Tag: information technology

IS-HEART presentation June 5th: Dynamic Clinical Checklist Support Systems

Also see the online agenda item for this session.

Speakers: Lonneke Vermeulen (TU/e – IS) and Ashley De Bie Dekker (Catharina Ziekenhuis Eindhoven)
Title: The first pilot study of DCCSS Tracebook, from idea to results

Abstract: Atul Gawandas’ Checklist Manifesto made the medical world realize the high potential of clinical safety checklists in reducing medical errors and improving patient safety. As the current computerized checklist support systems were too static, the Brainbridge II program (a collaboration between the Eindhoven University of Technology, Zhejiang University, Philips Research and Catharina Hospital Eindhoven) developed a system that can individualize checklists based on information from the patient’s medical record while also considering the context of the clinical workflows. By the end of last year (2014) the first pilot study of the Dynamic Clinical Checklist Support System (DCCSS) Tracebook took place in the hospital. In this presentation we will guide you from the beginning of this project to the results of the first pilot study.

After a short introduction of the Tracebook system, we will describe how we developed these dynamic checklists, which research design we followed and how the pilot study was set up. We will conclude with the promising results from the study and afterwards there is time for discussion.

Master Thesis Defense Sven Bastianen: Towards an architecture for the support of integrated Personal Health Records

Pieter Van Gorp is proud to announce the very successful completion of the master thesis project of Sven Bastianen.  Sven has worked closely with SAP NL and for the final presentation the large number of attendees confirmed that he tackled a very relevant problem.

Abstract

In the past decade Care Delivery Organizations (CDOs) have widely adopted Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems for storing patient records digitally. As information technology is developing and healthcare is becoming more patient-centered, we notice the development of Personal Health Record (PHR) systems, which enable individuals to store their health-related information in a digital, online fashion. Together with the upcoming trend of Wearable Health Monitoring Systems (WHMSs), which ideally store their information in a PHR system, it is expected that individuals have a valuable collection of health information that can support the healthcare services that they receive.

In this research we investigate the technical challenges and barriers for integrating EMR systems and PHR systems and how these can be resolved in order to come to a more holistic approach in the way health information is used. We do this by analyzing currently existing PHR systems and investigating the current health information infrastructure in The Netherlands, while having a strong focus on interoperability standards, e.g. HL7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR). In order to also cover challenges that arise from a practical sense, we have built a prototype of an integrated PHR by setting up an interoperability scenario between the EMR system i.s.h.med of Cerner, part of SAP for Healthcare, and the PHR system HealthVault, developed by Microsoft. Subsequently we present an integration design for setting up an integrated PHR. The research is concluded with an architecture that implements the integration design into the current Dutch health information exchange infrastructure AORTA.

Thesis Text

Available from the TU/e library and from here. Thanks to SAP for not requiring any form of confidentiality.

IS-HEART session: presentation by Ivo Canjels (Philips)

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Ivo Canjels is Product architect at Philips Medical Systems. He has had previous positions at IBM and Sagantec.  In his talk, Ivo will describe the Philips Healthsuite Digital Platform with a focus on Interventional X-Ray technologies.  In a preparation meeting, some opportunities for collaboration were already identified (e.g., on TraceBook but also on mining large repositories of data from Philips devices.) The purpose of this session is to identify the top collaboration opportunities and make concrete agreements afterwards.

IS-HEART sessions are organized every first and third Friday of the month. Sometimes, extra sessions are organized or sessions are moved for example to the fourth week of the month. Such exceptions are scheduled as separate events in the IS agenda.

Workshop Series: “Duurzaam Ouder Worden”

In collaboration with Aediz, we are organizing a workshop series related to elderly care (home care, continued participation of the elderly in the future society, e-Health, new business models, etc.).

The series encompasses two sessions targeted at IE&IS researchers:

  1. an two-hour introductory workshop where Aediz presents its vision to various researchers of the TU/e IE&IS department and where these researchers propose candidate follow-up projects,
  2. a two-hour closing session where research meets practice and where concrete follow-up agreements are made. This session will also involve participation from nursing home managers etc. A Dutch announcement for health practitioners can be found here.

Please register via this Google form.