European Institute for Health Records
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ProRec
The ProRec initiative of 1996 is a network of national non-profit organisations . The initiative was a consequence of the conclusions of the Concerted Action MEDIREC regarding the reasons why Electronic Health Record systems were not used more widely in any of the European Union...
initiative. On 13 May 2003, the institute was established as a non-profit organization under French
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
law. Current President of EuroRec is Prof. Georges De Moor
Georges De Moor
Professor Georges J. E. De Moor is a Belgian MD and head of the Department of Health Informatics and Medical Statistics of the University of Ghent .-Education:...
. The institute is involved in the promotion of high quality Electronic Health Record
Electronic Health Record
An electronic health record is an evolving concept defined as a systematic collection of electronic health information about individual patients or populations...
systems in the European Union
European Union
The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 independent member states which are located primarily in Europe. The EU traces its origins from the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Economic Community , formed by six countries in 1958...
. One of the main missions of the institute is to support, as the European authorised certification body, EHRs certification development, testing and assessment by defining functional and other criteria.
The objectives of the institute are:
- To federate the established ProRec centres that comply with a set of explicit criteria.
- To develop specifically those activities that cannot be handled at the level of ProRec centres and/or within their scope, according to the principle of subsidiarity and in view of both synergy and economy of scale.
European Projects
- Q-REC: European Quality Labelling and Certification of Electronic Health Record systems (EHRs)
- RIDE: A Roadmap for Interoperability of eHealthEHealtheHealth is a relatively recent term for healthcare practice supported by electronic processes and communication, dating back to at least 1999...
Systems in Support of COM 356 with Special Emphasis on Semantic Interoperability - EHR-IMPLEMENT: National policies for EHR Implementation in the European area: social and organizational issues
See also
- CEN/TC 251TC 251CEN/TC 251 is a workgroup within the European Union working on standardization in the field of Health Information and Communications Technology in the European Union...
- Canada Health InfowayCanada Health InfowayCanada Health Infoway is an independent, federally-funded, not-for-profit organization tasked with accelerating the development of electronic health records across Canada. As a strategic investor, they work with Canadian provinces and territories with the goal of creating an electronic health...
- Centers for Medicare and Medicaid ServicesCenters for Medicare and Medicaid ServicesThe Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services , previously known as the Health Care Financing Administration , is a federal agency within the United States Department of Health and Human Services that administers the Medicare program and works in partnership with state governments to administer...
(USA) - Clinical Document Architecture Clinical Document ArchitectureThe HL7 Clinical Document Architecture is an XML-based markup standard intended to specify the encoding, structure and semantics of clinical documents for exchange.CDA is part of the HL7 version 3 standard...
(CDA) - Directorate-General for Information Society and Media (European Commission)Directorate-General for Information Society and Media (European Commission)EU Directorate General Information Society and Media or "DG Infso" is a Directorate-General of the European Commission.The current European Commissioner for Digital Agenda is Neelie Kroes and the Director-General is Robert Madelin....
- EHRcom
- European Federation for Medical InformaticsEuropean Federation for Medical InformaticsThe European Federation for Medical Informatics is a non-profit organization, which was conceived at a meeting, assisted by the Regional Office for Europe of the World Health Organisation , in Copenhagen, , in September 1976....
(EFMI) - European Health Telematics AssociationEuropean Health Telematics AssociationThe European Health Telematics Association is a European non-profit organization, which provides a platform to all European eHealth stakeholders to exchange information on eHealth...
(EHTEL) - European Health Telematics ObservatoryEuropean Health Telematics ObservatoryThe European Health Telematics Observatory is a non-profit organization which collects, analyses and makes available in a user-friendly form information on developments in the field of health telematics. The organization contributes to the deployment of health telematics applications and standards...
(EHTO) - Good European Health Record (GEHR)
- Health Informatics Service Architecture (HISA)
- Health Insurance Portability and Accountability ActHealth Insurance Portability and Accountability ActThe Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 was enacted by the U.S. Congress and signed by President Bill Clinton in 1996. It was originally sponsored by Sen. Edward Kennedy and Sen. Nancy Kassebaum . Title I of HIPAA protects health insurance coverage for workers and their...
(HIPAA, USA) - Health Level 7Health Level 7Health Level Seven , is an all-volunteer, non-profit organization involved in development of international healthcare informatics interoperability standards...
- International Classification of Primary CareInternational Classification of Primary CareThe International Classification of Primary Care is a classification method for primary care encounters. It allows for the classification of the patient’s reason for encounter , the problems/diagnosis managed, primary or general health care interventions, and the ordering of the data of the...
(ICPC) - Kind Messages for Electronic Healthcare RecordKmehrKMEHR or Kind Messages for Electronic Healthcare Record is a proposed Belgian medical data standard, in order to enable the exchange of structured clinical information...
(KMEHR) - National Resource Center for Health Information TechnologyNational Resource Center for Health Information TechnologyIn 2004, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality of the United States Department of Health and Human Services created the to support over 125 federal grants and contracts that are demonstrating the value and implementation of information technology in health care .With leadership from the...
- openEHROpenehropenEHR is an open standard specification in health informatics that describes the management and storage, retrieval and exchange of health data in electronic health records . In openEHR, all health data for a person is stored in a "one lifetime", vendor-independent, person-centred EHR...
Foundation
Source
- LinksIakovidis I, Purcarea O., eHealth in Europe: from Vision to Reality, Stud Health Technol Inform. 2008;134:163-8
- Richardson R., eHealth for Europe, Stud Health Technol Inform. 2003;96:151-6
External links
- European Institute for Health Records
- CEN/TC 125 (European Standardization of Health Informatics)
- COM (2004) 356 final
- Directorate H - ICT For Citizens and Businesses (Unit H1 - ICT for Health)