Compendium of Health Telematics Projects 94-98 (Draft)


	Updated: Feb 02, 1999
This is the most recent structured* information on this project. Complementary data can be found on previous documents*
VATAM Validation of telematics applications in medicine

Project code:	HC 1115
Project value:	901.0 KECU
EC contribution:	500.0 KECU
Number of partners:	15
Number of countries:	9
Duration:	36 months
Starting date:	Mar 1, 96

Contact:	John Enning HISCOM BV Research and Development PO Box 901 2316 XA Leiden The Netherlands
Tel:	+31-71-5256862
Fax:	+31-71-5219856
E-mail:	vatam@hiscom.nl
Web Site:	http://www-vatam.unimaas.nl

Overview

The overall goal of VATAM is to consolidate the results of validation in projects in the health telematics area. VATAM provides methodologies, supports validation in health telematics projects and enhances dissemination of validation results. Eight health telematics projects (CoCo, DIABCARD, HANSA, HORIZON, ISAR-T, PRESTIGE, SAMMIE-II, SYNAPSES) participate in VATAM as an associated partners. Beside these, each health telematics project can and is invited to apply VATAM methodologies on a voluntary basis.

VATAM:

develops general guidelines for validation by consensus development together with validators of the eight projects and external experts; A first draft of these guidelines is available on VATAM's web server since the inventory workshop held in 1996; The first update of the guidelines took part in September ’97 and resulted in D03.2b;
tests and validates these general guidelines by applying them for the assessment of health telematics applications in the e.g. the 4th framework programme and by presenting the guidelines for discussion at the joint working conference of WG 13 and WG 15 of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) in February 1998. WG13 deals with organisational issues and WG 15 deals with quality assurance and technology assessment. Guidelines will be updated taking the feedback from these activities into account. Final guidelines will be available early 1999 and will be presented at the Health Telematics Final Conference;
provides a platform for dissemination of validation methods, tools and results through (amongst others) the VATAM WWW server, presentations at conferences, the organisation of tutorials and courses and visibility at concertation meetings.
develops an industry model and marketing study of the market for assessment methods and tools, thereby providing information that will enable interested parties in validation of Information & Communication Technology (ICT) in health care to better target their market.
evaluates validation methods by providing consultancy for improvement of validation procedures.

VATAM's validation framework is based on a European-wide consensus and offers methods, tools, expertise, literature databases and education segments that will open the market for Technology Assessment as a rational means to validate Health Telematics Applications. By applying the appropriate methods, effects of applications; whether they are cost savings, productivity gains, improved quality of care or Health process redesign can be proven to exist, instead of just indicated on a small scale in the past. This will provide an excellent opportunity for assessors in Europe in general and the consortium members in particular to open the market for their consultancy activities and tools. In the long term, adequate validation will open the market of telematics products and services in health care and will help decrease costs and improve quality.

Purpose and objectives

There are many actors (stakeholders) in the health care industry that have an interest in the impact that ICT applications in health care may have. Policy makers need to know what impact ICT applications have as they have to decide whether to promote the use of ICT or not. Demonstration of improved care by using ICT applications is not only of interest for patients, but insurance companies also have an interest. Physicians can be supported by using ICT, not only for their daily work, but also for training and quality assurance/audit purposes. Hospital managers need to know the costs and benefits on a wide range of issues (e.g. organisational, economical, psychological issues) when they have to make investment decisions.

Unfortunately, most of the reports on costs and benefits are only fragmentary, dealing with one or a few issues. For a good evaluation of ICT applications in medicine, three disciplines have to meet: medicine (or health care), informatics and technology assessment.

The objective of VATAM is to provide guidelines and assistance to those that are in need of a proper assessment of ICT in medicine. VATAM bases these guidelines on assessment activities by 3rd framework projects (the ATIM Project) as well as on planned validation work of eight selected projects in the health care sector of the Telematics Application Programme of the 4th framework programme.

Validation of the guidelines will be performed by assisting the eight selected projects in their validation activities. The VATAM guidelines will also be used in other TAP projects as well as in some non-EU funded activities.

Another objective of VATAM is to identify and assess the market for validation and assessment of ICT in health care. Such a study will enable interested parties - like the participants in VATAM - to open the market in an efficient and effective way.

Results

The main result of VATAM will be the guidelines (deliverable D03.3). These guidelines will be available as a report, but also on VATAM's web server in the form of a searchable / browsable knowledge base.
The industry model and the market study (deliverable D5.03), including an overview of tools and methods used by major suppliers will be a valuable document for organisations that seek to open the market for assessment of ICT in health care.
An other result of VATAM will be the consultancy that is given to the eight selected projects. It will enable VATAM to increase its visibility and to obtain feedback on the usability of the guidelines.
Results of VATAM are disseminated through VATAM's newsletter, VATAM's Webserver and tutorials and seminars at European and World-wide conferences like MIE and MEDINFO.
The first major exploitation of VATAM's results is the establishment of a consultancy service by two of VATAM's partners in Finland, financially supported by the Technology Development Centre TEKES. This service will provide guidance in setting-up and execution of assessment studies of ICT applications in their country.

List of deliverables

Number	Name of Deliverable	Date of Delivery	Type *
Year 1
D02.1	WWW server	2	PU
D02.2	Proceedings of Users workshop	5	LI
D03.1	Inventory report	8	PU
D04.1	User Quality Criteria Protocol	7	LI
D02.3	Proceedings of Inventory workshop	8	LI
D03.2	Draft guidelines for validation	8	LI
D04.2	The User Quality Criteria Protocol	10	LI
D05.1	Inventory of major suppliers and their validation tools	10	LI
Year 2
D05.2	An Industry Model of the market for tools, methods and services for assessment of IT in health care	19	LI
D02.4	Proceedings of Experiences workshop	27	LI
Year 3
D05.3	Final Market Study Report on tools, methods and services for assessment of IT in health care	25	PU
D04.3	Results of the protocol’s application to different 4^th framework projects	35	PU
D01.2	Final Report	36	PU
D03.3	Guidelines for validation	36	PU
D03.4	Consolidation validation results in health telematics projects	36	PU

* PU = Public deliverables; LI = Limited to Project partners only

List of participants

Name:	C.J.W.A. Enning
Organisation:	HISCOM BV
Address:	Research and Development PO Box 901 2300 AX Leiden
Country:	The Netherlands
Tel:	+31-71-5256881
Fax:	+31-71-5219856
E-mail:	vatam@hiscom.nl

Name:	J.L. Talmon
Organisation:	Universiteit Maastricht
Address:	Dept. Medical Infomatics PO Box 616 6200 MD Maastricht
Country:	The Netherlands
Tel:	+31-43-3882243/41
Fax:	+31-43-3671052
E-mail:	Talmon@mi.unimaas.nl

Name:	P. Nykänen
Organisation:	VTT Information Technology
Address:	PO Box 1206 FIN-33101 Tampere
Country:	Finland
Tel:	+358-3-3163360
Fax:	+358-3-3174102
E-mail:	pirkko.nykanen@vtt.fi

Name:	F. Sanz
Organisation:	IMAS-IMIM
Address:	Dr. Aiguader 80 E-08003 Barcelona
Country:	Spain
Tel:	+34-3-2211009
Fax:	+34-3-2213237
E-mail:	ferran@imim.es

Name:	D. Hoyer
Organisation:	KPMG Unternehmensberatung
Address:	Kurfürstendamm 207-208 10719 Berlin
Country:	Germany
Tel:	+49-30-886 12559
Fax:	+49-30-886 12500
E-mail:	Hoyer@kpmg-berlin.de

Name:	C. Thayer
Organisation:	Centre National de l'Equipement Hospitalier
Address:	9, rue Antoine Chantin 75014 Paris
Country:	France
Tel:	+33-1-40441504
Fax:	+33-1-40441533
E-mail:	Christine.Thayer@cneh.fr

Name:	T. Jørgensen
Organisation:	DSI - Danish Institute for Health Services Research and Development
Address:	Dampfaergevej 22 2100 Copenhagen
Country:	Denmark
Tel:	+45-35298457
Fax:	+45-35298499
E-mail:	tj@dsi.dk

Name:	R. Engelbrecht
Organisation:	GSF-MEDIS
Address:	Ingolstädterlandstraße 1 Oberschleißheim
Country:	Germany
Tel:	+49-89-31874138
Fax:	+49-89-31873008
E-mail:	Engel@gsf.de

Name:	F. Fedele
Organisation:	GESI - Gestione Sistemi per l'Informatica
Address:	Via Rodi 32 I-00195 Rome
Country:	Italy
Tel:	+39-6-39743413 (Mobile: +39-335234067)
Fax:	+39-6-39743346
E-mail:	Francesco.Fedele@gesi.it

Name:	M. Makari
Organisation:	MARI Computer Systems Ltd
Address:	Old Town Hall, Gateshead Tyne & Wear NE8 1HE
Country:	United Kingdom
Tel:	+44-191-4021354
Fax:	+44-191-4021107
E-mail:	m.makari@mari.co.uk

Name:	R. Beuscart
Organisation:	CHRU de Lille
Address:	Hôpital Calmette Boulevard du Prof. Leclercq 59037 Lille
Country:	France
Tel:	+33-3-20-446038
Fax:	+33-3-20-446045
E-mail:	rbeuscart@chru-lille.fr

Name:	P. Zanstra
Organisation:	University of Nijmegen
Address:	Medical Informatics, Epidemiology and Statistics Kapittelweg 54 6525 EP Nijmegen
Country:	The Netherlands
Tel:	+31-24-3613125
Fax:	+31-24-3613505
E-mail:	p.zanstra@mie.kun.nl

Name:	U. Hübner
Organisation:	Fachhochschule Osnabrück
Address:	Fachbereich Wirtshaft Albrechtstrasse 30 49076 Osnabrück
Country:	Germany
Tel:	+49-541-9692012
Fax:	+49-541-9692070
E-mail:	huebner@wi.fh-osnabrueck.ed

Name:	R. O'Moore
Organisation:	St. James Hospital
Address:	Clinical Chemistry St. James Street 8 Dublin
Country:	Ireland
Tel:	+353-1-4532385
Fax:	+353-1-4537594
E-mail:	romoore@iol.ie

Name:	J. Demaeseneer
Organisation:	University of Gent
Address:	Department of Primary Care University Hospital 1K3 De Pintelaan 185 B-9000 Gent
Country:	Belgium
Tel:	+32-9-2403542
Fax:	+32-9-2404967
E-mail:	jan.demaeseneer@rug.ac.be

Name:	R. Roine
Organisation:	FinOHTA STAKES
Address:	Stilasaarenkatu 18 FI-00531 Helsinki
Country:	Finland
Tel:	+358-90-3967-2286
Fax:	+358-90-3967-2278
E-mail:	risto.roine@stakes.fi



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VATAM

Validation of telematics applications in medicine

Overview

Purpose and objectives

Results

List of deliverables

Year 1

Year 2

Year 3

List of participants