Bernd Blobel, January 2010
The working group EHR (Electronic Health Records) of EFMI deals with the issue EHR in the different levels of development. Such levels concern the case level, organisational level, regional level, national level, and international level. In that context, the Working Group supports
o studies on specification, implementation, and promotion of standards for EHR,
o the modelling of its architecture and its interoperability, as well as
o the education on that topic.
Recent and Future Activities
The following activities have been realised (all results are published):
o Workshop “The Role of Ontologies for Sustainable, Semantically Interoperable and Trustworthy EHR Solutions” at MIE 2009, 30 August – 2 September 2009, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, jointly organized with the EFMI Working Group “Security, Safety and Ethics”
o Workshop “HL7’s Comprehensive Standard Set and Its International Collaboration for Enabling Semantically Interoperable eHealth and pHealth Solutions” at MIE 2009, 30 August – 2 September 2009, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, jointly organized with HL7 International
o Contributions to the Workshop “Is there a Common Background to Support Better Healthcare in Central and South East Europe?” at MIE 2009, 30 August – 2 September 2009, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, organized by the EFMI Working Group “Health Informatics for Interregional Cooperation”
o Contribution to the Workshop “Portable Devices, Sensors and Networks: Wireless Personalized eHealth Services” at MIE 2009, 30 August – 2 September 2009, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, organized by the EFMI Working Group “Personal Portable Devices”
o Contribution to the Workshop “The Role of Ontologies in Interoperability” at World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, September 7 - 12, 2009, Munich, Germany, jointly organized with the EFMI Working Group “Security, Safety and Ethics” and the International Council of Medical and Care Compunetics
o Session “EHR and Standards” at the EFMI Special Topic Conference 2009, 12-14 November 2009, Antalya, Turkey, jointly organized with the EFMI Working Group “Security, Safety and Ethics”
Future activities:
o Workshop at the EFMI STC 2010 Seamless Care - Safe Care: The Challenges of Interoperability and Patient Safety in Health Care”, 2-4 June 2010, Reykjavík, Iceland
o Workshop at ICMCC 2010 in London, UK.
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