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Report of activities
to EFMI Council
For the period July 2004 to June 2005
Presented on August 27th 2005, EFMI Council meeting, Geneva
by Patrick Weber, Chairman of the working group
Email: patrick.weber@nicecomputing.ch
Selection of members
Today 13 country members and 7 associate members compose our group.
Vice president and secretary
New election for vice chair has to be done.
Objectives of the group
Recent activities
Several county's members of our WG are directly involved
into developments corresponding to our aims please look at country reports on
the Website www.nicecomputing.ch/nieurope
Annual report from
Swiss Nursing Informatics Group
Patrick Weber Swiss representative at IMIA/NI-SIG and EFMI NursIE
Swiss Nursing Informatics Group is very active. The present summary concerns 2004. President or secretary if needed could give more information. The website is accessible at www.swissnurse.ch. As president of the Working Group 5 Nursing Informatics Europe of EFMI (European Federation for Medical Informatics) you may find also information about Nursing Informatics of EFMI at http://www.nicecomputing.ch/nieurope.
In September 2004 members of our group co-organizes and participates at the 3rd European Nursing Informatics congress, ENI2004, in Innsbruck, Austria.
One-day very interesting conference was organized for the Swiss nurses on the successful implementation in nursing informatics in Nov 2004, in Lausanne, Switzerland.
The 4th European Nursing Informatics congress will be in Zürich Switzerland at 4. and 5. November 2005, see http://www.printernet.info/eni.asp?rechts=off where our German speaking colleagues are the organizer of the conference.
We still have three Internet groups active: network for nursing informatics, network for nursing data, and network for ICNP users group. Development of international classification is followed (ICF, ICNP, NIC, NOC, NANDA). A Swiss classification called LEP (Leistung Erfassung der Pflege) is now used all over Switzerland. The purpose of this classification is to collect daily nursing activity and measure the nursing time allowing workload management in nursing. http://www.lep.ch/Language/Englishframe.htm
NURSING data project is continuing, 2004 was spent to activate several working groups mainly busy on the correction of the CH-NMDS, the reference classification and preparing next activities. Follow the progress at http://www.isesuisse.ch/nursingdata/en/index.htm.
Nursing at national level has representatives included in the preparation of the next generation of a Swiss DRG system. Work is important for allowing nursing activities to be taken into account for the future Casemix value.
On preparation is a repository on proposed standards about nursing informatics implementation for Switzerland. The Swiss nursing association support this task.
Generally in Switzerland the collection of data is becoming very important, quality - and cost- management of the state and the insurances become more and more effective. Therefore the role of the informatics increased but also the costs for informatics.
Patrick Weber July 2005
Nursing Informatics in Finland in 2003 - 2004, since Rio 2003
Kaija Saranto
Finn representative at EFMI WG 5
kaija.saranto@uku.fi
Anneli Ensio
Finn representative at IMIA NI
anneli.ensio@uku.fi
Development activities
At national level the project to unify information systems, national data archives and data security solutions by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health has proceeded. The consensus of the national data requirements for EHR has been achieved. The national EHR system will include the nursing minimum data set by the year 2007.
Some hospitals have already implemented our NMDS in their hospital information systems. The use of our NMDS is based on HHCC and the Finnish Classification of Nursing Interventions (FiCNI). The electronic nursing referrals and discharge summaries are in clinical use in some hospital districts. The Ministry of Social Affairs and Health is funding 2004 a pilot project for nurses' electronic networking. The co-operation with HL7 Finland has increased and nursing care plan will be harmonized by HL7 CDA R2 standard by the year 2006.
The Nursing terminology for data and literature retrieval has now been attached to the Finnish MeSH-translation the FinMeSH and will be used for indexing Finnish nursing literature.
At local level several hospitals and health centres have networked for developing the structure of electronic care plan. The development work for the national EHR infrastructure is carried out multidisciplinary teams. Nurses' interest in the acquaintance in other terminologies i.e. NIC, NOC and ICNP has increased. Several hospitals have also improved nursing knowledge and skills in information technology use.
Research
The annual meeting of Social and Health Informatics Association took place in May 2004. Some 80 active researches had presentations and discussed about resent health informatics studies in Finland. In 2004 a doctoral dissertation about the electronic documentation of ICU patient care has been published in Oulu University.
In spring 2004 The Finnish Center for the Technology Development launched a development and research program FinnWell. With this funding it is possible to enhance the health informatics development and research. Some projects are already approved.
Education
From the first Social and Health Informatics Master's Degree Programme in Finland by the year 2004 20 students have got their Master's degree. The three years programme is based on the recommendations of IMIA WG 1 for informatics education. Kuopio University offers also multi-disciplinary continuing education modules of informatics for people working in social and health care. The introduction course of social- and health care informatics has been available as a web-based course for every university with nursing degree programme.
At the bachelors' level education several Nursing Polytechnics have also adopted informatics modules in their programs. The new multidiscipline programme (e-well) focusing on IT-use in health care has proved to be necessary and students have started their development assignments in public and private sector.
In March 2004 The Finnish Nurses Association organized the annual conference for nurses - The Nurses Days and the First international nursing informatics symposium. More than 600 nurses got together to listen the information technology presentations during the Nurses Days. About 100 colleges get together and networked for nursing terminology development at the international symposium guided by international experts. The Finnish Nurses Association has published in March 2004 a book 'Electronic Nursing Documentation' authored by Ensio & Saranto.
Traditionally in May the Finnish Federation of Municipalicies had two days Health care informatics seminar where nursing had an own session. Nurses had also presentations in other sessions of the seminar.
The Finnish Nurses Association has gathered an expert group for preparing the proposal to hold the 10th International Conference in Nursing Informatics - NI 2009 - in Helsinki Finland. The association welcomes the IMIA NI Conference to Finland and will take the full responsibility in case of financial loss.
Country Report Germany Nursing Informatics Activities
2005
The 3rd European Nursing Informatics conference ENI took place in Innsbruck
(Austria) from Sept 30th to October 1st 2004 immediately after the German Medical
Informatics Association GMDS annual conference. More than 200 persons participated
in 4 workshops and 6 sessions concerning nursing documentation, IT-support,
nursing terminology, nursing management, new technologies and knowledge management.
All abstracts are available at http://bisg.umit.at/eni2004/abstracts.pdf.
The ENI has been established as a major conference for nursing informatics topics
and the 4th ENI is scheduled in Zürich (Switzerland) November 4th and 5th,
2005. In Zürich 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 GMDS working group "Information Processing in Nursing" (http://www.health-informatics.de/gmds_ni/)
was very active in preparation of ENI 2004 and ENI 2005 where the chairpersons
participate in the program committee. Furthermore it held a workshop at the
GMDS KIS Tagung in Mannheim (http://www.informatik.fh-mannheim.de/kis/)
which is a major application centred event targeting medical informatics persons
and management in hospitals. Furthermore, members of the working group participated
actively in the Telemed 2005 in Berlin, a conference centred on telematics in
healthcare http://www.telemed-berlin.de/telemed2005/programm.html
and they contributed an expert opinion to the topic telematics and nursing.
The working group reconvened Sept 14th during the GMDS conference in Freiburg.
Prof. Ursula Hübner was elected new chair of the working group and Prof.
Ulrich Schrader was elected co-chair. Prof. Elske Ammenwerth decided not to
candidate again and we wish to thank her for the valuable work she did for the
group.
For 2006 a new German Nursing Informatics Summer School is scheduled in Ockenheim
near Mainz (http://www.desspi.de/).
We would like to ask for early application to this interesting event.
PD. Dr. Thomas Bürkle
EFMI WG5 secretary and IMIA SIG Nursing Informatics representative
Institute of Medical Informatics
University of Erlangen
Krankenhausstraße 12
91054 Erlangen
Germany
Healthcare Informatics Society of Ireland (HISI)
Nurse Steering Group Report
29th August 2005
Irish Health Reform Programme
This is an exciting year for nursing informatics in Ireland. The recently published health reform programme and the restructuring of the health service executive has resulted in a strong emphasis on reform of the health services. Underpinning this reform is the establishment of an informatics framework, which is evident by the establishment of the National Standard Authority of Ireland (NSAI) Health Informatics Standards Consultative Committee. HISI Nursing will be represented on this group by Pam Henry who is currently engaged with the joint research team from Dublin City University and University College Dublin in the development of an Irish Nursing Minimum Dataset.
Interim Health Information and Quality Authority (iHIQA)
A meeting of members of the HISI-Nursing steering group met with the iHIQA nursing representative to outline our work and to offer our expertise to the group. IHIQA is responsible for preparing the administrative and organisational plans for the early establishment of the Health Information and Quality Authority under primary legislation.
Association for Common European Nursing Diagnosis, Interventions and Outcomes (ACENDIO) and HISI-Nursing
The ACENDIO conference was held in Slovenia in Bled in April of this year. The conference in itself was a very successful event with seven speakers / poster presentations included within the programme. Details of the conference programme can be seen at http://www.oudconsultancy.nl/slovenia/slovenia/acendioprogram7a.html
A meeting was held of the ACENDIO /UK group which is a sub committee from
the main ACENDIO organisation. The following individuals have been placed on
the Irish sub committee:
· Mr Fintan Sheerin (Chair), Lecturer/Practitioner, Mater Misericordiae
University Hospital/School of Nursing and Midwifery, University College Dublin.
· Ms Rita Collins, Lecturer in Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, University College Dublin.
· Ms Pam Henry, Lecturer/Researcher, School of Nursing,
Dublin City University, Dublin.
· Christine Hughes, Professional Development Officer, National Council for the Professional Development of Nursing and Midwifery, Dublin.
One of the first decisions made by the group was to host a joint study day with HISI-N in November 2005.
Pre-HISI Annual Conference 2005
The HISI - Nursing steering group are currently engaged in a collaborative joint study day with the Association for Common European Nursing Diagnosis Interventions and Outcomes (ACENDIO) Ireland/UK group to be held on the 16th November 2005 pre the annual HISI conference. This pre-conference study day will take place in the Stillorgan Park Hotel, Stillorgan, Dublin.
Online Learning Programme - Health Informatics Training System (HITS)
HITS - the Health Informatics Training System, a new IT Certification Programme for healthcare workers has been developed by the HISI in conjunction with Irish Computer Society (ICS) SKILLS, the training and certification body of the Irish Computer Society. The programme has been designed to provide a basic understanding of the use of information technology in healthcare, for those who work in the sector, at all levels including nursing.