e-Education

A local and targeted approach
In an increasingly “global” world, professional development and lifelong learning are becoming more and more important for staying ahead. The HIMSS experiences in North America over the last 40 years have shown the clear advantages that providing first-rate education can bring to the Health IT community. We are now building on these experiences to provide educational activities that are specifically targeted at the challenges facing the Europe region.

Interactive learning
Our services are available using the latest ICT tools including interactive web-based seminar (eSeminars). The  2007 eSeminars series allows you to send and receive information as well as discuss issues with other participants located throughout the region – and all without leaving your chair. By inviting other interested colleagues to be in the room with you, our activities will become even more cost-effective for your organisation.

Relevant subjects 
Our education programme has identified six areas of healthcare ICT that are most relevant to the Europe region.

• Track 1: Health IT implementations and their impact
• Track 2: Managing ICT for Health
• Track 3: Financing and investment (the Health IT market place)
• Track 4: Achieving interoperability
• Track 5: eHealth policy, ethical and legal issues
• Track 6: Health IT frontiers

Track 1: Health IT implementations and their impact

Rationale:
This track highlights the concrete achievements and benefits of ICT for health but also discusses challenges in the implementation process. It features case studies and best practice studies.
Topics:

• Impact on patient safety and risk management
• Impact on quality of care
• Economic impact
• Electronic Health Record implementations
• Cards
• PACS
• CPOE
• Portals
• Data repositories

Track 2: Managing ICT for Health

Rationale:
Explores the different managerial issues connected with implementing Health ICT in a clinical setting.
Topics:

• Change management
• Organisational culture
• Psychological aspects
• Management tools
• Process engineering
• Supply chain management
• Patient tracking
• Human resources management

Track 3: Financing and investment (the Health IT market place)

Rationale:
This track deals with investment, financial and economic aspects, including all aspects of the market in the Europe region.
Topics:

• Public private partnerships
• Financing IT
• Budget execution
• Government support for Health ICT

Track 4: Achieving interoperability

Rationale:
This is an important subject at the micro-level (hospitals, GPs etc.) and at the macro-level (hospitals, GPs etc.) and the macro-level (data exchange between countries).
Topics:
Political, legal, organisational, semantic and technical challenges and possible solutions for eHealth interoperability.

Track 5: eHealth policy, ethical and legal issues

Rationale:
This track deals with eHealth policy in a pan-European context. The track will analyse eHealth policies at the different levels (regional/national/EU) and will contribute to bringing together relevant actors.
Topics:

• The regional dimension of eHealth
• National eHealth implementation plans in a comparative perspective
• The eHealth action plan: state of play
• The World Summit of the Information Society process: a place for eHealth?
• Legal issues and ethical concerns
• Privacy concerns and data protection
• Empowering the citizen-patient-consumer

Track 6: Health IT frontiers

Rationale:
Deals with the latest Health ICT applications and services and with services currently being developed
Topics:

• RFID and wireless
• Wearables
• Modelling and simulation
• Health Grid
• Etc