Past Activities :

Several working conferences and workshops have been organised and tutorials have been provided partially in co-operation with other organisations. In that context, Chair and WG Members acted as Conference Organisers, Chair of the Scientific Programme Committee as well as Keynote Speakers. The following activities have been realised:

• Workshop of EFMI WG “Electronic Health Records” at the EFMI Special Topic Conference 2007, 30 May - 1 June 2007 in Brijuni, Croatia The workshop dealt with the following issues:
  • Advanced architectures for trustworthy and semantically interoperable Electronic Health Records
  • Regional EHR systems and eArchives in Finland
  • Certification and quality labelling for semantic interoperability – the Q-REC project
  • Internet-systems of medical and pharmaceutical information in Ukraine
  • Disease outbreak surveillance through the Internet – the MedISys project
  • Intention based decision support system
  • Label validation and user notification based on semantic Web technologies: a quality step further on the Internet
  The results have been jointly published in J.S.Bryden, S.deLusignan, B.Blobel, M.Petrovecki (Edrs.): Medical Informatics in Enlarged Europe. IOS Press and Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft Aka, Berlin 2007.
• Joint workshop of EFMI Working Groups „Security, Safety and Ethics“ und „Electronic Health Records“ entitled „The Paradigm Change Challenge towards Personal Health“ at the ICMCC 2007, 8-10 June 2007 in Amsterdam, organised by the International Council for Medical and Care Compunetics. The workshop results have been published in: Bos L and Blobel B (Edrs.): Medical and Care Compunetics 4, Series Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, Vol. 127. IOS Press, Amsterdam. The workshop dealt with the following issues:
  • Legal, political, organisational and ethical challenges of the personal health paradigm
  • Semantic interoperability between clinical and public health information systems for improving public health services
  • Architectural challenges of personal health
  • Semantic interoperability of EHR systems
  • Security and privacy issues of personal health
  • Terminology and ontology issues of comprehensively integrated care paradigms
  • The aspect of safety in future care settings
  • eHealth standards – prerequisites for semantic interoperability
  • Quality labelling and certification of EHR systems
• Contribution to the International Conference „eHealth: Combining Health Telematics, Telemedicine, Biomedical Engineering and Bioinformatics to the Edge“, 2-5 December 2007 in Regensburg. The results will be published in B.Blobel, P.Pharow and M.Nerlich (Edrs.): eHEALTH: Combining Health Telematics, Telemedicine, Biomedical Engineering and Bioinformatics to the Edge – Global Experts Summit Textbook. Series Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, Vol 134, IOS Press, Amsterdam 2008 as well as in B.Blobel, P.Pharow, J.Zvarova and D.M.Lopez (Edrs.): Combining Health Telematics, Telemedicine, Biomedical Engineering and Bioinformatics to the Edge – CeHR 2007 Conference Proceedings. IOS Press and Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft Aka, Berlin 2008.

Additionally, national presentations and tutorials have been given by EFMI EHR WG Members.

The EFMI WG Chair as well as other members realised severalpresentations on the WG’s topics. In that context, Bernd Blobel’s invited lectures “Strategy for developing an EHR, and possible outcomes - adaptable to Ireland?” as well as “Semantic Interoperability in eHealth – Lessons Learned and Future Challenges” HISI 11th Annual Conference & Scientific Symposium, 21-22 November 2007, Dublin, Ireland, have to be mentioned.

Publications:
Original Papers

Blobel B (2007) Educational Challenge of Health Information Systems’ Interoperability. Methods Inf Med 2007; 46: pp. 52-56.

Lopez DM, Blobel B (2006) Realising Semantic Interoperability by Using the Unified Process. European Notes in Medical Informatics, Vol. II, 2 (2006) pp. 316-321.

Oemig F, Blobel B (2006) HL7 Version 3 – Interversion Compatibility Issues. European Notes in Medical Informatics, Vol. II, 2 (2006) pp. 475-479.

Blobel B, Engel K, Pharow P (2006) Semantic Interoperability – HL7 Version 3 Compared to Advanced Architecture Standards. Methods Inf Med 2006; 45: pp 343- 353.

Zvárová J (2006) EFMI symposium on “Electronic Health Record Healthcare Registers and Telemedicine”. International Journal of Medical Informatics 75, 3-4 (2006) pp. 183-184.

Blobel B (2006) Advanced and secure architectural EHR approaches. International Journal of Medical Informatics 75, 3-4 (2006) pp. 185-190.

Knaup P, Garde S, Merzweiler A, Graf N, Schilling F, Weber R and Haux R (2006) Towards shared patient records: An architecture for using routine data for nationwide research. International Journal of Medical Informatics 75, 3-4 (2006) pp. 191-200.

Špidlen J, Hanzlíček P, Říha A and Zvárová J (2006) Flexible information storage in MUDRII EHR. International Journal of Medical Informatics 75, 3-4 (2006) pp. 201-208.

Schabetsberger T, Ammenwerth E, Andreatta S, Gratl G, Haux R, Lechleitner G, Schindelwig K, Stark C, Vogl R, Wilhelmy I, et al. (2006) From a paper-based transmission of discharge summaries to electronic communication in health care regions. International Journal of Medical Informatics 75, 3-4 (2006) pp. 209-215.

Dostǎl C, Pavelka K, Zvárová J, Hanzlíček P and Olejárová M (2006) Some principles of the development of a clinical database/national register of selected inflammatory rheumatic diseases in the Czech Republic. International Journal of Medical Informatics 75, 3-4 (2006) pp. 216-223.

Simon J, Dos Santos M, Fielding J and Smith B (2006) Formal ontology for natural language processing and the integration of biomedical databases. International Journal of Medical Informatics 75, 3-4 (2006) pp. 224-231.

Grant A, Moshyk A, Diab H, Caron P, de Lorenzi F, Bisson G, Menard L, Lefebvre R, Gauthier P, Grondin R, et al. (2006) Integrating feedback from a clinical data warehouse into practice organisation, International Journal of Medical Informatics 75, 3-4 (2006) pp. 232-239.

Veselý A, Zvárová J, Peleška J, Buchtela D and Anger Z (2006) Medical guidelines presentation and comparing with Electronic Health Record. International Journal of Medical Informatics 75, 3-4 (2006) pp. 240-245.

Babulak E (2006) Quality of service provision assessment in the healthcare information and telecommunications infrastructures. International Journal of Medical Informatics 75, 3-4 (2006) pp. 246-252.

Contributions of the EFMI Working Group to EFMI STC 2007 Proceedings published in Bryden JS, de Lusignan S, Blobel B, Petrovecki M (Edrs.): MedicalInformatics in Enlarged Europe. IOS Press and Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft Aka GmbH, Berlin 2007.

Bernd BLOBEL: Advanced Architectures for Trustworthy and Semantically Interoperable Electronic Health Records 145

Agnieszka LATOSZEKBERENDSEN, Jan TALMON, Paul de CLERCQ, Arie HASMAN: :IntentionBased Decision Support System 156

Flavio FUART, David HORBY, Clive BEST: Disease Outbreak Surveillance Through the Internet – the MedISys Project 162

Miquel A. MAYER, Angela LEIS, Pau RUIZ: Label Validation and User Notification Based on Semantic Web Technologies: a Quality Step Further on the Internet 168

Pekka RUOTSALAINEN: Regional EHR Systems and eArchives in Finland 174 Peter PHAROW, Bernd BLOBEL: Cards and Tokens for Accessing Personal Health Records in an Enlarged Europe 180

Nataša PLANINC, Uroš KRALJ, Borut ŠKRABA: OLAP for Medical and Business Data Analysis in Healthcare 187

Chair
Bernd Blobel, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Head of the eHealth Competence Center
University of Regensburg Medical Center
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