"Preparing for eHealth - collaborative efforts in nursing"

Nursing Informatics conference held in conjunction with MiE'2008,

May 25th 2008 at Göteborg University

Associated with the annual conference MiE (Medical Informatics Europe), the IMIA-NI management working group in collaboration with FDH and EFMI-NI organized this meeting "preparing for eHealth - collaborative efforts in nursing", to elaborate important issues for nursing specifically related to eHealth. We foresee much progress in this area in the years to come, calling for our contributions to explore available and emerging opportunities to shape the future of patient care.
In this meeting, we focused on possibilities following new and improved infrastructure allowing for improved access and interoperability of services. In the break out we focused on 1) examples of ongoing research and development efforts related to the "Consumer and eHealth", "Informatics Competencies", and "Implementation of eHealth components" and 2) in-depth elaboration of issues related to "standards and terminologies". The speakers have generously made their presentations available to the community, and you can either download them or contact the speaker for more information.
In addition, as chair of the organizing committee I am grateful to my fellow committee members, Margareta Ehnfors, Patrick Weber, Carole Cassert and Rosemary Kennedy for their very valuable contributions. We are also grateful to the sponsors and the participants in the meeting.

We look forward to seeing you again for Ni'2009 in Helsinki, Finland!

on behalf of the organizing committee

Anne Moen, RN, PhD
Chair, IMIA-NI management WG and National IMIA-NI representative
Associate professor, Institute of Health Sciences and InterMedia, University of Oslo
Oslo, Norway

Following to this very fruitful conference it's a pleasure to provide the slides here below

What nurses contributes to and can gain from Health Information Exchange by Patricia Flatley Brennan, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

eHealth applications for information and communication sharing between patients and clinicians by: Ann-Kristin Rotegård, Norway

Smart cards & continuity of care by: Madelyn McGillin USA

Nursing association point of view, by: Lucien Portenier, Switzerland

Health Informatics Competencies - what do we need?, by: Kaija Saranto, Finland (please Email Kaija to have her slides)

Nursing informatics education by: John Mantas, Greece

Elin-K - inter-organizational continuity of care by: Merette Lyndstad, Norway

National implementation and implications for nursing, by: Janette Bennett, United Kingdom

Concerning the Workshop on Standards & Terminologies please find the following slides

William Goossen Results4Care Netherland,

Alain Junger CHUV University hospital of Lausanne Use Case

Sue Grobe University of Texas Austin

Suzanne Bakker Columbia University New York

Margareta Ehnfors University of Örebro Sweden

Kathryn Moelstad Norsk Sykepleierforbund Norway

If you need more information please contact: patrick.weber@nicecomputing.ch