Compendium of Health Telematics Projects 94-98 (Draft)
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PROGUIDE

Promoting the development, dissemination, and evaluation of guidelines of clinical practice

Project code: HC 4019
Project value: 420.0 KECU
EC contribution: 420.0 KECU
Number of partners: 11
Number of countries: 5
Duration:24 months
Starting date: Dec 1, 97
               
Contact: Rolf Engelbrecht
GSF-Forschungszentrum
MEDIS M2
Ingolstaedter Landstr. 1
D-85764 Oberschleissheim
Germany

Tel: +49 89 31 87 41 38
Fax: +49 89 31 87 30 08
E-mail: engel@gsf.de
Web Site: www-mi.gsf.de

Overview

ProGuide is a support action which aims at establishing an infrastructure for implementing computer-based guidelines and cost-efficient health care at better quality. ProGuide will show how the different components will be supported by an infrastructure which focuses on technical aspects of guideline development on an interdisciplinary way. The goal is to establish a network between users, health care authorities, medical professionals' organisations and developers of telematic products. Results will in this network be distributed via a WWW server which will be integrated into an existing on-line service for physicians and enable feedback by the users.

Purpose and objectives

By using guidelines for clinical practice it is hoped to increase the quality and cost-efficiency of medical care. This project aims at enhancing and ensuring the Union-wide availability of guideline information to users, healthcare agencies, developers and implementors.

Information on institutions responsible for health care in the EU-member states, on major quality management programmes as well as on projects concerning guidelines will be compiled. Based on this account and on existing implementation approaches, scenarios for putting computer-based guidelines into practice will be made, and their feasibility scrutinised in collaboration with the relevant institutions of all participating countries.

Given the diversity of the health care systems in the EU member states these scenarios will focus on organisational and structural aspects of guideline development and implementation. Of major concern are aspects of validation, quality control, approval by authoritative bodies, financing, and education. This effort is directed to establish an infrastructure for implementing computer-based guidelines for a cost-efficient health care at better quality. ProGuide is a first step into this direction and will show how the different components will be supported by an infrastructure which focuses on technical aspects of guideline development on an interdisciplinary way.

The project will widely use electronic media for this purpose and establish a network between users, health care agencies and authorities, medical professionals’ organisations and developers of telematic products. Results will in this network be distributed via a WWW server which will be integrated into an existing on-line service for physicians and enable feedback by the users. Beside this conferences and paper based reports will form and document the activities.

Results

The results of ProGuide will be an infrastructure for developing and implementing guidelines effectively in Europe. A WWW server will be accessible via Internet to deliver information on existing guidelines and persons/institutions involved in the implementation or quality assurance activities of computer-based guidelines. Links to relevant projects in the field will be provided as well as a forum for discussion on guideline relevant topics. Parts of this server will be linked to health on-line services for physicians and cross-linked with medical databases.

List of deliverables

Year 1

Year 2

List of participants

Name: Prof. Dr. med. Hans Reinauer, M.A. Wolfgang Müller
Organisation: Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Medizinischen Wissenschaftlichen Fachgesellschaft
Address: Moorenstr. 5 , D-40225 Düsseldorf
Country: Germany
Tel: +49 211 31 2828
Fax: +49 211 31 6819
E-mail: awmf@uni-duesseldorf.de
Name: Dr. Konstantin Bob
Organisation: HOS multimedica Online Service , GmbH & Co. KG
Address: Schlüterstr. 39, D-10629 Berlin
Country: Germany
Tel: +49 30 884 293 16
Fax: +49 30 884 293 40
E-mail: kb@bsmedic.de
Name: Prof. Dr. Günther Ollenschläger, Dr. med. Christian Thomeczek
Organisation: Zentralstelle der Deutschen Ärzteschaft zur Qualitätssicherung in der Medizin
Address: Aachener Straße 233-237, D-50931 Köln
Country: Germany
Tel: +49 221 4004 501/504/505
Fax: +49 221 4004 590
E-mail: azq@dgn.de
Name: Dr. Jean-Louis Renaud-Salis
Organisation: Institut Bergonie
Address: 180, rue de Saint-Genes, F-33076 Bordeaux Cedex
Country: France
Tel: +49 30 884 29
Fax: +49 30 884 293 40
E-mail: kb@bsmedic.de
Name: Prof. Mario Stefanelli, Dr. Silvana Quaglini
Organisation: Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Universita degli Studi di Pavia
Address: Via Ferrata 1, I-27100 Pavia
Country: Italy
Tel: +39 382 505 354
Fax: +39 382 505 373
E-mail: mstefa@ipvstefa.unipv.it, sil@ipvaimed2.unipv.it
Name: Prof John Fox, Richard Thomson
Organisation: Imperial Cancer Research Fund Laboratories
Address: P.O.Box 123 , Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PX
Country: Great Britain
Tel: +44 171 269 3624/3627
Fax: +44 171 269 3186
E-mail: jf@acl.icnet.uk, rt@acl.icnet.uk
Name: Ing. Domenico M. Pisanelli
Organisation: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Tecnologie Biomediche
Address: Viale Marx 15, I-00137 Rome
Country: Italy
Tel: +39 68 6090249
Fax: +39 68 273665
E-mail: nico@color.irmkant.rm.cnr.it
Name: Dr. Einar H. Fredriksson
Organisation: IOS Press
Address: Van Diemenstraat 94, 1013 Amsterdam
Country: Netherlands
Tel: +31 20 638 2189
Fax: +31 20 620 3419
E-mail: editorial@iospress.nl
Name: Prof. Jan van Bemmel, Johan van der Lei
Organisation: Department of Medical Informatics, Erasmus University
Address: P.O.Box 1738, 3000 DR Rotterdam
Country: Netherlands
Tel: +31 10 4087050
Fax: +31-10-4362882
E-mail: vanbemmel@mi.fgg.eur.nl, vanderlei@mi.fgg.eur.nl
Name: Dr. Lorenzo Cammelli
Organisation: Libero Istituto Universitario Campus Biomedico
Address: Via Emilio Longoni 69, I-00155 Rom
Country: Italy
Tel: +39 6 22541 504
Fax: +39 6 22541 444
E-mail: l.cammelli@liucbm.it
Name: Prof. Dr. Wilhelm van Eimeren, Dr. Rolf Engelbrecht, Wolfgang Moser, Karin Nimmermann, Markus Struppe, Sonja Courté-Wienecke
Organisation: Institut für Medizinische Informatik, Forschungsgesellschaft für Umwelt und Gesundheit GmbH
Address: Ingolstäder Landstr. 1, D-85764 Neuherberg
Country: Germany
Tel: +49 89 3187 4138/4180
Fax: +49 89 3187 3008
E-mail: vE@gsf.de, engel@gsf.de, moser@gsf.de, nimmerma@gsf.de, cstruppe@gsf.de, courte@gsf.de

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