Montenegrin Digital Academic Innovation Hub: Experience in Supporting Digital Health Innovations.

Montenegrin Digital Academic Innovation Hub established within Erasmus+ project DigNEST is essential institutional support for developing innovations in the field of health in academic-business cooperation and partnership. Experience of 18 months in running Hub service provides preliminary results in analysis received innovation ideas, provided support and potentials/capacities in medical informatics advancements at national, regional and global level.

The User, the Watch, and the Bestseller: Study on the Utilization of Smart Medical Wearables and Their User Manuals.

In this paper, we present a study on the utilization of smart medical wearables and the user manuals of such devices. A total of 342 individuals provided input for 18 questions that address user behavior in the investigated context and the connections between various assessments and preferences. The presented work clusters individuals based on their professional relation to user manuals and analyzes the obtained results separately for these groups.

Health Informatics Training Programs to Strengthen Health Workforce in Montenegro.

Health informatics plays a crucial role in modern healthcare provision. Training and continuous education are essential to bolster the healthcare workforce on health informatics. In this work, we present the training events within EU-funded DigNest project. The aim of the training events, the subjects offered, and the overall evaluation of the results are described in this paper.

Montenegrin Digital Academic Innovation Hub: Supporting Digital Education, Business and Innovations in Medical Informatics.

This poster presents a Montenegrin Digital Academic Innovation Hub aimed to support education, innovations, and academia-business cooperation in medical informatics (as one of four priority areas) at national level in Montenegro. The Hub topology and its organisation in the form of two main nodes, with services established within key pillars: Digital Education; Digital Business Support; Innovations and cooperation with industry; and Employment support.

Cybersecurity Challenges in Healthcare.

Cyber security attacks evidence has shown that many sectors and industries are still at an insufficient level of readiness to counter these threats, including healthcare organizations and the entire healthcare industry. The COVID-19 pandemic has additionally launched the issue of cyber protection of healthcare systems and connected medical and other devices as well as modern IT components, which are often the entry point for attackers against healthcare organizations. With the aim of a systematic approach to cyber security in healthcare organizations, this article comprehensively presents cyber risks and possible consequences of attacks in the context of healthcare organization services, as well as identifies the five most important cyber security challenges and provides recommendations for establishing protection mechanisms in line with best practices.

AI Enhanced Person-Centred Care Services for Monitoring Stroke Outpatient Rehabilitation.

Development of person-centred care (PCC) services require adjustment to specific domain of application and integration with existing processes implemented in healthcare institution. This poster present PCC services for monitoring stroke outpatient rehabilitation, enhanced by modern ICT technologies (thus enabling adjustments to different kind of patients, which is especially relevant due to potential consequences of the stroke and caused degree of disability).

Digital Entrepreneurial Nest: Supporting Digitization of Healthcare at National Level in Montenegro.

Health and health systems are not excluded from the influence of digitalization. In Montenegro, regarding the digitization process, when compared to other sectors, the health sector is lagging. In this poster presentation, we present an ambitious Erasmus+ DigN€ST project aimed on modernization of digitalization of healthcare system in Montenegro, as one of priority fields at national level.

Information Technology and Information Management in Healthcare.

Recent decades made a change in health care by putting health information as a core asset for effective management and improved quality of care. That is a reason why applications of information technology in health and healthcare attract more attention by healthcare organisations with highly skilled health information management professionals having an active role in the effective maintenance of organized and accurate electronic healthcare data. Also, widely adopted standards and principles of healthcare information governance are essential in efforts to reach a compromise of shared data, information and knowledge in the interoperable, electronic healthcare information sharing environment.

Multidisciplinary Approach for Education in Healthcare Management: Case Study from Montenegro.

Modern education of healthcare managers is one of key preconditions in making reforms towards increasing quality of care and making the provision of health services more cost-effective and efficient. This paper presents unique multidisciplinary approach for education of healthcare managers developed and accredited in Montenegro with elaboration results of the first year of its implementation. The results confirm the interest of experts of different profiles in multidisciplinary studies, as well as the optimality in using resources at national level in Montenegro.

Model Driven Approach for Development of Person-Centred Care in Stroke Rehabilitation.

Person-centred care is known as a novel approach which contributes to wellbeing, prevention, care and support of patients. There is little evidence about practising PCC in stroke rehabilitation. In this paper, we develop a novel framework for creation of person-centred services for stroke rehabilitation which supports service configuration adapted to the requirements of each patient. The framework is elaborated over evidence from neurology department of Clinical Centre in Montenegro.

The National Star Model of Medical Informatics Education in Montenegro.

Nowadays, medical informatics is unavoidable topic when talking about health innovations and modern practice. Education of professionals in medical informatics is a challenging issue since they need to be capable to respond to challenges of modern health care systems, heterogeneous health information systems with integrated devices and remote access/controls, rapid development of both technology and the character of applications, etc. However, variety of medical informatics educational programs are established all over the world, and there is no general approach that shall be followed and applied. This paper presents key findings and results of comprehensive review and analyses of well-known EU best practices in medical informatics education, on which bases innovative star model is created for educational system in medical informatics at national level.

A Framework for Enhancing and Updating Study Programs in Public Health and Medical Informatics Fields in Montenegro.

Montenegro plans to enhance and modernize the curricula and programs in public health fields in line with EU standards and hence the Erasmus-Phelim project developed a framework to develop, implement, and evaluate the education process. A stepwise approach consisting of three dimensions per step was implemented for workshop development. For the evaluation, a train-the-trainer approach was developed and a self-regulation concept consisting of three phases was applied. Semi-structured interviews with the workshop participants were conducted and results suggested that self-regulation is an understandable concept and can be applied as a training and knowledge transfer method.

The Stratified Framework for Enhancement of Study Programs in Public Health in Montenegro.

Montenegro plans to enhance its educational system in the area of health information management, in accordance with well-known EU best practices. Within the Erasmus+ project PH-ELIM, a Stratified Framework was developed to provide education of public health professionals making them highly skilled to support the nation in creating a sustainable and flexible health system, in providing good quality health, in protecting citizens against health threats, all by a cost-effective and straightforward approach. The objective of this presentation is to present the intermediate results of the Framework and lessons learned until now.