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Sunday, September 5, 2010
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Last updated: 08/21/2009
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| Telematics in Health Care |
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Goals & Objectives
Objectives:
- To explore the rationale and perspective of Health Telematics
- To promote the design and development of open architecture and inter-operability tools
- To promote the analysis, design and development of methodologies and applications to support collaborative work in healthcare information systems
- To share experiences on E-health, Telemedicine and Professional Healthcare networks.
After the meetings of London (Medinfo 2001), Lille (2002), Saint-Malo (2003), San Francisco (2004) and Geneva (2005), the activities of the Working Group "Telematics in Healthcare" in 2006 were devoted to find new directions in the study of the development of Telemedicine and Communicating Medicine.
In the workshop of Geneva (2005), it was clearly established that Telematics is now a natural and important part of Medical Information Systems, particularly in Regional Information Systems. The development of large national projects concerning Patient Shared Records demonstrates also that Telematics is now embedded in most of Medical Information applications.
That is why 2006 was devoted to come into contacts with other fields of the Medical Information domain:
- We worked actively in the organisation of the workshop in Lille, France (21-24 May 2006) on "Human Factors Engineering in Medical Informatics", devoted to the study of the influence of Human Factors on the potential impact of medical informatics applications on the quality of healthcare, on the potential reduction of risks and errors. We shared our experiences by giving examples and testimonies of usability studies for Hospital Information Systems, Telemedicine, Distant Training, and e-Health.
- Knut Bernstein (co-chair) participated in the workshop of the IMIA HIS Working group: "Expanding the Scope of Health Information Systems from Hospitals to Regional Networks, to National Infrastructures, and Beyond" IMIA HIS Working Conference hosted by INA, Instituto Nacional de Administração in cooperation with IMIA WG Telematics in Healthcare in Oeiras - Portugal July 2-4, 2006.
Recent activities (2006-2007):
- We have made a report on Tele-radiology, and the current developments of this technique in the different parts of the world. Particularly, we have studied the potential impact of Commercial Tele-Radiology on the organisation of Healthcare.
- Telematics is a way to improve Healthcare in developing countries. We are establishing relations of co-operation with Healthcare networks in developing countries, particularly Africa.
- The next meeting of our WG will take place in Chicago during the next AMIA Fall Symposium.
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