Europe´s healthcare elite assemble for the HIMSS CIO Summit. Follow the events of the CIO Summit held from November 20 - 22th in Geneva, Switzerland. The HealthTech Wire Team is onsite and will bring you the updates and news as the events unfold. More information is available in HIMSS GoDirect channel on HealthTech Wire.
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+++ 3:45 pm | IT systems can give clinical and financial benefits +++
John P. Hoyt, Executive Vice President, HIMSS Analytics, USA presents data from the US that shows a positive return on investment from adoption of IT systems.
+++ 1:22 pm | No system is perfect so build in feedback from users +++
That was the experience of Uppsala County Council in changing to one EMR system in primary and secondary care for the whole of the county — one patient, one record. Dr Anders Bjorklind, CMIO at County Council of Uppsala, Sweden added that important criteria for successful deployment included united politicians and management, determined project management and careful planning.
+++ 1:17 pm | Siemens Soarian the foundation for UKE's EMRAM Stage 7 award +++
Earlier this year, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE) became the first hospital in Europe to receive an award for reaching the highest level, Stage 7, on the Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM) scale. UKE was presented with the award at the HIMSS Analytics Awards Dinner last night — held at the Restaurant La Broche here in Geneva, in the presence of senior healthcare executives from around Europe. On achieving Stage 7, Dr Peter Gocke, Head of IT at UKE, said, "The electronic patient file, based on the hospital information system Soarian Clinicals and Soarian Health Archive, is a major contributor to the efficiency of our clinical and administrative processes. It's a milestone in healthcare." Hartmut Schaper, senior vice president of Health Services at Siemens Healthcare, said, "UKE is an excellent example of how complex work processes can be improved and made paperless through innovative IT."
+++ 12:59 am | Electronic medical records alone do not give an improvement in healthcare +++
Most hospitals in Norway have had electronic records for 5-10 years, but although it has more doctors and nurses, healthcare costs are higher and outcomes are worse than other Nordic countries, explains Dr Hans Nielsen Hauge,MD, CMIO Helse Sor-Ost, Norway. One factor is lack of interoperability between healthcare organisations. The South East region of Norway has now developed a new IT strategy, he says.
+++ 12:30 am | Big Bang is not best for EHR adoption +++
From the experience of Odense University Hospital in Denmark, a Big Bang approach to implementation of electronic healthcare records is not recommended, says Dr Peder Jest, CMO,Director, Odense University Hospital, Denmark. The development and integration of IT systems went well, but it was a challenge for physicians to move to a new EHR system and there was resistance to changing old routines. His conclusion is that a Big Bang implementation is only applicable to limited numbers of medical personnel.
+++ 10:04 am | Cloud computing can solve the looming data explosion problem in healthcare +++
Dr Zafar Chaudry, CIO, Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust, UK, illustrates how cloud computing can help solve multiple challenges facing hospitals, including budget, organisational, quality and safety, staff, and efficiency pressures among others. It reduces IT complexity by leveraging the efficient pooling of on-demand, self-managed, virtual infrastructure, consumed as a service. At his Trust, he says, it has driven across the board savings, provided more IT resources for innovation and value-added activities and increased productivity.
+++ 9:49 pm | Video released — UKE staff tell how Siemens Soarian helped them become the first in Europe to achieve Stage 7 EMRAM +++
"There’s no comparison between the paper and the electronic medical records. The preparation goes much faster. I can get ready to visit patients much more rapidly, have a quick look at new findings,” says Dr Johannes Bier, Resident Physician at the University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), on the improvements that Siemens Soarian has brought to his work at the hospital. The video shows the ease with which doctors and nurses can quickly find information on a patient’s condition, diagnostic findings, lab values, and the medical procedures that have already been carried out. Viewers can see the benefits of Soarian's workflow-oriented concept which enables co-ordination of tasks, information, resources, and employees. Watch the Video on HealthTech Wire.
+++ 09:32 am | Clinical decision-support systems should be integrated with electronic healthcare records +++
Clinical decision-support systems have been shown to improve patient care and should be provided for all professional groups and citizens via EHRs and personal health records, according to Dr Ilkka Kunnamo, Editor-in-Chief, EBM Guidelines & EBMeDS at Duodecim, Finland. He shows an example of a multilingual CDS tool that can be integrated with any electronic health record, using the demo website of EBMeDS.
+++ 09:07 am | Future EPR systems must allow interoperability of medical knowledge with patients' data +++
In many healthcare organisations the healthcare professionals do not see significant added value from an electronic patient record because of the poor usability of the system. This creates a resistance to adopt new technology, explains Prof. Xavier Pastor, MD, CMIO, Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, Spain. The next generation of EPR must remove the barriers with a new system architecture and a move away from being mainly a data store into a healthcare assistant that can interact with biomedical knowledge in the web 3.0 network.
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Source: HealthTech Wire
