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Updated: Apr 30, 97 |
PROREC | |
| Promotion strategy for the European electronic healthcare record |
| Project Nr: | HC 1110 | Group: I | Project Duration: 36 months |
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| Category: | Electronic Healthcare Records Promotion | ||
| Summary: | Promotion of the use of the EHCR by installing in Europe a permanent network of centres. Focus on interoperability issues, assessment of existing products, dissemination of information. Builds on the MEDIREC concerted action. | ||
| Mission: | PROREC is aimed to promote uniform comprehensive, communicable and secure European electronic healthcare records (EHCRs) offering cost-effective simpler access for both patients and professional users. Its approach will be to assist and support all EU EHCR-related telematics and similar projects, nationally and internationally. EHCRs will be promoted via a permanent network of centres for disseminating records information, later likely to be a fully-fledged European institution. | ||
| URL: | www.sadiel.es/europa/prorec/ | ||
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| Name of Institution | City+Postal Code | Country | Region |
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| Office Line Engineering NV | B-9520 | Belgium | BE23 |
| Services, Architectures & Products for Health Information Systems (SAPHIS) | F-78180 | France | |
| National Health Service - Information Management group (NHS-IMG) | LS2 7UE | United Kingdom | |
| Petter Hurlen Innovation (pHi) | N-1322 | NO |
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The main goal of PROREC is to promote and coordinate the European wide convergence towards comprehensive, communicable and secure Electronic Healthcare Records (EHCR)This will be achieved by coordinating and supporting the European Commission’s Telematics Applications for Health projects and other initiatives in the area of EHCRs, both nationally and internationally.
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. 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. 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.
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Users involved Electronic Healthcare Record System Providers (Industry), Medical and paramedical Staff (EHR-endusers), Other Telematics Applications projects related to EHCRs. Technologies and/or approach used PROREC will install 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. Expected benefits for the citizen Direct benefit through better quality and accessability of his medical record, indirect benefit through the reduction of costs to be realised by the availability of adequate management information at all levels (physician, hospitals, governments). Expected benefits for the users of the application "One stop shopping" related to all information required on electronic healthcare records, discussion and information disseminiation platform, convergent developments directed towards a common goal, peer review, better information flow to public authorities. Expected benefits for the European Industries The Health Telematics Industry will profit from the need for the development of new products in a huge growing market. PROREC will manage the convergence towards the development of a common European Healthcare Record. Contribution to EU-policies PROREC aims to contribute to Europe’s Global Information Society by paving the way for harmonised EHR systems, hence leading to wider accessability of healthcare data. The European citizen shall have guaranteed their universal right of access to health care, the effective protection of their right of free circulation within a frame work of quality of care in Europe. |
| PROREC Iternational | |||
| PROREC Belgium | Zonnegem | Oost-Vlanderen | BE |
| PROREC Spain | Andalucía | ES |
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