Health Telematics (AIM) Final Report


	Updated: Feb 1, 97
Group 7. Security, Data Protection, Confidentiality and Quality Assessment

In this context, Telematics can be seen both as a tool and as a practice. As a tool, it can be used to prove the efficacy and efficiency of medical procedures and management strategies mainly through its ability to gather and to process a statistically significant volume of data. As a practice in itself, telematics as well as any other technology related to health, has to prove its own efficacy and its compliance to general principles of law and ethics. It has also to prove its economic efficiency.

The following projects have been grouped into this line:

BEAM Biomedical Equipment Assessment and Management

DIABCARE - Q-NET Diabcare quality network in Europe

EUROMEDIES European medical devices information exchange system

MEMPHIS Measurement and Modelling of Health care Systems

OBSQUID Obstetrical quality development through integrated use of telematics

ORATEL Oral Health Telematic System

PROCAS Care Profiles System

QUICHE Quality Assurance of User Informatics for Child Health in Europe

SEISMED Secure Environment for Information Systems in Medicine

TELEGASTRO Technology for promoting quality in Gastroenterology

Two types of projects were included in this project line: firstly those that used the results of all other projects and, having the most direct contact to patients, were most interested in health quality assessment (ORATEL for oral health, TELEGASTRO and IDMR for gastroenterology, PROCAS for profiles of care in cardiology and oncology), and secondly those that had a general impact on all other projects (MEMPHIS for economic implications, SEISMED for safety, security and regulations, BEAM for biomedical equipment management).

Their results have been:

The AIM programme had not the objective of making regulations and directives. Its objective was to spread awareness of existing commonalties and differences in Member States rules and codes of good practice and to provide a tool for putting them into practice and monitoring their effect. The result therefore achieved in this project line were mainly:

Assessment of user needs, market viability and economic possibilities for applications of IT & T technologies to the health care sector.
Development of strategies, guidelines and codes for data protection, safety and computer security in health care informatics, health care quality and medical technology assessment

The most important result in each individual medical domain approached by the projects was a wider acceptance of a common European approach to quality in health care and an awareness that communication across Europe and. by implication, telematics is one of the appropriate tools to help reach and assess quality goals. Also general rules for confidentiality and security were agreed on.

BEAM	Biomedical Equipment Assessment and Management
DIABCARE - Q-NET	Diabcare quality network in Europe
EUROMEDIES	European medical devices information exchange system
MEMPHIS	Measurement and Modelling of Health care Systems
OBSQUID	Obstetrical quality development through integrated use of telematics
ORATEL	Oral Health Telematic System
PROCAS	Care Profiles System
QUICHE	Quality Assurance of User Informatics for Child Health in Europe
SEISMED	Secure Environment for Information Systems in Medicine
TELEGASTRO	Technology for promoting quality in Gastroenterology


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Group 7. Security, Data Protection, Confidentiality and Quality Assessment