The use of a compliant EHR when providing clinical pathway driven care to a subset of diabetic patients: recommendation from a Working Group.

The Belgian National Health Insurance Institute (NHII) and other Healthcare Authorities intend to improve the quality of care through promoting clinical pathway driven care and by optimising cooperation between the responsible primary care physician and the diabetologist. Patients and healthcare professionals are granted some (financial) benefits when meeting the conditions defined in a mutual agreement.This article describes the conditions and the functional requirements to be met by an EHR to enable and to maximise the benefits of a clinical pathway driven patient care to a specific group of diabetic type 2 patients, based on a mandate issued by the NHII.The generic and specific functional requirements are then translated in test criteria for certification and prioritised in an implementation plan.

The European Institute for Innovation through Health Data.

The European Institute for Innovation through Health Data (i~HD, www.i-hd.eu) has been formed as one of the key sustainable entities arising from the Electronic Health Records for Clinical Research (IMI-JU-115189) and SemanticHealthNet (FP7-288408) projects, in collaboration with several other European projects and initiatives supported by the European Commission. i~HD is a European not-for-profit body, registered in Belgium through Royal Assent. i~HD has been established to tackle areas of challenge in the successful scaling up of innovations that critically rely on high-quality and interoperable health data. It will specifically address obstacles and opportunities to using health data by collating, developing, and promoting best practices in information governance and in semantic interoperability. It will help to sustain and propagate the results of health information and communication technology (ICT) research that enables better use of health data, assessing and optimizing their novel value wherever possible. i~HD has been formed after wide consultation and engagement of many stakeholders to develop methods, solutions, and services that can help to maximize the value obtained by all stakeholders from health data. It will support innovations in health maintenance, health care delivery, and knowledge discovery while ensuring compliance with all legal prerequisites, especially regarding the insurance of patient's privacy protection. It is bringing multiple stakeholder groups together so as to ensure that future solutions serve their collective needs and can be readily adopted affordably and at scale.

Test-based E-Learning: a new path in training medical students.

TENDO is a project conducted by the Department of Medical Informatics and Statistics of the Ghent University in the field of E-Learning and more specifically E-Testing (Electronic, on line testing). At this stage, the main goal of Tendo is to measure the knowledge of (medical) students making use of the Internet. The on line Tendo E-Testing tool has been used to examine students of the 4th year studying Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation. The aim of this document is to give an overview of the features of E-Testing and more specifically of the Tendo product.