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The Institute of Health Information Systems, together with
colleagues from the Medical University of Vienna, conducted
a big IT evaluation study in Austra focusing on the benefit
of the e-Medikation pilot project in Austria. More
than 150 healthcare professionals, 5.000 patients and 4 hospitals
participated in this pilot project.
On May 10th, 2012, the results were presented to the press.
For more details, see the press
archive.
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The conference chairs: Prof.
Dr. Elske Ammenwerth (UMIT), PD Dr. Günter Schreier (AIT)
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Together with AIT - Austrian Institute of Technology, the
Institute of Health Informatics of UMIT organized of the annual
conferene eHealth2012
- mobile health and care, that took place on May 10th
- 11th in Schloss Schönbrunn, Vienna.
More than 230 participants discussed recent eHealth research
and applications in Austria, Germany and Switzerland. All
presentations are available at the conference website.
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In March 2012, our Institute organized
an the third ITIL-V3 certification training. Around 20
students and professionals participated. At the end, all participants
successfully passed the international ITIL V3 exam. |
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The journal Artificial Intelligence
in Medicine is preparing a special issue on Evaluation of Clinical
Decision Support Systems (CDSS) in Health care. Guest editors
are Elske Ammenwerth from IIG, Nicolet de Keizer, Michael Rigby
and Pirkko Nykänen. Please
find here the call for papers. Deadline for submissions
June 30th, 2012. |
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End of November 2012, Dr. Jacob
Hofdijk, Vice-president of the European Federation for Medical
Informatics (EFMI), as well as Prof. Anne Moen from University
of Oslo, participated in a two-day workshop at IIG. During this
workshop, we discussed cooperation opportunities and finalized
a review paper on eHealth activities in Europe. |
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Elske Ammenwerth has been elected
to membership in the American
College of Medical Informatics (ACMI). The American
College of Medical Informatics (ACMI) is a college of elected
Fellows from the U.S. and abroad who have made significant and
sustained contributions to the field of medical informatics.
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The institute was very present at MIE2011 in Oslo, with three
presentations and two poster to MIE.
The poster of Romaric Marcilly from Lille and Werner Hackl
from UMIT on "Humand-Centred Design of a Scorecard tool
for Adverse Drug Events" got the Poster Prize of MIE2011
- Congratulations!
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Four students and two faculty members from the Institute
of Health Information Systems participated in the IPHIE
MasterClass 2011, that took place from July 6th - July
10th in Bad Wimpfen, Germany.
The IPHIE MasterClass ist organized annually by the IPHIE
partners: University of Amsterdam, University of Heidelberg/Heilbronn,
University of Minneapolis, University of Seattle, University
of UTAH, and UMIT.
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Fourteen biomedeical informatics students of the Master programme
participated in the Frank-van Swieten-Lecture on Health
Informatin Systems that took place from June 29th - July
1st 2011 at the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam.
In the annual FvS-Lectures, students from five European medical
informatics programms (Amsterdam, Braunschweig, Heidelberg/Heilbronn,
Leipzig, UMIT) meet to work on selected topics of health information
systems.
The trip was organized by Prof. Elske Ammenwerth and sponsored
by the Institute for Health Information Systems, by Cerner
and by the Federal State Hospital of Hall (LKH Hall/TILAK).
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The presentation "Automatische
Generierung von Formularen aus ISO/EN 13606 Archteypen",
presented at the eHealth2011 conferences, received the Student
Award of eHealth2011. The paper presents results from the
joint project EHR
Arche between the Medical University Vienna and the Institute
for Health Informatics at UMIT. |
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The presentation "Scorecards:
A new method to prevent adverse drug events", jointly
presented by Romaric Marcilly (University of Lille 2) and Werner
Hackl (Institute for Health Informatics, UMIT) at the 2nd
PSIP workshop on May 16-17, 2011 in Paris, received the
Young Researchers Award. Congratulations! |
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On April 11th, 2011, the ÖÄR
(Österreichischer Akkreditierungsrat - Austrian Accreditation
Agency) has approved the application of UMIT to start a doctoral
programme "Dr. phil. in Health Information Systems".
This doctoral programme is lead by our the Institute of Health
Information Systems. |
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On May 20th-21st 2011, we organized the workshop on "Drug
Safety and Health Informatics" (Frühlings-Workshop
AMTS: Arzneimittelsicherheit und Medizinische Informatik).
Invited expert from Austria, Germany and Switzerland discussed
about possibilities to increase medication safety by information
technology.The participation was by invitation only.
The group will meet again at the GMDS 2011 Annual Conference
in Mainz.
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New book published: The second
edition of our book "Health
Information Systems: Architectures and Strategies"
has been published with Springer, New York. |
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Daniel Riedman received the GMDS
Student Award at the 55th Annual Conference of the GMDS
(Sept. 2010 in Mannheim) for his presentation entitled "Prioritization
of alerts in CPOE systems using the clinical context - A mixed
method study". Congratulations! |
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Our Institute was quite successfull in contributing to Medinfo2010
in Cap Town. We presented two papers and three posters and
contributed to two workshops.
In addition, at the 55th Annual GMDS conference in
Mannheim, members of the Institute had six full presentations.
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Dr. Alexander Hörbst received
the GMDS Förderpreis 2010 in Health Informatics
(GMDS: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Medizinische Informatik,
Biometrie und Epidemiologie) for his Ph.D. thesis entitled "Grundlagen
der Qualitätszertifizierung von Diensten im Rahmen der elektronischen
Gesundheitsakte" - Congratulations! |
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The paper of Hübner-Bloder G,
Ammenwerth E. Key
Performance Indicators to Benchmark Hospital Information Systems
– A Delphi Study. Methods of Information in Medicine 2009;48:508-518,
was selected for inclusion in the Yearbook of Medical Informatics
of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA),
IMIA Yearbook 2010. Congratulations! |
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From June 27th - July 2nd 2011, and
initiated and partly funded by our institute, four UMIT students
were enabled to participate in the IPHIE
MasterClass on Medical Informatics at the University
of Wahsington in Seattle. On this MasterClass, 24 students from
6 universities from 4 countries participated. |
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From June 23th - 25th 2011, 6 UMIT
students participated in the international Frank-van Swieten-Lecture
at the Technical University of Braunschweig. On this lecture
and group work on Hospital Information Systems, students from
five universities from three countries participated. The participation
in this lecture was organized by our institute. |
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Cornelia Schneider won the third
price at the eHealth2010 Student Competition for her master
thesis "Nutzenpotentiale von Echtzeitlokalisierungssystemen
im klinischen Bereich". The price was awarded by the Berufsverband
Medizinischer Informatiker e.V. (BVMI). |
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Our Institute hosted the 5.
femIT meeting on January 14th, 2010. The Austrian
femIT network consists of female professors from computer
science and related fields. Among others, we used this meeting
to discuss changes in the Austrian university laws as well as
marketing of research results. |
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Just published: Beuscart R, Hackl W, Nohr C (Eds.).
Detection and Prevention of Adverse Drug Events - Information
Technologies and Human Factors. Studies in Health Technology
and Informatics, Vol. 148. IOS Press. Sept. 2009. ISBN 978-1-60750-043-8.
The book comprises papers from the Belgirate
Conference, 24.-25.9.2009.
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FWF project funded: The Institute
got funding for the project "EHR-Arche:
Archtetypes-based Electronic Health Record". Together
with the team of Georg Duftschmidt from Vienna we will develop
and evaluate context-based information retrieval from electronic
health records (EHRs). The project will start in January 2010
and last two years. |
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Our Institute received the DAVID-SACKETT
Award 2009 of the German Network "Evidence-based Medicine"
for the work "The Effect of Electronic Prescribing on Medication
Errors and Adverse Drug Events: A Systematic Review" that was
published by Elske Ammenwerth together with Uwe Siebert and
Petra Schnell-Inderst. The award was presented on March 6th
2009 in Berlin. Press
text (in German). |
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Our Institute hosted the EU project
meeting "PSIP
- Patient Safety through intelligent procedures in Medication"
in January 2009. Around 40 experts discussed about patient
safety and medication ordering. |
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Foundation of ProRec Austria
The EuroRec Institute is a European Non-Profit-Organisation
to support high-quality electronic health records, based on
a network of national ProRec centres. Head of ProRec Austria
is Alexander Hörbst. For further
information, see www.prorec.at. |
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ANNUAL REPORTS (in German)
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Annual Report 2008/2009
Annual
Report 2007/2008
Annual
Report 2006/2007
Annual
Report 2005/2006
Annual
Report 2004/2005
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SERVICES OF THE INSTITUTE
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Our Institute is responsible for the Erasmus
Network of UMIT. Students interested to go abroad should
look at the detailed information provided here.
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Elske Ammenwerth is co-chair of the Working
Group "Medical Informatics" (AK-MI) of the Austrian
Computer Society (OCG) and the Austrian Society for Biomedical
Technology (ÖGBMT). Among other, AK-MI organizes the
annual eHealth conferences in Vienna. For
details, see here (in German). |
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INFORMATION FOR STUDENTS
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UMIT
jobcenter, with open positions mostly from the area
of health informatics (in German).
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UMIT
OPAC containing the books available at UMIT.
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Information for UMIT students wanting to
go abroad. |
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Professional societies for health
informatics: GMDS,
BVMI, OCG
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Recently published books, reports and journals
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Schreier
G, Hayn D, Ammenwerth E (Hrsg.). eHealth 2011: Health Informatics
meets eHealth - von der Wissenschaft zur Anwendung und zurück.
Grenzen überwinsen - Continuity of Care. Tagungsband der
eHealth 2011. Wien, Austria. Österreichische
Computer Gesellschaft. 2011. ISBN 978-3-85403-279-3. |
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Winter A, Ammenwerth E, Brigl B,
Hellrung N, Jahn F. Health
Information Systems: Architectures and Strategies. 2nd
edition. New York: Springer. 2011. |
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Schreier
G, Hayn D, Ammenwerth E (Hrsg.). eHealth 2010: Health Informatics
meets eHealth - von der Wissenschaft zur Anwendung und zurück.
Der Mensch im Fokus. Tagungsband der eHealth 2010. Wien, Austria.
Österreichische
Computer Gesellschaft. 2010. ISBN 978-3-85403-264-9. |
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Beuscart R, Hackl W, Nohr C (Eds.). Detection
and Prevention of Adverse Drug Events - Information Technologies
and Human Factors. Studies in Health Technology and
Informatics, Vol. 148. IOS Press. Sept. 2009. ISBN 978-1-60750-043-8.
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Schreier
G, Hayn D, Ammenwerth E (Hrsg.). eHealth
2009: Medical Informatics meets eHealth. Tagungsband
der eHealth und eHealth Benchmarking 2009. Wien, Austria. Österreichische
Computer Gesellschaft. 2009. |
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Ammenwerth E, Buchberger W, Kofler A, Krismer
M, Lechleitner G, Pfeiffer KP, Schaubmayr C, Triendl C, Vogl
R. IT-Strategie 2008 - 2012. Informationstechnologie im Dienste
von Medizin und Pflege. Tiroler Landeskrankenanstalten GmbH
(TILAK). 2007. |
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Schreier
G, Hayn D, Ammenwerth E (Hrsg.). eHealth 2008: Medical Informatics
meets eHealth. Tagungsband der eHealth und eHealth Benchmarking
2008. Wien, Austria. Österreichische Computer Gesellschaft.
2008. ISBN 978-3-85403-235-9. |
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Reinhold Haux, Casimir Kulikowski (Hrsg.): IMIA
Yearbook of Medical Informatics 2006: Assessing Information
Technologies for Health. Methods of Information in Medicine
- Supplement. Schattauer-Verlag. 2006. ISBN 3-7945-2525-6. |
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Ammenwerth E, Haux R et al. IT-Projektmanagement
in Krankenhaus und Gesundheitswesen - Einführendes Lehrbuch
und Projektleitfaden für das taktische Management von Informationssystemen.
 Schattauer-Verlag.
2005. ISBN 3-7945-2416-0. 326 S. 34,95 €. |
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Reinhold Haux, Casimir Kulikowski
(Hrsg.): IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics 2005: Ubiquitous
Health Care Systems. Schattauer-Verlag. 2005. ISBN 3-7945-2397-0.
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Elske Ammenwerth. Die
Bewertung von Informationssystemen des Gesundheitswesens.
Beiträge für ein umfassendes Informationsmanagement. Shaker-Verlag.
2004. ISBN 3-8322-3145-5. |
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Reinhold Haux, Alfred Winter,
Elske Ammenwerth, Birgit Brigl. Strategic
Information Management in Hospitals - An Introduction to Hospital
Information Systems
Springer Verlag New York. 2004. ISBN 0-387-40356-6 |
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Florian Leiner, Reinhold Haux, Wilhelm Gaus, Petra
Knaup-Gregori, Karl-Peter Pfeiffer. Medizinische
Dokumentation. Einführendes Lehrbuch.
4. Auflage. Schattauer Verlag, 2003. ISBN 3-7945-2265-6.
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Florian Leiner, Reinhold Haux, Wilhelm
Gaus, Petra Knaup-Gregori. Medical
Data Management : A Practical Guide.
Springer Verlag, 2003. ISBN 0387951598.
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Elske Ammenwerth, Roland Eichstädter, Ulrich
Schrader. EDV
in der Pflegedokumentation
Schlüterscher Verlag, 2003. ISBN 3877067379.
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