WoHIT 2008: eHealth Planning and Management Symposium

eHealth Leadership & Governance

• Is one of your tasks to work out strategies and plans to modernise your national/regional health system with the support of the new technologies?
• Is the stakeholder group you belong to or which is represented by you, engaged in or concerned by the deployment of eHealth services across the community?
• Are you responsible for deploying eHealth solutions or to monitor the progress of eHealth pilots?
• Are you seeking to secure your investments in eHealth tools and services?

in co-operation with the European Commission and WHO

WoHIT 2008 Pre-conference Symposium

eHealth Planning and Management Symposium
3 November 2008

Focus on:
Change management for introducing clinical process orientation and archetypes across the community

Final Programme / Download Presentations

eHealth deployment roadmap and roll-out planning: Guiding design principles [PDF download]
Speaker : Angelo Rossi-Mori, CNR-ITB (Italy)

The modernization of the healthcare sector requires a coherent large-scale deployment of several eHealth initiatives. Any eHealth roadmap should compare and synchronize them using a customized approach to the Balanced Score Card, i.e. considering the direct economic factors, the systemic benefits, the technological feasibility and the cultural feasibility.

Assessing the clinical, economic and societal benefits from eHealth solutions approach and evidence [PDF download]
Speaker : Karl A. Stroetmann, empirica, Germany

Most organisations emphasize the cost of investment, with benefits as a later, loosely defined activity. Conventional health planning models provide the timescales for eHealth, and risks assessed superficially, with limited mitigation measures. These decisions need more rigour.

Health Care Process Modelling: How to develop semantic interoperability in health care? The steps before IT implementation [PDF download]
Speaker : Karl-Henrik Lundell, SALAR (Sweden)

The Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare has been commissioned by the Ministry of Health and Social affairs to outline a national, normative information structure to be applied in all health care and welfare businesses.

EHR and clinical archetypes [PDF download]
Speaker : Dipak Kalra, UCL (United Kingdom)

Clinical engagement is crucial for the development of semantic electronic health records based on 'clinical archetypes' as the only viable route to deliver fully interoperable electronic health care records.