Category: IS-HEART

Pre-Announcement: Arthur Wasylewicz will speak about GASTON

We will soon have an invited talk by Arthur Wasylewicz, an expert in the CDS system from the Catharina Hospital, Eindhoven. Arthur is a pharmacist researcher and has (amongst others) been involved in GASTON projects that go from pure medical requirements engineering to the actual system implementation. In order to focus his talk, we are calling for your input: please let us know which aspects you are most interested in.

We will soon after fix the date and topic of the talk.

Additional presentation planned for this week’s IS-HEART session

As announced earlier, this Friday one group of students will present their results related to a project at the emergency department of the MMC.

We proudly announce today that another group will give a presentation as well. Therefore, we will have two presentations: one from 12:30 to 13:00 and one from 13:00 to 13:30.

Title: Wage labor and partnerships in health care.

Abstract:
The health care system in the Netherlands works with specialists in wage labor and partnerships. The focus lies on the differences between these two systems. In the presentation these systems are evaluated using a model.

IS-HEART session 34 (NOT Dec 21st, but Dec 20th; 2012)

We would like to invite you to attend a presentation from BEP student Job Visser.

The title of the presentation is “Optimizing the CCHL Department at Amphia Breda” and it is about the redefinition of some logistic processes involved in blood analysis.

The presentation will be Thursday, december 20th, at 12:30 in room K16.

Please contact Gianni Acampora to confirm your presence.

When and Where?

IS-HEART session 33 (Dec 7th, 2012)

Tentative schedule: formal plan presentation by Bas van Geffen.

Title PHR implementation at Sint Maartenskliniek

Abstract Patient are getting more and more involved in their medical treatment, people are going digital and do lots of things online. This movement will also have an effect on healthcare, this ranges from comparing doctors and hospitals, to keeping their own health records. This has led to the introduction of Personal Health Records (PHR). In the Netherlands there are a few leaders in this area. The board of directors of the Sint Maartenskliniek has decided it wants to provide patient access to as much information as possible. They are looking for the easiest way to gain a position amongst the leaders in this area.

When and Where?

IS-HEART session 32 (Nov 16th, 2012)

  • Presentation by Michel Koeken (thesis student supervised by Pieter Van Gorp.  Michel should graduate within one Month).
  • Abstract and Focus Question for the session:

    First I would like to introduce my master thesis. I am performing an analysis on the European tenders for the procurement of a HIS/EHR system in the Dutch academic hospitals. Such a European tender consists of 2000 questions which are made up by the academic hospital. Each supplier has to fill in all questions and for each question a supplier can gain points if they answer it correctly. In the end the academic hospital adds all gained points per supplier and the winner is the supplier with the highest score.

     Each tender is divided into several subtopics and each subtopic consists of several questions. As you can gain points per questions and it is known how many questions belong to one specific subtopic it’s also known how many points can be gained per subtopic.

    I have this information of three tenders and the aim is to identify the most important subtopics in order of points and how these most important subtopics changed over time. Unfortunately each tender used slightly different subtopics. To analyze how the most important subtopics changed over time we had to take one tender as reference and match the subtopics of the other two tenders with the subtopics of the reference tender. I used the Delphi method (in the first round the two experts matched the subtopics individually, and in the second round the experts and I sat together to find the correct matching) to match every subtopic with a subtopic of the reference tender.

    The example in the presentation is a simplified example of three tenders, but with only 5, 4 and 3 subtopics per tender. The matching that is made is fictional and it’s only purpose is as an example. In this example Tender A is the reference tender.

    The question that we have is how we should present the results? Which trend analysis can be used and how should this be performed?

  • Draft slides: IS-HEART MK