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International Conference Electronic Healthcare Documentation

Prague, Czech Republic, February 11, 2016

Bernd Blobel1,3, Jana Zvarova2,3

1 Medical Faculty, University of Regensburg, Germany

2 Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic

3 EuroMISE Mentor Association, Prague, Czech Republic

The International Conference Electronic HealthcareDocumentation was held on 11 February 2016 in the Houseof Physicians in Prague, Czech Republic. Jointly orga-nized by the EuroMISE Mentor Association and CzechSociety of Biomedical Engineering and Medical Infor-matics, the conference was performed under the aus-pices of Charles University in Prague, First Faculty ofMedicine. The event was opened by short speeches ofStepan Svacina, President of the Czech Medical Asso-ciation J.E. Purkyne, Bernd Blobel, Chair of the Sci-entific Program Committee, and Jana Zvarova, Chairof the Conference Organizing Committee. The morn-ing program was divided into two sections. The firstsection was opened by the Keynote Lecture “Develop-ments in Medical Informatics: Can the Future be Pre-dicted from the Past?”, provided by Jan H. van Bemmel(The Netherlands), former President of the InternationalMedical Informatics Association, from 2000-2003 acting asRector Magnificus of Erasmus University Rotterdam, TheNetherlands. The second morning session was introducedby Bernd Blobel (Germany), former Chair of HL7 Ger-many, Chairman of the CEN / ISSS eHealth Standard-ization Focus Group as well as Founder and long termChair of the EFMI Working Group “Electronic HealthRecords”, with his Keynote Lecture “EHR / PHR Sys-tems Today and in the Future”. Beyond the Keynotes,five lectures on the topics of the conference have beenpresented in the morning sessions. The afternoon sessionwas introduced by a lecture of Anna Adelof (Sweden) ti-tled “The Emerge of Clinical Terminology - SNOMEDCT”, followed by another six speeches. The last sessionof the conference was devoted to a panel discussion onthe topic “Electronic Health Care Documentation - What

Should be Integrated and How Can this be Done?”, whichwas opened by a lecture of Pirkko Nykanen (Finland).The discussion clearly demonstrated that different pro-fessional groups in healthcare require different represen-tations of information. However, this problem has notyet been satisfactorily solved. All conference papers havebeen published in the first issue of the International Jour-nal on Biomedicine and Healthcare in 2016 (available atwww.ijbh.org). The conference, attended by 36 delegatesfrom six countries, was concluded with a dinner at Pro-fesnı dum of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics,Charles University in Prague. The sightseeing tour forconference participants through the historic part of thebuilding was guided by Antonin Kucera, former AssociateDean of the faculty, with the organizational help of hiscolleague Jaroslav Pokorny. The conference was accom-panied by the mentoring course “Health Information Man-agement”, provided by the EuroMISE Mentor Associationon 10 and 12 February 2016.

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