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Netherlands and SNOMED. Up-date on status and plans for selecting terminologies for the eHealth infrastructure Hans Haveman Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sports Workshop Health terminologies Brussel, 08-11-2006. Netherlands and SNOMED. Implementation in the Netherlands
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Netherlands and SNOMED • Up-date on status and plans for selecting terminologies for the eHealth infrastructure • Hans Haveman • Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sports • Workshop Health terminologies • Brussel, 08-11-2006
Netherlands and SNOMED • Implementation in the Netherlands • Infrastructure for data exchange • Incremental development of the EHR • First applications: • Electronic Medication Record • Electronic General Practitioner’s Record (a summary of patients history for the locum) • BUT THEN ……… TERMINOLOGY
Netherlands and SNOMED Political issues • International discussion • role of the government in standardization • Implementation driven Organizational issues • Participating, consequences Practical issues • Benefits, some experiences with part of SNOMED.
Netherlands and SNOMED • Discussion and commitment: • Standardization organisation (NEN) • Academic world • Scientific organization of medical specialists • Decisionmakers in healthcare
Netherlands and SNOMED • Proposal to the steeringcommittee on ICT and innovation • Participating in SSDO • Planning the organizational process • Planning the content process Decision: programme in the steeringcommittee
Netherlands and SNOMED • Pragmatical approach: • Organizational matters • Partial translation • Exercise with mapping in different fields • Build up experience Cost: license and programme
Netherlands and SNOMED • Experience should shown: • The benefits and in which extension • Relation with other classifications • Further effects if SNOMED is succesful Conclusion: a good choice, but the proof is in the future