Five outlines for research proposals were submitted to Vinnova’s program Innovationer för framtidens hälsa, (Innovations for the Future Health), on September 17. One outline involved a five year health innovation environment and the four other outlines involved four three year project proposals. The research areas are patient safety, automatic ICD-10 coding, hypothesis generation and case based patient record retrieval in the areas of research, education and clinical work. Partners are the Karolinska Institute, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm County Council, Profdoc Care, AB Datawell AB, Healthcare Solutions AB, GE Healthcare Bio-Sciences AB
Seminar September 18, 2009: Overview and reflections on research in health care in relation to health informatics, by professor Gunnar Nilsson
Overview and reflections on research in health care in relation to health informatics
by professor Gunnar Nilsson
Seminar in room 6405, floor 6, DSV.
at 10-11 on Friday, September 18, 2009:
Abstract
Overview and reflections on research in health care in relation to health informatics:
The health care system and its desperate need of increasing its use of health information technology.
· The potential for IT will change the face of the health care system.
· Gathering and organising data for public health responsiveness for genomic research applied to clinical medicine and health care.
· The desired outcomes should be: improved public health, better care as perceived by consumers, and affordable costs.
Relevant research areas in medical informatics:
· Patient-centred longitudinal health care database – implicit in every vision expressed in health informatics.
· Clinical classification and terminologies including
· Structured and unstructured information, clinical text mining.
· Electronic patient record systems in clinical practice and solutions for decision support systems (CDSS).
· Reuse of data to support evidence-based clinical practise.
· Health information technology to support management and education in health care.
· Personal health records, i.e. one patient – one record
· Translational bioinformatics – translational issues in genomics and bioinformatics.
· Evaluation, with focus on methodologies and results of scientific evaluations of EPR, PHR, CDSS and bioinformatics applications.
Overview of medical informatics research in different areas – ongoing research or future projects.
Professor Gunnar Nilsson, Karolinska Institute is also guest professor at SYSLAB, DSV/KTH and Stockholm University
Gunnars slides in PDF-format
HEXAnord contract signed today!
The HEXAnord-HEalth teXt Analysis network in the Nordic and Baltic countries signed today!
The research network that is funded by Norfa (Nordic council) obtained funding for three years. The partners in addition to DSV/KTH-Stockholm University are the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTU, the Danish Technical University, DTU, University of Turku, Finland, University of Tartu, Estonia and Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania. The aim of the network is to construct synthetic patient records for the development and evaluation of textmining tools to be used on real electronic health records as well as give PhD-courses in the area of clinical text mining.
IADIS International Conference on Web Based Communities 2009
Earlier this summer, in June, I participated in the IADIS conference on Web Based Communities, part of the IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems 2009. The conference was held in Algarve, Portugal. I presented a paper titled “The Use of an Online Health Community on Overweight: A Member Perspective”. I was also committee member of the IADIS conference on e-Health, a conference that took place in parallel with the one on Web Based Communities.
The conference was truly a nice experience. It was inspiring to meet so many people interested in the development of online communities. Social aspects, issues of trust, learning, services and health were elaborated on during the days of the conference. One evening was also dedicated for some local culture events.
Value Modeling in Healthcare
Erik Perjons and I have written an article on value modeling in healthcare, which was published in Healthcare IT Management, which is the official journal of the European Association of Healthcare IT Managers. The journal has a wide audience and is distributed in about 30,000 copies.
Abstract
Politicians, health care managers, and systems designers need new instruments for managing the complexity of today’s health care systems. One of the most promising instruments is a recent enterprise modelling technique called value models. A value model is a graphical representation of a network of cooperating actors that together create value through resource exchanges and transformations. Value models have their origin in commercial contexts, where they have been used for analysing the economic viability of networks and their participants. Value models can be extended to cater for the special requirements of health care networks, thereby facilitating the design of new forms of collaboration in healthcare as well as innovative health care services.
Seminarium – Smartare kunskapssökning i journalen, Karolinska institutet, Huddinge, 13 maj 2009, kl 09.00-10.30
Tid: Onsdagen 13 maj kl 9-10.30
Plats: CeFam – Alfred Nobels allé 12, Flemingsberg, (rummet bredvid lunchrummet, plan 5)
Smartare kunskapssökning i journalen, Hercules Dalianis, Martin Hassel och Sumithra Velupillai
Vi kommer att beskriva en del av Stockholm EPR-korpus som består av över en miljon patientjournaler från 2 000 kliniker från Stockholm läns landsting, ur ett textlingvistiskt perspektiv. Vidare kommer vi att presentera några
preliminära resultat från experiment utförda på journaltexterna:
1) En annoteringsstandard och guldstandard för att kunna avidentifiera journalerna
2) Automatisk ICD-10 kodtilldelning (och validering av ICD-10 kodtilldelning) av journaltext.
3) Ett utforsknings- och hypotesgenereringsexperiment baserat på textklustringsverktyget Infomat, utförda på journaler från geriatriska kliniker.
Nyheter Centrum för Hälsoinformatik, Karolinska institutet
Planeringsansökan med titeln Avidentifierad PatientKorpus (APK) till Vetenskapsrådet.
Syftet med planeringsprojektet med titeln Avidentifierad PatientKorpus (APK) är att tillgängliggöra en stor databas med över en miljon patientjournaler från Stockholm från åren 2006, 2007 och 2008 från över 2 000 kliniker från Stockholms läns landsting. Patientjournalerna innehåller både strukturerade data såsom kön, ålder, besökstider, diagnoskoder och läkemedel för patienterna men också löpande fritext, vilket är den största delen av journalen. Journalerna är skrivna på svenska av klinisk personal. Vi kallar denna databas för Stockholm EPR Corpus och det är den största kända databasen i Sverige, och kanske även i världen med patientjournaler. Vi önskar tillgängliggöra Stockholm EPR Corpus till en vidare grupp forskare inom medicin, hälsoinformatik, epidemiologi samt språkteknologi. Inom epidiomologi finns det möjlighet att direkt koppla individer i epidemiologiska register (tex Svenska Barncancerregistret och det Svenska tvillingregistret) med motsvarande patient i en patientjournal, men också att koppla biobanker direkt till klinisk data och på så sätt få ytterligare värdefull information för forskningen. Stockholm EPR-Korpus är också värdefull för språkteknologer som utvecklar så kallade textbrytningsverktyg för att kunna hitta nya och dolda samband mellan symptom, diagnoser, behandling, biverkningar i både den fria texten och i de strukturerade delarna av texten.
Patientjournalerna i Stockholm EPR-Korpus är avidentifierade med avseende på namn och personnummer, men innehåller fortfarande information, bland annat i fritextfältet, som skulle kunna identifiera patienterna. Det är etiskt mycket viktigt att denna information aldrig kommer ut och vi kommer därför att med hjälp av våra avidentifieringsverktyg avidentifiera texten innan Stockholm EPR Corpus görs tillgänglig. En fråga som då automatiskt dyker upp är hur mycket ska avidentifieras för att texterna ska kunna vara användbara samtidigt som vi behåller patientsekretessen detta mått måste räknas fram inom ramen för detta projekt. Vi kommer inom projektets ram även ta fram definitioner och riktlinjer för hur man kan skapa en avidentifierad patientkorpus.
Mina medsökande är Dr. Martin Hassel, Dr. Anette Hulth, Smittskyddsinstitutet och Professor Gunnar Nilsson, Karolinska institutet.
Presentation on eHealth by Monica Winge
Monica Winge from Vinnova talked today about challenges and opportunities in e-health. One of the main challenges in today’s health care is to realise patient centered work processes. This is a complex task as many different care providers need to cooperate. IT systems and services could be a major enabler for this purpose, but still they are insufficient as they are often based on the care provider’s organisational views and not the needs of the patient.
Monica Winge has worked for a number of years at Karolinska Institutet, and she is presently at Vinnova. Monica has been the project leader of several e-health projects. She has been elected as one of “the 25 most powerful people in e-health in Sweden“.
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