GDPR and Health Personal Data; Tricks and Traps of Compliance.

The GDPR fixes general rules applying to any kind of personal data processing as well as specific rules applying to the processing of special categories of personal data such as health data taking place in the context of scientific research or clinical software development. A short overview of new rules about how to consider where scientific and professional projects include the processing of personal health data, genetic data or biometric data and other kinds of sensitive information whose use is strictly regulated by the GDPR is provided. Some key facts to researchers and developers to adapt their practices and ensure compliance to the EU laws are included.

PARENT joint action: increasing the added value of patient registries in a cross-border setting.

Patient registries are poorly interoperable and as a result data exchange or aggregation across organizations, regions and countries for secondary purposes (i.e. research and public health) is difficult to perform.

Implementing healthcare information security: standards can help.

Using widely spread common approaches to systems security in health dedicated controlled environments, a level of awareness, confidence and acceptance of relevant standardisation is evaluated. Patients' information is sensitive, so putting appropriate organisational techniques as well as modern technology in place to secure health information is of paramount importance. Mobile devices are becoming the top priorities in advanced information security planning with healthcare environments being no exception.

Electronic nursing documentation in a paediatrics hospital: impact on quality of care by using OpenEHR, IHE and HL7.

The acuity of illness of sick children requiring care in hospital is increasing. There are many more children now with disabilities and complicated long term illnesses. Respiratory illness is the commonest cause of morbidity in young children.

Electronic medication ordering with integrated drug database and clinical decision support system.

Medication errors have been identified as one of the most important causes of adverse drug events. Computerized physician order-entry (CPOE) systems, coupled with decision support (Medication allergy checking, drug interactions, and dose calculations), are considered to be appropriate solutions for reducing medication errors and standardizing care. It is quite useful if clinical information system (CIS) supports order sets, which help with standardizing care, preventing omission errors, and expediting the ordering process.

Is there a common background to support better healthcare in Central and South East Europe?

The workshop is proposed by the EFMI WG Health Informatics for Interregional Cooperation with the support of the Electronic Healthcare Records WG as a platform for finding common interests regarding improvement of healthcare services for the Central and East European geographical area. The goal is to assess conformance to international standards in healthcare and to find domains in which each country can provide best practices results of using ICT in support of healthcare.

Open source and healthcare in Europe - time to put leading edge ideas into practice.

Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) is a process of software development, a method of licensing and a philosophy. Although FLOSS plays a significant role in several market areas, the impact in the health care arena is still limited. FLOSS is promoted as one of the most effective means for overcoming fragmentation in the health care sector and providing a basis for more efficient, timely and cost effective health care provision.

The importance of timely information in national cancer screening programmes.

The Ministry of Health of Slovenia decided to support the introduction of two new organised screening programmes for cancer, one for breast and the other for colon cancer in 2005. This was an addition to the first, already running, programme for cervical cancer. Two of them are entrusted to the Institute of Oncology while the National CINDI programme takes care of the third one.