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e-Practice eHealth Management Workshop

 

About:  This workshop will review IT management issues with a core focus on eHealth. It is geared to two sets of people: those with a particular interest in eHealth and those with a general interest in public services and their use of information and communication technologies. Especially welcome are health service managers and executives, public sector officials, civil servants, ICT managers, designers and implementers.

Objective
To look at a set of interesting good practices in the eHealth field - providing lessons learnt and ideas on IT – with a particular focus on the management of implementation and change in relation to IT.

The workshop will be facilitated by eHealth experts, and will be introduced by by an official from the European Commission DG Information Society and Media ICT for Health Department. A visionary overview will be given by a keynote speaker from the sector, followed by a brief presentation of three good practice cases.Three different e-health cases will be introduced briefly, before the workshop divides into three breakout sessions in which each case is explored in further detail. A number of core issues and questions will be discussed throughout the day. Making up the three cases will be the Macro government level, centered on Britain's NHS service, Hospital Catalonia in Spain will look at the institutional hospital level, and a separate presentation will look at the clinical to patient level, focusing on electronic patient records . 

Key questions
A core set of key questions regarding the management of eHealth and IT implementation will be discussed:

  • Start and preparation: how was the initiative developed, the technology chosen and taken up, and the preparation of implementation launched?
  • Leadership and governance : who is leading the introduction, how are decisions taken, how is IT represented on the corporate board?
  • Team and processes – who is participating in the implementation, how is continuous improvement managed, who is responsible?
  • Resistances encountered (if any) – which group were most resistant (if at all), how was this resistance managed?
  • Lessons learned - what are the major lessons learned from the experience, what could have been done differently?

More information at: http://www.epractice.eu/workshop/eHealthmanagement

 

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