August 24-25, 2006, Cologne, Germany
| International HL7 Interoperability Conference IHIC 2006
August 24-25, 2006, Cologne, Germany |
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To the IHIC 2006 conference program committee
Email: bojan.blazona@ericsson.com
Bojan Blazona, Ericsson Nikola Tesla, Krapinska 45, P.O.Box 93, HR-10002 Zagreb, Croatia
Darko Gvozdanovic, Ericsson Nikola Tesla, Krapinska 45, P.O.Box 93, HR-10002 Zagreb, Croatia
Bojan Blazona
Bojan Blazona was born in 1981 in Cakovec, a small town situated in northern part of Croatia. Primary and grammar school, he has finished in home town Cakovec. During that period he takes a part in Croatian competition of young computer scientist and Croatian competition of young biologist. Incorporation of computer science, biology and finally medical science presents his center of interests. From 2000 to 2005 he studied at the Faculty of Electrical engineering and Computing in Zagreb. In 2005 he worked in corporation with scientists from Ericsson Nikola Tesla (Zagreb) on pilot project to introduce communication between HL7 (Health Level 7) and DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communication) standards. During past projects and work on his diploma thesis, he has crystallized his interest in medical engineering. Diploma thesis “Visualization of medical data over Internet” won “Stanko Turk” prize which is given from Faculty of Electrical engineering and Computing in Zagreb, for the most valuable diploma thesis in area of computer science for the year 2005. Also, this diploma thesis won first prize from Croatian Medical and Biological Engineering Society (CROMBES) for the year 2005. From the end of the 2005, he works in Ericsson Nikola Tesla on the project “Primary Health Care Information System”. He started postgraduate study to enrich his knowledge in medical engineering, scientific visualization and information systems to make health care even better.
Darko Gvozdanovic
Darko Gvozdanović, M.Sc.E.E. is employed in Ericsson Nikola Tesla since 2000. For the first two years, he had worked on different research projects related to application of formal methods in software development. Since 2002, he works as senior solution manager with focus on integration and design of Enterprise Customized Solutions. e-Health & m-Health solutions are his particular area of interest.His expertise was developed through big governmental projects like implementation of Primary Healthcare Information System and Hospital Informatization systems. In his work he has closely cooperated with professionals from National Public Health Institute and National Healthcare Insurance Company in defining, customizing and optimisation of business processes in healthcare domain.
He also has experience in telecom solutions working in several project for different telecom providers.
Improving Healthcare Delivery Processes with ICT Solutions in Republic of Croatia
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During presentation we will introduce Croatia's IHCIS solution architecture giving an overview of the supported IHCIS services. We will discuss impacts of the trial’s data analysis in support of the Croatia’s IHCIS solution architecture design and future upgrades.
Nowadays healthcare decision makers, process owners and stakeholders are faced with major challenges to optimize the cost of care delivery, while at the same time provide highest quality of care provisioning to their end users – patients. Availability of the historical data, managed by the system, should be used in support of the new medical and economical scientific projects. Those projects can be guided to identify habits of the local population in selected parts of the country. The challenges summarized here are even more demanding when we take into account the latest demographics and population characteristics, such as the rising demand for health and social services for elderly and chronically ill people, increased mobility of both patients and health professionals, and communicable diseases risk management. Having all these facts in mind, the need for optimizing health processes both in terms of financial and time resources is bigger than ever.
The notion of integrated personalized care can only be achieved if the medical information is managed comprehensively, timely and efficiently. Over the last decade there has been a growing body of evidence that integrated healthcare services supported by dedicated enterprise ICT solutions represent the starting milestone in crossing this quality gap.
Having these challenges as the main driver in the improvement processes, Croatian Government has introduced a comprehensive healthcare strategy that aims to improve the quality of the care delivery. The strategy is founded on advanced ICT solutions that utilize open standards, in which context HL7v3 and CEN/TC251 ENV 13606 represent the major focus of all project definitions. The first initiated project in this framework is targeting primary care on the national level. The project has been divided into two major parts: (1) application solutions for General Practitioners’ (GP) offices, and (2) central enterprise system that connects GP’s offices with the Croatian Institute for Health Insurance and Public Health Institute. The bidding process was initiated in the year 2002, and the decision for solution vendors has been reached in November 2003. During years 2004 and 2005 the Project Management Unit has put a lot of efforts into specifying the business processes, testing the solutions and defining project blueprint. The entire system will start the operation in June 2006.
The presentation will introduce the Croatian national health system strategy, and describe main requirements for the primary care project. It will present the features of the Integrated Healthcare Information System (IHCIS) solution that was selected for the central system in this framework. It will focus on main quality criteria of the solution, present the results from the trial operation, and illustrate the experiences from the project rollout. As the final note it will address the lessons learned during the project, and enumerate further steps in the strategy plan.