcliffe 37A Booth Street Publishing, with endorsement from IMIA WG5 and involvement of members Balmain 2041, Sydney of the working group on the Editorial Board. The journal has now received Australia Medline listing. Full text available at: www.radcliffe-oxford.com/ipc. Tel: +61 2 9818 1400 • Members of the working group continue to liaise at an international level on Fax: +61 2 9818 1343 key local and regional initiatives in primary care informatics. Our key E-mail: michael.kidd@ international partners include EFMI Working Group 7 (Primary Care), med.usyd.edu.au Informatics Working Party of WONCA (The World Organization of Family Doctors), and the American Medical Informatics Association’s Primary Sheila Teasdale (2003-2006) Care Informatics Working Group. PRIMIS Service Director 14th Floor Tower Building Future Activities University of Nottingham • Review papers for Yearbook of Medical Informatics 2005 University Park Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK • Continued development of recruitment plan for working group. Tel: +44 115 846 6420 • Continued development of work plan to deliver our stated objectives. E-Mail: sheila.teasdale • Continued collaboration with Informatics in Primary Care journal. @primis.nottingham.ac.uk • Website presence through the IMIA web site. • Sharing outcomes from each nation and region.
Objectives: WG 6 - Medical To provide a forum for state of the art dialogue and collaboration on natural Concept language processing and concept representation in healthcare applications. IMIA’s Medical Concept Representation Working Group is the international Representation forum for issues related to informatics in the classification and coding of health data. The working group is charged with: Chair: 1) Reviewing health data nomenclature and classification needs for the world Dr. Christopher G. Chute community. Professor and Chair, 2) Evaluating information processing technology in meeting these defined Biomedical Informatics needs; and Department of Health Sciences 3) Recommending methods for future classification and nomenclature systems. Research, Mayo Foundation Rochester, MN 55905, USA Recent Activities: Tel: +1 507 284 5541 • Joint panels on Terminology and Natural Language Processing were held at Fax +1 507 284 0360 Medinfo 2004 with MIE and AMIA working groups. E-mail: [email protected] • A resumption of the triennial meeting series will follow in 2005, to be located Homepage: in Europe. Dr. Barry Smith of the University of Buffalo and The Institute for http://www.imia.org/wg6 Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science, part of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Leipzig, will be Program Chair.
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Objectives: WG 7 - Biomedical • promote applications in medicine and biology focusing on methods of pattern recognition and interpretation. Pattern This means that this WG is primary oriented to methodology. However, WG7 should address a large variety of different problems in all kinds of clinical Recognition disciplines, environmental medicine, behavioural sciences and psychology. All kind of observable phenomena recorded as signals, images and other meaningful Chair: patterns are regarded in respect to diagnoses, therapy planning, surgery and Dr. Hartmut Dickhaus (2004-2006) modelling. Four different steps are always involved in these complex procedures: Department of Med.Informatics 1. data acquisition of biosignals and medical images, University of Heidelberg 2. digital data processing for deriving significant features, Im Neuenheimer Feld 400 3. classification, and D 69120 Heidelberg 4. interpretation. Germany According to this broad spectrum of different tasks, technology and methodology have to Tel: +49 6221 567483/2 Fax: +49 6221 564997 be optimally adopted to a specific problem solution. Multidimensional statistical methods E-mail: HartmutMI_Dickhaus as well as heuristics are used for feature extraction and for classification procedures. @med.uni-heidelberg.de However, in order to develop useful systems and strategies for clinical routines, and http:// www.med.uni-heidelberg.de/mi to derive validated models for interpretation purposes a comprehensive medical knowledge is as important as methodological skills. Because WG7 is yet an active and successfully working unit of IMIA, the agreed principal orientation with respect to its contents, - particularly biosignal processing - should be maintained. Furthermore, I will try to extend the application area to image processing and related subjects as there are computer assisted planning and performance of surgical operations and navigation. Because these subjects show an increasing importance for current clinical routine one should think of a new WG dedicated to these objectives. Presently, since this field is not covered
by an independent working group, WG7 could be a suitable unit to champion those activities. Workplan: The approved practice of organizing working conferences with peer reviewed proceedings under the patronage of IMIA and IFMBE on special current topics should be maintained. These activities provide an ideal forum for discussion and planning of collaborations between interested experts worldwide. Furthermore, it offers opportunities to young colleagues to get in touch informally with experts and leaders of their fields. For next year, such an event is already planned in Japan. Furthermore, one could think about joint sessions for International and European conferences like IEEE EMB, IEEE SPIE, MEDICON, EMBEC which provide many themes belonging also in the field of Medical Informatics. Particularly, the pattern recognition community has a great overlap with colleagues of Biomedical Engineering and Medical Informatics Societies. Interactions with other IMIA working groups and overlaps: As far as the brief statements of the other IMIA working groups allow interpretation, there could be interesting collaborations with Biomedical Statistics and Information Processing (WG12) Intelligent Data Analysis and Data Mining (WG03) Technology Assessment & Quality Development in Health Informatics (WG15) Telematics in Health Care (WG18). Overlaps with other groups are not really obvious. Recruitment of other working group members WG7 is proud to exhibit a list of wellknown approved and recognized international experts. Despite this positive situation WG7 will try to contact colleagues in this field in order to expand the group. IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics 2005 73 Information on IMIA Working Groups and Special Interest Groups
Objectives: WG 8 - Mental • This group was established at the IMIA Board meeting in August 2000 with Health Informatics formal confirmation being received in October 2000. The proposal was triggered by an increasing recognition of the need to consider the special information and informatics needs of this domain, which represents some Chair: Michael Rigby (2000-2006) 10% of all healthcare activity. The domain has special information-handling Centre for Health Planning requirements, and a range of challenges commencing with the longer-term, and Management multi-site nature of much mental health care and the emphasis on qualitative Darwin Building, Keele University and attitudinal data. At the same time, it is hoped that techniques to assist with Keele, Staffordshire, ST5 5BG, UK these particular needs in health informatics will enrich more biophysical care Tel: +44 1782 583193 domains as well. Fax: +44 1782 711737 E-mail : [email protected] Recent Activities: The intended work of the group continues to be frustrated by lack of resource Co-Chair: Ann Sheridan (2000-2006) support, largely indicative of the problem faced by mental health services more Assistant Director generally. The last report indicated how it was hoped to link the working group Nursing and Midwifery Planning & to a large integrated electronic patient record research project seeking European Development Unit Commission funding, so as to provide a funded platform for wider work. Eastern Regional Health Authority Unfortunately, it has just been learned that fundiing for this integrated project has Stewarts Hospital not been secured, so that opportunity will not be available. This means that yet Mill Lane further attempts must be made to find support. Plamerstown, Dublin 20, Ireland Tel: +353 1 620 1731 Meanwhile, the Working Group will be represented at an exploratory expert Fax: +44 406 5611 workshop funded by the European Science Foundation (the co-ordinating bodies E-mail: [email protected] of all the national research councils in Europe) assessing the practical and ethical
issues of networked e-Health solutions.
Future Activities: Unfortunately, future activities must continue to focus on finding funding and practical support.
Objectives: WG 9 - Health • To find out how health care informatics could improve live conditions in developing regions and implement programs in that direction. Informatics for • Organization of forums to exchange of experiences of colleagues working in Development the field of health informatics. • Making a list of the needs and resources in medical informatics for each Chair: country. Nora Oliveri (2004-2007) • Organization of educational activities in developing regions, especially Fundación Informática Médica through the implementation of professors' exchange. Medical Informatics Foundation • Organizing workshops and seminars with international experts participation. Tel: +1 786 522 3663 (office) Cellular: + 1 305 479 6324 General Information: Fax: +1 305 513 5726 • Web Page: Information about activities, publications, how to join the WG E-mail: nora_oliveri Health Informatics for Development and links to web sites related are @informedica.org available at URL: www.mifound.org/WG9. Homepage: • Mailing List: To facilitate communication between members and all http://www.mifound.org/WG9 professionals interested in IMIA-Health Informatics for Development goals. Language: English and Spanish. To subscribe, send a message to: IMIA- [email protected]. Subject: Subscribe. Body: name last name e-mail contact data.
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Health Informatics • Related Mailing Lists: - HELINA-List: [email protected], Contact: Mikko Korpela for Development - International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications: [email protected], Contact:Neil Pakenham-Walsh (IMIA WG 9) - SUPERCOURSE: [email protected], Contact: Ron Laporte; (Continued) - WG94 : [email protected] Activities: • Workshop during Medinfo 2004 in San Francisco. This WKS focused on the study of different means and actions to solve the digital divide in Health Care in countries in transition. The goal of the Workshop was to further the depth and scope of innovative and efficient usage of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the development of Healthcare sector, identify good practices and discuss the newest trends at international level.The WKS focused on applications of ICT in Health. • Management Meeting during Medinfo 2004. Renew of Authorities (Chair) and Planning main topics and agenda for the new period.
Objectives: WG 10 - Health • To provide a forum for collaboration among world members, and to promote Information Systems systematic development and research in the field of health information systems. Chair: • To identify and assess problems and success factors of health information
Dr. Klaus A. Kuhn (2000-2006) systems and to provide intensive feedback between the scientific community, Professor of Medical Informatics healthcare professionals, and the health IT industry. This implies a "horizontal" Philipps-University Marburg orientation with close contact to other working groups. Bunsenstr. 3 D-35037 Marburg, Germany Recent Activities: Tel: + 49 6421 286 6205 Fax: + 49 6421 286 3599 • Preparations have started for the WG working conference in Nashville, TN, E-mail: [email protected] USA. Discussion groups and elaboration of critical aspects will play a significant role in this conference. Co-chair: Dr. Dario A. Giuse (2000-2006) Future Activities: Informatics Center Vanderbilt University Medical Center • The next major activity will be a working conference in Nashville, TN, USA Eskind Biomedical Library in spring 2005. Nashville, TN, 37232-8340, USA Tel: +1 615 936 1435 Fax: +1 615 936 1427 E-mail: [email protected]
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Objectives: WG 11 - Dental To bring the small, but rapidly growing, community of dental informaticians Informatics around the world into closer contact. Recent Activities: Chair: • More members have joined this working group. There are currently 83 list Dr. Wook-Sung Yoo (2000-2006) Computer and Information Sc. Dept. members and 48 web members. Gannon University • The Dental Informatics working group home page (http://www.ecs.gannon. 109 University Square edu/IMIA) has been updated and more dental informatics related literature Erie, PA 16506 USA information was entered to the “Dental Informatics Literature Survey” site. Tel: +1 814 871 7692 • On March 11th, 2003, during The 80th ADEA Annual Session, ADEA Fax: +1 814 871 7616 Technofair & Expo 2003, Interfacing Informatics to Dental Education was E-mail: [email protected] held. The meeting was chaired by Dr. Gary Guest, co-chair of WG 11. The presented workshop and Expo were highly appreciated and broadly discussed Co-chair: by the participants. All these contributions were published on Journal of Gary F. Guest, DDS (2003-2006) ADEA. Director of Predoctoral Clinics University of Texas Health Science • A meeting and workshop were held at MedInfo 2004 in Sept. 7-11, 2004, in Center at San Antonio, Dental School San Francisco, California, USA. The proposal for organizing the IMIA WG 7703 Floyd Curl 11 conference is under preparation. San Antonio, Texas 78229 Tel: +1 210 567-3265 Future Activities: Email: [email protected] • Improve access to information of dental informatics through IMIA WG 11 home page. • The next addition to the home page will be a “News” page identifying current dental informatics activities in countries and posting summaries or links to
news items or web-sites related to these activities. • Develop a close collaboration with other dental informatics groups.
Objectives: WG 12 - • Statistical methodology plays a great role in many tasks of information processing. It contributes to both biomedical research and healthcare Biomedical Statistics applications. There is no possibility of critically analyzing papers in biomedical and Information journals without understanding principles of statistics. • Papers published in reviewed journals should guarantee both a scientific Processing quality and practical significance of published results. However, we can often find wrong statistical analyses of collected data that lead to misleading Chair: conclusions. It is clear that often we need to generalize findings received only Prof. Dr. Jana Zvárová from samples drawn from populations under consideration. In this case EuroMISE Center, Charles University statistical inductive reasoning makes it possible to calculate the degree of and Academy of Sciences confidence of generalized conclusions objectively. Therefore, statistical Pod Vodárenskou Vezi 2 methodology concerns itself with different aspects of data collecting (sampling 187 08 Prague The Czech Republic methods) and data processing (computational statistics) using statistical tools Tel: +420 2 6605 3097 for estimation of unknown population parameters and hypotheses testing. Fax: +420 2 8658 1453 Statistical methods are often used in a broad field of biomedical applications, E-mail: [email protected] e.g. clinics, epidemiology, genetics, pharmacology, and other areas of healthcare. The Working Group will focus on a broad scope of statistical methods in medicine and health care including their contribution to the topics of clinical trials, meta-analysis, data mining, and decision support.
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Recent Activities: Biomedical Statistics • The WG members have been active in the past in different conferences and workshops connected with statistics in biomedicine and healthcare. Every and Information two years, workshops on Statistics in clinics have been organized at the Processing Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering and the Polish Academy of Sciences. The most recent workshop was held in June 2000. (IMIA WG 12) These workshops combine education and research in the field of clinical (Continued) statistics. The working group seeks to organize sessions at these conferences, as well as in the future MIE, IMIA conferences. It intends to establish closer co-operation in this field with IMIA member countries as well as with Co-Chair: international societies and other bodies in the field of biomedical and health Prof. Leon Bobrowski statistics, e.g. Biometric Society, International Society for Clinical Biostatistics, Institute of Biocybernetics and and International Society for System Science in Health Care. Biomedical Engineering, • The membership of the IMIA WG 12 is open to all interested in more active Polish Academy of Sciences, contributions to the field of biomedical statistics and information processing. Trojdena 3, Warsaw, Poland Tel: +482 2 659 9143 (Ext 416) To the end of August 2003 there were 28 active members. Fax: +482 2 659 7030 • A meeting and IMIA working conference Statistical Methodology in E-mail: [email protected] Bioinformatics and Clinical Trials was held in Prague, April 12-14, 2004 http:/ /www.euromise2004.org. Selected papers were published in the special issue of an international journal.
Objectives: WG 13 - • To investigate organizational, social, ethical, and individual behavioral issues Organizational and surrounding the introduction and use of informatics applications.
• To determine strategies for product design and technological change to Social Issues support health care delivery through information and communication technologies. Chair: • To provide a forum for the discussion, exploration, and sharing of expertise Dr. Bonnie Kaplan concerning effective evaluation of informatics interventions for clinicians, Center for Medical Informatics patients, and others. Yale University, School of Medicine • To incorporate attention to organizational, change management, social, 59 Morris Street evaluation, and ethical issues into information technology projects. Hamden, CT 06517, USA • To foster and present scholarly work and sound policy related to the WG Tel: +1 203 777 9089 objectives. Fax: +1 203 777 9089 • To serve as a resource on organizational, social, evaluation, and ethical issues. E-mail: [email protected] • To identify additional resources and develop educational programs and curricular materials.
Recent Activities: Medinfo 2004 Activities • panel on Gender and Role Identity in IT Design and Use AMIA Symposium Activities • A tutorial on Evaluating the Impact of Health Care Information Systems, was presented by the chair of the AMIA Quality Improvement WG and the chair of IMIA WG13 at the AMIA Fall Symposium 2002 and 2003 Outreach and Collaborative Activities • Coordination with sister EFMI and AMIA working groups produced the Information Technology in Health Care: Socio-technical Approaches conference in Portland, OR, 2004 • The chair’s activities to raise awareness of organizational and social issues in medical informatics included:
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- serving as a Program Chair for the IFIP 8.2 conference on “Relevant Organizational and Theory and Informed Practice: Looking Forward from a 20 Year Social Issues Perspective on Information Systems Research” in Manchester, England, 2004 (IMIA WG 13) - organizing panels on the relationship between the medical informatics and information systems disciplines for three conferences: (Continued) 1. Americas Conference on Information Systems, July 2004 2. IFIP WG8.2 conference on Relevant Theory and Informed Practice: Chair: A 20 Year Retrospective on IS Research, August 2004 Dr. Bonnie Kaplan 3. Information Technology in Health Care: Socio-technical Approaches, Center for Medical Informatics September 2004 Yale University, School of Medicine 59 Morris Street Hamden, CT 06517, USA Continuing Collaborative Projects Tel: +1 203 777 9089 • Together with AMIA People and Organizational Issues WG, creating and Fax: +1 203 777 9089 maintaing a bibliography of classic papers for the AMIA People and E-mail: [email protected] Organizational Issues web site. • Nominating and reviewing papers for the Diana Forsythe Award of the AMIA People and Organizational Issues WG.
Future Activities: Doctoral Consortium • joint with the AMIA POI WG
Objectives:
WG 15 - Technology • To promote comprehensive assessments of healthcare information technologies. Assessment and • To demonstrate the value of assessment methods in healthcare information Quality Improvement technologies. • To promote international cooperation toward developing methodological (TAQI) issues.
Chair: Recent Activities: Dr. Jan Talmon (2004-2007) • Collaboration with the EFMI working group on evaluation is ongoing. Dept. Medical Informatics • Further collaboration with other working groups will be established. The Maastricht University website that will be developed in the Netherlands will also be made available PO Box 616 for the IMIA working group. Members of TAQI and from other interested 6200 MD Maastricht working groups will be contacted to provide feedback. The Netherlands Tel: +31 43 388 2243 Fax: +31 43 388 4170 E-mail: [email protected]
Co-chair: Jytte Brender Dept. of Health Science and Technology Aalborg University and Virtual Centre for Health Informatics Fredrik Bajers Vej 7d DK-9220 Aalborg East, Denmark Tel: + 45 4541 0124 Fax: + 45 4541 0150 E-mail: [email protected]
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Objectives: WG 16 - Standards • To advise about standards from an academic perspective. in Health Care • To promote the mutual identification of needed standards world-wide. • To share information to facilitate mutual coordination of standards development Informatics in health informatics.
Chair: Expanded description of the content areas that will be worked on by the proposed Michio Kimura, M.D., Ph.D. Working Group Vice President of Japan Association • WG 16 itself does not create a new “standard”, rather, it devotes its activity of Medical Informatics on promotion of mutual identification and coordination by posting and Professor and Director maintaining an inventory of health informatics standard activities. of Medical Informatics Department • Usually, standard development activities are by volunteers, vendors, and Hamamatsu University immediate users. It is quite natural and fine for them to devote efforts to School of Medicine 1-20-1 Handa, Hamamatsu, acquire fruitful outcomes. Sometimes, however, potential future users’ profit 431-3192 Japan could be underrated. Tel: +81 53 435 2770 • IMIA is academically oriented, and is a world-wide organization which has Fax: +81 53 435 2769 connections with countries which participate less currently in existing E-mail: [email protected] standard development activities. • Therefore, IMIA WG 16 inputs thoughtfulness for future users and for multi- cultural environments, as advisory to standard development activities.
Recent Activities: • Post and maintain an inventory of health informatics standard activities, for the purpose of promoting mutual identification between activities, as well as proliferation to users. A web site (http://mi.hama-med.ac.jp/stds/index- en.html) is maintained which reports up to date activities of ISO and CEN.
• A workshop was held at APAMI 2003 at Taegu, Korea, October 2003. Prof. Ed Hammond, and Prof. Yun Sik Kwak (new ISO TC 215 chair) joined. • A workshop was held at MEDINFO 2004 at San Francisco.
Future Activities: • Provide advising from academy side to activities and ISO/TC215 and CEN TC 251. (IMIA is already a liaison of ISO/TC 215.) • Supply advice to activities for them to be world-wide, with thoughtfulness of multi-cultural environment. Virtually, initial mission is to high-light differences of health and personal information handling caused by each country’s health and medical cultural differences.
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Objectives: WG 18 - Telematics • To explore the rationale and perspective of Health Telematics in Healthcare • To promote the design and development of open architecture and inter- operability tools • To promote the analysis, design and development of methodologies and Chair: Dr. Regis Beuscart applications to support collaborative work in healthcare information systems Professor of Medical Informatics • To share experiences on E-health, Telemedicine and Professional Healthcare The University of Lille networks. 1, Place de Verdun 59045 Lille, France Recent Activities: Tel: +33 3 2052 6970 1/ The organization of a workshop on the subject of « Regional Healthcare Fax: +33 3 2052 1022 Networks » during the last MIE2003 congress in Saint-Malo (France). This E-mail: [email protected] workshop draw a very interesting landscape of the current researches and developments of Medical Regional Networks and future research perspectives on the applications of CSCW to Medicine. 2/ Building a website to give information on this large subject including: Telemedicine, Open Hospital Information Systems, Healthcare Regional Networks. 3/ A workshop on this topics was held during the Medinfo Meeting in San Francisco (2004).
Objectives: Open Source Health The objectives of the group as developed at its formation in 2002 remain relevant. Informatics Working While the group is named ‘open source’, our areas of interest include free/libre software and open source software, including GNU/Linux.
Group The objectives of the group are: • To provide a forum for discussion and for a collaborative, non-judgemental Chair: work environment to explore, and where appropriate promote and facilitate, Dr. Peter Murray, CHIRAD (Centre for Health the application of free/libre and open source solutions within health, healthcare Informatics Research and and health informatics. Development) • To bring together experts and interested individuals from a wide range of Coachmans Cottage, Nocton Hall health professions and with a range of interests in the potential application of Nocton, Lincoln LN4 2BA free/libre and open source solutions within their domains of expertise. United Kingdom • To explore the implications of the free/libre and open source approaches for Tel: +44 (0) 7904 268630 all aspects of IMIA’s areas of interest. E-mail: peter.murray • To work with other IMIA Working and Special Interest Groups to explore the @open-nurse.info appropriate use of free/libre and open source solutions and applications. Co-Chair: • To facilitate both the use of other groups’ expertise in the areas under MUDr. ing. Jan Vejvalka consideration, and the input of IMIA views to those other groups’ work and Dept. of Applied Informatics discussions. 2nd Medical Faculty Charles University Recent Activities: V uvalu 84, 15006 1. A new mailing list for the Working Group has been established at oswg- Praha 5, Czech Republic [email protected] It is being moderated by Dr Vejvalka. Tel: +420 2 5721 0345, ext. 272 2. Prof. Wright and Dr Murray additionally held several meetings with AMIA Fax: +420 2 2443 5820 members interested in open source, and as a result of our encouragement, E-mail: jan.vejvalka a proposal was developed to the AMIA Board, and accepted, which has @lfmotol.cuni.cz resulted in the setting up of an AMIA Open Source Working Group. Dr Murray is a member of the interim Executive Committee of the AMIA OSWG. The IMIA OSWG will work closely with the AMIA OSWG, and joint activities were held at medinfo2004.
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3. A very successful two-day meeting was held at the Marwell Hotel, Open Source Health Winchester, UK on 10-11 February 2004. Dr Murray and Prof Wright were instrumental in the organization and delivery of the event, which brought Informatics Working together 30 people, mainly from the UK, but also from other EU countries Group (Continued) and from North America, to discuss priorities for open source work in the health and health informatics areas. Dr Veyvalka spoke about the OSWG and its activities. The meeting was significantly organized in conjunction with Co-Chair: OSHCA (Open Source Health Care Alliance) and also helped to showcase Prof. Graham Wright the WG and IMIA to other important bodies represented at the meeting, CHIRAD (Centre for Health Informatics Research and Development) including the European Commission, the WorldVistA organization, and 41 Firs Road NICTIZ (the Dutch National IT Institute for Healthcare). Firsdown Salisbury SP5 1SJ 4. A report of the Marwell meeting is available through the WG website, at United Kingdom http://www.chirad.info/marwell04/marwellreportv01.htm. Tel: +44 (0) 1980 863953 5. A follow-on meeting to the Marwell meeting was held at HC2004 (Harrogate, E-mail: graham.wright UK, 22 March). Titled ‘After ‘Open Steps’: priorities for open source @winchester.ac.uk and free software in delivering health informatics at the point of care’, the meeting is being organized by Prof. Wright and Dr Murray. Attendance was disappointing (due to competing sessions at the conference) and so a separate report will not be made of this meeting, but it will be wrapped up in an overall report of the series after the medinfo2004 meeting. 6. The Working Group continues its contact with OSHCA (Open Source Health Care Alliance) and a number of other free/libre/open source groups, and is exploring other ways of working with organisations and individuals. Contacts are maintained with other groups, for example, through Dr Murray’s membership with the UK-based Association for Free Software
(AFFS). 7. The IMIA OSWG has been accepted as an observer to the Sixth Framework European Commission-funded COSPA project, which aims to analyse the effects of the introduction of open source software and open data standards in European public administration organizations - http://www.cospa- project.org/ 8. Dr Murray and Pat Evans have written a chapter for a new version of Saba and McCormick’s nursing informatics textbook. 9. Dr Murray has presented a session on free/libre/open source software at SINI2004, the Summer Institute in Nursing Informatics organised by the University of Maryland School of Nursing and held in Baltimore in July 2004. 10. The WG held a business meeting at medinfo2004 in conjunction with the AMIA OSWG and the IMIA-NI Open Source Nursing Informatics WG. 11. The WG co-sponsored a tutorial at medinfo2004 (Open Source and Free Software: the Potential for Applying Open Source Solutions to Health Informatics Problems in Education, Research and Practice) delivered by several WG members. 12. The Working Group website has been developed in parallel with development of the IMIA-NI OSNI website (www.osni.info)
Future Activities: • The Working Group is aiming to hold a scientific meeting in 2005. Currently, we are having discussions with colleagues in the Cuban Medical Informatics Society to explore the possibility of it being held in Havana, Cuba, in 2005. Other options are also being explored for meetings in 2005 and 2006. • The WG will submit proposals for meetings, workshops, and other activities
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Report to the Board and General Assembly, San Francisco, IMIA Working 7th September 2004
Group Web Site Members of the Taskforce: Review Task Force Peter Murray - National Representative, United Kingdom Virginia Saba - Immediate Past Chair, Special Interest Group in Nursing Informatics Karl Øyri – member, IMIA-NI Open Source Nursing Informatics Working Group Steven Huesing - Executive Director, IMIA Rod Ward (co-opted member; webspinner, British Computer Society Nursing Specialist Group) Reporting to Evelyn Hovenga, Vice President, Working Groups and Special Interest Groups.
Scope of the Taskforce The IMIA Working Group Web Site Review Task Force was established in July 2003 by Nancy Lorenzi, then Vice President, Working Groups and Special Interest Groups. Its work was based on the assumption that: IMIA selected the Nursing Informatics Special Interest Group as the prototype web site based on the richness of the Nursing Informatics Working Group structure and content. IMIA would like to have the working group web sites modeled after the NI web site. Tasks to be accomplished: 1. To review IMIA’s working group web sites in context of the above
assumption and to make a report with suggestions for each Working Group. This report should be made available to the Working Group Chair, the VP of Working Groups and the Executive Director. 2. To work with the Working Group Chair (or the delegate) and the Executive Director to implement the suggested changes.
Activities Undertaken by the Taskforce: 1. An initial survey was undertaken (July 2003) of the status of WG websites. Of the 18 Working Groups listed on the IMIA website: - 8 did not have a group website (they only had the information that is listed on the group’s page on the IMIA website, ie the same information as appears in the IMIA Yearbook), - the rest had their own website either as an additional area on the IMIA website or hosted externally. Most of the websites, however, had little content and/or had material that was out of date or had not been updated for at least many months. Some of the links listed on the IMAI website were not working or had other problems.
2. A short survey was sent in January 2004 to all the WG chairs and co-chairs as listed on the IMIA website. This essentially asked them to confirm the information on the IMIA website regarding WGs’ web presence and to indicate who, if anyone, was responsible for its maintenance. Replies were received from 9 WGs. In addition, a check was again made of the information provided in WGs’ pages on the IMIA website. This confirmed that the situation was essentially the same as in July 2003.
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3. A questionnaire was emailed to all WG chairs and co-chairs in February 2004. IMIA Working This asked them a number of questions about whether their WG wished to have a web presence additional to the WG information page that is maintained Group Web Site on the IMIA website (or whether that page was sufficient), and if they did Review Task Force wish to develop a larger web presence, which of various options they favoured. Replies were received from 10 WGs. (Continued) 4. An interim report was submitted to the IMIA Board meeting of April 2004 and a final report ws presented to the IMIA Booard meeting of September 2004.
Current status and issues: i. A brief analysis of the survey replies indicates that most of the groups that currently have websites wish to maintain them themselves. ii. Three WGs have indicated that they would like to develop websites and for IMIA to maintain them. iii. WGs are generally evenly divided as to whether they want flat html files or dynamic sites (content management system or database-driven); many want both. iv. WGs are evenly divided as to whether all WG websites should conform to an IMIA standard format, but most want the flexibility to maintain their sites as they feel most appropriate. v. WGs without current websites wish to develop them, and are seeking suitable individuals within their WGs to be involved. vi. Most WGs want the facility for a designated person within the WG to be able to directly update the information held on the WG on the main IMIA website.
Proposals: 1. As IMIA’s financial situation will become clearer after the medinfo2004 accounts are settled, and in light of current financial constraints, it may be unwise to try and proceed too fast in developing recommendations from this taskforce if IMIA is then unable to actually deliver on them. We suggest that the work of the taskforce be held in abeyance until IMIA’s financial situation is clarified and it is able to devote an identified budget to supporting any recommendations from this taskforce. Once these areas are clarified, the Vice President, Working Groups and Special Interest Groups should recommend how to take forward any work. 2. If it is decided to reactivate the taskforce, then a suggested outline plan of action would include: - a detailed analysis be undertaken, and the specific needs of each WG be identified, with a report with suggestions to be prepared for each WG (as per task 1). The reports will also be sent to the VP of Working Groups and the Executive Director (as per task 1) (suggested timescale: within 3 months of reactivation) - the implications of the reports for IMIA (in terms of service provision, finance, etc.) will be identified in general terms and for each WG, through discussions between the taskforce, the WG chairs and co-chairs, and the VP of Working Groups and the Executive Director (as per task 1) - a final report of the taskforce will be prepared for the IMIA General Assembly and Board meeting. This will cover the issues identified above and the final suggestions for taking matters forward (to achieve task 2).
Dr Peter J. Murray (UK representative to IMIA; Co-chair, IMIA Open Source Health Informatics Working Group) on behalf of the taskforce.
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Structure EFMI The constitutional bodies of EFMI are • The EFMI-Council, a General Assembly of all members, officers and working group Regional Editor: Arie Hasman chair persons. • The Board of officers, treasurer, vice presidents and president • Working Groups organised by a chairperson (see also the EFMI-homepage, addresses, member societies) Objectives The objectives of the European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI) founded in 1976 are: • To advance international co-operation and dissemination of information in Medical Informatics on a European basis; • To promote high standards in the application of medical informatics; • To promote research and development in medical informatics; • To encourage high standards in education in medical informatics; • To function as the autonomous European Regional Council of IMIA Activities All European countries are entitled to be represented in EFMI by a suitable Medical Informatics Society. The term medical informatics is used to include the whole spectrum of Healthcare Informatics and all disciplines concerned with Healthcare and Informatics. The organisation operates with a minimum of bureaucratic overhead and each national society supports the Federation by sending and paying for a representative to participate in the decisions of the Federation’s Council. Also, and again to reduce overhead, English has been adopted as the official language, although simultaneous translation is often provided for congresses in non-English speaking countries. Information about EFMI and EFMI related activities can be obtained via the website: http://www.efmi.org Countries Currently, 27 countries have joined the Federation, and are named as Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Moldavia, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine and United Kingdom. Application are open to representative societies in countries within the European Region of WHO. The EFMI council and board normally meet twice a year. Furthermore,it is represented by a Vice President (Europe) at meetings of the Board and the annual General Meetings of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA). Congresses and Publications So far 17 general congresses (Medical Informatics Europe – MIE) have been organised by EFMI. These have taken place in Cambridge (1978), Berlin (1979), Toulouse (1981), Dublin (1982), Brussels (1984), Helsinki (1985), Rome (1987), Oslo (1988), Glasgow (1990), Vienna (1991), Jerusalem (1993), Lisbon (1994), Copenhagen (1996), Thessaloniki (1997), Ljubljana (1999), Hannover (2000), Budapest (2002) and St. Malo (2003). EFMI has started a new series of meetings: the Special Topic Conferences. Its concept has the following components: • Organization by a member society in combination with its annual meeting • EFMI council meeting is integral part • Topic defined to the needs of the member society • Relevant EFMI Working groups are engaged for the content • Contributions mostly on invitation • Small 2-day conference with 100+ participants
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The first conferences took place in Bucharest/Romania 2001, Nicosia/Cyprus 2002, EFMI (Continued) Rome/Italy in 2003 and Munich/Germany in 2004. The last conference was about the content of the EHR in relation to continuity of care and evidence based medicine. For 2004 Athens/Greece is envisaged. The proceedings of these congresses were usually published by Springer in the series “Lecture Notes in Medical Informatics” and by IOS Press in the series ”Studies in Health Technologies and Informatics”. A selection of the best papers from the MIE-conferences were published in a special volume of the International Journal of Medical Informatics. The next MIE congress will take place in Geneva/Switzerland in 2005. To date five official journals adopted by the Federation are: Methods of Information in Medicine, Medical Informatics & The Internet in Medicine, Health Informatics Europe, International Journal of Medical Informatics, Informatics in Primary Care.
Objectives: EFMI WG MCMS The organisation of special topic conferences, workshops, Teaching sessions in the European Region on MBDS, Case Mix and Severity of cases and their applications to MBDS, Case Mix Resource management and outcomes of care. The communication of up to date experiences and/or references between members, and Severity of including national uniform data sets, terminology, coding system and patient classifica- Cases tion methods for resource management and quality of care. The dissemination of results about informatics tools and telematics systems in this specific area among EFMI and IMIA affiliated members and participants to their meetings. Chair: Prof. F.H. Roger France, Recent activities: Centre for Medical Informatics Special Topic Conference 2001 in Collaboration with PCS-E, Patient Classification University of Louvain Systems Europe. ”Case Mix: Global Views, Local Actions” Bruges, 10-13 October 2001. 10 av. Hippocrate, Box 3718 MIE2002 Workshop (26 Aug 02 Budapest – Hungary): Case Mix and outcomes B-1200 Brussels measurements: experience in Hungary and situation in 20 countries. Tel: +32-2-7644709 MIE2003 Workshop (5 may 03, 17h30): St Malo, France on Case Mix data future (organized Fax: +32-2-7644717 by J.M. Rodrigues and F.H. Roger France). E-mail: [email protected] MIE Special Topic Conference 2003 (4-7 October, Rome, Italy). The content of Electronic Co-chair/Secretary: Health Records: Clinical Data Sets for continuity of care and evidence based medicine. W.J. Hofdijk (Joint Working Conference promoted by EFMI and AIIM organised by Prorec Italia). JCC, Hofbrouckerlaan 8 20th PCS/E Conference 2004 Budapest, Hungary (27-30 October 2004). Bridging countries, 2341LN Oegstgeest connecting continents, synchronising concepts and experiences with Case Mix. the Netherlands Future activities: Tel: +31715155682 Fax: +31715154240 MIE2005 Geneva, Switzerland (28 Aug – 1 Sep 05). Workshop on Case Mix variations Mobile: +31614991912 among European countries. E-mail : [email protected] Publications: Roger France F.H., De Moor G., Hofdijk J., Jenkins L. (Eds.) Diagnosis Related Groups in Europe, Ghent, Goff BVBA, ISBN 90-73045-01-0, 259 p., 1990 Roger France F.H., Noothoven van Goor J., Staehr Johansen K. (Eds) Case-Based Telematics Systems towards Equity in Health Care, IOS Press, Amsterdam, ISBN 90- 51991-82-7, 207 p., 1994 Roger France F.H., Mertens I., Closon M.C., Hofdijk J. (Eds) Case Mix: Global Views, Local Actions – Evolution in Twenty Countries, IOS Press, Amsterdam, No 86, 177 p., 2001 Roger France F.H. Case Mix use in 25 countries : a migration success but international comparisons failure. International Journal of Medical Informatics, 2003, 70, 215-219.
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Objectives: EFMI WG IPAM To develop generic approaches across an ever-widening range of health and linked social care domains. Information Focus: Planning and The Group operates as a ”think-tank” drawing together leading-edge expertise not only from across the clinical and medical informatics spectrum but also from other professions Modelling in with relevant generic input to focus on selected topic areas in support of clinical and healthcare management processes. Health Care Recent activities: Whilst the group tends to focus on specific core topic area for each year it sets this in Chair: the context of previous work, which is aimed at drawing together generic best practice Bryan Manning models of service provision. Areas covered include: E-mail: bryan.manning • Resource Management – planning and performance management systems @btinternet.com • Clinical Pathways and Decision Support – process mapping systems • Inter-agency linked Case Management - e-GIF and secure intranets • Clinical Case Planning and Audit – performance monitoring systems • Remote Patient Monitoring and Case Management - mobile computing • Epidemiology and Service Logistics – geo-spatial and community care • Clinical Knowledge Access – care process-linked indexing In addition to the workshop held at MIE’2003. The WG delivered a paper on ”Clinical Process Maps as an Indexing Link to Knowledge and Records” at the ECDL 2003 Healthcare Workshop in Trondheim, Norway as part of the international conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. This year have been focusing on Risk and Security Modelling and presented some of these concepts at a two day Conference ”Making Medical Informatics Work” held in Manchester in the Spring. Future activities:
It is hoped to present two papers at the HUSITA 7 in Hong Kong in 2004 on ”Joining- up Community Services: A Framework Utility Approach” ”Optimising Child Protection: Inter-agency Networked Records” The former was originally accepted for HUSITA 6 in the USA but cancelled due to the 9-11 tragedy. In addition to continued work on the areas covered above other sub-groups are working on Risk Management and techniques for Managing Major Healthcare Programmes More Effectively.
Objectives: EFMI WG NURSIE • To support nurses and nursing organizations in the European countries with information and contacts and the field of informatics Nursing Informatics • To offer nurses opportunities to build contact networks within the informatics field. This could be accomplished by arranging sessions, workshops and tutorials in in Europe connection with the Medical Informatics European (MIE) conferences or by arranging separate meetings. Chair: • To support the education of nurses with respect to informatics and computing. Patrick Weber • To support research and developmental work in the field and promote publishing of Nice Computing achieved results. Ch. De Maillefer 37 • To publish in 2005 a book in collaboration with nurses from USA, New Zealand about CH-1052 Le Mont-sur Lausanne today nursing informatics situation. Switzerland Recent activities: E-mail: patrick.weber May 2003 St-Malo MIE: Workshop with good participation and Working group meeting @nicecomputing,ch June 2003 Rio-Janeiro NI: Active participation of many members from our group as well as for Tutorial, Workshops, and Scientific presentation. Also for the post congress Workshop we had a good participation. The results are edited in a proceedings entitled: Marin H.F, Mendoca E., Pedreira M. Pereira Marquez E. Improving Patient Safety with Technology. E-papers editor. 2003.
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Active participation of 2nd European Nursing Informatics congress In September 2003, EFMI WG NURSIE in Frankfurt Germany. Nursing Informatics in November 2003 Bled Slovenia together with our Slovenian representative active Europe (Continued) participation in their annual conference where I gave a keynote speech. March 2004 Sarajevo active participation at the conference organized by the EFMI Bosnian representative Co-chair: Finland wins the competition for the organization of NI 2009 To be elected next meeting August 2005 Several of our members are very active and participate in many congresses and Workshops on Open source. Karl Oyri or Peter Murray could be contacted. Secretary: Together with editors from US, New Zealand and myself for Europe we have collected Thomas Bürkle documents from experts from all over the world in order to publish a book in Autumn 2005 Institut für Medizinische Informatik Universität Erlangen Several country’s members of our WG are directly involved into developments Krankenhausstraße 12 corresponding to our aims please look at country reports on the Website D-91054 Erlangen www.nicecomputing.ch/nieurope Germany Future activities: E-mail: thomas.buerkle Prepare for MIE 2005 in Geneva a big event concerning nursing activities with probably @imi.med.uni-erlangen.de a one full day track. Do not hesitate to come: it will be very interesting with high value presentations. The day after the closing of MIE one more day is dedicated to nursing with the 3rd ENI European Nursing Informatics conference. End of 2005 the book will be on the market place. Weaver C.A., Delaney C.W., Carr R.L., Weber P., “Nursing and Informatics for the 21st Century: An International Look at Practice, Trends and the Future” editor HIMMS.
Objectives: EFMI WG EDU To organize workshops and possibly tutorials dedicated to the WG topics at each MIE conference, and other events. Education in To cooperate with IMIA WG 1 regarding Recommendations about Health Informatics Curricula and other subjects involving education and training in health informatics. Health Informatics To disseminate knowledge about education and training in health informatics by various activities, such as conferences, educational events, publications and electronic means. Chair: To encourage individuals to publish their research and other work in journals. Prof. John Mantas To provide a forum for discussion and debate. Health Informatics Laboratory Recent activities: University of Athens, Greece The last activities of WG EDU were organised during the MIE 2003 at San Malo, in 2003. Tel: +30 10 7461 1459/60 Fax: +30 10 7461 461 In San Malo during MIE2003 a formal workshop was held. During the workshop Email: [email protected] presentations were made by a number of speakers in the area of Education and Training in Medical Informatics. Co-chair/Secretary: Prof. Arie Hasman The idea of building up a database collecting educational material across Europe has been Dept. of Medical Informatics discussed at the workshop. The purpose of it is to collect and distribute freely material University of Amsterdam for educational purposes to educational institutions in Europe facilitating the idea of The Netherlands Education in Health Informatics. Also it has been decided during the St. Malo Workshop Email: [email protected] the updating of the educational material developed by the IT Eductra and Nightingale projects. However, cost calculation for such activities could be a real obstacle for building up an implementation. Educational issues have been discussed also during the ICICTH Conference that was held in Samos Island on 11-13 July, 2003. Panel participants included R. Engelbrecht, A. Hasman, R. Haux, and J. Mantas. Members of EFMI WG on Education have participated in the publication of the book titled “Global Health Informatics Education” edited by E. Hovenga and J. Mantas, published by IOS Press, Amsterdam 2004.
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An EFMI Special Topic Conference was held in Athens on 19-20 March 2005 according EFMI WG EDU to the decision taken during the EFMI Council meeting in Munich. The main theme was Education in Health Health Informatics Applications - Educational Aspects Informatics (Continued) Future activities: During the MEDINFO Conference 2004 a joint workshop (IMIA and EFMI) will be organized to accommodate educational issues. A database collecting educational material across Europe will be developed and tested. The purpose of it is to collect and distribute freely material for educational purposes to educational institutions in Europe facilitating the idea of Education in Health Informatics. Also the process of updating of the educational material developed by the IT Eductra and Nightingale projects will be initiated.
Introduction: EFMI WG PCI The Primary Care Informatics Working Group aims to promote the further development of this emerging scientific discipline. In particular, to develop the core generalisable Primary Care theory that should underpin it. The group aspires to promote good practice, professionalism Informatics and the development of primary care informatics as a scientific discipline, within EFMI. Its aim for 2005 is to take a prominent role in the Athens STC in March and at MIE in August in Geneva. Chair: Objectives: Dr Simon de Lusignan Primary Care Informatics The objectives of the group are parallel to those of EFMI, but focussed on a primary care St George’s Hospital Medical School perspective: London • To advance international cooperation and the dissemination of information in primary E-mail: [email protected] care informatics • To promote high standards in the application of primary care informatics
• To promote research and development to develop a core generalisable theory for primary care informatics • To encourage high standards in education in health informatics Themes: To help achieve its objectives the activities of the working group are to be focussed around defined themes. The list is not mandatory and other themes can be added or removed depending on the wishes of the group. However its aim is to maintain focus, and make it more likely that the group will achieve some useful outcomes. 1. Data quality: Exploring the barriers to the coding of structured information in Primary Care and how these may be overcome. This work includes data quality initiatives. 2. The use of computers in patient-centred consultations: Primary care is delivered through consultations. Usually these are one-to-one encounters between the patient and the healthcare professional. Use of the computer tends to interfere with the patient centred tone of the consultation. The challenge is to develop technology that supports patient centred consulting. 3. e-Health initiatives: Telemedicine and telemonitoring of patients in their own homes has been demonstrated in a wide range of clinical settings. They are slowly being integrated into mainstream practice. The working group will wish to explore the characteristics of the scalable e- health initiative, and how it can be implemented in primary care. 4. Knowledge management for primary care: Information overload is a real phenomenon in clinical practice. Primary care professionals need to know where to look for information rather than hold it themselves: we need to develop an appropriate knowledge management strategy for primary care.
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Recent activities: EFMI WG PCI 1. Reduced subscription to the Journal of informatics in Primary Care Primary Care Members of the working group are able to obtain a reduced subscription. Please see the working group part of the EFMI website for details. New subscribers are also entitled to Informatics (Continued) a free book. 2. Increasing the working group membership We wish to increase the membership of the primary care working group, and encourage representation form all EFMI member countries. The working group has been expanded over the last year, but needs to develop its membership further. Council members are urged to encourage primary care professionals to join the working group – so that the group contains a pan-European sample of primary care informaticians. 3. Developing an official relationship with WONCA Europe The EFMI Primary Care Working Group has established an official link with WONCA Europe. Our plan is to make members of both organisations aware of each others activities. 4. Co-organiser of a Pre-Medinfo 2004 International primary care consensus conference: What is primary Care Informatics? A one day joint conference of AMIA, EFMI and IMIA primary care informatics working groups took place on 7th September 2004. The purpose is to define PCI is and to produce a consensus statement by the end of the conference. The meeting attracted over 50 delegates from five continents. A paper based on this conference is to be submitted for publication. The meeting concluded that: Provision of comprehensive primary care computerised medical records should be part of all national IT strategies. And, that this provision had three components: (1) Adequately resourced technical infrastructure; (2) Training and development of a cadre of knowledgeable practitioners of primary care informatics; (3) Developing the academic discipline of primary care informatics so that the results
experimental work underpin its core generaliseable theory. 5. Presentations at the STC in Athens Members of the working group presented at the Special Topic Conference “Health and Medical Informatics Applications - Educational Aspects.” In addition a working group meeting was held at the conference Future activities: MIE2005 – Geneva 2005 The working group plans to take an active part in this conference. Summary: The primary care working group would like to hear from any primary care professional with an interest in participating in working group activities. The group is keen to boost its membership, and keen to encourage primary care informatics streams within EFMI events. Publications: de Lusignan S. Introduction to the Primary Care Informatics Working Group of the European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI). Informatics in Primary Care. 2003;11(3):175-6. de Lusignan S. What is primary care informatics? Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 2003 Jul-Aug;10(4):304-9.
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Objectives: EFMI WG NLU To organize workshops dedicated to the WG topics at each MIE conference, and other events. To participate to related MEDINFO workshops. Natural Language To organize special topic conferences on Natural Language related subjects. Understanding To have personal connections with people involved in NLP in the medical domain, especially in Europe, and to learn about their current developments and activities. To develop connections with experts in the general NLP domain and to participate to related Chair: events (ACL, COLING, …). Robert Baud Division d’Informatique Médicale To represent EFMI at IMIA WG on Knowledge Representation; to represent EFMI at Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève AMIA SIG on NLP; to represent EFMI at MEDINFO; to represent EFMI at AIME. In CH-1211 GENEVA 14, Switzerland general, to participate to events of these entities. E-mail: [email protected] Recent activities: Co-chair: • AMIA SIG on NLP has been open under chairmanship of Stephen Johnson; EFMI Patrick Ruch NLU WG is actively represented by chair and co-chair persons. Last meeting was in Division d’Informatique Médicale San Francisco, Medinfo 2004. Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève • Organisation of the Special Topic Conference on NLPBA (Natural Language Processing CH-1211 GENEVA 14 Switzerland for Biomedical Applications) at COLING in Geneva, August 2004. Following this Email: [email protected] event, a special issue of an international journal should publish the most relevant papers. • A workshop on NLU has taken place at the Saint Malo MIE’2003 conference. • A joint workshop of NLU with AMIA and IMIA corresponding working groups was organized in Medinfo 2004, on the junction of medical informatics and bioinformatics, seeking for common tools and possibly common developments in the future. An attendance of some 50 persons debated on this topic and others.
Future activities: • The IMIA WG6 has now decided to organize a working conference in 2005 in Rome, Italy. After two rounds in the US, the next one is in Europe. Professor Barry Smith has been elected has chair of the WG6 with the mandate of organizing the next working conference. EFMI WG8 is in close contact with the organizers helping in the setting up of this event. • The next MIE 2005 conference in Geneva is a target for a new workshop of the NLU WG. A keynote speaker from the US will be invited for the conference and this should drive discussions on the future of NLP applications. • Several groups involved with NLP have recognized the need of more elaborated ontologies. NLU is a forum of discussion in Europe with the goal to prepare and to submit new ontology-based research projects to the European Union for funding. The existence of several languages in Europe makes the need of such ontologies more important than it is at other places.
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Objectives: EFMI WG OIMI To organize workshops and tutorials dedicated to the WG topics at MIE conferences and other events Organisational To establish networks of people involved in human and organizational issues in the Impact of Medical healthcare domain, and to learn about new developments and their activities To disseminate knowledge about human and organizational issues by various activities, Informatics such as conferences, educational events, publications To encourage individuals to publish their research and other work in journals Chair: Recent activities: Jos Aarts A workshop was held at MIE2003 in St Malo (France), May 2003. Dept. Of Health Policy The special issue of Methods of Information in Medicine with selected papers from the and Management first ITHC conference (Information Technology in Health Care: Sociotechnical Erasmus University Medical Center Approaches) has been published in the fall of 2003 (vol. 42 no. 4). PO Box 1738, 3000 DR Rotterdam At Medinfo2004 IMIA Working Group 13 ‘Organizational and Social Issues of Medical The Netherlands Informatics’ AMIA People and Organizational Issues Working Group and EFMI WG E-mail: [email protected] OIMI organized a joint business meeting. Several papers, workshops and panels covering the domain of EFMI WG OIMI have been presented at MedInfo2004. After Medinfo2004, on September 13 and 14, 2004, a two-day working conference ‘Sociotechnical Approaches in Health Informatics’ was held in Portland, Oregon. This working conference was a follow-up to the successful sociotechnical conference in Rotterdam. Selected papers will be published in a special issue of the International Journal of Medical Informatics. The conference aimed at presenting new research and insights from the medical informatics, information systems and social studies of science and technology communities. The website is http://medir.ohsu.edu/ithc2004/. Enquiries about the follow-up of ITHC2004 and the special issue can be from Paul Gorman (OHSU), at e-mail: [email protected], or Jos Aarts at e-mail: [email protected]. Future activities: As custom a workshop and a business meeting will be held at MIE2005, and colleagues will be encouraged to submit papers in the domain of OIMI. See http://www.mie2005.net. ITHC2007 will be held in Australia in conjunction with Medinfo2007.
Objectives: EFMI WG MICIT To promote exchange of information between actors in Europe, developing regions and world-wide, for improved access and use of data and knowledge. Medical Informatics To investigate the needs, opportunities and obstacles for health information systems, in Countries in informatics and telematics in developing regions. To disseminate European and world-wide results and experiences across developing Transition regions and professionals To facilitate access to European groups and their facilities and outcomes by students, Chair: medical practitioners, nurses, health managers and any other person from developing Ass. Prof. Lacramioara Stoicu-Tivadar regions interested in learning and working together with partners in Europe and other Faculty of Automation and Computers industrialised countries University “Politehnica” Timisoara To analyse and promote the use of Internet resources and applications to bridge gaps Bd. V. Parvan 2 between north and south and between west and east, to act as a clearinghouse of 300223, Timisoara, ROMANIA information on resources of all kinds of mutual interest to health informatics and Tel: +40 256 403234 telematics participants in Europe and developing regions. E-mail: [email protected] To review and select from different education options for the medical informatics domain from a range or experien
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Recent activities: EFMI WG MICIT November 2003: Meeting in Bruxelles between M. Sosa and L. Stoicu-Tivadar and in Medical Informatics in Timisoara with George Mihalas in order to establish a good “transition” and harmonize Countries in Transition the groups’ interests and objectives. (Continued) May 2004: Organizing a Workshop on European dimensions of health informatics: barriers and driving forces. Results: Co-chair/Secretary: • An exchange of information between individuals from Romania and Hungary mostly Dr. Marcelo Sosa-Iudicissa regarding the education in the medical informatics domain, seen from a Medical Directorate General for Research, University and from 2 technical universities points of view. STOA, European Parliament • Discussions on the Bologna document and presentation of various intentions of Rue Wiertz 60 implementation for the two countries. B-1047 Brussels, Belgium Tel: +32 2 284 17 76 September 2004: Participation as co-organizer at the workshop “Bridging the Digital E-mail: [email protected] Divide: e-Health for Development”, prepared jointly with IMIA Working Group 9 “Health Informatics for Development”, within the frame of MEDINFO 2004 in SanFrancisco. Future activities: Establish an Internet based discussion group concerning implementation of healthcare information systems, to attract experts from consulting companies to express their opinions on practical cases and launch the need for standards in all countries, including the ones in transition. Identify the ability of the countries in transition to approach the interoperability concept and the capacity of integration regarding the health information systems.
Objectives: EFMI WG EHR The working group deals with the issue of electronic health records in the different levels of development. Such levels concern the case level, organisational level, regional level, Electronic Health national level, and international level. In that context, the Working Group supports • studies on specification, implementation, and promotion of standards for EHR, Record • the modelling of its architecture and its interoperability, as well as • the education on that topic. Chair: The EFMI Working Group “Electronic Healthcare Records” PD Dr. Bernd Blobel • organises workshops dedicated to the WG’s topics, Fraunhofer Institut Integrierte • supports contacts to the scene, Schaltungen • represents EFMI to corresponding structures within IMIA as well as other Am Wolfsmantel 33 organisations dealing with the topic. D-91058 Erlangen Germany The EFMI Working Group “Electronic Healthcare Records” especially deals with the Tel: +49-9131-776-5830 • analysis of different EHCR approaches, harmonising tools and methods for Fax: +49-9131-776-588 specification, presentation, implementation and use for common views, E-Mail: [email protected] • consideration and evaluation of the single model versus the dual model approach, especially, Co-chair: • population of CEN prENV OCC with KR and Archetypes, David Lloyd • harmonisation of terminology used, University College London • correction, refinement and harmonisation of UML models defined in different Centre for Health Informatics & approaches, Multiprofessional Education Highgate Hill, London, England The EFMI Working Group “Electronic Healthcare Records” strongly co-operates with Tel: +44 171 288 3364 the EUROREC initiative and its supporting institutions as well as with global EHR Fax: +44 171 288 3322 (Please mark activities such as the openEHR Foundation FAO: David Lloyd The Working Group co-operates strongly with the EFMI WGs “Security, Safety and E-mail: [email protected] Ethics” and “Communications and Interoperability” and other organisations dealing with the issues of EHR
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Recent activities: EFMI WG EHR During the report period, several working conferences and workshops have been organised Electronic Health Record and tutorials have been provided partially in co-operation with other organisations. In that context, Chair and Co-Chair acted as Conference Organisers, Chair of the Scientific (Continued) Programme Committee as well as Keynote Speakers. With strong support of the former EFMI President, Rolf Engelbrecht, the following activities have been realised: • EHR Working Group Meeting during the MIE 2003 in St. Maló • EHR Workshop at the Annual Conference of the German Society for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology (GMDS), organised in co-operation with the GMDS Working Group “Standards for communications and interoperability” (14-18 September 2003, Muenster, Germany) • EFMI Special Topic Conference 2003 “The content of EHR: Clinical Data sets for continuity of care and evidence-based medicine” (6-7 October 2003, Rome, Italy) •6th EuroRec Conference (12-15 November 2003, Dublin) • EFMI Symposium on “Electronic Health Record, Healthcare Registers and Telemedicine“ within the framework of the International Joint Meeting EuroMISE 2004 (13-16 April 2003, Prague) Among others, invited presentations on behalf of the EFMI Working Group “Electronic Health Record” or presentations on the WG’s topics have been given to: • IMIA WG4 Working Conference “Realising Security of Electronic Health Record” (31 may – 3 June 2003, Varenna, Italy) • TEHRE 2003 (2-4 December 2003, London) Beyond the report period, the following activities of the EFMI Working Group “Electronic Health Record” have been prepared and partially realised: • EFMI Workshop on EHR Security within the framework of the International Conference for Medical Communications and Compunetics (ICMCC; 2-4 June 2004, The Hague, The Netherlands), organised in co-operation with the EFMI WG “Security” and the GMDS Working Group “Standards for communications and interoperability”
• EFMI Special Topic Conference 2004 “MIE 2004 - Contributions of Medical Informatics to Health” (14-15 June 2004, Munich, Germany) Further activities have been dealt with the following aspects: • Promotion of modelling and tooling for advanced EHR • Moving the structure-based models to real components specifying structure and functionality • Contributions to activities within ISO TC 215 and CEN TC 215 for representing the Working Group interests • Official partner of the global openEHR initiative Future activities: Selected results of the aforementioned conferences will be published as Special Issues in international journals: Selected papers from EFMI Symposium on “Electronic Health Record, Healthcare Registers and Telemedicine“ (Prague) will be published as Special Issue of the International Journal of Medical Informatics Selected papers from EFMI Special Topic Conference 2004 “MIE 2004 - Contributions of Medical Informatics to Health” (Munich) will be published as Special Issue of Methods of Information in Medicine and Biology Support of, and contributions to, conferences, tutorials, and other activities on the EFMI WG’s topics. Detailed information about the events mentioned as well as about publications provided in the WG’s context can be requested by the WG Chair. Publications: Blobel B, Stassinopoulos G, Pharow P (2003) Model-Based Design and Implementation of Secure, Interoperable EHR Systems. In: Musen MA, Friedman CP, Teich JM (Edrs.): AMIA 2003 Symposium “Biomedical and Health Informatics: From Foundations to
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Applications”, pp. 96-100. American Medical Informatics Association 2003 Proceedings, EFMI WG EHR Bethesda. Electronic Health Record Blobel B (2003) Architecture and tools for open, interoperable and portable EHRs. In: (Continued) Nerlich M and Schaechinger U (Edrs): Integration of Health Telematics into Medical Practice, pp. 25-33. Series Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, Vol. 97. IOS Press, Amsterdam. Routsalainen P (2004) Security Requirements in EHR systems and Archives. In: Bos L, Laxminarayan S, Marsh A (Edrs.): Medical and Care Compunetics 1. Series Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, Vol. 103. IOS Press, Amsterdam. Nordberg R (2004) Policy Management and Access Control in Practise. In: Bos L, Laxminarayan S, Marsh A (Edrs.): Medical and Care Compunetics 1, 428-433. Series Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, Vol. 103. IOS Press, Amsterdam. Katsikas S, Kokolakis S (2004) High Level Security Policies for Health Care Establishments. In: Bos L, Laxminarayan S, Marsh A (Edrs.): Medical and Care Compunetics 1, 407-415. Series Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, Vol. 103. IOS Press, Amsterdam. Defteraios S, Lambrinoudakis C, Gritzalis D (2004) High Level Security Policies for Health: From Theory to Practice. In: Bos L, Laxminarayan S, Marsh A (Edrs.): Medical and Care Compunetics 1, 416-423. Series Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, Vol. 103. IOS Press, Amsterdam. Pommerening K, Reng M (2004) Secondary Use of the EHR via Pseudonymisation. In: Bos L, Laxminarayan S, Marsh A (Edrs.): Medical and Care Compunetics 1, 441-446. Series Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, Vol. 103. IOS Press, Amsterdam. Trpisovsky T (2004) Electronic Health Record on Cards. In: Bos L, Laxminarayan S, Marsh A (Edrs.): Medical and Care Compunetics 1 459-464. Series Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, Vol. 103. IOS Press, Amsterdam. Quantin C et al. (2004) A Peculiar Aspect of Patients’ Safety: The Discriminating Power
of Identifiers for Record Linkage. In: Bos L, Laxminarayan S, Marsh A (Edrs.): Medical and Care Compunetics 1, 400-406. Series Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, Vol. 103. IOS Press, Amsterdam. Louwerse K (2004) Access Control Management in Practical Settings. In: Bos L, Laxminarayan S, Marsh A (Edrs.): Medical and Care Compunetics 1, 4424-227. Series Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, Vol. 103. IOS Press, Amsterdam. Posthumus L (2004) Use of the ISO/IEC 17799 Framework in Healthcare Information Security Management. In: Bos L, Laxminarayan S, Marsh A (Edrs.): Medical and Care Compunetics 1, 447-452. Series Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, Vol. 103. IOS Press, Amsterdam. Blobel B, Pharow P (2004) Implementing MDA-based Distributed Interoperable, Flexible, Scalable, Portable ans Secure EHR Systems. In: Bos L, Laxminarayan S, Marsh A (Edrs.): Medical and Care Compunetics 1, 394-399. Series Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, Vol. 103. IOS Press, Amsterdam. Blobel B, Pharow P (2004) MDA-based EHR Application Security Services. In: Bos L, Laxminarayan S, Marsh A (Edrs.): Medical and Care Compunetics 1, 387-393. Series Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, Vol. 103. IOS Press, Amsterdam. Pharow P, Blobel B (2004) Security Infrastructure Services for Electronic Archives and Electronic Health Records. In: Bos L, Laxminarayan S, Marsh A (Edrs.): Medical and Care Compunetics 1, 434-440. Series Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, Vol. 103. IOS Press, Amsterdam. Blobel B (2004) Advanced EHR architectures – promises or reality. In: Blobel B, Gell G, Hildebrabd C, Engelbrecht R (Edrs.): EFMI Special Topic Conference MIE 2004 “Contribution of Medical Informatics to Health”, 73-78. AKA, Berlin. Takabayashi K, Yamazaki S, Okamura H (2004) EMInet:EMR sharing system on an urban-wide scale in Japan. In: Blobel B, Gell G, Hildebrabd C, Engelbrecht R (Edrs.): EFMI Special Topic Conference MIE 2004 “Contribution of Medical Informatics to Health”, 79-80. AKA, Berlin. IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics 2005 95 Information on IMIA Regional Groups
Andersen SK, Nøhr Ch, Bernstein K, Bruun-Rasmussen M, Vingtoft S (2004) EHR EFMI WG EHR implementation in Denmark – an ongoing process. In: Blobel B, Gell G, Hildebrabd C, Electronic Health Record Engelbrecht R (Edrs.): EFMI Special Topic Conference MIE 2004 “Contribution of Medical Informatics to Health”, 81-82. AKA, Berlin. (Continued) Holm M, Andersen SK (2004) Development and practical implementation of Archetypes in an EHR-system. In: Blobel B, Gell G, Hildebrabd C, Engelbrecht R (Edrs.): EFMI Special Topic Conference MIE 2004 “Contribution of Medical Informatics to Health”, 83-84. AKA, Berlin. Baud R (2004) Natural language processing in the EHR context. In: Blobel B, Gell G, Hildebrabd C, Engelbrecht R (Edrs.): EFMI Special Topic Conference MIE 2004 “Contribution of Medical Informatics to Health”, 85. AKA, Berlin. Tessier C (2004) Electronic Health Record vs. Continuity of Care Record. In: Blobel B, Gell G, Hildebrabd C, Engelbrecht R (Edrs.): EFMI Special Topic Conference MIE 2004 “Contribution of Medical Informatics to Health”, 86. AKA, Berlin. Klein F (2004) What is the present status of electronic patient’s record in Germany – a user’s personal experience. In: Blobel B, Gell G, Hildebrabd C, Engelbrecht R (Edrs.): EFMI Special Topic Conference MIE 2004 “Contribution of Medical Informatics to Health”, 87- 89. AKA, Berlin.
Objectives: EFMI WG SSE Speeding up the use of ICT for health care increases the challenge for trustworthiness, security and safety of solutions and infrastructure deployed. The EFMI Working Group Security, Safety ”Security, Safety and Ethics” aims to promote development, education and training on and Ethics the field of security and privacy in health. Relationships to other Working Groups: The EFMI Working Group ”Security, Safety and Ethics” establishes close collaboration Chair: with other Working Groups within EFMI and beyond for securing their ICT solutions for PD Dr. Bernd Blobel health and for promoting the awareness on security and privacy in this domain. It realises Associate Professor, Fraunhofer close relationships with and supports the IMIA WG 4 the European perspectives. Institut Integrierte Schaltungen, Activities: Am Wolfsmantel 33, D-91058 Erlangen, The EFMI Working Group ”Security, Safety and Ethics” organises conference, conference Germany sessions, workshops, tutorials and training courses on the security and privacy field, Tel: +49-9131-776-5830 especially using the framework of EFMI Conferences and other MI events such as Fax: +49-9131-776-588 MEDINFO. E-mail: [email protected] The EFMI Working Group ”Security, Safety and Ethics” publishes scientific and practical papers and materials, especially using EFMI-related groups and means such as the EFMI WG ”Education”, ”Public Relations” and the International Journals of Medical Informatics. Recent activities: During the report period, a working conference and has been organised in co-operation with the EFMI Working Group ”Electronic Health Records”. Furthermore, a tutorial was given in co-operation with IMIA WG 4 during MEDINFO 2004. The Chair acted as Conference Organiser, Chair of the Scientific Programme Committee as well as Keynote Speaker. Following activities have been realised: - EHR Working Group Meeting during the MIE 2003 in St. Maló (managed by Ragnar Nordberg) - IMIA WG4 Working Conference ”Realising Security of Electronic Health Record” (31 may – 3 June 2003, Varenna, Italy) - EFMI Workshop on EHR Security within the framework of the International Conference for Medical Communications and Compunetics (ICMCC; 2-4 June 2004, The Hague, The Netherlands), organised in co-operation with the EFMI WG ”Security” and the GMDS Working Group ”Standards for communications and interoperability”
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- Open Working Group Meeting during the ICMCC (managed by Ragnar Nordberg on EFMI WG SSE behalf of the workshop’s organiser Bernd Blobel) Security, Safety and Next activities: Ethics (Continued) Support of, and contributions to, conferences, tutorials, and other activities on the EFMI WG’s topics. The EFMI WG ”Security, Safety and Ethics” will actively contribute to the IMIA WG4 Working Conference in Dijon (27-29 April 2006). Publications: Routsalainen P (2004) Security Requirements in EHR systems and Archives. In: Bos L, Laxminarayan S, Marsh A (Edrs.): Medical and Care Compunetics 1. Series Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, Vol. 103. IOS Press, Amsterdam. Nordberg R (2004) Policy Management and Access Control in Practise. In: Bos L, Laxminarayan S, Marsh A (Edrs.): Medical and Care Compunetics 1, 428-433. Series Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, Vol. 103. IOS Press, Amsterdam. Katsikas S, Kokolakis S (2004) High Level Security Policies for Health Care Establishments. In: Bos L, Laxminarayan S, Marsh A (Edrs.): Medical and Care Compunetics 1, 407-415. Series Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, Vol. 103. IOS Press, Amsterdam. Defteraios S, Lambrinoudakis C, Gritzalis D (2004) High Level Security Policies for Health: From Theory to Practice. In: Bos L, Laxminarayan S, Marsh A (Edrs.): Medical and Care Compunetics 1, 416-423. Series Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, Vol. 103. IOS Press, Amsterdam. Pommerening K, Reng M (2004) Secondary Use of the EHR via Pseudonymisation. In: Bos L, Laxminarayan S, Marsh A (Edrs.): Medical and Care Compunetics 1, 441-446. Series Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, Vol. 103. IOS Press, Amsterdam. Trpisovsky T (2004) Electronic Health Record on Cards. In: Bos L, Laxminarayan S, Marsh
A (Edrs.): Medical and Care Compunetics 1 459-464. Series Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, Vol. 103. IOS Press, Amsterdam. Quantin C et al. (2004) A Peculiar Aspect of Patients’ Safety: The Discriminating Power of Identifiers for Record Linkage. In: Bos L, Laxminarayan S, Marsh A (Edrs.): Medical and Care Compunetics 1, 400-406. Series Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, Vol. 103. IOS Press, Amsterdam. Louwerse K (2004) Access Control Management in Practical Settings. In: Bos L, Laxminarayan S, Marsh A (Edrs.): Medical and Care Compunetics 1, 4424-227. Series Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, Vol. 103. IOS Press, Amsterdam. Posthumus L (2004) Use of the ISO/IEC 17799 Framework in Healthcare Information Security Management. In: Bos L, Laxminarayan S, Marsh A (Edrs.): Medical and Care Compunetics 1, 447-452. Series Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, Vol. 103. IOS Press, Amsterdam. Blobel B, Pharow P (2004) Implementing MDA-based Distributed Interoperable, Flexible, Scalable, Portable ans Secure EHR Systems. In: Bos L, Laxminarayan S, Marsh A (Edrs.): Medical and Care Compunetics 1, 394-399. Series Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, Vol. 103. IOS Press, Amsterdam. Blobel B, Pharow P (2004) MDA-based EHR Application Security Services. In: Bos L, Laxminarayan S, Marsh A (Edrs.): Medical and Care Compunetics 1, 387-393. Series Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, Vol. 103. IOS Press, Amsterdam. Pharow P, Blobel B (2004) Security Infrastructure Services for Electronic Archives and Electronic Health Records. In: Bos L, Laxminarayan S, Marsh A (Edrs.): Medical and Care Compunetics 1, 434-440. Series Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, Vol. 103. IOS Press, Amsterdam.
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Objectives: EFMI WG MIP To establish a reference image database for medical image processing research and development groups within the EFMI member countries Medical Image To establish a web-based information system for European image processing groups and Processing their current activities To create and maintain a working group website providing public information and (in a protected sub-area) WG-internal documents and work plans Chair: To organize and conduct workshops dedicated to the WG topics at the MIE conferences Assoc. Prof. Dr. Dr. Alexander Horsch and other events Dept. of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology To build and maintain close relationship with persons, groups, organizations and Munich University of Technology standardization bodies working on the MIP field and medical domains involved Ismaninger Str. 22 Recent activities: D-81675 Munich, Germany The Reference Image Database Work Prototype RID-WP 1.0 has been under discussion E-mail: alexander.horsch in the working group. Promotion of the initiative has been done on various occasions, @imse.med.tu-muenchen.de such as national image workshops and conferences, or by a conceptual publication in a special Issue of the Methods of Information in Medicine journal. Close collaboration Co-chair: with the US Cancer Imaging Program of the National Cancer Institute, and the Insight Dr. Thomas Wittenberg Software Consortium and Kitware Inc. has been started. This shall in particular help in Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated pushing the efforts, create synergies and avoid uncoordinated parallel developments. Circuits IIS On behalf of the working group, co-chair Thomas Wittenberg has participated as panelist Dept. of Image Processing and in the Breakout Session 2: Databases as Required for Assessment and Application of Medical Engineering Software Tools (moderated by Maryellen Giger) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Am Wolfsmantel 33 symposium on Biomedical Informatics for Clinical Decision Support: A Vision for the D-91058 Erlangen, Germany 21st Century, jointly organized and coordinated by the Bioengineering Consortium E-mail: [email protected] (BECON) and Technology Initiative Consortium (BISTIC), June 21-22, 2004 on the NIH main campus in Bethesda, Maryland. The meeting was very fruitful, ending up with short Co-chair:
term (< 5 years) and long term (> 5 years) recommendations for how to build up reference Dr. Vytenis Punys databases. The recommendations are available on the WG Website www.efmi-wg- Image Processing & Analysis Lab mip.net. Computational Technologies Centre nd Kaunas University of Technology The 2 WG workshop with seven presentations has been held successfully at Medical Studentu 56-304 Informatics Europe (MIE) conference 2003 in Saint Malo on Monday, May 5th, 2003 on LT-51424 Kaunas, Lithuania the topic Integration of Medical Image Processing into Clinical Workflow and the rd E-mail: [email protected] Electronic Patient Record. The 3 WG Workshop with the topic Medical Image Processing for Health – State of the Art, Challenges and Obstacles has taken place on 16 June 2004, Munich, Germany, at the EFMI Special Topic Conference 2004. The participation for both events was very good. Lively discussions and new contacts made have made both events a success for the working group. All presentations are available on the WG Website. The cooperation with CARS (Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery) has been continued, the contacts to the organizers have been intensified. After the jointly organized scientific session on ”Image Processing and Display” consisting of 15 presentations at CARS’2003 in London, UK, it was decided to skip the CARS’2004 in Chicago and concentrate on the next conference in Berlin, 2005 (see below). A WG meeting has taken place at EFMI Special Topic Conference in Munich on June 16th, 2004. Strategy and harmonization of efforts for reference image databases stood in the focus of this very productive meeting (protocol see WG Website). Future activities: It has been decided in a WG chair meeting in Munich in June 2004, not to postpone the implementation of a Web-based Information System for European Image Processing Groups any more until funding is available. Instead, a first version shall be implemented with students at Kaunas University, Lithuania, under the leadership of WG co-chair Vytenis Punys. For CARS’2005 conference in Berlin it is planned to organize a special track about “Medical Image Data Reference Archives and Correlated Software Tools and
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Technologies” co-operatively by CARS and EFMI. EFMI WG MIP With the Cancer Imaging Program of the National Cancer Institute the working group will Medical Image Processing harmonize the efforts and try to strengthen the position for another application for (Continued) funding by the European Commission. Human networking will be intensified for this purpose, taking the preparatory work, done for a Network of Excellence application to the EC last year, as a starting point. With the Insight Software Consortium and Kitware Inc. an improved version of the RID- WP will be used for hosting of the image datasets of a new medical image processing online journal. Contributors to this journal will have to deliver their image datasets, algorithms and parameters they have used to create the results to be published, and the image datasets shall be stored in the database of the working group. Publications: Clarke L: The LIDC Database Project. In: Blobel B, Gell G, Hildebrand C, Engelbrecht R (eds): Contribution of Medical Informatics to Health (EFMI STC’2004). Aka Verlag, Berlin, 2004, 128 Horsch A, Prinz M, Schneider S, Sipilä O, Spinnler K, Vallée JP, Verdonck-de Leeuw I, Vogl R, Wittenberg T, Zahlmann G: Establishing an International Reference Image Database for Research and Development in Medical Image Processing. Methods Inf Med 43(4)2004:409-412 Horsch A: The Potential of Medical Image Processing and the Need for Reference Data and Software to Accelerate its Exploitation for Patients’ Health. EFMI STC’2004, 126 Punys V: About an Initiative to Build a European Network of Excellence for Medical Image Processing. EFMI STC’2004, 127 Wittenberg T: The Basic Principles of the Reference Image Database Concept of EFMI WG MIP. EFMI STC’2004, 129
Objectives of the WG: EFMI WG EVAL • To foster interdisciplinary discussion on evaluation issues in health informatics. Evaluation • To support communication on evaluation topics by organizing tutorials and workshops. • To promote European networking on evaluation issues in health informatics. Chair: Recent activities: Elske Ammenwerth The working group was founded in August 2002 during MIE2002 in Budapest. Recent University for Health Sciences, activities: Medical Informatics and Technology Tyrol (UMIT) • Operation of a website (http://www.umit.at/efmi) and an international mailing list on 6060 Hall, Austria evaluation (http://www.umit.at/mailman/listinfo/eval) E-mail: [email protected] • Organization of an evaluation tutorial and of two workshops (one on evaluation education, the other on evaluation practice) at MIE2003 in St. Malo, May 2003. Co-Chairs: • Contribution to the ESF Exploratory Workshop on Systematic Evaluation of Health Pirkko Nykanen Information Systems (HIS-EVAL), April 2003, Innsbruck. Tampere University, Finland Future activities: E-mail: [email protected] • Operation of a website (http://www.umit.at/efmi) and an international mailing list on evaluation (http://www.umit.at/mailman/listinfo/eval) with now more than 230 Jytte Brender members. Aalborg University, Denmark • Organization of a workshop on ”Good evaluation of Health Informatics Applications” E-mail: [email protected] with more than 60 participants at Medinfo 2004, September 2004, San Francisco, together with IMIA WG 15. • Contribution as SPC members to the organization of the EFMI Special Topic Conference MIE STC 2004 in Munich, June 2004, on ”Contribution of Medical Informatics to Health Care”. A special issue on this conference in an international journal is co-edited by the WG chair. • Organization of a tutorial on evaluation of IT in health care with around 20 participants
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during MIE STC 2004, June 2004, Munich. EFMI WG EVAL • Finalization and publication of the Declaration of Innsbruck (see Publications). Evaluation (Continued) • Creation of a web page on ”How bad health informatics can negatively affect patient care” (http://www.umit.at/efmi). • Creation of an Inventory of more than 1.000 abstracts on evaluation studies, available at http://evaldb.umit.at. Future activities: The working group is working on the following activities, which are done in cooperation with IMIA WG 15: • Development of guidelines for Good Evaluation Practice (GEP-HI). • Development of standards for reporting on evaluation studies (STARE-HI). • Contribution to the establishment of an evaluation portal. Publications: • Ammenwerth E, Brender J, Nykänen P, Prokosch H-U, Rigby M, Talmon J, on behalf of the HIS-EVAL network. Visions and strategies to improve evaluation of health information systems - Reflections and lessons based on the HIS-EVAL workshop in Innsbruck. Int J Med Inf 2004 Jun 30;73(6):479-91.
Membership 34 members EFMI WG Cards The membership is open to everyone who agrees to the WG’s objectives, tries to actively participate and references to the WG whenever applicable. Chair: Objectives: Tomás Trpisovsky EFMI WG Cards aims at being a European competence centre to watch ongoing activities IMA s.r.o. - Institut and to provide knowledge to policy makers and architect designers involved in the microelectronickych aplikaci deployment of cards related projects in the field of the healthcare sector.
Pod Vodovodem 2 CZ-15801 Praha 5 Three basic sectors are to be addressed: Czech Republic • Card oriented competence and know-how (incl. infrastructure) Tel: +4202-51081022 • Standardisation, harmonisation and interoperability Mobile: +420-603207900 • Marketing, dissemination and deployment of WG ideas and results E-Mail: [email protected] In more detail, the following activities are planned for: • Card oriented competence and know-how Co-chair: • Structured repository of card projects in the health sector Claudia Hildebrand • Acceptance and usability of cards/smart tokens GSF – Research Centre for • Security and safety aspects of cards Environment and Health • Standardisation, harmonisation and interoperability Ingolstädter Landstrasse 1 • Standardisation, harmonisation and interoperability; Health strategy – legislation, D-85764 Neuherberg, Germany assessment from the user’s point of view Tel: +49 893187-4182 • HPC + PDC interoperability / harmonisation Fax: +49 89 13187 3008 • Marketing, dissemination and deployment of WG ideas and results E-mail: [email protected] • List interests / competence of the different partners • Identify IT-trends • Watch the market: worldwide / Europeanwide • Lobbying • Educate people on cards and make them have a positive attitude • Review and monitor tenders and calls for applicable projects • Services, results of WG activities The EFMI Working Group ”Cards” strongly co-operates with EHTEL. The Working Group is open to everyone who • is interested in • attending the meetings; and in • contributing to the working islands/activities. • and who agrees • to the Working Group Cards’ Action Plan; and
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• to stating the origin of any background information drawn from the WG/ EFMI WG Cards respectively the WG’s activities (Continued) Recent activities: The working group was established in December 2004 continuing the activities of Smart Card Charter TB11. A home page was set up (http://medis.gsf.de/aktuell/EFMI_WG_CARDS/efmi.php). An activity plan was designed, discussed amongst the members of the WG and agreed upon. Work on the activities has been assumed. A form for establishing a data base on the members’ competence has been designed. WG meetings have taken place in Munich and in Budapest. A presentation on the WG is being designed for use of the members Members of the WG actively participated in • eHealth2003 • OSC#7 - meeting Milan Dec 2003 • Workshop on Cards on EUROMISE Prague April 2004 (co-organised by EHTEL/ Medtel and EFMI WG Cards) • OSC#8 - meeting London May 2004 • International Congress on Medical and Care Compunetics Members of the WG are actively contributing to activities within • ISO TC 215; • CEN/ISSS eHealth Standardisation Focus Group; and • CEN TC 215 Future activities: • WG meetings scheduled to take place in Munich June 16, 2004 and in Prague Dec. 9- 10, 2004.
• Contributing to various conferences, e.g. Medtel 2004 / eESC 9 Joint International Conference Prague, Dec 2004 • Contributing to • Promotion of the European Health Insurance Card. • Promotion of the interoperability of the patient cards. • Promotion of the introduction of Health professional Cards in different European Countries. • support of national card strategies & projects. • Contributing to activities within ISO TC 215, CEN/ISSS eHealth Standardisation Focus Group and CEN TC 215 for representing the Working Group interests. Next activities: • Organisation of the Workshop ”Cards” at EFMI STC in Neuherberg, Germany 2004 June 16, 2004 • Medtel 2004 / eESC 9 Joint International Conference Prague, Dec 2004 • Support of and contribution to conferences, tutorials, and other activities on the EFMI WG’s topics. Publications EFMI WG Cards homepage (http://medis.gsf.de/aktuell/EFMI_WG_CARDS/efmi.php) Trpišovský T., Electronic Health Record on Cards, in: Medical and Care Compunetics 1, Vol. 103 Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, L. Bos , S. Laxminarayan and A. Marsh (eds.), 2004, 488 pp. Hildebrand C., Trpišovský T., Health Cards and the need for a working group, Proceedings MIE 2004 Special Topic Conference, Blobel, Gell, Hildebrand, Engelbrecht (Eds.), AKA, Berlin (2004).
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Regional Representative's Report - Dr Yun audit report were presented and ap- APAMI Sik Kwak (APAMI President 2003-2006) proved unanimously by the members present. Regional Editor: Yun Sik Kwak 1. Membership of APAMI c. As had been discussed in 2003 AGA Meeting, the APAMI account will be Since reported in the IMIA Year Book kept as an independent account in a 2004, there has not been a significant most efficient manner in an APAMI change; currently membership of the member society country in the future. APAMI consists of 15 medical informatics For this Treasurer will study the societies representing Australia, China, possible method to achieve it. Hong Kong SAR, India, Japan, Korea, d. Ms Joan Edgecombe (HISA) made Malaysia, New Zealand, Pakistan, presentation on Med Info 2007 which Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, will be held in August 2007 in Brisbane Thailand and Vietnam. Bangladesh, Convention Hall, Australia. Indonesia and Kazakhstan have been e. Members were reminded of WG observer members. Bangladesh, India and Standardization inaugural meeting Indonesia are very keen on forming its which will be held in Juju, Korea during own national societies and many of their October 7 – 9 and implementation of members have applied for correspondence SNOMED-CT discussion will also be membership with the IMIA. included at this meeting. Forth coming NI Conference 2006 in Seoul, Korea 2. GA Meeting of APAMI was also announced. f. It is agreed that APAMI MIC will be There have been two APAMI GA Meetings held in between years of regular triennial in 2004, the first GAM of the APAMI was APAMI MIC and Med Info to make held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on April 6, annual conference of APAMI. The host 2004 in conjunction with e-Health Asia society of this between year confer- 2004 with 12 member societies attending ences will not have obligation to (Hong Kong SAR, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, contribute fund to APAMI account,
Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, however, it hosts AGA Meeting. Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Taiwan and Vietnam). 3. Activity of APAMI Member Society In the AGA Meeting the following a. e-Health Asia 2004 was held in Kuala resolutions were made: Lumpur, Malaysia during April 6 – 8, 2004 with approximately 300 attendees a. Dr. Kumara Mendis (Sri Lanka) was and distinguished speakers from appointed by members as the Chair of around world. Working Group 2, Developing b. The 2nd CHITA (China Health Countries. Informatics Technology Association) b. Members agreed to form a new Working annual Meeting was very successfully Group 3, Decision Support and members held in Shanghai, China during May 16 were invited to volunteer to work with – 18, 2004. The meeting was also WGs. participated by many distinguished c. Members agreed to create a free Medical speakers from the US and other Informatics e-learning site on the countries. APAMI web site. c. Korean Society of Medical Informatics 2004 Spring Conference was held on The second APAMI GAM was held in San June 25, 2004 with approximately 300 Francisco, U.S.A. on September 8, 2004 attendees; the ”Theme” was e-Health during MedInfo 2004 with 9 member and u-Health. societies attending (Australia, China, Hong d. The 3rd Asia HL7 Cross Strait Kong SAR, Japan, Korea, Philippines, Conference was held in Taipei, Taiwan Singapore and Taiwan). during July 9 – 10, 2004. Approximately In the second AGA Meeting the following 300 attended the excellent meeting with resolutions were made: international HL7 experts speaking. e. The HL7 Japan Annual Meeting was a. The minutes of the previous meeting held in Tokyo, Japan on July 13 with will be circulated through an electronic approximately 200 attendees. Speakers means to have it approved. introduced new development in HL7 b. Treasurer’s (Dr. CP Wong) report and standards activities. IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics 2005 103 Information on IMIA Regional Groups
f. The Taiwan government announced Informatics and Application of Fuzzy APAMI (Continued) an ambitious 5-year project on NHII Theory in Healthcare are planned to be (National Health Informatics Infra- held in December, 2004 in Hanoi, structure) in conjunction with already Vietnam. existing IC card application in health. Many other member society activities have g. Vietnam Ministry of Health established also been planned to be held in fall, 2004. the National Health Informatics Development Centre and Prof. Ngyuen Phuong was appointed as the Director. 4. APAMI WG Activity h. At MedInfo 2004, 9 of the APAMI - APAMI WG1, Standardization (Chair : member societies (Australia, China, Yun S Kwak) inaugural meeting is Hong Kong SAR, India, Japan, Korea, planned to be held in Jeju, Korea during Philippines, Singapore and Taiwan) October 7 – 9, 2004 to discuss future made total of 81 presentations including work items including EHR, messaging paper presentations, workshops and and communication, SNOMED-CT, panel discussions. Healthcard and others. - WG 2, Developing Country (Chair: The major future regional activities Kumara Mendis) and include: - WG 3, Decision Support (Chair : TBA) a. JAMI(Japan Association of Medical have been approved to start activities Informatics) and CJK (China, Japan, in 2004. Korea) MI Annual Conference is scheduled to be held in Nagoya 5. Next APAMI Meetings International Convention Center, Japan during October 26 – 27, 2004. a. The next APAMI MIC2006 is b. HKSMI (Hong Kong Society of scheduled to be held in Taiwan in 2006. Medical Informatics) is going to b. The next APAMI GAM will be held in the Philippines in conjunction with the organize a local health informatics conference — “The Next Generation first APAMI between year Annual MI — Alternative Approaches” on 10th Conference in the spring of 2005. December 2004 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. The 6. APAMI Web Site theme will encompass both Health A new site is being updated at http:// Informatics and Enterprise Resource www.apami.net by APAMI former Planning. secretary Dr. H Tolentino, secretary Dr. c. International Conferences on Health HM Goh and Vice-president Dr. Jack Li.
Helina2003, the Africa Regional Conference be his third successive term. Dr Helina - took place in Gauteng in South Africa. The Maduhu was then elected as joint conference was a great success a great representative with Sedick. African Region success. Abstracts will be published on 3. The next Helina Conference will take the Helina web. More participants from the place in Arusha in Tanzania in 2005 French speaking countries are needed. with support from the other East African Regional Editor: Sedick Isaacs Countries. Dr I Maduhu will start this An Africa Regional meeting was also held. initiative. The meeting made the following decisions: 1. Interest groups will be set up to try and Dr. Sedick Isaacs present a papers on the respective Department of Information Management interest at the next Helina. Follow up Groote Schuur Hospital reports on projects presented at the Observatory current conference will also be invited. 7925 South Africa 2. Sedick Isaacs was nominated to another E-mail: [email protected] term as African Representative at IMIA. Tel: +27 21 404 2058 Sedick however, indicated that this will Fax: +27 21 404 2070
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Regional President's Report available in Spanish and English. IMIA-LAC 1. Conferences: www.informaticamedica.org The Latin-America The IX Brazilian Conference on Health Informatics will be held in Ribeirão Preto, Cuba and Caribbean SP, from November 7th to 10th, 2004. Ribeirão SOCIM - Sociedad Cubana de Informática Preto has 3 Medical Schools and a large Medica Federation of student community. The Conference is Health Informatics expected to attract some 1,000 people. Details www.cecam.sld.cu/socim/ can be found on www.cbis.org.br. In Cuba, a series of activities have been The Conference will have as Keynote developed that reinvigorates the Cuban Regional Editor: Speakers, Dr Nacy Lorenzi, from IMIA; Dr Health Informatics Society, SCIS, as a Lincoln A. Moura Jr. Kunio Doi, from the US; Mr Joseph Dal catalyzer of Healthcare Information Molin, from Canada; and Drs Andrés Systems for the Country. Martinez Fenandes and Pablo Garcia Keynotes Speeches: Tahoces, from Spain. Around 440 papers “Speaking of Science”, Dr. Ismael Clark, have been submitted to the Conference, of President of the Cuban Academy of which some 20% come from countries other Sciences. than Brazil, including Argentina, Cuba and Spain. “Cyber-infrastructure for Healthcare”, Mr. Pedro Urra, Director of the Medical The IV Latin-American Conference on Sciences Information Center. Biomedical Engineering was carried out in João Pessoa, Brazil from September 17-20. Meetings The Brazilian Health Informatics Health Informatics 2004, “Towards Association took part indirectly in the Information Systems for Primary Care”, Meeting, as Dr Lincoln A Moura, President carried out in March 24-27, 2004. of SBIS and President of IMIA-LAC
coordinated the themes related to Health Publications Informatics. Some 40 papers on Health Cuban Journal of Medical Informatics, Informatics were presented at the biannual publication. Conference, from which some 10 were from countries other than Brazil, and included Main Focus Cuba and Argentina. Information Systems for Primary Care Consulting for the Public Health Ministry Strengthen our ties with other countries in 2. From the Member Countries: the Region Argentina AAIM - Asociación Argentina de Uruguay Informática Médica SUIS – Sociedad Uruguaya de Informática www.aaim.org.ar en la Salud Publications www.suis.org.uy Informedica Journal. Edited by Medical Informatics Foundation, Full Text in The Uruguayan Society of Health Spanish with abstracts in English. URL: Informatics, SUIS, has been active in www.informedicajournal.org. Informedica promoting Health Informatics in the Journal is a scientific forum dedicated to the Country. As an example, it has organized study of Medical Informatics and related and implemented an Introductory 24-hour topics, new technologies, ICT and its Course on Health Information Systems, application to the Healthcare sector. jointly with the School of Medicine. The course is supported by PAHO-WHO, the Education Secretary of Health and the School of Hispano-American Virtual University was Engineering. It counts on the participation launched at the beginning of 2004. Graduate of over ten experts from the Academia, Courses and Continuous Medical Health Care Organizations and Software Education for Healthcare professionals Companies. Participation is stimulated
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through problem-based small-group expected that by mid 2005 there will begin IMIA-LAC discussions and writing of a paper along the second phase which includes auditing The Latin-America and the course. There is web-based support for by SBIS accredited serviced. In September the course on www.suis.org.uy. 2004 the self-certification process began. Caribbean Federation of Some 12 companies have so far undergone There has been a permanent relationship the processe. The next step is to prepare Health Informatics with regional experts in health informatics, auditors that will be able go through the (Continued) particularly with the participation in the whole process. Latin American Virtual Congresses of Health Informatics organized by AAIM, SBIS is deeply committed to promoting the with other Argentinean experts who use of healthcare information standards organized LatinMednet 2002 and SIS 2000- and practices in the country, a process that 2002, with the Brazilian SBIS, and through is gaining momentum as the Health Ministry CYTED with Chile, Colombia, Cuba and has announced that it will distribute other Latin American Countries. We have software and components as “open soft- fostered regional expert participation in ware”. Infosuis articles.
3. Prospecting New Members Brazil Many an effort has been developed by the SBIS – Sociedade Brasileira de country members of IMIA-LAC to attract Informática em Saúde other countries to join IMIA. Ecuador, Peru, Salvador, Chile, Colombia and Mexico www.sbis.org.br are among the countries who have A Manual of Best Practices in Developing somehow been attracted to IMIA-LAC. Health Care Information Systems has been Several unlisted small conferences and launched by SBIS, as part of the Electronic seminars have taken place among Latin- Patient Recond Software Certification American countries. It is IMIA-LAC’s
Process conducted by SBIS on behalf of intent to develop more aggressive and the Brazilian Medical Council (CFM). CFM focused action towards increasing the launched a set of regulations, in 2002, lying number of member countries in the Region. down the requirements Health Information Systems must meet to be certified by the Council. Organizations with certified 4. Contact information: systems will be released from keeping the President: Dr. Lincoln A. Moura Jr., Brazil information on paper. SBIS has become the Secretary: Dr. Esperanza O’Farrill Mons, certifying body for CFM, and has defined Cuba sets of procedures for certification. In February 2004, SBIS signed a convenant Mailing List: with CFM that provides SBIS with funding [email protected] to support the task. The process is now in e-mail: [email protected] the self-certification phase, but it is or [email protected]
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North American the least of which are the Executive Direc- North American Medical Informatics (NAMI) tor, Board Members and IMIA Represen- tative for COACH. These dedicated indi- Medical Informatics Although IMIA’s North American mem- viduals (see contact list) undertake the bers COACH and AMIA have not yet work and leadership for COACH and are (NAMI) agreed on forming an official North supported by numerous volunteer com- American region, there is a wealth of activity mittee members and COACH association to report. Regional Editors: staff. Those individuals are the door into the Canadian health informatics commu- Elizabeth Di Chiara, Don E. Detmer Health Informatics in Canada nity for international contacts, national networking and communications and iden- tification of key e-health initiatives across COACH: Canada’s Health Informatics the country. Association Another key networking opportunity is www.coachorg.com the annual e-Health Conference. In partnership with the CIHI, COACH hosts Canada’s Health Informatics Association, the primary national meeting for the health founded in 1975, represents a strong informatics community. The 2004 e-Health community of over 900 members from a Conference featured over 1,100 attendees broad range of health care related back- addressing the ”Challenges Today for grounds who are committed to advancing Success Tomorrow” which was held in the practice of health informatics. The beautiful Victoria BC, on May 8-11. Association’s mandate is to promote Stimulating keynotes, including a hallmark understanding and adoption of health presentation by the new President and informatics within the Canadian health CEO of Canada Health Infoway, Inc. system through professional development, (Infoway), Richard Alvarez, on the advocacy, and a strong and diverse Electronic Health Record – Holy Grail were membership. Key activities include: accompanied by the Great Debate series
• continuation of our major networking and numerous concurrent presentations opportunities including the on the successes and issues of health partnership with the Canadian Institute informatics initiatives across Canada. The for Health Information (CIHI) in the 2005 e-Health Conference , ”Realizing the development of e-Health, a major Vision”, is scheduled to take place April national conference, 30th to May 3rd, 2005 in Toronto, Ontario. • building new capacity to enhance It will continue the major focus on the health informatics as a profession and electronic health record and augment that leveraging the professional priority with sessions on putting more development series consisting of three health into e-health, the human factors, workshops focusing on Information leveling the playing field for vulnerable Management, Security and Privacy and groups, telehealth, and future- proofing the Electronic Health Record, the health system. Concurrent with the • continued growth of members services Conference is the largest Canadian trade including the publication of resource show for health informatics, an annual information such as the Guidelines for preview and presentation of what’s new in the Protection of Health Information health information systems and services and supporting the participation of by vendor, consulting and industry COACH members on national companies. initiatives in standards. COACH will lead the way for Canadian COACH provides an excellent opportunity efforts in advancing and advocating health for networking among members and with informatics as an essential component of other related organizations locally, na- Canada’s health care system. This will tionally and internationally. COACH’s involve a number of strategies including web site (www.coachorg.com) provides partnering with other associations in the the first level of contact for the health Health Informatics Association Collab- informatics community in Canada. This orative (HIAC), a new initiative in community includes many leaders, not cooperation with Infoway, partnering with
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industry through the Canadian Healthcare Regional Groups” yearbook of Medical North American Medical Information Technology Trade Associa- nformatics 2005 is another example of an Informatics (NAMI) tion (CHITTA), and promoting the Patrons information tool that reflects the needs, of COACH (organizations and vendors interests and dynamics of the health (Continued) that are significant and highly valued informatics community, both nationally contributors as key supporters of health and internationally. informatics advancement and of Standards for health information, includ- COACH). All of these reflect the leader- ing data structure, data content and data ship efforts of COACH in building the messaging standards are key to many profile, place and value proposition of EHR and related initiatives in Canada health informatics as a means of change and worldwide. COACH is the conduit and sustainability for health care. for communicating, assessing and Similarly, COACH maintains strong engaging in consultations amongst much international partnerships through IMIA, of the health care community. Whether through participation as a Co-Sponsor of those standards be domestically the US HIMSS annual conference and developed or come from international through leadership on international and accredited standards development domestics standards initiatives. organizations such as the ISO Technical COACH will also play a leadership role in Committee 215, or from HL7, COACH is the development of professional serving as the connection point for the credentialing and minimum standards of health informatics community. With practice for health informatics profes- leaders in ISO TC215, HL7 and other stan- sionals in support of building the capacity dards also serving as COACH volunteers and quality of professionals. As the $2.0 (Don Newsham, Kathryn Hannah, Dr Billion investments of Infoway and Marion Lyver (COACH Liaison to ISO government jurisdictions drives real TC215), Roger Girard, Dennis Goikas and projects, there is a great need for expertise, others), there is assurance that effective skills and experience in implementing communication and participation in the
electronic health records and associated standards approval process will take place. registries and domain repositories. Promoting the community of health As Canada, and indeed the rest of the informatics and the profession of health health informatics world advances its informatics requires visibility and knowledge, training and curriculum for recognition. For our members and health informatics, so too must the means volunteers, our leaders and for the exciting for delivering such training and advancements in health informatics information. COACH, in partnership with demonstrated across Canada COACH is industry and other associations, will be developing an awards program that will advancing its tools for education services celebrate achievements and excellence in including e- learning services, easy to use the health informatics community that will web based course-ware, on-demand be launched in 2005. education modules and other related Related Organizations professional development options. Our COACH is an integral and leading member of busy world demands easy to use and the larger health care community that timely education tools and many countries addresses the need for better information for are developing such tools. COACH will re- better care. The following organizations all use, leverage and build where necessary play a key part in the broader health to meet the member needs for professional information scene in Canada. An important development. member of this community due to it’s size Current best practice tools such as the and impact Canada Health Infoway, Inc. COACH Guidelines for the Protection of (Infoway), is amplified below. Health Information, 2004 now available on-line, are a great demonstration of a Canada Health Infoway leveraged COACH service that provides www.infoway-inforoute.ca information and the knowledge of multiple Canada Health Infoway is an independent, experts applied to the key area of security not-for-profit corporation working to ac- and privacy. This ”Information on IMIA
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celerate the development and imple- Academic Programs North American Medical mentation of electronic health information The following health informatics programs systems in Canada. It was created in 2001 Informatics (NAMI) offer both academic and research programs and its members are the Deputy Ministers in health informatics. (Continued) of Health of the federal, provincial, and territorial governments in Canada. This School of Health Information Science, organizational model allows Infoway to University of Victoria move quickly, maintain a consistent ap- www.hinf.uvic.ca proach, and work collaboratively with both the public and private sectors. The priority HTU: Health Telematics Unit, for Infoway is to accelerate the develop- University of Calgary ment and adoption of interoperable elec- Global e-Health Research and Training tronic health record (EHR) solutions Program across Canada, as well as integrating www.ucalgary.ca/telehealth telehealth applications and public health The Waterloo Institute for Health surveillance tools . To achieve its mission, Informatics Research Infoway has received commitments to date University of Waterloo totaling $1.1 billion from the Government www.hi.uwaterloo.ca of Canada. As a strategic investment partner Infoway does not itself build, Health Informatics Unit implement, nor hold EHR solution Faculty of Medicine components. Its core business is investing Dalhousie University with public sector sponsors, leveraging www.healthinformatics.dal.ca existing initiatives to develop, replicate, align and deploy reusable, interoperable Health Informatics Unit EHR solutions faster, and at less cost and Faculty of Medicine risk, than any of the partners can do alone. University of Sherbooke Its approach is based on sustained www.usherbrooke.ca collaboration with governments, the healthcare community and the technology sector. Equally important, Infoway shares Health Informatics Activities knowledge and facilitates change through in the United States communication and the sharing of best practices, tools, and lessons learned. American Medical Informatics Association Additional key related organizations in the Canadian health informatics community The American Medical Informatics Asso- include: ciation (AMIA) was formed in 1990 through a merger of three medical informatics orga- CIHI: Canadian Institute for Health Infor- nizations, the Symposium on Computer mation Applications in Medical Care (SCAMC), www.cihi.ca the American Association for Medical Systems and Informatics (AAMSI), and CHITTA: Canadian Healthcare the American College of Medical InformationTechnology Trade Associa- Informatics (ACMI). tion AMIA has more than 3,500 members in- www.chitta.ca cluding individual, institutions, and cor- CST: Canadian Society of Telehealth porations. It is governed by a Board of www.cst-sct.org Directors that includes 16 elected and 2 ex- officio members. The business of the As- CHIMA: Canadian Health Information sociation is conducted through a the Presi- Management Association dent and Chief Executive Officer and a http://www.chra.ca/org/index.html division of responsibility among the Board, standing and ad hoc committees, 20 topic- CNIA: Canadian Nursing Informatics As- oriented Working Groups and headquar- sociation ter office with staff. AMIA holds two meet- www.mtsinai.on.ca/cnia ings per year – the Spring Congress in
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May, and the Annual Symposium in the create the needed changes; only changing North American Medical autumn. It publishes a scholarly journal, the system of care will. I intend to do all that Informatics (NAMI) the Journal of the American Medical I can to move this agenda forward and I am Informatics Association, a Proceedings of very excited about our prospects to make (Continued) its Annual Symposium, a monthly elec- a difference.” tronic newsletter, and weekly digest, Medi- Don E. Detmer, MD, MA, will retain his cal Informatics News Bytes, distributed to position of Professor Emeritus and AMIA members. AMIA engages in public Professor of Medical Education in the policy initiatives both on its own and in Department of Health Evaluation Sciences collaboration with other organizations, and at the University of Virginia. He is also carries out a number of other programs. Senior Associate of the Judge Institute of Management, University of Cambridge, a Highlights of 2004 trustee of the Nuffield Trust of London, AMIA Names Don Detmer President and and a fellow of Clare Hall at Cambridge. He Chief Executive Officer is a member of the Institute of Medicine, a lifetime Associate of the National The Board of Directors of the American Academies, and a fellow of AAAS, Acad- Medical Informatics Association ap- emy Health, and the American Colleges of pointed Don E. Detmer, MD, MA as the Medical Informatics, Surgeons, and Sports President and Chief Executive Officer of Medicine. From 1999-2003 he was the Den- the association in September, 2004. nis Gillings Professor of Health Manage- “We are pleased that such a distinguished ment and Director, Cambridge University fellow of our college of informatics and a Health at the Judge Institute of Manage- world renowned physician will be leading ment, Cambridge’s business school. Prior AMIA in these exciting times,” commented to the years in England, he was Vice Presi- Charles Safran, MD, Chairman of the Board. dent for Health Sciences at the Universi- “Our members in the field of medical ties of Virginia and Utah and on the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. informatics, the experts in the use of infor- mation technologies in health care. Now a He is immediate past chairman of the Board full time leader will represent our organiza- on Health Care Services of the IOM as well tion in these exciting times of possibility as the National Committee on Vital and and challenge.” Health Statistics. He has also chaired the Board of Regents of the National Library of In his first action as President and CEO, Dr. Medicine. Detmer spoke of his vision for the associ- ation. Today we face virtually unlimited Dr. Detmer received his Doctor of Medi- opportunities to create a national and cine in 1965 from the University of Kansas global health information infrastructure with subsequent training at the National and with it come the corresponding Institutes of Health, the Johns Hopkins challenges. We have too few experts to Hospital, Duke University Medical Center, lead the effort, limited funding to pursue the Institute of Medicine, and Harvard substantial research questions, and Business School. In 1979 he received a pressing needs to educate citizens and Chancellor’s Award for Distinguished both entry level and practicing health Teaching at the University of Wisconsin- professionals. Our goal is to build upon Madison. His bibliography is extensive AMIA’s excellent reputation nationally and spans a number of fields relating to and throughout the world and enhance healthcare delivery and policy. He received crucial linkages with academic centers that a Master of Arts from the University of comprise the diverse branches of bio- Cambridge in 2002. medical, clinical, and nursing informatics as well as relevant stakeholder groups and 2004 AMIA Spring Congress organizations. The Institute of Medicine said it well when it asserted that without For its annual Spring Congress, AMIA real commitment to communications and addressed the topic, “Practical Strategies information technology, our capability to for Implementing Electronic Health Record reach new levels of performance in health (EHR) Systems.” The Congress took place care is limited. Simply working harder won’t April 28-29, 2004, at the Hilton McLean
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Tysons Corner in McLean, Virginia, USA, Long at the forefront of these developments, North American Medical and was attended by nearly 300 attendees. the international informatics community Informatics (NAMI) It was chaired by Paul C. Tang of the Palo has since 1974 assembled the industry’s Alto Medical Foundation, Palo Alto, Cali- leaders once every three years to put on (Continued) fornia, USA. This practical, interactive Medinfo, the World Congress on Medical conference was a perfect venue for learning Informatics. and networking by information The American Medical Informatics professional who currently, or soon would Association (AMIA) was honored to serve be implementing electronic health record as host for this prestigious World systems. Participants of the conference Congress this year - Medinfo 2004. The were able to interact with national experts Medinfo 2004 AMIA Organizing and other peers. Committee, chaired by Edward Shortliffe, Presentations from national experts dis- led a coordinated effort in working with cussed topics from gaining executive buy- the International Medical Informatics in to designing and executing successful Association (IMIA), the staff and implementation plans. Other discussions organizational resources of the AMIA were in the areas of putting together the office, an international Scientific Program implementation team; selecting the right Committee and Editorial Committee, and system for the individual organization; hundreds of contributors and reviewers designing a rollout plan; incorporating to put together a 5-day Congress that change management strategies in the imple- presented the latest developments and mentation plan; recovering gracefully from examined the most important issues in missteps; and future generations of EHR informatics and information technology systems. in healthcare as it is applied throughout the world. This meeting was supported by Siemens and Epic, and other meeting sponsor Medinfo 2004 featured more than 800 organizations included the American presentations of all types. The Scientific
Health Information Management Asso- Program Committee, chaired by Mario ciation; College of Healthcare Information Stefanelli and Casimir Kulikowski, selected Management Executives; eHealth Initia- contributions that include 300 papers, more tive; Healthcare Information and Manage- than 400 posters, two dozen panels, and a ment Systems Society and the National number of demonstrations and workshops Alliance for Health Information Technol- that collectively span the field of ogy. informatics and health information technology. In addition, attendees had the opportunity to participate in state-of- AMIA Hosts Medinfo 2004 the-art tutorials covering essential Medinfo is a triennial congress that has foundational topics and techniques in met since 1974 under the auspices of the informatics. A series of semi-plenary International Medical Informatics presentations at the Congress featured Association (IMIA). It brings together an some of the most widely known names in international community of health care informatics and related fields, including professionals and scientists who are key Wil van der Aalst, Russ B. Altman, Heimer thought-leaders, practitioners, and policy F. Marin, Pawel Lukowics, and Dennis makers in the application of information Giokas. technology in health care in their respective Presenters for this meeting arrived from countries and globally. Medinfo 2004 was some 50 countries on six continents from a hosted by the American Medical variety of venues, notably from some of Informatics Association, the official USA the most technologically innovative representative to IMIA. It marks the first healthcare facilities in the world, as well as time Medinfo has been held in the USA from enterprises at all levels that are aspiring since 1986. to incorporate additional information Information technology is deeply trans- technologies for patient care and manage- forming the shape of healthcare ment. In addition to the educational pro- organizations and institutions, the systems grams, attendees spoke with some of the they use, and the knowledge they produce. most innovative companies in health
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information technology in the exhibit hall, Patrice Degoulet North American Medical and networked with colleagues during the Pompidou University Hospital Informatics (NAMI) welcome reception, gala banquet, and Paris, France (Continued) events conducted by professional Special Charles Friedman Interest Groups and Working Groups of National Library of Medicine the informatics societies represented at Bethesda, MD, USA the Congress. Dario Giuse Medinfo Organizing Committee Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN Edward Shortliffe USA Chair Columbia University Andrew Grant New York, NY Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Sherbrooke (Fleurimont) Donald A.B. Lindberg Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada Chair Emeritus National Library of Medicine Reinhold Haux Bethesda, MD University for Health Informatics and Technology Marion Ball Innsbruck, Austria Baltimore, MD Heimar Marin Parvati Dev Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo Stanford University Sao Paulo, Brazil Stanford, CA Fernando Martin-Sanchez Patricia Flatley Brennan National Institute of Health “Carlos III” University of Wisconsin Madrid, Spain Madison, WI Alexa McCray James Cimino National Library of Medicine Columbia University Bethesda, MD, USA New York, NY Joyce Mitchell John Glaser University of Missouri Columbia Partners Healthcare System Columbia, MO, USA Boston, MA Hiroshi Tanaka Nancy Lorenzi Tokyo Medical and Dental University Vanderbilt University Tokyo, Japan Nashville, TN Toomas Timpka Charles Safran Linkoping University Clinician Support Technology Linkoping, Sweden Framingham, MA Johan van der Lei Medinfo 2004 Scientific Program Erasmus University Committee Rotterdam, The Netherlands Mario Stefanelli Jana Zvarova Co-chair Charles University Universita Di Pavia Prague, Czech Republic Pavia, Italy Medinfo 2004 Editorial Committee Casimir Kulikowski Co-chair Marius Fieschi Rutgers University Chair Highland Park, NJ, USA Hopital de la Timone Adultes Marseille, France Patricia Abbott Johns Hopkins University Yu-Chuan (Jack) Li Baltimore, MD, USA Taipei Medical University Taipei, Taiwan James Brinkley University of Washington Enrico Coiera Seattle, WA, USA University of New South Wales Sydney, Australia
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JAMIA – the Journal of the American Additionally, the AMIA Board approved North American Medical Medical Informatics Association the creation of new groups. Informatics (NAMI) AMIA’s bimonthly journal, JAMIA, AMIA Working Groups serve as a mecha- (Continued) presents peer-reviewed articles that assist nism for members to exchange information physicians, informaticians, scientists, on a particular topical area of medical nurses, and other health care professionals informatics with their colleagues and to develop and apply medical informatics to become involved in the development of patient care, teaching, research, and health positions, issues, white papers, programs, care administration. JAMIA has rapidly and other activities to benefit the established a reputation for presenting informatics community. Each Working high-quality, cutting-edge information. group has an online discussion list in Each issue contains state-of-the-art which members discuss key issues and reviews, discussion forums, and invited developments in the field. editorials presented as brief reviews or full- The “new” AMIA Working Groups are length papers. A variety of formats now: accommodates work at all stages, from model formulation through definitive • Clinical Information Systems studies. In 2003, JAMIA received an impact • Clinical Trials factor of 2.51 from the Thomson Institute • Consumer Health Informatics for Scientific Information (ISI). This rating • Dental Informatics places JAMIA #1 among 19 other journals • Education in the field of medical informatics. • Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues • Evaluation The Journal is indexed in Index Medicus, • Formal (Bio)Medical Knowledge MEDLINE, EMBASE/Excerpta Medica, Representation CINAHL, Science Citation Index, Social • Genomics Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), SciSearch, • Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining Social SciSearch, Research Alert, Current • Knowledge in Motion Contents/Social & Behavioral Sciences, • Medical Imaging Systems and Current Contents/Clinical Medicine. • Natural Language Processing AMIA Working Groups • Nursing Informatics • Open Source In 2004, AMIA restructured the Working • People & Organizational Issues Groups and Special Interest Groups. It was • Pharmacoinformatics decided to bring all these special topical • Prevention and Public Health areas to the same level, so AMIA dissolved • Primary Care Informatics the level of “Special Interest Group”. Where • Student appropriate, groups were combined with existing AMIA Working Groups.
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HIMSS – leaders in the health care industry. HIMSS Keynote speakers included Newt The Healthcare Information Gingrich, former Speaker of the U.S. IMIA Institutional and Management Systems House of Representatives; Dr. Gro Member Society Harlem Brundtland, former Director- General of the World Health Organiza- The Healthcare Information and tion; U.S. Representative Patrick J. Management Systems Society Kennedy (D-Rhode Island – 1st), Aron (HIMSS) is the U.S. healthcare indus- Ralson, mountaineer who shared his try’s membership organization exclu- story of survival and patient rehabilita- sively focused on providing leader- tion, and Tom Wolfe, author. ship for the optimal use of healthcare Recognizing the expanding and information technology and manage- influential roles nurses now play in ment systems for the betterment of clinical informatics, HIMSS introduced human health. The Society’s global the Nursing Informatics Symposium, collaborations with healthcare infor- a one-day program designed by nurses mation technology (IT) organizations for nurses and attended by more than have helped HIMSS frame and lead 300 nursing informatics professionals. U.S. healthcare public policy and The Physicians’ IT Symposium and industry practices. Through its advo- International Program returned to cacy, educational and professional HIMSS 2004 providing these key development initiatives, HIMSS audiences with IT information and continues its mission to promote infor- insights. mation and management systems’ Two special conferences for contributions to ensuring quality members of the HIMSS users groups, patient care.
Sun Solutions for Healthcare, Informa- During 2004, HIMSS has focused tion, Networking and Education on the adoption of an interoperable and (SunSHINE) and Microsoft Health- portable electronic health record (EHR) care Users Group (MS-HUG), offered as part of a national healthcare infor- education geared to developers and mation infrastructure. This initiative is users of these vendor products. To truly international in scope as the demonstrate IT solutions for imple- Society continues to be part of and mentation of electronic health records, learn from the health informatics HIMSS grouped exhibits and sessions community throughout the world. The together in two new exhibit areas - review that follows provides an update Product Pavilions and Emerging of HIMSS activities from September Technologies and Issues. 2003 – December 2004. For the first time, Health Level Seven (HL7) and the Integrating the Conferences Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) collabo- rated in an interoperability demonstra- 2004 Annual HIMSS Conference tion to raise awareness of the impor- & Exhibition: HIMSS 2004 brought tance of standards and the national together more than 20,000 health care health information infrastructure information and management systems (NHII). The HIMSS Advocacy Com- professionals from all segments of the mittee Fact Finding Field Hearing asked industry. Health care vendors, the question: “Should the (U.S.) Federal providers, consultants and payers Government Help Accelerate Clinician converged on Orlando, Florida, from Adoption of the Electronic Health Re- Feb. 22-26, 2004, to attend more than cord?” - where the testimony of expert 200 education sessions, visit more than witnesses on this topic was provided to 700 exhibits and network with IT key government policy makers.
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HIMSS Summer Conference 2004 presentations from Representative Jim HIMSS (Continued) – Held in Las Vegas, Nevada, the two- Greenwood (R-PA) and Dr. Rex day summer conference welcomed Cowdry from the White House. Panels almost 400 healthcare senior level discussed key policy topics such as executives to review key healthcare voluntary patient identifiers and off- issues from a strategic management shore outsourcing. This year, the event perspective. The conference featured was co-sponsored by the eHealth Initia- six education tracks: the business of tive and the American Health Infor- IT; clinical information systems; new mation Management Association technology; outsourcing; adoption, (AHIMA). Following the educational analysis and outcomes; and achieving sessions, members visited with their excellence. Keynote speakers were respective legislators in Washington, Paul C. Tang, MD, FHIMSS, D.C. to present the HIMSS policy FCHIME, CMIO, Palo Alto Medical agenda and discuss key health IT Foundation, who chaired the Institute issues. of Medicine Committee on Data In addition, at a congressional Standards for Patient Safety; Arnold reception held in conjunction with the Milstein MD, MPH, medical director, Vendors’ Solution Showcase, the Pacific Business Group on Health, Honorable Tommy Thompson, worldwide partner at Mercer Human Secretary of the U.S. Department of Resource Consulting, and co-founder Health and Human Services (HHS), of the Leapfrog Group; and Robert received the HIMSS Advocacy Stevenson, MBA, former all-American Award, for his leadership and initiative athlete, corporate executive and author in promoting the adoption of the of How to Soar Like an Eagle in a electronic health record, at an evening
World Full of Turkeys. At the reception and technology demonstra- Innovative Technology sessions, tion. U.S. Representative Patrick J. attendees learned about vendor health- Kennedy also addressed the attendees. care IT solutions, now implemented in In addition to Advocacy Day held in the marketplace, for nursing docu- April, the Society launched the HIMSS mentation, staffing, return-on-invest- Public Policy Forum, an annual event ment, and medication management. in 2003 that looked at federal investment in the electronic healthcare Industry Affairs information infrastructure, and in 2004, discussed solutions to overcoming IT Advocacy: HIMSS continued public barriers in ambulatory care. policy and advocacy outreach in HIMSS continues to grow and evolve Washington, D.C. and at the grassroots as a national advocate for healthcare level by both educating policy makers IT by providing monthly congressional and influencing key legislation related updates for Capitol Hill staff on key to healthcare information technology issues of importance to the Society, and the improved delivery of patient visiting local HIMSS chapters to discuss care. HIMSS reviewed over 20 advocacy and collaborating with separate legislative proposals involving industry partners who share and can patient safety, national health help deliver key input on health IT information infrastructure, offshore legislation. In addition, HIMSS opened outsourcing, and electronic health a new Washington, D.C., area office records. Position statements were at 901 King Street, Suite 400, in created on key legislative and Alexandria, Virginia. regulation proposals. Working with key congressional At the annual HIMSS Advocacy staff and other associations, HIMSS Day in April, HIMSS members heard helped launch the 21st Century Health
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Care Caucus, a bipartisan group of Task Force, the HIMSS Government HIMSS (Continued) U.S. House members dedicated to Relations Roundtable (HGRR), and improving healthcare using information the Chapter Advocacy Liaison technology and management systems. Roundtable. These volunteer members HIMSS helped to recruit co-chairs, have engaged federal agency members, plan programs, and produce representatives in policy discussions the monthly electronic newsletter. on such issues as disaster manage- ment, local health information exchange The Society launched a new networks, and the potential impact grassroots effort known as the Chapter federal efforts will have on health IT Advocacy Liaison Roundtable. This penetration. group of chapter advocates promotes advocacy and public policy at the Electronic Health Record Initia- chapter level. tives: HIMSS continued to work for the passage of the Health Level Seven Federal affairs: In addition to its (HL7) Definitional Model for the advocacy initiatives, HIMSS expanded electronic health record, which is a its outreach and staff to include federal national standards-based effort to affairs, the executive branch of the define the EHR. A mock ballot and U.S. government, to positively affect education sessions provided attendees the adoption of the electronic health at the 2004 Annual HIMSS Conference record and leverage the collective with detailed information to better expertise of HIMSS members to assist understand the benefits and positive the federal government’s development impact of the HL7 definitional model. of priorities for health information Following the conference and until
technology implementation. In spring summer 2004, when the draft standard 2004, the administration announced its was approved, HIMSS worked with goal that most Americans have access the EHR Collaborative, other key health to electronic health records within the organizations, and stakeholders to next decade. David J. Brailer, MD, ensure its passage. PhD, was appointed as the first National Coordinator for Health Information Clinical Decision Support Imple- Technology, a position within HHS menters’ Workbook (CDSIW): This that HIMSS had also advocated as workbook was published in February part of its advocacy agenda. 2004 providing healthcare organizations Dr. Brailer released a Strategic guidance on developing and imple- Framework document that called for menting clinical decision support (CDS) patient- and clinician-centric education systems for clinical care. Developed initiatives to achieve a national health by the HIMSS Clinical Decision information network. HIMSS and its Support Workbook Workgroup, the members were actively involved in the guide, including downloadable work- efforts to bring Dr. Brailer’s goals and sheet templates, is available on the actions to fruition, particularly the HIMSS Web site. The second edition development of the Commission for will be distributed in 2005 as an updated, the Certification of Health Information printed workbook. Technology. HIMSS federal affairs efforts have Clinical Information Systems (CIS) been supported by volunteer member Benefits Database: The Society involvement in the HIMSS National began work on a Clinical Information Health Information Infrastructure Systems Benefits Database to assist (NHII) Task Force, the National healthcare providers and organizations Preparedness and Response (NPR) in the process of selecting CIS. By
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providing evaluations from organiza- Epidemiologists (CSTE), National HIMSS (Continued) tions now using clinical information Association of City and County Health systems products, the database will Officials (NACCHO), and the Associ- focus on “advanced” CIS capabilities ation of Public Health Laboratories including computerized provider order (APHL). The winners of the 2004 entry (CPOE), CPOE-driven decision Davies Public Health Award were support, automated clinical documen- Utah Statewide Immunization tation, electronic medical record Information System (USIIS), South (EMR) functionality and the ability to Dakota Department of Health for the integrate ancillary systems. The Electronic Vital Records and Screening HIMSS National CIS Benefits System (EVRSS), and Pennsylvania’s Database Task Force, led by an National Electronic Disease Reporting advisory group of national experts on System (PA-NEDSS). CIS, will complete the development and introduction of the pilot version of Ambulatory Care: The Society added the database in early 2005. a medical director to its staff in December 2003 to lead HIMSS in its Continuity of Care (CCR) Record: ambulatory care, or outpatient, HIMSS continued its efforts in support initiatives for the adoption by physicians of the Continuity of Care Record of the electronic health record. (CCR), a standard for a core data set of the most relevant and timely facts Certification Commission for about a patient’s healthcare. The Healthcare IT: To address the ASTM International, Massachusetts challenge many physicians face when Medical Society, American Academy selecting an EHR system for their
of Family Physicians, American practices, HIMSS introduced the Academy of Pediatrics, American Certification Commission for Health- Medical Association, and Patient care Information Technology in Safety Institute are sponsors of the collaboration with the National Alliance Continuity of Care Record. The CCR of Health Information Technology (the ballot is scheduled for December 2004. Alliance) and AHIMA. Designed as a voluntary, private-sector certification Davies Award of Excellence: As of EHR systems, in support of the manager of the Davies Award of direction of the U.S. Department of Excellence, HIMSS awarded the first Health and Human Services, the Primary Care Davies Award in 2003. program will let physicians and other Three recipients were chosen: Roswell healthcare professionals select and Pediatric Center, Alpharetta and implement these products with greater Cumming, Georgia; Cooper Pediatrics, speed and confidence, knowing that Duluth, Georgia; and Evans Medical patient data can be securely exchanged Group, Evans, Georgia. In addition, in the nation’s developing health Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical information infrastructure. Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, received the 2003 Organizational Davies Award. Physicians Adopting Computer HIMSS introduced the Public Health Technology (PACT): In November, Davies Award of Excellence in the Ambulatory Care Steering partnership with the Centers for Committee launched a series of regional Disease Control and Prevention events designed to bring educational (CDC), American Public Health opportunities to physicians who want Association (APHA), Association of to computerize their practices while State and Territorial Health Officials, minimizing the interruption to their Council of State and Territorial patient care schedules and those who
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want to maximize efficiencies of the virtual tour on the HIMSS Web site at: HIMSS (Continued) installed systems. The program, PACT http://www.himss.org/asp/ – Physicians Adopting Computer autoid_tour.asp Technology – was conducted in Jacksonville, Florida, and Portland, Standards - ISO TC 215: As the Oregon. Physicians, who have success- secretariat for the Technical fully implemented healthcare IT in their Committee 215 (TC 215) of the practices, provided keynote presenta- International Standards Organization tions, followed by two education tracks (ISO), HIMSS continued its support of and a demonstration of vendor IT international standards activities for solutions. health informatics. The Society joined other international standards experts Integrating the Healthcare at a weeklong meeting in Washington, Enterprise (IHE): The Integrating D.C., with 112 international delegates the Healthcare Enterprise expanded from 16 countries. Carolyn M. Clancy, this year to include two additional MD, and director of the Agency for components for the application of IHE Healthcare Research and Quality in healthcare delivery. (AHRQ), was the speaker at a dinner The American College of Cardiology sponsored by HIMSS. (ACC) introduced its technical New members joined the U.S. framework in this clinical practice area. delegation to the international technical The initial three profiles, Retrieval of committee TC 215 that included (as of Electrocardiograms for Display, September 2004) AHRQ, the National Echocardiography Workflow, and Institutes of Health, Department of Cardiac Catheterization Workflow, can Veterans Affairs, and Department of
help improve patient care by providing Defense – Health Affairs participating a common approach to collecting, with Siemens, Philips, GE Health coordinating and sharing cardiology Solutions, Quadramed, Booz-Allen- images and information related to Hamilton, Kaiser Permanente, United cardiology. Health Care, SNOMED and others. The Cross Enterprise Document Sharing supplement, one of four Standards Task Forces: HIMSS supplements in the information launched two standards-related task technology infrastructure framework, forces this year. The Professional facilitates the sharing across health Practice Standards Task Force care settings – from a private physician completed a business ethics standard to a clinic to an acute care in-patient while the Standards Task Force will facility – of electronic documents with provide an overview for all HIMSS text and structured content. This standards initiatives and activities. supplement contributes to the founda- tion of a shared electronic health Membership Services record, a key initiative for HIMSS and the healthcare industry in the U.S. HIMSS Membership: HIMSS membership reached 15,000 individual Auto-ID Virtual Tour: The HIMSS and 250 corporate members during Bar Coding and Auto ID Task Force 2004. The Society provides a diverse introduced the “Auto-ID Virtual Tour,” range of high-quality resources, an online or CD-ROM review of the including education, professional significant benefits that Auto-ID advancement, and networking for its technologies bring to healthcare by individual members that include taking a journey through a typical executives such as chief executive healthcare encounter. Access the officers (CEOs), chief information
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officers (CIOs), chief operations groups that function separately at local, HIMSS (Continued) officers (COOs), senior executives, regional, national and international and industry specialists such as senior levels and have established programs, managers, information services (IS) publications and organizational technical staff, physicians, nurses, structures for their members. The consultants, attorneys, financial advi- ANI Steering Team includes sors, technology vendors, academi- representatives of organizational groups cians, management engineers and that have a nursing informatics focus students. HIMSS corporate members and will guide the strategic goals and include leading software and hardware activities of the Alliance throughout suppliers, consultants, executive the year. The members of the Capital recruiters, publishers, e-health, tele- Area Roundtable on Informatics in communications firms, and other IT Nursing (CARING) were instrumental and healthcare industry professionals. in the formation of the Alliance for The Society has 41 chapters throughout Nursing Informatics providing support the United States and Canada that and leadership throughout the provide local programming and collaboration process; the American networking for members. Nurses Association (ANA) assisted in developing the Alliance. HIMSS Foundation: The HIMSS Foundation, a separate non-for-profit New Special Interest Groups corporation, is the philanthropic arm of (SIGS): HIMSS Special Interest HIMSS and is dedicated to inspiring Groups offer members an opportunity charitable giving, research, education to participate in subject matter areas of and to enhancing the management and interest. To better represent key
application of healthcare information initiatives and issues in healthcare, the and technology. The Foundation offers Managed Care SIG changed its name six scholarships to students at the to the Payer SIG and the Management undergraduate, graduate and doctoral Engineering and Re-Engineering & level through Foundation and corporate Performance Improvement SIG support. merged. In addition, the Society introduced a new SIG, Healthcare Society for Health Systems: HIMSS Security. and the Society for Health Systems (SHS) affiliated to offer dual Professional Education membership in and membership benefits of the two organizations. SHS HIMSS On-Line Education and members are healthcare management Audio Conferences: HIMSS engineers and performance improve- continues to offer a wide variety of ment professionals. topics in its online education and audio conference programs. Online and Alliance for Nursing Informatics: distance education collaboration pro- Eighteen national and regional nursing grams offer opportunities for HIMSS informatics groups in the U.S. members throughout the world to earn established the Alliance for Nursing health care IT certificates. The Informatics (ANI). The boards of University of Connecticut and HIMSS directors for both the American Medical continue to offer their co-developed Informatics Association (AMIA) and certificate program in healthcare HIMSS agreed to provide ongoing information technology. The Oregon support, coordination, and leadership Health Sciences University extended for the Alliance, which represents more its graduate level certificate program than 2,000 nurses in the 18 distinct in healthcare information technology
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at a discount to HIMSS members who decision support, and nursing infor- HIMSS (Continued) wish to gain formal education in matics. HIMSS books can be ordered healthcare informatics. online at http://www.himss.org/ Audio conferences from HIMSS bookstore. are typically 60 to 90 minutes, including time for questions to the presenter, and Center for Information Technology offer continuing education credits for Leadership (CITL): HIMSS certification credentials offered by continued its affiliation with the Center HIMSS. In 2004, the Society focused for Information Technology Leadership on the electronic health record for a as publisher of CITL’s research report three-session series. Other topics on standardized Healthcare Informa- throughout the year included nursing tion Exchange and Interoperability informatics, return-on-investment, (IHEI). Preliminary results of the CITL outsourcing, identity management and research, which was presented at the radio-frequency identification, Health 2004 Annual HIMSS Conference, Insurance Portability and Accountabil- found that standardized healthcare ity Act (HIPAA) security, evidence- information exchange between health- based medicine, clinical decision care IT systems would deliver national support, wireless nursing communica- savings of $77.8 billion annually after tion and incentives for clinical adoption full implementation. The report is of the EHR. Healthcare IT vendors, available through the HIMSS online who are also HIMSS members and bookstore. providers, were part of a new education offering from HIMSS in an audio HIMSS Insider: The HIMSS Insider conference series that illustrated real- debuted in November, replacing
world IT solutions in the delivery of HIMSS News, as the monthly health care. newsletter for HIMSS members. The newsletter appears within another Publications publication, Healthcare IT News, which is published by MedTech HIMSS enhanced its publishing Publishing in partnership with HIMSS. efforts by adding its first vice president This trade magazine is a monthly of publications and communications in tabloid-sized newspaper for the October. healthcare IT field with a total circula- tion of almost 44,000 and is available HIMSS Books: As a leader in online at: www.healthcareitnews.com providing the industry with content focused on the healthcare information Peer-reviewed Journal: The technology, HIMSS published the Journal of Healthcare Information following books in summer 2004: Management provides members and Career Success in Healthcare other subscribers with a peer-reviewed Information Technology/by Betsy publication covering key industry issues S. Hersher and Linda B. Hodges; with the presentation of current The Physician-Computer Conun- research as well as other articles. Each drum: Get Over It!/by William F. quarterly issue has a different theme. Bria, M.D, and Richard Rydell; and During 2004, journal themes were: Clinical Management Systems: A computerized physician order entry Guide for Systems Deployment/by (winter), HIPAA (spring), clinical Jeffrey Blander and Bryan P. informatics (summer), and new Bergeron, MD. New book titles technology trends (fall). expected in 2005 relate to the electronic Electronic Newsletters: HIMSS health record, patient safety, clinical publishes a number of electronic
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newsletters for its members and niche decision-making for healthcare organi- HIMSS (Continued) communities. HIMSS E-News zations, healthcare IT companies, and publishes weekly for HIMSS individual consulting firms by delivering high and corporate members; the newsletter quality data, information and analytical contains up-to-the-minute news of expertise. The company collects and HIMSS activities and services and analyzes healthcare organization data includes industry news briefs. Two relating to IT processes and environ- monthly e-newsletters serve HIMSS’ ments, products, IS department Microsoft and Sun Microsystems users composition and costs, IS department group communities: the MS HUG management metrics, healthcare Connection and SunSHINE Times. delivery trends and purchasing related Chapter Leader E-News is published decisions. HIMSS Analytics also monthly for HIMSS chapter leaders, provides custom market research and Exhibitor E-News is published services to support strategic decision monthly for exhibitors to the Annual making in areas such as product HIMSS Conference & Exhibition. planning, business and marketing strategy. HIMSS Analytics Visit http://www.himssanalytics. com for more information on HIMSS Recognizing a need in the industry Analytics. for quality and expanded market The HIMSS research efforts, research services, the Society formed supported by the HIMSS Foundation, HIMSS Analytics in February 2004, as are now housed in HIMSS Analytics, a wholly owned, for-profit subsidiary, positioning the subsidiary to be the supporting the HIMSS mission of single source for authoritative research
advancing the delivery of healthcare in the healthcare information technol- through the use of information ogy and management systems market- technology. places. The Annual HIMSS Leadership The Society considered several Survey, sponsored by Superior options in developing the subsidiary Consultant Company, now in its 15th including exploring relationships with year, provides insight on the priorities, existing market research organizations barriers and future of healthcare IT and building a new enterprise. With from a variety of perspectives, including approval from the HIMSS board of CIOs, CEOs and physician and nursing directors, HIMSS Analytics acquired executives. Other research topics the DORENFEST IHDS+ addressed during 2004, in collaboration DATABASE™ and related business with industry leaders, included nursing assets from Sheldon I. Dorenfest & informatics, national health information Associates, Ltd., a Chicago-based infrastructure, networking technology, provider of health information national preparedness and response, technology consulting and market data. ambulatory technology, and HIPAA The acquisition was final in July 2004. compliance. The subsidiary, which is head- quartered in Chicago, Ill, brought Contact Information: Visit together a strategic and experienced www.himss.org to learn more about senior leadership team with expertise HIMSS or call at 011 + 1 + 312 + 644- in healthcare information technology, 4467. The Society’s address is: market research and consulting. HIMSS, 230 E. Ohio St., #500, Chicago, Products and services offered by IL 60611, USA. HIMSS Analytics support improved
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