Projects

 

Current Research Projects

Title Project team Time span
PSIP - Patient Safety through Intelligent Procedures in Medication (EU FP7 project) Elske Ammenwerth, PSIP-Konsortium (u.a. Universität Lille, Krankenhausverbünde in Frankreich und Dänemark, Oracle, Vidal, Medasys, Acure, Oracle, Aalborg University, Thessalominik University) 2008 - 2011
CPOE: Systematic review and meta-analysis Elske Ammenwerth, Petra Schnell-Inderst, Uwe Siebert 2006 - 2008
Quality criteria for medical websites Alexander Hörbst, Elske Ammenwerth 2007

Health@net: Building a regional health care network in Tyrol

Thomas Schabetsberger, Florian Wozak 2002 - 2007
In-Patient, Home & Mobile Monitoring
Detection of epileptic seizures by innovative sensoring technology
Elske Ammenwerth, Samrend Saboor, Christa Them, et al 2006 - 2009

Evaluation inventory
Construction of a systematic overview of evaluation research 1982-2002

Elske Ammenwerth, Nicolette de Keizer

2002 - 2006
STARE-HI
Standards for Reporting on Evaluation Studies in Health Informatics
Elske Ammenwerth, EFMI-WG on Assessment of Health Information Systems 2006 - 2007

Constant Tasks and Services

Task Description
EvalDB
Inventory of evaluation studies
We have analysed 1.035 evaluation studies that have been published between 1982 and 2002 in PubMed. They have been uniformly described and made available for free in a web-based data base.
QPool
Inventory of validated questionnaires
Questionnaires used to assess various aspects in medical informatics evaluation studies (e.g. satisfaction with computer-based systems) will be made available in a web-based data base.
Coordination of the construction of the Yearbook of Medical Informatics of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) (since 2000) The IMIA-Yearbook appears yearly. It provides an overview of the most outstanding reasearch work in the area of medical informatics. It also contains detailed information about IMIA as well as about the worldwide activities of its membership organizations and working groups.
Chairing of the EFMI-Working Group "Assessment of Health Information Systems"

The Working Group "Assessment of Health Information Systems" of the European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI) was founded in 2002. The tasks of the working group are to to promote theory and practice of evaluation of health information systems, taking into account approaches from a variety of scientific fields.

Chairing of the IT strategy committee of the Tyrolean Privincial Hospitals A committee for the strategic planning of information management and information technology (IT-strategy committee) was founded to support the director of the TILAK and the respective department head. The first task was the creation of an IT strategy for the Tyrolean Provincial Hospitals (TILAK).

Completed Projects and Activities

Title Project team Time span
MedFlow
Modeling and evaluation of business process in healthcare
Elske Ammenwerth, Samrend Saboor, Ruth Breu, Theo Wilhelm, Heiko Schuldt, Manfred Wurz 2004 - 2006
Process-based IT-Service-Management
Implementation of ITIL within TILAK
Roland Blomer, Samrend Saboor, Georg Lechleitner 2005 - 2006
3LGM2
Static modeling of hospital information systems
Gudrun Hübner-Bloder 2003 - 2006
KIS-Monitor
Development of a monitoring system for the quality of hospital information systems
Elske Ammenwerth, Frauke Ehlers, Gordon Gratl, Bernhard Hirsch 2003 - 2006
eval@health@net
Evaluation of an regional health network
Elske Ammenwerth, Nils Hellrung, Christof Machan, Thomas Schabetsberger, Christian Stöckl 2004 - 2005
Multi-method Evaluation of a Nursing Documentation System Elske Ammenwerth
Cornelia Mahler, Marianne Kandert, Gisela Luther, Ansgar Kutscha, Ulrike Kutscha, Torsten Happek, Bettina Hoppe, Ronald Eichstädter
1998 - 2003


Organisation of the ESF Exploratory Workshops on New Approaches to the Systematic Evaluation of Health Information Systems

Elske Ammenwerth
Karl-Peter Pfeiffer
Gudrun Hübner-Bloder
Frieda Kaiser
April 2004
Evaluation of an Advanced Image Management (AIM) Elske Ammenwerth
Frieda Kaiser
2002 - 2003
Creation of an IT Strategy for the Tyrolean Provincian Hospitals Elske Ammenwerth, Reinhold Haux, Georg Lechleitner, Karl-Peter Pfeiffer, Christian Triendl, Raimund Vogl 2002-2003
Evaluation of Electronic Physician Discharge Report and Result Writing Elske Ammenwerth
Frieda Kaiser
2001 - 2002
Requirements Index for Information Processing in Hospitals

Elske Ammenwerth
Anke Buchauer, Reinhold Haux

1998 - 2001
Visualization of Process Flows in Hospital Information Systems Frieda Kaiser
Elske Ammenwerth
2002 - 2003