KNMG
“Het Ministerie van Volksgezondheid, Welzijn en Sport (hierna: VWS) heeft KPMG gevraagd een zogenaamde quick scan uit te voeren om inzicht te krijgen in de stand van zaken, de belangrijkste aandachtspunten en de ontwikkelingen ten aanzien van de invoering van elektronische informatie- uitwisseling/EPD’s in zes landen in Europa.
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Janine Budding, Medicalfacts
“Denen selecteren InterSystems HealthShare voor landelijke uitwisseling zorginformatie InterSystems Corporation, mondiaal toonaangevend in software voor de zorgsector, maakt bekend dat InterSystems HealthShare™ is gekozen als systeem waarmee zorginstellingen in Denemarken gegevens gaan uitwisselen via een zogeheten ’health information exchange’ (HIE).
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ePractice EU
“The project starts at the beginning of 2012 and runs for two years. Four hospitals in the Capital Region (Region Hovedstaden, in Danish) and the Central Denmark Region (Region Midtjylland, in Danish) are participating in the project with up to ten municipalities and a number of practitioners across the country. It will produce a database that records information on patients while they remain at home.
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Robert Teague, Washington Report
“In a country where half of all hospitals, and virtually all primary care physicians, use a nationally networked electronic medical record (EMR)system, Denmark leads the rest of the world in digital care.
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Gray BH et al, The Commonwealth Fund, Volume 28
Research has shown that the United States lags many other countries in the adoption of electronic health records (EHRs). The U.S. has now embarked on a major effort to achieve “meaningful use” of health information technology by clinicians and hospitals. This issue brief describes the extent of meaningful use in three countries with very high levels of health information technology adoption—Denmark, New Zealand, and Sweden.
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Eashwar Subramanian, Science 2.0
“At first sight, the hand held tablets and screens hosted on nurse tables and held dearly to the palms of able clinical staff, may appear to be incongruous with the functional obligations of their owners and you could be forgiven to mistake them for Apple’s new iPad.
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Hostgaard AM et al, BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 11(1)
BACKGROUND:
Experience has shown that for new health-information-technology (HIT) to be successful clinicians must obtain positive clinical benefits as a result of its implementation and joint-ownership of the decisions made during the development process. A prerequisite for achieving both success criteria is real end-user-participation. Experience has also shown that further research into developing improved methods to collect more detailed information on social groups participating in HIT development is needed in order to support, facilitate and improve real end-user participation.
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This paper compares the interoperability approaches of three countries: Taiwan, Denmark and Canada. The work maps out how various countries have addressed the interoperability problems as well as what factors affect decisions and the result, and in what manner.
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Jamie Thompson, Healthcare IT News
“Physicians across Denmark will have access to real-time patient data with a portal solution from Carefx and IBM. The five healthcare regions in Denmark will deploy the solution based on Carefx’s Fusionfx platform and IBM’s WebSphere technologies.
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Shahid N. Shah, The Healthcare IT Guy
“In August I was invited by the Royal Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark to travel to Copenhagen and talk to CEOs of about 20 of their country’s best and brightest healthcare IT companies about Meaningful Use, ACOs, PCHM, HIPAA 5010, and many other initiatives that seem foreign to most people outside the USA.
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Roque FS et al, PLoS Comput Biol, 7(8)
Text mining and information extraction can be seen as the challenge of converting information hidden in text into manageable data. We have used text mining to automatically extract clinically relevant terms from 5543 psychiatric patient records and map these to disease codes in the International Classification of Disease ontology (ICD10). Mined codes were supplemented by existing coded data. For each patient we constructed a phenotypic profile of associated ICD10 codes. This allowed us to cluster patients together based on the similarity of their profiles. The result is a patient stratification based on more complete profiles than the primary diagnosis, which is typically used.
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eGovmonitor
“A new service has been launched on sundhed.dk, the official Danish eHealth portal, which provides a summary of a citizen’s visits to such healthcare practitioners as general practitioners (GPs), specialists, dentists and physiotherapists, it was announced on 7 June 2011.
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Chip Means, Healthcare IT News
“Denmark’s hospitals keep closing, but its residents don’t stop getting sick. That’s where telemedicine can play a role in maintaining efficient and effective healthcare delivery.
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Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Health Populi
“Virtually every primary care doctor in Denmark uses an electronic medical record.
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Chris Rauber, San Francisco Business Times
“Kaiser Permanente and the small nation of Denmark seem to be forming a mutual admiration society.
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Protti D et al, ElectronicHealthcare, 6(1)
Denmark and Alberta are both advanced in the application of the Western scientific model of healthcare and both currently enjoy similar levels of economic prosperity.
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eGovMonitor
“Since its launch, in 2007, the implementation of ‘Cosmic’, the electronic health record (EHR) system of the Faroe Islands has shown positive results and has made great use of the Danish experience.
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Mucic D. et al, J Telemed Telecare, 16(5)
A telepsychiatry project was conducted to improve access to culturally appropriate care providers (i.e. culturally competent, bilingual clinicians) by the use of videoconferencing. A self-completed retrospective questionnaire survey was conducted with asylum seekers, refugees and migrants. The purpose of the referral was either for diagnostic assessment with a subsequent treatment recommendation, or for treatment via telepsychiatry. The service was free of charge for the patients involved. Over a period of 34 months (starting in January 2005), 61 patients participated in the pilot project.
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Bansler JP, Havn E. International Journal of Medical Informatics, 2010
Objectives
This study aims to explore the issues and challenges involved in designing and organizing pilot implementations of health information systems (HIS). Pilot implementations are a widely used approach for identifying design flaws and implementation issues before full-scale deployment of new HIS. However, it is not uncommon for pilot implementations to fail in the sense that little can be learned from them.
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Protti, Denis, ElectronicHealthcare, 5(4)
A study commissioned by Canada Health Infoway provides a comparative analysis of automation in general practice in 10 countries. The most common clinical application is the automation of medication prescriptions–even if it is not a mandatory requirement as it is in Norway.
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