Supporting Partners
Apoteket
In Sweden, Apoteket is the sole retailer for medicinal products (both prescription and over-the counter medicines). Apoteket is owned by the state and is non-profit orientated. Its foremost task is to ensure that customers get just the right medication or self-medication product that they need, in the right quantity and at the right time. It also means that one can obtain all medication, without variations in price, wherever one lives in Sweden. Many Apoteket employees have a university education and approximately half of them are pharmacists or dispensers with specialist training in pharmacology, i.e. medicinal sciences.
BCSHIF (BCS Health Informatics Forum)
The BCS Health Informatics Forum (BCSHIF) was formed to cover all aspects of Informatics in support of Health, a sector of particular relevance and importance to BCS. The Forum provides leadership, acting as a source of professionally recognized expertise, under-pinning the outward-facing role of BCS, and ensuring that contributors to Health Informatics are recognized and respected.
BCSHIF is led by a Strategic Panel: a group of experts individually recognized as thought leaders and influential opinion formers.
BCSHIF hosts open quarterly meetings as well as organising the HC conferences. More information can be found at www.bcshif.org
CHIME (College of Healthcare Information Management Executives)
CHIME was formed with the dual objectives of serving the professional development needs of healthcare CIOs and advocating the more effective use of information management within healthcare. CHIME events and services are designed to reflect that purpose, including CIO-focused education programs and networking activities. CHIME's educational initiatives are supported by the CHIME Foundation, a nonprofit group of 56 providers of healthcare IS products and services.
CHIRAD (Centre for Health Informatics Research and Development)
CHIRAD- is the Centre for Health Informatics Research and Development. Our aim is to provide an environment for the development of Health Informatics as an academic subject. CHIRAD is a company limited by guarantee that is a non-for-profit organisation. It is probably the first virtual R&D center for Health Informatics.
EDISANTÉ
EDISANTÉ is the French organisation of key stakeholders in the health sector, working on the development and the promotion of electronic data exchange.
EDISANTÉ brings together representative organisations of professionals, institutions, patients, social security, industry sector and public bodies in charge of developing the information system of the health sector.
The organisation has a global vision of exchanges, and it tackles all medical data flow such as medical funds flow, hospitalisation and day care hospitalisation, public and private sector.
EDISANTÉ strives at guarantying that all exchanges comply with open standards, in line with the main evolution of the cross industry information technologies, while being adapted to the constraints of both the health sector system and the health electronic system. Its mission lies within the framework of the change occurring in the health information system in France, taking into account the improvements of SESAM and that of the Carte Vitale for patients, the Carte Professionnelle de santé, the Dossier médical des patients (patient health record) and the health networks.
Edisanté contributes, at both national and international level, to the electronic standardisation (EDI) and to the electronic health standardisation.
EFMI (European Federation for Medical Informatics)
The European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI) was conceived at a meeting, assisted by the Regional Office for Europe of the World Health Organisation (WHO), in Copenhagen in September 1976. Its objectives are to advance international co-operation and dissemination of information, high standards in the application and education in Medical and Health Informatics on a European basis.
EFMI is a non profit organization - EFMI is the biggest and most comprehensive European stage for the exchange of ideas and knowledge in the fields of Medical, Health and Bio-Informatics. Its activities focus on annual conferences, MIE (Medical informatics Europe), STC (Special Topic conference). EFMI has national societies in 31 member countries in Europe and 16 Working Groups.
ETSI
ETSI unites almost 700 member organizations from 63 countries, including manufacturers, network operators, administrations, service providers, research bodies and users – in fact, all the key players in the ICT Standards arena.
For more information: http://www.etsi.org/
IHE-Europe (Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise)
The goal of the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) initiative is to stimulate integration of healthcare information resources to improve clinical care. IHE develops and publishes detailed frameworks for implementing established data standards to meet specific healthcare needs and supports testing, demonstration and educational activities to promote the deployment of these frameworks by vendors and users.
IHE in Europe promotes interoperability between IT systems in European healthcare. IHE in Europe envisages a seamless flow of relevant information between IT systems of different vendors, achieving interoperability between different IT environments by applying existing standards for IT in healthcare. Interoperability should be built around a core of common requirements, taking differences between EU member states into account but enabling variations.
IHF - International Hospital Federation
The International Hospital Federation is recognized as the leading international centre for the cross-fertilisation of ideas in healthcare policy, finance and management. Whilst providing a neutral communications hub for health service leaders, government health planners, hospital CEOs and senior managers, the IHF also maintains an official relationship with the World Health Organisation and close links with the World Medical Association and the International Council of Nurses. It recently joined the non-voting members’ board of the Healthcare Users Group (HUG) created under the auspices of international standards body, GS1. It is also developing an international hospital benchmarking platform in association with a European IT company.
IHF aims to improve world health through the global exchange of experience and management techniques and encouraging the dissemination of knowledge and access to benchmark services.In its drive for the best possible standards of care in hospitals, the IHF is committed to, “fostering international partnerships that promote interaction among public and private hospitals and healthcare organisations, the community and commercial entities.” (IHF Mission, Vision)
Funded by its members, IHF represents some 55,000 institutions in over 100 countries with responsibility for 3 billion patients. It is ideally placed to sponsor a “safe environment” where interested parties (including commercial competitors) can meet to engage in full and frank dialogue.
The main classification of IHF membership comprises 74 Ministries of Health and national and regional hospital associations. Other classifications include healthcare information technology companies and firms of specialist hospital architects, university/teaching and public and private hospitals, among others.
PGEU/GPUE (Pharmaceutical Group of the European Union) Representing European Community Pharmacists
The Pharmaceutical Group of the European Union (PGEU) is the European association representing community pharmacists. PGEU’s members are the national associations and professional bodies of community pharmacists in 29 European countries including EU Member States, EU candidate countries and EFTA members. PGEU's Members are associations from EU Member States, while PGEU's Observer Members are organisations from non-EU European countries. Through its members, PGEU represents around 400,000 community pharmacists contributing to the health of over 500 million people throughout Europe.
The Medical University of Vienna
The primary mission of the Medical University of Vienna–autonomous since 1 January 2004–is to serve research and education in the broadest sense. It seeks advances in medical science to cure and relieve the symptoms of illness, maintain health, and foster social prosperity in a thriving environment.
Building on its research programs, educational facilities, and curricula, the Medical University of Vienna responds to the ever-changing needs of state and society. In addition to the central principle of equal opportunity for its faculty and students, the University dedicates itself equally to acknowledging and fostering individual achievement.
By virtue of its cooperation with the Medical University of Vienna, the new General Hospital of Vienna (opened in 1994 and operated by the City of Vienna) functions as a university, a medical center, and Austria’s largest medical research facility. The City nursing staff, personnel for medical-technical services, 2,000 University physicians, state-of-the-art equipment and the commitment of medical specialists in all fields enable immediate integration of the most promising results of international and internal research into patient care.
Approximately 94,000 inpatients are admitted and 35,000 operations conducted annually in the 33 University departments. Each year 440,000 individuals receive outpatient care. The various University departments record a total of 1.5 million patient contacts annually.
The Swiss Society for Medical Informatics
The Swiss Society for Medical Informatics (SGMI-SSIM-SSMI) was conceived in February 1985. SSMI has been set up and led, since its creation, by a majority of health-care professionals: physicians as well as nurses. Its objectives are to advance cooperation and dissemination of Medical Informatics, being understood as the science of information technologies in the healthcare sector; to promote research, development and education in medical informatics; to facilitate connection between research and industries, and to encourage patient emporwement by the mean of access to information of quality. As such, our society is a founding member of the Health-On-The-net Foundation, a proeminent NGO promoting the availability of high quality information in healthcare on the web.
Swiss H+
The central association H+ the hospitals of Switzerland supports the hospitals and homes in the present structural change. It represents approximately 400 hospitals and homes as active and approximately 250 institutions, companies and persons as partnership members.
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