The Working Group welcomes everybody who is interested in the evaluation of health information systems, or who may already have experiences and results that he or she wants to share. In any case, please contact the chairs of the Working Group.
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For the EFMI councail, the WG EVAL summarized its activities, outcomes and publications 2009/2010. Please find this report here.
The working group will have the following contributions to Medinfo 2010 to be held from 12-15th September 2010 at the Cape Town International Convention Centre, Cape Town, South Africa
The new IMIA-Recommendations on Education in Biomedical and Health Informatics have just been published and can be accessed for free at http://www.schattauer.de/en/magazine/subject-areas/journals-a-z/methods/contents/preprint-online/07th-jan-2010.html.
Page 8, item 1.19 list the following item as recommended learning outcome: "Evaluation and assessment of information systems, including study design, selection and triangulation of (quantitative and qualitative) methods, outcome and impact evaluation, economic evaluation, unintended consequences, systematic reviews and meta-analysis, evidence-based health informatics"
The working group plans to have the following activities in 2010:
For the EFMI board, the WG EVAL summarized its activities, outcomes and publications 2002 - 2009. Please find this report here.
The working group will have a workshop on GEP-HI: Good evaluation practice guidelines in health informatics at AMIA 2009 in San Francisco, Nov14 - 18 2009. Everybody interesting is invited to join!
The working group had a successful workshop on GEP-HI: Introducing guidelines for good evaluation practice in health informatics at MIE2009 in Sarajevo, Aug30-Sept2 2009. Please find some slides of this workshop here.
STARE-HI Version 1.0 has now been published: Talmon J, Ammenwerth E, Brender J, de Keizer N, Nykänen P, Rigby M. STARE-HI - Statement on reporting of evaluation studies in Health Informatics, Int J Med Inform 2009; 78(1): 1-9.
Please look at the STARE-HI website to find recent information on it.
The objective of GEP-HI is to provide best evaluation practice guidelines for health informatics and to make them available for health care professionals, health informatics professionals, decision makers, and other stakeholders. The work is a shared activity of the EFMI WG EVAL and IMIA WG 15 Technology Assessment and Quality Improvement.
The next draft of GEP-HI for discussion is now available (GEP-HI version 0.16, December 2008).
We invite you to comment the current version of these guidelines and to provide input for any aspect of the guidelines. Especially welcome are experiences from those of you who want to test these guidelines in planning and/or carrying out an evaluation study. Please, provide your comments by SEPTEMBER 15th, 2008.
Please send your comments to pirkko.nykanen@uta.fi.
If you have any questions, or if you would like to participate, please contact:
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Chair
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Univ.-Prof. Dr. Elske Ammenwerth
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| Co-chair |
Dr. Pirkko Nykänen |
| Co-chair | Assoc. Research
Prof. Dr. Jytte Brender Aalborg University Dept. of Health Science and Technology Denmark jytte.brender@v-chi.dk |