Saudi eHealth Conference 2006

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Saudi e-Health Conference 2006

• Riyadh
• 8-9 May 2006

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EMRO's approach for supporting e-health in the
Eastern Mediterranean Region

• Najeeb Al-Shorbaji
• WHO/EMRO
• Cairo

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INTRODUCTION

• The goal of the information management function
  is to obtain, manage, and use information to
  improve the health care and medical services
  performance, governance, and management and
  support process
• The purpose of this presentation is to discuss
  where and how information and communication
  technology can contribute to the improvement of
  health care.

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Medical/health informatics

• Medical informatics Computer applications in
  medical care
• Health informatics an umbrella term used to
  encompass the rapidly evolving discipline of
  using computing, networking and communications -
  methodology and technology - to support the
  health related fields, such as medicine, nursing,
  pharmacy and dentistry.

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E-Health

• eHealth the use, in the health sector, of
  digital datatransmitted, stored and retrieved
  electronicallyfor clinical, educational and
  administrative purposes, both at the local site
  and at a distance.

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E-HEALTH AS PART OF THE HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS
WORK

• Informatics and telematics learning needs for
• the life long learner role
• the clinician role
• the educator/communicator role
• the manager role
• The researcher role.

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AREAS OF APPLICATION OF HEALTH INFORMATICS

• Management is meant to refer to the cyclical
  process of problem analysis, planning,
  programming, budgeting, implementation and
  monitoring, evaluation, and re-planning. Thus,
  it is not restricted to, but includes, logistics,
  administrative and financial management

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• Hospital (Management) information systems (HIS)
  provide key information across the continuum of
  healthcare for hospitals inpatient, outpatient
  clinics, and extended care facilities.
• Epidemiological and Disease Surveillance involves
  collection of ongoing routine data to examine the
  extent of disease, to follow trends, and to
  detect changes in disease occurrences.

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• Electronic Health Record provides
• Simultaneous access to its contents from multiple
  locations
• Legibility of content as data is machine coded or
  typewritten
• Variety of views on data
• Support of structured data entry as data elements
  is well-defined
• Decision support
• Support of other data analysis for medical
  research, surveillance and disease trend
  analysis
• Electronic data exchange and sharing care
  support.

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• Access to Literature and Information Services
• Health and biomedical information on CD-ROM
• Electronic journals
• The Internet
• Electronic Mail Systems and Discussion and News
  Groups.

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• Knowledge-based Services provide expert advice on
  medico-scientific issues include a combination
  of
• literature data (from journals articles and
  textbooks) and
• factual data (e.g. guided by experts and derived
  from well-documented patient cases.
• Geographic Information Systems is an organized
  collection of computer hardware and software,
  geographic and tabular data and people and
  knowledge designed to capture, store, manipulate,
  update, analyze, and display spatial data.

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• Telemedicine is the practice of medical care
  using interactive audio, visual and data
  communications this includes medical care
  delivery, consultation, diagnosis and treatment,
  as well as education and the transfer of medical
  data.

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EMROS e-HEALTH SUPPORT

• Integrated approach
• People, processes, technology

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• Policy setting, awareness and working with
  decision-makers
• Human resources development
• Professional conferences, meetings and seminars
• National training
• Fellowships and internships
• Field visits and studies
• Development of model medical informatics
  curriculum
• Collaboration with medical colleges to introduce
  medical informatics education

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• Planning, monitoring and evaluation of e-health
  projects
• Networking and communication
• EMR Networks such as Health Sciences Libraries
  Healthcare informatics Editors of Medical
  Journals Translators of medical literatures
  Food safety and nutrition and Non-Communicable
  Diseases
• Lsitservs and discussion Groups
• Communities of practice.

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• Infrastructure development
• Support to establish Internet connections for
  health care institutions
• Support to establish Internet presence (web sites
  for Ministries of Health)
• Training on Internet technology
• Financial support to build local area networks
  and provision of data processing and
  telecommunication equipment

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• Consulting and advisory services.
• Electronic publishing, including
• The Regional Office website
• Full text of books and journals
• CD-ROM publishing and distribution
• Hosting of medical library sites on the EMRO web
• Digital Institutional Memory project
• Databank of Technical Papers and PowerPoint
  Presentations
• Collaboration in Epidemiology Supercourse.

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• Development and maintenance of systems,
  including
• Health statistics and surveillance system
• Geographic Information System HealthMapper
• Database Management System for bibliographic
  data
• Drug Production Quality Control
• Language process
• Directory systems.

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• EMRO Virtual Health Sciences Library
• Union Catalogue of Health Sciences Journals in
  the Region
• Inter-library and document delivery services
• Portal of EMR health sciences journals
• Regional databases
• Directories of
• Collaborating centres
• Medical education institutions
• Health sciences libraries
• WHO Depository and Reference Libraries
• Medical Conferences.

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• E-learning and Health Academy
• Telemedicine
• Needs assessment in Iran, Sudan, Libya and Egypt
• Provision of equipment in Yemen
• Training in Libya, Egypt, Yemen, Iran
• Collaboration with Saudi Arabia (Designation of a
  WHO Collaborating Centre).
• Development of an e-health portal
• Development of telemedicine projects directory in
  the Region.

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• Support to HINARI. Health Information Network
  Access to Research Initiative
• Geographic Information Systems
• Development of a regional policy and plan for GIS
  implementation
• Capacity building at the Regional Office and
  member states
• Building of the digital maps collection based on
  aerial images, mapping and global positioning and
  digitization
• Training of national staff
• Capacity building at country level including
  hardware and software
• Software development and localization.

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