On Teaching International Courses on Health Information Systems. Lessons Learned during 16 Years of Frank - van Swieten Lectures on Strategic Information Management in Health Information Systems.

Background: Health information systems (HIS) are one of the most important areas for biomedical and health informatics. In order to professionally deal with HIS well-educated informaticians are needed. Because of these reasons, in 2001 an international course has been established: The Frank - van Swieten Lectures on Strategic Information Management of Health Information Systems.

Supporting clinical practice guidelines: lifecycle of guidelines for oncology within an XML-based guideline framework.

Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) have become important instruments for supporting patient care. Many structure models for CPGs have been developed to explicitly gain structured CPG documents, some of them using XML. Often, however, problems arise in filling these structures with content and integrating CPG applications into an EPR/HIS The Universities of Giessen and Heidelberg have each presented an XML-based CPG structure, which are actually being merged into one.

Data security and protection in cross-institutional electronic patient records.

This paper describes data protection and data security requirements of a cross-institutional electronic patient record, and presents possible solutions for meeting these requirements. A comprehensive analysis of literature and legal documents was performed. Beside the general requirements that the EPR of a single institution must meet, specific requirements exist for cross-institutional EPRs.