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AIMS of WG5 & arichives
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AIMS of WG5 & arichives |
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AIMS
Inaugural meeting in Glasgow at MIE’90
| To support nurses and nursing organisations in the European countries with information and contacts and the field of informatics | To offer nurses opportunities to build contact networks within the informatics field. |
| This could be accomplished by arranging sessions, workshops and tutorials in connection with the Medical Informatics European (MIE) conferences or by arranging separate meetings. | To support the education of nurses in respect to informatics and computing. |
| To support research and developmental work in the field and promote publishing of achieved results. |
HISTORY OF EFMI WG5 1988 TO 1994
Many thanks to Marianne Tallberg for this report
A brief informal history of the EFMI Nursing Working Group 5 from the first idea 1988 till 1994
At the EFMI Council meeting in Oslo in 1988 the question of Working Groups were largely discussed. Four groups were formed (I don’t remember for sure if perhaps one or two had been decided on already at the Council meeting in February 1988, When I had been absent).
After a consultation with Maureen Scholes (founder of IMIA WG 8) during a break, I proposed to the Council that I should try to start a nursing working group. The response was positive and so the decision about the group was taken at the EFMI Council meeting at MIE’88.
The medical informatics associations and the nurses associations in EFMI member countries were approached through letters and invited to appoint members to the group. As a practical solution they were advised to consider to appoint the same person from both associations. In the letter their attention was called to two things. "First the representative must not necessarily be a nurse, the main thing is that the appointed person is working with or interested in nursing informatics. This is in accordance with the EFMI working group rules "A working group consists of experts selected and assigned in a special area". Secondly you must have in mind that members attending WG meetings have to pay for themselves, at this time the WG5 has no means to sponsor their members". To my great disappointment many of the associations did not respond even to the third letter. Some of the associations would have been interested but could not afford to sponsor a member.
An informal gathering took place at MedInfo’89 in Singapore. Ten people attended, three of them formally appointed. At that meeting we asked Irma Iversen to represent the group at the EFMI Data protection meeting March 19-21, 1990 in Brussels.
At the inaugural meeting in Glasgow at MIE’90, with eleven countries represented, it was decided on the following aims:
The group has arranged nursing sessions and workshops at the MIE conferences. The WG5 members have also been able to assist:
Members from the group have actively been taking part in many defferent groups and projects. e.g. the Concerted action in "Telenuring" and in "EDUCRA".
When taking part in all sorts of nursing meetings and conferences the WG5 members have actively spread information about nusing informatics and facilitated networking. many of the members have also taken part in teaching nurses and student nurses in the use of informatics.
The following countries are now represented in the group: Belgium, Denmark, England, Finland, Greece, Ireland, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland. The financial situation has restriced the working group activities, and has at times hindered the members to participate. The group is now looking out for activating nurses(or persons working with nusing informaitcs) in countries still not represented.
Helsinki, januray 9, 1994
Marianne Tallberg
marianne.tallberg@kolumbus.fi
Minutes of the eleventh Working Group 5
meeting:
held on Monday 23rd and Tuesday 24th August 1999
during Medical Informatics Europe in
Ljubljana, Slovenia
| Patrick Weber | [PW] | Switzerland |
| Denise E Barnett | [DEB] | BCS, UK |
| Thomas Bürkle | [TB] | Germany |
| Ioana Moisil | [IM] | Romania |
| Mary Chamber | [MC] | For RCN, England Wales N.Ireland |
| Sylvia Hoekstra | [SH] | Netherlands |
| Paula Procter | [PP] | Observer BCS |
Ulla Gerdin Sweden
Kaia Saranto Finland
Marianne Tallberg Finland
A small, informal meeting had been held at MEDINFO in Korea in 1998 but not minuted. The minutes of the Stockholm meeting had been distributed soon after the meeting in 1997, no comments had been received. It was assumed they were considered a correct record, only IM and MC being present apart from the honorary officers.
The EFMI WG5 web page set up by Patrick Weber URL is at http:// www.novasys.ch/NIEurope/index.htm. All those present had seen it. PW was thanked for his hard work.
IM had not received the requested a list of available informatics courses from the NIGHTINGALE project, but links were added to the website for news courses and to the lists held on other websites. One for EDUCTRA was requested. PW had attended the NIGHTINGALE Project meeting held in Athens, but there was no interest in a joint conference and the promised CD-ROM and other information had still not arrived.
PW would consider adding a discussion page to the WG5 site, PP offered further hosting in Sheffield. Criteria for what could be placed on the discussion page still needed to be developed. Action: PW.
Although a lot of work had been done by IM to try to hold a nursing conference in Romania in 1998 this had not proved possible. Tonny Gypen (Belgium) had not found the proposed commercial sponsorship either. IM provided a copy of the announcement of the First Romanian Telenurse Conference to be held in Sibiu from 14-16th October 1999.
The tutorial (1999 - Slovenia) held in Ljubljana the previous day the simultaneous translation had proved popular. This was the best attended of the EFMI tutorials with 30 people participating.
A meeting with June Clark of ACENDIO had been held, but they were not yet ready for a collaborative project. MC reported the European Nursing Informatics Summer School held the previous week had been well attended.
Pr Premic organising committee announced that a certificate of attendance for each Tutorial participant would be available endorsed by the University of Ljubljana and the Chair of WG5. A similar arrangement would be explored for MIE2000. IMIA WG1 recommendations and standards were being considered by EFMI WG1 for application as a mark of quality assurance.
PW reported a minimal response from the country members not at MIE99.
Only five country reports had been received for 1997/98, now the 1998/99 ones were due. They were mandatory for EFMI country members.
At the recent EFMI Council meeting the rules for all Working Groups had been discussed.
Membership was open to a representative from the informatics group and the nurses association of all countries who were members of EFMI. It was agreed to provide a link to the list of eligible countries from the WG5 website. Action:PW
Some WG5 members were now also members of IMIA's Nursing SIG (PW for Switzerland and TB for Germany). The IMIA website was active again. The possibility of closer collaboration was discussed, for example some members were submitting the same report on country activities to both groups.
There was a lengthy discussion on the way to energise members between meetings and to recruit new, active ones. Raising the profile of the group was reconsidered. Much of the financial discussion of 1997 was revisited. DEB reminded those present that the country groups had to make a significant investment in sending their representatives to meetings as travel, accommodation and conference fees could be as much as £1000 or more. The role of EFMI was considered unclear by PP who felt many nurses did not know of EFMI WG5.
MC suggested the Group had to consider if the group's time was past and that it continued only as a tradition. PP was of the view that it could be an important group in the future if it raised its profile as an expert group with members able and willing to provide 'master classes' for European countries and to nominate experts to standards and other bodies. She offered to prepare a business plan for one study-day to be repeatable in multiple locations.
Action: PP
MC suggested PW invite selected, active nurses to work on one key topic using electronic means in order to build cohesion and enthusiasm. The 5th Framework of the EC provided an opportunity for more collaboration and for some topics it could include USA and Australia.
The agenda was varied to discuss the Research Co-ordinator proposal.
Appointment of a Membership Co-ordinator
Sylvia Hoeckstra agreed to be appointed Membership Co-ordinator. PW would provide addresses and details of the associations approached so far, together with a list of EFMI member countries. SH agreed to create a database.
She would pick up the work on section F of the strategy (dissemination of information about HI and WG5) with help from DEB on the WG5 news.
Action PW, SH, DEB.
TB suggested that gaining formal nomination from each country's eligible body was tedious. It was confirmed that such nomination was needed if financial support to attend meetings was to be achieved, however the Chair had the power to invite experts to serve on sub-groups to undertake specific work. If their meetings were mainly electronic there would be no delay. He offered to arrange for a closed list-serve to be set up to discuss EFMI member issues. Action TB
MC suggested academic institutions might provide support for such experts through the Socrates programme. She agreed to be appointed as Research Co-ordinator and to circulate information about Socrates. She would work on section D of the strategy (research into nursing informatics issues) and further develop this area of work. Action MC
PP agreed to become Education Co-ordinator. She would work on the creation of a course and related business plan and further develop the work on section A of the strategy (development of health informatics courses). No comments on IMIA Working Group 1 recommendations on 'heath and informatics' had been received (deadline 15th September). Action PP
MC and PP would provide information and an open invitation to join in the work of their sub-groups for the WG5 Website. They would also contact experts in their respective fields of interest. PW would provide information on who had expressed an earlier interest in these sub-groups. PW would also develop an on-line form for registering interest in participating. PP offered free time from a team member in Sheffield if the workload in maintaining the website became to heavy for PW. Action:PW, MC, PP
The role of country members in disseminating information would continue. Ways to maintain a list of active interested members were discussed.
PW had tried to find representatives from some EFMI member countries, but success had been temporary, such as Spain. Action:PW
Cathy Klaassen was elected as Vice-chair in Stockholm but a few months later had left nursing to become a representative for her family timber business. Sylvia Hoekstra had agreed to become the representative for the Netherlands. A new Vice Chair was to be elected. This was deferred until roles had been clarified and more members could participate.
Following the Stockholm meeting the draft strategy had been revised, distributed for comment and placed on the WG5 website. A review of the resulting action was on the agenda.
WG5 strategy for 1999/2000:
A review of progress as at March 1999 had been circulated, together with a proposed workplan for the next two months. This would be updated with the decisions of the current meeting and linked to the strategy on the Website so members could see what had been achieved as well as the work still to be done.
Working Group 5 work-plan 2000/2002
MC explained the 5th Framework included a call for a Marie-Curie training site, this could cover any aspect of work where there was international recognition and expertise. Doctoral students could then apply to the training site for a six-month or longer fellowship. The University of Ulster was considering whether to apply for an all-nursing scheme, to act as a partner with the (UK five-star research rating) biomedical sciences or the diet and health groups. MC asked if EFMI considered such partnership was a role it could play. SH suggested it might act as a channel for information and to disseminate results (with the appropriate financial support).
TB suggested at present WG5 was seen as only organising nursing participation at conferences. In Germany such a service was funded. PW was asked to enquire about the pay-back to the Working Groups for organising tutorials which attract a fee.
It was agreed to reconvene next day and for PW to try to find out
a) EU attitudes to EFMI WG5 co-ordinating work.
b) EFMI Council attitudes to WG5 funding.
Copies of 5th Framework document required for later discussions on research ? via Internet at MIE99.
DEB reported that at an EFMI Workshop on the recommendations to G8 there had been a number of areas where WG5 might have an input. She had asked for Ray Rogers to contact PW to discuss this. It was agreed to add an extra column to the current Strategy highlighting new issues, the preparatory work done/required and seeking further feedback. It was agreed that following the review in August 2000 a new strategy would be considered if EFMI WG5 was likely to continue.
TB had discussed next years MIE with Professor D Dudeck. It was planned that 50% of the Tutorial fees would go to the organiser/speakers, a workshop would be possible and the call for scientific papers would follow soon. The call for papers from the German Society Medical Informatics Meeting, being held in parallel would be in September.
PW said that WG5 would continue up to the end of his period in the Chair when a review would take place.
Action: DEB, PW
WG5 members unable to attend the meeting would be invite to volunteer to work on the remaining topics:
B minimum datasets
C nursing needs in electronic health record
E needs of nursing management.
Action: DEB, PW
Reports of activities in other EFMI Working Groups
PW and DEB had compiled a partial list for the EFMI Website of those with a cross-membership, but not reports had been received for this meeting.
It was becoming clear that building closer links with other active groups and IMIA was becoming and important area of WG5 work. Action DEB, PW.
The account had not yet been moved despite discussions with Angela Jeune. The cost of photocopying and postage had not yet been charged to the account which still stands at £110.
SH reported interest in The Netherlands in clarifying what information nurses in management positions needed. PW explained he had planned a discussion site on the EFMI website and later to turn the resulting material into FAQs.
TB provided a short report on the activities of the nurses in Germany. The present Nursing Working Group of the German Medical Informatics association would become a Section and so be open to greater participation by non-academic members. The full report will be placed on the website.
He offered to look at the MIE2000 Tutorial being in German, to attract lots of local and German-speaking nurses, rather than needing simultaneous translation. The Workshops remaining as international (English). PW requested details of the number of conference flyers required by each member.
April/May 2000 in Auckland, New Zealand, during Nursing Informatics 2000
MIE2000 in Hanover from Sunday 27th August - 1st September (note this coincides with Hanover Fair so book early).
MEDINFO in London 2nd - 6th September 2001.
EFMI WG5/DEB 25/8/99
& PW 3.1.2000
Minutes of the twelfth Working Group 5 meeting:
held on Wednesday 30th August 2000
during Medical Informatics Europe in
Hannover, Germany
Present:
Patrick Weber [PW] Switzerland
Ayala Gonen [AG] Israel
Thomas Bürkle [TB] Germany
Ioana Moisil [IM] Romania
Karl Oyri [KO] Norway
Observers:
Irma Iversen [II] Norway
Ulrich Schrader [US] Germany
Matthias Hinz [MH] Germany
* e-mail for all delegates on the last page
1. Apologies for absence
Belgium: No contact obtained with Tony Gypen. Unclear situation concerning Belgium if Tony still represents national nursing association.
Denmark: Lise Terkelsen has apologized for not being present. She will provide the annual report from Denmark in short time.
Irland: Rita Collins participated in the informal meeting held during the NI2000 in Auckland, New Zealand this spring. She has not reported prior to the meeting.
Israel: New contact for Israel by Ayla Gonen, who participated in the meeting.
Finland: Kaija Sarrarto participated in the informal meeting held during the NI2000 in Auckland, New Zealand this spring. She has not reported prior to the meeting.
Greece: John Mantas had a meeting with PW on Monday, he has promised to send a report on recent activities. John is the new chair of WG6 on education. A link between WG5 and WG6 is planed.
Island: Ingibjørg Torhalldottir has given no response or messages. Email address seems to be incorrect.
Italy: No contact, unclear about representation status.
Netherlands: Sylvia Hoekstra has not yet presented information or reports.
Slowenia: Darja Ovijac has not yet presented information or reports
Spain: No contact, unclear about representation.
Sweden: Ulla Gerdin has apologized for not being present. As she is active in IMIA, she will appoint another representative from Sweden. They will provide a activity report in short time.
UK: Paula Procter, formally appointed to replace Denise Barnett as UK representative not present at the meeting. PW will follow up the question about UK and Denise position.
Corresonding members: There are a number of corresponding members associated to EFMI WG5:NI. Some of these have written or responded to the EFMI WG5:NI the last year to propose topics for the meeting like Marianne Tallberg and Mary Chamber.
2. Acceptance of the Agenda
Apologies for absence
Acceptance of the agenda
Acceptance of the Minutes of the Ljubljana meeting
Reports of Chair:
Reports of the Country representative
Link with IMIA nursing specialist group
Aims for 2000 2001
Mailing list
Any other business
3. Acceptance of the Minutes of the 11th meeting of the EFMI
WG:5 NI in Lubljana, 1999
The report was accepted. The NI Tutorial was a great success due to the large participation of Slovenian nurses. The simultaneous translation-service was responsible for giving this Tutorial the best attendance of all EFMI Tutorials during the congress!
Sylvia Hoekstra from Netherlands was appointed as a membership coordinator, and agreed to create a membership database. Since then no further development in this activity has been observed nor reported to the Chair.
4. Chairman’s Report
Patrick Weber has chaired the group for three years, and expected to be replaced by another person for the next period. However he has agreed to continue as there are no other representatives currently able to continue the important leadership of this very fragile, but also very important group. He is prepared to continue for 1, maybe 2 years if needed. We can only be grateful for the responsibility he is showing, and the effort he is willing to make! He also explained that recent changes in his personal workload had caused a decrease in his EFMI WG5:NI- work. This situation is now luckily improving. The process of getting a new EFMI WG5:NI- Chair must follow the following procedure. The new chair is formally proposed by the workgroup members, and the proposal is always approved and by the EFMI Council, who formally appoints the new Chair.
The official report to the EFMI Council was presented by PW, and it is available as an attachment to these Minutes.
The Chair gave a brief orientation of the report, applying to the EFMI Council guidelines. Several of the topics were debated later in the meeting, and will be reflected in this Minutes.
PW presented some historical information on the EFMI WG5:NI, which is also available from the EFMI WG5:NI Homepage.
The annual reports from several countries are still missing. Space for missing reports is allocated at the homepage, and will be updated as they arrive the webmaster. The reports have shifted from following the year, and is now representing the period of time from august to the following august.
The Strategic plan and the goals for EFMI WG5:NI presented at the MIE’96 in Copenhagen were very ambitious, and the Chair proposed a change in short- term strategy for the group, to establish more realistic and obtainable goals. It was agreed on a reduction of goals to the two following objectives:
EFMI WG5:NI are going to present updated information on official
national representatives of WG5:NI in the member countries. The name and formal
address of the organisations they represent must also be provided. In each country
WG5 will present a list of experts in the field of Nursing informatics and their
specialities.
EFMI WG5:NI will collect and provide information on ongoing projects in the
respective member countries of concern for the field of Nursing Informatics.
Need for annual report.
WG5 will prepare, at MEDINFO 2001, a joint workshop together with IMIA Special
Interest Group for Nursing Informatics.
This limitation of goals is expected to lead to their achievement within this year. The relevant information is going to be presented on the EFMI WG5:NI Homepage.
EFMI represented by WG .
The EFMI-contact person towards EU, Pr. J-R Scherrer, has requested a panel of NI experts appointed by EFMI WG5:NI. The aim of the establishment of the panel is that EU can extract competence and expert opinions from it in their policymaking on NI- related topics. The different member organisations must identify their intellectual resources to be added to the expert list.
5. Report of the national representatives
The participants gave oral orientation about their activities. The reports will be published and available at the EFMI WG5:NI Homepage.
6. Link between IMIASIGNI and EFMI WG5:NI
There was an informal EFMI WG5:NI- meeting held at the NI’2000 Conference. A question of a merger between the IMIA SIGNI- group and the EFMI WG5:NI- group was raised to stop WG5 activities. This proposal is not a part of WG5:NI’s official policy, and will not be followed. Opinions from John Mantas and Evelyn Hovenga strongly support need for an European organisation to tackle the problems connected to diversities in national culture and tradition.
7. Aims for 2001
These are presented in the report of the Chair.
8. Mailing list
Thomas Bürkle has provided a closed list-server for EFMI WG5:NI. There has been a minimal response to this brilliant initiative, and everybody is urged to exploit this opportunity to the maximum, to obtain the goals we have agreed on.
The address is:
efmi-wg5-list@informatik.med.uni-giessen.de
9. EFMI WG5:NI website
This topic has been launched by the Chair in his report. There was a discussion on the need for the provision of relevant links on several areas like distance learning in NI, NI curricula, presentation of an links to the Nightingale Project. At present the EFMI WG5:NI Homepage has to be moved to a new server, performed by PW in short time. He pointed out that presentation of comprehensive links to the topics described requires massive efforts not possessed by the EFMI WG5:NI. However links to other providers seams to be reasonable solutions. The quality of the links we provide rely on the links members propose to the webmaster!
Karl Øyri
Hannover
30.08.2000
Emails
Karl Øyri karl.oyri@deltadigital.no
Irma Iversen Irma.iversen@po.ak.no
Ayala Gonen ayala@zahav.net.il
Thomas Burkle thomas.burkle@informatik.med.uni-giessen.de
Ulrich Schrader schrader@fbmnd.fh-frankfurt.de
Matthias Hinz hinz@imib.med.tu-dresden.de
Iona Moizil imoizil@sibnet.ro
Patrick Weber patrick.weber@nicecomputing.ch
Notes of the
EFMI WG 5 meeting
at Medinfo 2001 London
Monday Sept 3, 2001
at Rhodium Room,
Excel Conference Centre,
London, UK
Participants :
Thomas Bürkle, Germany ; Mary Chambers,
Northen Ireland ; Rita Collins, Ireland ; Ayala Gonen, Israel ; Irma Iversen,
Norway ;John Mantas, Greece ; Karl Oyri, Norway ; Paula Procter, UK ; Kaija
Saranto, Finland ; Patrick Weber, Switzerland In attendance : Denise Barnett
; William Goossen ; Helen Sampson, UK ; Virginia Saba ; Heather Strachan ; Marianne
Talberg And others.
Agenda
1. Follow-up of the WG 5 meeting at MIE 2000 Hannover
2. News from the EFMI Board
3. Election of Vice President and Secretary for 2002
4. Workshop at MIE spring conference Cyprus March 9th and 10th 2002
Nursing tutorial and Workshop at MIE 2002 Budapest Aug 25th-28th 2002
5. Further issues
1. Follow-up of the WG
5 meeting at MIE 2000 Hanover
The participants agree to the report of the chair (document WG5 report 2001.doc,
circulated previously) which includes the meeting report.
Three goals had been set up at the Hanover meeting:
1. update information on national representatives
2. collect information on ongoing national activities
3. joint workshop with IMIA SIG NI at MedInfo 2001-09-14
Of these the first and second have been accomplished partially by welcoming
new and active members to the WG and updating the website with new country annual
reports, but several reports are still missing and to some country members contact
could not be established. WG 5 did not actively participate to the workshop
at MedInfo 2001.
2. Assa Reichert has been
elected new president of EFMI.
EFMI supports at least two conferences per year, the usual Medical Informatics
Europe Conference MIE and an additional smaller Spring Conference. Once the
MIE is in an Easter European country, the Spring Conference will be in the West
and vice versa. The second spring conference will take place next year in Cyprus
March 9th and 10th. The working groups have been asked to participate actively.
WG 5 is considered an active WG whereas two other EFMI WGs have been frozen
due to inactivity.
A new working group image processing, led by A. Horsch has been formed.
We congratulate Patrick Weber who has been elected Treasurer of EFMI.
The EFMI Board has asked each WG to nominate a number of experts and his domain
of expertise that will be eligible for specific analyses.
EFMI has a new website (www.efmi.org) which may in future also house the websites
of the different working groups.
3. Election of Vice President
and Secretary for 2002
At the MIE 2002 meeting of WG 5 the election of the WGs new vice president and
secretary will take place.
Denise Barnett stood down as Secretary, she was sincerely thanked for her work and commitment to the group and all wished her well for the future.
4. Workshop at MIE spring
conference Cyprus
The working group intends to address Cyprus nurses with a workshop e.g. on education,
which could be held together with John Mantas chair of the WG 6 Education. Thank
you for our members who announce active participation.
TBD: Patrick Weber will contact with Cyprus organizing committee and with John
Mantas and will then share with WG 5 members what will be go on.
5. Nursing tutorial and
Workshop at MIE 2002 Budapest
It is planned to organize a simultaneously translated pre-conference tutorial
for Hungarian nurses at MIE 2002 jointly with the IMIA SIG Nursing Informatics
who meets at Budapest. Subject of the tutorial will be organized together with
Hungarian nurses IMIA-NI and WG5.
During MIE meeting WG5 will organize a workshop. IMIA-NI will also organize
a work shop during Eventual topics could be, nursing record and quality of data,
classifications.
TBD: Paula Procter will contact Hungarian nurses to define the topic for a morning
session (WG5) whilst IMIA SIG NI might want to present its working groups activities
in the afternoon. The WG will check if there is a possibility that nurses can
attend the tutorial only for a lower price since the conference itself will
cost 400 Euros.
TBD: contact national nursing association and government in Hungary
TBD: Indicate nursing relevant conference papers at the WG 5 website.
6. Further
issues
Karl Oyri proposes to nominate an information officer in the WG to help improve
the website. No decision taken
The group decides to establish, in addition to website and closed mailing list,
a discussion forum on the web. Paula Procter offers help for this.
PD. Dr. Thomas Bürkle
GMDS representative for
EFMI WG5 and IMIA SIG Nursing Informatics
Notes of the
EFMI WG 5 meeting
At MIE 2002 Budapest
Monday Aug 26th, 2002
at Room D
Congress Centre of
Eötvös Lorand University of Science (ELTE)
Participants in attendance
Thomas Bürkle, Germany Anne Casey, UK
Rita Collins, Ireland Ursula Hübner, Germany
Karl Oyri, Norway Alain Junger, Switzerland
Paula Procter, UK Kathy Moelstad, Norway
Kaija Saranto, Finland Anne Moen, Norway
Patrick Weber, Switzerland
Agenda
1. Followup of the WG 5 meeting at Medinfo 2001 London
2. Election of Vice Chair and Secretary
3. News from the EFMI Board
4. Tutorial & Workshop at MIE2003 St Malo May 4th to 7th, 2003
5. NI2003 Rio de Janeiro June 20th to 25th, 2003
6. Special topics conference Autumn 2003 Sweden
7. Further issues
1. Followup of the WG 5 meeting at Medinfo 2001 London
The protocol of the Medinfo 2001 meeting of WG 5 is accepted, no contrary votes
and no corrections needed. Several goals of the London meeting have been achieved.
WG 5, together with IMIA NI SIG, organized a very successful pre-conference
tutorial at MIE 2002 with simultaneous translation for Hungarian nurses. The
full day tutorial with 11 speakers attracted 40 participants, making it the
most favoured of all tutorials. Patrick Weber as the organizer was therefore
honoured by the conference organizers. Furthermore a joint workshop at MIE 2002
with 6 speakers attracted approximately 30 persons.
However the situation regarding country representatives in EFMI WG 5 and regarding
the mandatory country reports is not satisfactorily. Only 4 country reports
have been received for 2002.
2. Election of Vice Chair and Secretary
The chair received one reaction by email regarding election of vice chair and
secretary. Paula Procter from UK has been proposed for Vice Chair and is ready
to assume this task. Election takes place, no contrary votes. Thomas Bürkle
from Germany has been proposed for Secretary and is ready to assume this task.
Election takes place, no contrary votes.
3. News from the EFMI Board
The next two MIE conferences will both take place in West European countries.
MIE 2003 will be early in Spring in St. Malo, France. Deadline for paper submission
is 31st October, 2002.
2003 MIE St-Malo www.med.univ-rennes1.fr/mie2003/mie2003_eng.html
2003 MIE Special topics conference late October 2003 Denmark.
2004 Medinfo in San-Francisco 7-11 September 2004 www.medinfo2004.org
2005 MIE Geneva 28 August to 1 September 2005
2006 MIE Maastricht
4. Tutorial and Workshop at MIE2003 St Malo May 4th to 7th
The topic is discussed to some extent. In contrary to Hungary, a tutorial attracting
local people to teach basics of nursing informatics is deemed inappropriate.
Furthermore, IMIA NI SIG will not meet at St. Malo, therefore a joint action
is not possible. A workshop aiming at nursing informatics specialists seems
to be better suited for the event. The topic nursing terminology is to be avoided
as this is the topic for the next biannual Ascendio conference which takes place
in Paris March 20th-23rd. Paula Procter proposes litigation as a potential topic.
Although the participants feel this may be difficult, it is decided to try to
contact French nursing groups to define interesting topics.
ð Patrick Weber to be done
5. NI2003 Rio de Janeiro June 20th to 25th, 2003
Nothing is decided. It is not yet clear which WG 5 members will participate.
IMIA NI SIG will be active on this conference.
6. Summer School of Nursing Informatics 2003
Form 11th to 19th August 2003 Geneva University Hospital, University of Geneva,
Swiss Nursing Informatics group and our group will organize the 12th Summer
School of Nursing Informatics. http://come.to/essoni
Who will participate as tutor or co-tutor for which domain.
7. Special topics conference Autumn 2003 Sweden
Nothing is decided.
8. Further issues
Patrick Weber will prepare a contribution for the Ascendio conference Paris
2003.
Karl Oyri proposes to make the WG 5 webpages more attractive. To be noted: The
link at www.efmi.org points to an obsolete version of the WG 5 webpages.
Some discussion is taking place regarding the launch of European Nursing informatics
conferences. Patrick Weber points out that the first European Nursing Informatics
congress ENI 2002 takes place in Zürich / Switzerland September 27th to
28th. The Swiss and German nursing informatics groups participate in organisation.
Next meeting will be held in St-Malo. Please take the chance to come and participate
to this conference.
Münster, September 3rd,
PD. Dr. Thomas Bürkle
GMDS representative for
EFMI WG5 & IMIA NI SIG
Notes
of the
Informal EFMI WG 5 meeting
At Medinfo 2004 San Francisco Friday Sep 10th, 2004
at Room Union Square 10 Hilton San Francisco
Participants
Thomas Bürkle, Germany; Ulla Gerdin (observer), Sweden; Irma Iversen (observer),
Norway; Alain Junger (observer), Switzerland; Peter Murray, UK; Karl
Oyri, Norway; Kaija Saranto, Finland; Patrick Weber, Switzerland.
Agenda
1. Call to order
2. Workshop at MIE2005 Geneva Aug 28th to Sept 1st, 2005
3. IMIA NI meeting, NI 2006 and NI2009 conference
4. Nursing Summer Schools
5. Further issues
1. Call to order
Patrick Weber opens the informal EFMI WG5 at Medinfo2004. Invitations have been
circulated timely on the WG5 listserver August 2nd, 2004.
Several country reports to WG5 are missing. Patrick asks to have them soon.
Paula Procter from UK has resigned from all her duties for a sabbatical in Canada.
Peter Murray is new UK representative to WG5. Welcome on board Peter !
Ulla Gerdin reports that a new nursing informatics group is active now in Sweden
and a Swedish member to WG5 shall be appointed soon.
There is currently no active WG5 member from Denmark, Belgium, Spain, Portugal
and Italy. Croatia has appointed a member to IMIA NI but not yet to WG5
A new Vice Chair to WG5 has to be elected at the next full WG5 meeting during
MIE05.
2. Workshop at MIE2005 Geneva Aug 28th
to Sept 1st, 2005
MIE2005 Geneva is the next major European conference which should see some activities
from EFMI WG5. IMIA NI will meet in Geneva and will probably organise a workshop.
Different ideas for EFMI WG5 activities during MIE05 are discussed. Topics could
be for example
· a workshop on conceptual models and the ISO18104 object model from
a European viewpoint
· a terminology related workshop
· a tutorial on LEP (Leistungserfassung in der Pflege = Productivity
Measurement in nursing)
· a workshop on nurses and the health record
Deadline for MIE contributions is January 16th. Since MIE2005 is in Switzerland,
P. Weber is asked to contact with Swiss nursing associations and IMIA representatives
to figure out which topic would be most appropriate for this conference and
the local people.
3. IMIA NI meeting, NI 2006 and NI2009
conference
Patrick Weber reports about the IMIA NI general assembly. The election of the
NI2009 conference site was very close, requiring a second voting procedure.
In the end Helsinki was selected as NI2009 conference site with a small lead
on the second competitor, Geneva. Congratulations to the Finnish team !
Probably NI2009 will be the main conference for nursing in 2009 with no other
parallel conferences, respectively those may become part of NI2009. Since NI2009
takes place in Europe, an active role will be expected from EFMI WG5. Main activities
for NI2009 will not start before NI2006 has been finished, so there is some
time. K. Saranto will ask the Finnish nursing associations which could be interesting
WG5 contributions/topics. To be tabled during next WG5 full meeting in Geneva.
Patrick asks who will attend NI2006 in Seoul, Korea and should we have a European
contribution by WG5 for NI2006 as well. It could be an idea to interconnect
NI2006 and NI2009 with a workshop at NI2006.
4. Nursing Summer Schools
The 2003 European summer school had to be cancelled due to insufficient participant
numbers, German summer school activities have experienced similar problems.
It is suggested to liaise between the European and German activities to have
maybe a common summer school with two English speaking and two German speaking
tracks. Late news: During ENI2004 (European Nursing Informatics Conference in
Innsbruck) it was decided to postpone the next German summer school to 2006.
5. Further issues
Patrick Weber participates in a new book on Nursing Informatics by Delaney,
Weaver, Carr and Weber. He is still searching for contributions to certain topics,
e.g. DRGs in Europe and their influence on nursing. Deadline is 1st Nov 2004,
the book should be ready March 31st.
Upcoming events:
· The European HL7 working group meeting May 1st to 6th 2005 in Amsterdam
(http://www.ringholm.de/wgm2005/)
(to liaise with Ed Hammond if an active nursing contribution is intended)
· Ascendio Conference April 7th to 9th 2005 in Bled, Slovenija
(http://www.oudconsultancy.nl/slovenia/slovenia/index.html)
Next full WG5 meeting will take place during MIE2005 in Geneva, probably Sunday
August 28th, 2005. IMIA NI meets during MIE05 Aug 27th.
Erlangen, January 31st,
PD. Dr. Thomas Bürkle
GMDS representative for
EFMI WG5 & IMIA NI SIG
Notes
of the EFMI WG 5 meeting
At MIE 2005 Geneva
Monday Aug 29th, 2005 at Room 1160
Uni-Mail Building
Participants
Janette Bennett, UK
Thomas Bürkle, Germany
Alain Junger (observer), Switzerland
Kaija Saranto, Finland
Patrick Weber, Switzerland
Agenda
1. Members
2. Call to order
3. Minutes of September 2004 meeting San-Francisco
4. Elections of vice chair
5. Activities July 2004 to July 2005
6. Activities 2006 NI + MIE
7. Further issues
8. Miscellaneous
1. Members
Peter Murray accepted to be UK representative until someone is nominated. Today
we have the pleasure to welcome Janette Bennett official representative from
UK. We thank Peter for his work.
2. Call to order
Patrick Weber opens the EFMI WG5 at MIE 2005 following the workshop Nurses:
IT project management. Invitations have been circulated timely (May 23rd, 2005)
on the WG5 listserver and on the WG 5 website http://www.nicecomputing.ch/nieurope/agenda_wg5_meeting.htm.
Several country reports to WG5 are missing. Patrick asks to have them soon.
3. Minutes of September 2004 meeting San-Francisco
The minutes of the 12th WG meeting are available on the web and have been approved
unanimously.
4. Elections of vice chair
Due to the low number of participants the elections have been postponed. Thomas
Bürkle would stand in for vice chair and Janette Bennett would act as secretary
if desired.
5. Activities July 2004 to July
2005
Patrick Weber reports about activities to have the fourth European Nursing Informatics
Conference ENI directly after the MIE conference in Geneva. Unfortunately this
did not work and the 4th ENI is now taking place in Zürich (Switzerland)
November 4th and 5th, 2005. There will be tracks in German, French and English
language. Further information may be found under www.printernet.info/eni.asp
respectively www.printernet.info/kongresse/flyer_eni.pdf.
The new book on Nursing Informatics from Weaver C, Delaney C, Weber P, Carr
R: Nursing and Informatics for the 21 st Century: An International Look at Trends,
Cases, and the Future is nearly finished and will appear in 2006.
Patrick Weber participated to the ICN meeting in Taipei which was attended by
more than 3000 participants (http://icn.ch/congress2005/highlights.htm).
Patrick Weber reports about the IMIA NI SIG meeting at MIE 2005 which took place
Saturday August 27th. He points to the presentation of Dr. Jean Yan, Chief Scientist
for Nursing and Midwifery of the World Health Organisation during the SIG meeting.
Dr Yan was very interested to liaise with IMIA NI SIG and EFMI WG 5 regarding
nursing informatics and world health problems.
6.
Activities 2006 NI + MIE
Patrick Weber reports about the prolonged deadline for submissions to NI 2006
in Seoul http://www.ni2006.org/. He will participate.
A workshop will be held at MIE 2006 in Maastricht, NL. The MIE conference topic
is Ubiquity: technologies for better health in ageing societies. Possible topics
for a nursing workshop include DRG based nursing or SNOMED and nursing.
Upcoming
events:
· 6th-8th April 2006 EFMI special topic conference Timisoara, Romania
· 11th-14th June 2006 Nursing Informatics NI 2006 Seoul, Korea
· 27th -30th Aug 2006 MIE 2006 Maastricht, Netherlands
Next WG5 meeting will take place during MIE2006 in Maastricht.
7.
Further Issues
Currently only the nursing informatics summerschool at Maryland university (US)
is still active. The planned European summerschool events failed in 2002 and
2003 due to low participation. A German summerschool is planned for 2006.
Erlangen, September 19th,
PD. Dr. Thomas Bürkle
GMDS representative for
EFMI WG5 & IMIA NI SIG