last update : June 2010

Objectives:

• To foster interdisciplinary discussion on evaluation issues in health informatics.
• To support communication of experiences by organizing tutorials and workshops.
• To promote European networking on evaluation issues in health informatics.

Selection of members:
There is no formal membership. Interested persons are invited to participate to the workshops and other events of the WG. The European mailing list of the working group contains 261 members (February 2010).

Recent and Future Activities:

• STARE-HI, the Standards for Reporting on Evaluation Studies in Health Care, has been adopted by EFMI and IMIA and is available for free at the IMIA website (http://www.imia.org/endorsed/endorsed.lasso). It has also been reprinted in the IMIA Yearbook 2009. The working group is now working on an explanation paper for STARE-HI. STARE-HI gives recommendations on how to structure an evaluation paper.
• The working group started work on a mini-STARE-HI for conference proceedings. Here, an expert survey has been conducted on elements relevant for conference evaluation papers. Now, a study is underway to analyze the quality of previous conference papers
• The work on the Good Evaluation Practice Guidelines (GEP-HI) is advancing quickly. Those guidelines describe the activities, roles and outcomes of an IT evaluation study in health care. Working documents on GEP-HI can be found at http://iig.umit.at/efmi.
• Workshops on “GEP-HI: Introducing guidelines for good evaluation practice in health informatics” were held at AMIA2009 in San Francisco and at MIE2009 in Sarajevo. Comparable workshops are planned for Medinfo2010 in CapeTown.
• • Members of the working groups will have presentations at the next ICICTH2010 in Samos.

Chair:
Elske Ammenwerth,
UMIT - University for Health Sciences,
Medical Informatics and Technology,
6060 Hall in Tyrol,
Austria,
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Co-Chairs:
Pirkko Nykanen,
Faculty for Information Sciences,
Tampere University,
Finland,
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Jytte Brender,
Aalborg University,
Denmark,
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