4th place

Catalan Health Personal Folder

Organisation: Catalan Agency for Health Technology Assessment, Spain

Author: Joan Guanyabens i Calvet

Presenting Author: Joan Guanyabens i Calvet

The government of Catalonia has introduced the Personal Health Folder (PHF) in order to offer its’ citizens access to personal health information, through a virtual secure portal on the Internet. The PHF is currently being used and provides citizens with access to information on active prescribed medication and vaccines, medical reports and results of tests and examinations, as well as various e-services, such as conducting online transactions through the virtual office, communicating with health professionals and participating in social networks.

Company Information: not available

5th Place

Infobroker – an ICT Healthcare Solution: Reflections and Lessons based on Four Years Experience, building an Enterprise Infrastructure for Image and Text Information

Organisations: Center for Surgical Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm; HSA, Region Västra Götaland, Gothenburg, Sweden

Authors: Nina Margareta Lundberg, Lars Lindsköld, Mikael Wintell

Presenting Authors: Nina Margareta Lundberg, Lars Lindsköld, Mikael Wintell

The Västra Götaland (VGR) region of Sweden has data shared by 29 x-ray departments, 170 dental clinics, two clinical physiology departments and four cardiology departments through the Infobroker solution – Sweden’s (and possibly the world’s) first enterprise data storage centralising patient information regardless of different sites’ local EPR, PACS and RIS systems. Text from EPR systems are stored as DICOM-Structured Reports objects, together with the images. Interoperability is based on IHE. Infobroker has improved treatment and diagnostic quality, clinical quality, provided better load balancing of clinical and diagnostic resources, and enabled team working across traditional departmental boundaries.

Company Information: not available

6th Place

Web 2.0 to Share Medical Knowledge and Improve Care: The Scientific Social Network of Madrid Health Region

Organisation: Hospital Gregorio Maranon, Spain

Author: Manuel Vallina

Presenting Author: Manuel Vallina

Madrid Health Region has launched a social network to allow physicians to share clinical and scientific knowledge, including medical images, videos and cases.The project aims to validate Web 2.0 tools for clinical collaboration and improve clinical outcomes via better communication among clinicians.

Company Information: Intel Corporation Iberia, S.A.

7th Place

Medical Image Repository for Physicians and Citizens

Organisation: Catalan Agency for Health Technology Assessment, Spain

Author: Carles Rubies

Presenting Author: Carles Rubies

The development of a Medical Image Central Repository (MICR) is one of the fundamental pillars of the ICT strategy of the Catalan Ministry of Health. The MICR already integrates radiological images and is being extended to imaging from other specialties. Its design and technical qualities are state-of-the-art, allowing healthcare professionals to access images through the Catalan Shared Medical Record (HC3), with a unique patient identification (as required by law). Furthermore, it offers similar access to all Catalonian citizens through their Personal Health Record.

Company Information: not available

8th Place

IT Meets Medical Engineering- Process Optimisation in Medical Documentation

Organisations: Management-Beratung im Gesundheitswesen GmbH, Mednovo Medical Software Solutions GmbH, Diakonissen Mutterhaus Rothenburg Wümme, Germany

Authors: Andreas Bess, Michael Heinlein, Gerd Renner

Presenting Author: Michael Heinlein

This project aims to optimise both IT and medical engineering and achieve cost savings. It has selected two specialist hospital test sites. In the first, current treatment processes are first analysed without medical devices. This is followed by integration of the latter and a re-evaluation of the treatment processes. A comparison is then made to evaluate their pluses and minuses, both with and without device connections. In the second test site, treatment processes are analysed without electronic requirements management. This is followed by a prescriptive establishment of the parameters of electronic requirements management – from both an organisational and technical perspective, as well as their implementation and comparative evaluation.

Company Information: MEDNOVO Medical Software Solutions GmbH

9th Place

Inventing Digital Hospital Infrastructure at St Olavs Hospital

Organisation: St. Olavs Hospital, SC- Solumsmo Consulting, Norway

Author: Arve-Olav Solumsmo

Presenting Author: Arve-Olav Solumsmo

The new 800-bed St. Olavs Hospital has entailed a wholly new ICT infrastructure (5,000 PCs, 5,500 IP phones, 150 servers and 1,100 wireless access points), utilising a single converged IP network with over 100 completely separate VLANs, each with its own service level and rules for authorisation and access. The mantra of IP overall/all-over IP has involved integration of several disparate networks (data, paging, television, telephony, video, mobile, and clinical systems such as PACS and nurse calls) to one IP multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) medical-grade network with a reliability requirement of 99.999%. A digital EHR system is now in place, with speech recognition, alongside a hospital-wide drug dispensing system using automated pill pick machines.

Company Information: Imatis AS and Hewlett-Packard ApS