Sunday, September 5, 2010
IMIA Working Groups
Last updated: 08/12/2010
Technology Assessment & Quality Development in Health Informatics
Founded:
Membership:
Chair   Term of Office: 2008-2011
de Keizer , Ms. Nicolette
University of Amsterdam
Amsterdam The Netherlands 1105AZ
+ 31 20 566 5205
Goals & Objectives

Recent activities:
Members of the working group have been participating in various conferences. The most important are the Human Factors Engineering working conference in Aarhus.

Significant progress has been made with respect to two outstanding issues: The development of statement on reporting of evaluation studies in health informatics (STARE-HI) and the development of guidelines for good evaluation practice in health informatics (GEP-HI). A draft version of STARE-HI has been send to editors of several Medical Informatics journals for comments. We have received support for this initiative. In addition EFMI has recently decided to endorse STARE-HI.

These activities have been undertaken largely in collaboration with the EFMI working group on Evaluation, lead by E. Ammenwerth.

The working group has proposed for MEDINFO 2007 a workshop on GEP-HI and STARE-HI. Together with the working groups on Organisational and Social Issues and on Human Factors Engineering, a panel has been proposed to discuss the objectives of the three different working groups. The Chairs of the IMIA working group on Technology Assessment and Quality Development and of the EFMI working group have a paper presented at MEDINFO 2007 on the quality of reporting of evaluation studies in Health Informatics.
All these proposals have been accepted and will take place during MEDINFO 2007

Future activities:
- Further development of STARE-HI and GEP-HI. Multi-journal publication of STARE-HI.
- Development of accompanying papers with supportive evidence for STARE-HI. Two initiatives have already been decided on: One paper providing background material and motivations for the various aspects of STARE-HI and secondly a paper analysing the current state of reporting of evaluation studies in Health Informatics as a baseline for later assessing the impact of STARE-HI.
- There will be a gradual transition of leadership of this WG this year and next year. It is planned that the proposed co-chair will take over the leadership next year from the current chair. In the mean time, a new co-chair for the period 2008-2010 will be looked for.

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