The interest in health care informatics is increasing in
the Danish community. The awareness among health care
professionals is growing, the topic is clearly on the
political agenda, and the marketplace is expanding.
It is
interesting to note, that
- the
Government has published its IT strategy - where health
care has a very high priority. An agreement has been
reached with the Counties (which runs the hospitals) for
a strategy and the financing of an expansion of IT use
in hospitals.
- the
national health care network programme (MedCom) has been
made a permanent activity. More than 1,5 million health
care messages are sent via the network every month. (
www.health-telematics.dk )
- the
Ministry of Health is supporting several projects
regarding the development of Danish electronic patient
records. An increasing number of hospitals are starting
to use electronic patient records. (www.hep.dk)
- the
National Panel for Standardisation of Medical
Informatics has published a popular booklet on
standardisation of electronic health care records
- the
use of Internet in health care is increasing. The Danish
Medical Association has established a medical Intranet
and supplies all Danish doctors with free Internet
access. (A public part is on
www.dadl.dk)
- the
post graduate education in health care informatics is
running at Aalborg University for the forth year,
graduating Masters of Information Technology. DSMI has
once again supported some of the students with grants. (
www.v-chi.dk
)
- the
IT-University is starting a post graduate education in
health care IT in the fall of 2006, graduating Masters
of Healthcare IT (www.itu.dk)
The
Danish Society for Medical Informatics - Dansk Selskab for
Medicinsk Informatik (DSMI) was established in 1966. It is
an independent society with an associated status to the
Danish Medical Societies. The aim of the society is to
compile and disseminate theoretical and practical
knowledge in medical informatics, and to stimulate
research and the use of medical information systems. The
around 400 members are physicians, nurses and others who
work with theoretical or practical aspects of medical
information technologies.
DSMI
organises meetings, conferences and courses to pursue the
goals of the society. The society has developed fruitful
relationships with the Nordic medical informatics
societies, Swedish Federation for Medical Informatics,
Norwegian Society for Medical Informatics, Finnish Society
for Social and Health Informatics, the Icelandic special
interest group on health informatics, FOKUS, the Norwegian
Centre for Telemedicine and the Norwegian Centre for
Informatics in Health and Social Care.
One of the largest efforts for the Society was the
organization of MIE'96 in Copenhagen. More that 1000
participants participated in the high quality scientific
programme and the large exhibition.
Meetings
are also organised in cooperation with the Danish Society
for Quality Assurance, the Danish National Board of Health
and the Virtual Center for Health Informatics at Aalborg
University.
The
Society is represented in various groups, i.e. the
Ministry of Health's advisory group and the Danish
Standardization Committee. In c ooperation with the Danish
Society for Biomedical Engineering and Scanpublisher, the
Society publishes a professional magazine with abstracts
of the meetings, papers, interviews, announcements of
international conferences and other relevant information.
The DSMI homepage is playing a large role in the
communication with the members:
www.dsmi.dk
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