Proposal for MIM Working Groups

Introduction

• Motivations and approaches to working groups.

Preliminary list of considered topics

• International working groups:
•  Working Groups of the IMIA, the working groups of the International Medical Informatics Association. Our MIM association is the Belgian member of the IMIA.
• Working groups of the EFMI,  European Federation for Medical Informatics.
  
• Global Medical Record : the common properties regardless of any speciality
  • Introduction to the common Global Patient Record and to specialisations
  • Access to patient's medical record.
  • Management of activities related to the patient, test ordering, scheduling, admissions, prescriptions, etc...
  • Human interfaces issues,
    
• Specific requirements of typical groups of care providers : what is different from the previous chapter.
  • Nursing :
  • General Practitioners :
  • Internal Medicine,
  • Surgery :
  • Intensive care :
  • Pathology :
  • Assistives technologies for Disabled People
  • …......
    
• Open Source
  
  
• Occupational Health Informatics:
• OHIO, Occupational Health Informatics 
  
• Data acquisition :
  • Natural language :
    • see the EFMI WG on Natural Languge and understanding
  • Acquisition of structured medical information
    • Open Galen
  • Images :
    • European Radiology
    • Société Française de Radiologie
  • Speech :
  • Standardization of interfaces with lab and monitoring devices :
  • ....
    
• Definitions, standardisations :
  • Recommendations for medical information architecture :
  • Standardization of message exchanges :
  • Human Interfaces
  • .....
    
• Medical Knowledge :
  • Management of knowledge resources
  • Definitions of medical problems and diagnoses,
  • Pharmacology :
  • Nursing procedures :
  • Significance of lab test :
  • Decision Support :
  • Support of Biomedical Research :
  • Education :
  • ...
    
• Patient identification : 
• reliability, Role Based Access Control, etc..
  
• Hospital Information Systems:
  
• Technical departments :
  • Labs
  • Images
  • Functional test
  • ....
    
• Resources :
  • Management of human resources,
  • Management of equipments, and supplies.
  • Billing, insurances, ...
    
• Management Information :
  
• Epidemiology :
  
• Healthcare Network Architectures :
  
• Support of quality control in healthcare :
  
• Certification :
  
• Security:
• Security WG
• Secure e-Health conference 2006
  
• Healthcare Ethics Issues :
  
• …............................
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