European Good Practices in eHealth: Systems and Application in Hospitals
Pre conference workshop at the World of Health IT Conference Vienna, Austria
- 22nd October 2007
This workshop concentrated on success stories
and lessons learned. It was a flagship workshop - held prior to the main
conference - to present Good eHealth’s findings to stakeholders. The audience
were mainly people from industry.
There is general agreement that, in the twenty-first century, hospitals are
part of associated virtual healthcare networks which are beginning to emerge
and which are central to new forms of healthcare delivery. Hospitals are
and will be key stakeholders in this health care arena.
At this workshop, five good eHealth cases were presented – all with a key
relationship to hospitals. They nevertheless covered a
wide range of eHealth implementations. Topics introduced included the
development and implementation of an electronic patient record, the implementation
of a resource planning tool in order to manage and streamline activities, the
large-scale adoption and benefits of a secure internet medical data transmission
service that connects over 8000 general practitioners and 700 laboratories, the
development of alternative communication channels to attract medical professionals
to continuous medical education, and the importance of information systems in
managing hospitals.
The workshop content was complemented by a market review of
the state of the art in this field . It answered the question: are
Europe’s hospitals ready for eHealth? The workshop ended by taking a Look
at the Future. It focused on a Vision of IT and eHealth from an industry
perspective.
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