Compendium of Health Telematics Projects 94-98 (Draft)
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TELENURSE ID

Integration and demonstration of European Nursing terminology in Information Technology Project

Project code: HC 4029
Project value: 871.0 KECU
EC contribution: 620.0 KECU
Number of partners: 15
Number of countries: 12
Duration:24 months
Starting date: Jun 1, 98
               
Contact: MORTENSEN Randi A.
Danish Inst. for Health & Nursing Res.
Fensmarkgade,3
2200 Copenhagen N
Denmark

Tel: 45 31 39 40 66
Fax: 45 31 39 03 31
E-mail: DIHNR@INET.UNI2.DK
Web Site:

Overview

Emerging shared electronic patient records stand in need of integrating nursing relevant subsets of data and functionality’s linked to the need of nurses to measure nursing electronically through structured clinical data in order to meet the growing demand for evidence of clinical quality.

The answer in nursing to this need has been to initiate the development of the International Classification for Nursing Practice (ICNP) which was launched by the International Council of Nurses representing 112 national nurses associations. In nursing entry of structured data for purposes of daily systematic documentation and abstraction of coded data for purposes of monitoring and developing clinical outcome quality are considered two inextricable aspects of the use of classifications for measuring nursing representing two vital aspects of shared electronic patient records, viz. electronic records as a tool for collection of data about the individual patient and electronic records as a valuable source of information about clinical outcome quality of nursing care. However, the response of European health telematic suppliers to the need for measuring nursing electronically through structured clinical data has been hesitant even though a small investment in telematic applications in response to the needs of nurses most surely will produce an extraordinary incremental return due to the enormous market potential of 1.6 million European nurses.

Purpose and objectives

Up till now the accompanying measure Telenurse has promoted the use of ICNP in Europe following a double strategy: 1. Organisation of dissemination conferences on a European level and dissemination meetings on a national level, including translation of the alpha version of ICNP from English into 14 European languages. 2. Building of simple demonstrators illustrating possible real uses of ICNP in shared electronic patient records. TELENURSE: ID proposes to strengthen these activities by extending both strands of the double promotion strategy: 1. Organisation of dissemination conferences in CEE countries, including translation of the ICNP into Central and Eastern European languages: 2. The simple demonstrators of nursing subsets of shared electronic patient records designed and built so far will be carried through to the demonstration phase.

Results

TELENURSE: ID will produce two main stream of exploitable items, viz. both IT-products encompassing an assortment of integrated nursing subsets of electronic patient records produced by leading suppliers and validated by a large number of committed users and a proposal for an improved beta version of the ICNP (the alpha version was with permission from ICN launched by Telenurse) as a unifying framework for electronic documentation of nursing care in Europe, including member states of the EU as well as CEE countries.

List of deliverables

Year 1

Eval. Protocol (VISION)
CEE ICNP Strategy
Design of Medigard NW
El. Vers. of emerging beta ICNP (Eng.)
Paper version: Translation of Beta ICNP
Report on translation harmony

Year 2

Slovenian Browser
Dictionary of Synonyma
Ext. ICNP Browser
Rep. on Verif./Install. Medigard NW
Updated Telenurse Web Site
Updated multilingual WWW Presentation of ICNP
El. Vers. of emerging beta ICNP (translations)
Evaluation study
Evaluation study
Valid. Report (HISCOM)
Classification brochure
Rep. on Valid. of Medigard NW
ICNP and Clinical Outcomes: Theory and Practice

List of participants

Name: Randi Mortensen
Organisation: Danish Institute for Health and Nursing Research DIHNR
Address: Fensmarkgade 3 2200 Copenhagen N
Country: Denmark
Tel: 45 31 39 40 66
Fax: 45 31 39 03 31
E-mail: dihnr@inet.uni2.dk
Website: www.nethotel.dk/dihnr
Name: Eng João Vasco Ribeiro
Organisation: Instituto de Gestao Informatica e Financeira da Saude IGIF
Address: Alamadea Julio Henriques 3000 Coimbra
Country: Portugal
Tel: 351 39 700300
Fax: 351 39 716851
E-mail: jvr@igifc.min-saude.pt
Name: Dr. Frank Dörre
Organisation: Technischen Universität Dresden
Address: Fetscherstraße 74 D-01307 Dresden
Country: Germany
Tel: 49 351 31 77 115
Fax: 49 351 31 77 225
E-mail: doerre@imib.med.tu-dresden.de
Name: Dr. Ioana Moisil
Organisation: Centre for Health Computing, Statistics and Medical Documentation CCSSDM
Address: George Vracast No 9, Sector 1 70706 Bucharest
Country: Romania
Tel: 40-1-6147035, 40-1-6140890
Fax: 40-1-3112998
E-mail: imoisil@sunu.rnc.ro
Name: Majda Slajmer-Japelj
Organisation: WHO Collaborating Centre for Primay Health Care Nursing
Address: Sodna 13 2000 Maribor
Country: Slovenia
Tel: 62 20 866
Fax: 62 224 840
E-mail: majda.slajmer@guest.arnes.si
Name: Ms. Fabienne Eurlings, Msc.
Organisation: HISCOM bv
Address: Schipholweg 97 2316 XA Leiden
Country: The Netherlands
Tel: 31-71 525 6732
Fax: 31-71 521 9856
E-mail: feurling@hiscom.nl
Name: Dr. Fabio Ivano Magalini
Organisation: C S A -Conser Sistemi Avanzati Srl CSA
Address: via Luca Gaurico, 247 00143 ROME
Country: Italy
Tel: 39.6.5191811
Fax: 39.6.5191513
E-mail: conser@uni.net
Name: Prof. John Mantas
Organisation: University of Athens UOA
Address: Mikras Asias 75 115 27 Athens
Country: Greece
Tel: 30 1 7781460
Fax: 30 1 7715738
E-mail: jmantas@dn.uoa.gr

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