Updated: Aug 26, 1998
This is the most recent structured information on this project. Complementary data can be found on previous documents
PROREC Promotion Strategy for European Electronic Healthcare Records

Overview

The most important activity to be carried out is promoting the widespread use of Electronic Healthcare Records by installing in Europe a permanent network of centres focusing on the dissemination of information related to electronic healthcare records. This network will be backed up by a European Steering Committee (PROREC International), simulating and preparing the activities of what should become in a later stage a true European Institution on the Electronic Healthcare Record.

Purpose and objectives

One of the intermediate goals of this purposeful strategy is to ensure that bodies such as CEN/TC251 at the one hand, and EC Informatics programmes at the other hand, meet their purpose of providing standards and highest quality research to enhance the care process for patients and users. But perhaps even more important, PROREC’s aim is to reach all actors in the field, such that even the smallest initiative taken “independently” by some organisation, company or user-group, contributes effectively to the common objective.

The impact to be expected is thus:

• encouragement of co-operation among competitors on the electronic healthcare record market so as to create the required size and momentum in this particular market area,
• agreement between public health care administrations over the national boundaries to achieve common requirements and specifications, and a commitment to use these in procurement at national and European levels,
• extensive promotion and use of existing and forthcoming European networks and services,
• awareness campaigns, notably directed at public administrations, SME's and educational institutions in the domain of health care.? encouragement of co-operation among competitors on the electronic healthcare record market so as to create the required size and momentum in this particular market area,
• agreement between public health care administrations over the national boundaries to achieve common requirements and specifications, and a commitment to use these in procurement at national and European levels,
• extensive promotion and use of existing and forthcoming European networks and services,
• awareness campaigns, notably directed at public administrations, SME's and educational institutions in the domain of health care.

As a consequence, PROREC proposes a workplan by which external areas of waster and inefficiency are minimised, human and financial resources are used effectively, Health Care consequences of given policies and constraints are exposed, and excellence and creative forces are harvested as much as possible. To achieve its mission, PROREC also incorporates in its strategy awareness of the prenormative and precompetitive requirements, the need to develop and validate standards, the need for ethical products in the Health Care marketplace, and the need for strategic management of the links. This means that much effort in PROREC will go to coordination and concertation, and that as such the achievements of and lessons learned from the MEDIREC Concerted Action will be the main starting point for this new initiative.

Results

The tangible results of PROREC will be:

• EHCR Index: is a catalogue containing all information on existing EHCR-products in Europe. The index will be available in differents formats and the first edition will be based on the existing information within EC. The first version is foreseen to be available since end of September. Next releases will appear along September ’97 and December ’98.
• PROREC National Centres: The constitution of two national centres, Belgium and Spain, where performing different activities: information and dissemination, monitoring, accreditation and advisory related to EHCR. The establishment of the Belgium centre is a reality since the first months of the beginning of the project (Feb ’96). The Spanish centre is scheduled to be set up during the second year of the project (1997) and will count on all experience coming from the Belgium center.
• PROREC International (permanent structure): The exploitation plan is based on the promotional and dissemination activities of valuable information through different media and the organisation of specific work-shops and seminars.
• Business plan for the National Centres and PROREC International

Thus the EHCR Index will be a useful tool for consultant or information for those people or groups who use or want to start using an electronic record system. On the other hand, both national centres as tools of dissemination of information and organiser of workshops and seminars has a relevant benefit for those groups or general bodies interested in EHCR.

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