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23/09/2006
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Telematics: The “Backbone” of Multi-Sector Cooperation
Since its launch in 1998 MEDICA MEDIA has firmly established itself as a multi-discipline and application-orientated information and communication forum held within the scope of the world’s largest medical fair, MEDICA, which is staged every year in Düsseldorf.
In space, which has now increased to around 700 m2, the "Medical Information Systems and Telemedicine" Special Show in Hall 16 held during MEDICA (15 to 18 November 2006), will once again present the highly diverse possibilities of telematic applications in the health care service in the form of special presentations, lectures and workshops.
The main themes to be covered at MEDICA MEDIA 2006 are the necessary changes in IT infrastructures at general practitioners’ (GP) surgeries against the background of the introduction of the electronic health card, available information on user-oriented cooperation between individual specialist medical disciplines, an optimization of the patient’s ”workflow” using eHealth through multi-sector cooperation as well as the know-how and technology transfer between research, business and practical medical applications.
The urgent necessity for information packages such as those offered at MEDICA MEDIA and also the topicality of this year’s theme groups is impressively underlined by the results of the comprehensive “Monitoring eHealth Germany 2005/ 2006” study conducted by Wegweiser GmbH (Berlin) in cooperation with leading business and sector associations such as for example the BDI, ZVEI and BITKOM. According to this study, relevant decision-makers describe the state of the IT infrastructure at 80 percent of their hospitals and health schemes as worthy of improvement in future. Nevertheless a still considerable level, namely 20 percent of GPs with their own surgeries, even stated that they could not access the Internet at all from their surgeries.
On this basis of, and compared to, previous years, in the run-up to MEDICA 2006, the interest in information expressed by the specialist medical trade can be assessed as high and the investment climate for medical information and communication technology as relatively positive.
Exciting questions on new IT solutions for the health service will once again be among the themes covered by experts’ discussions and user reports based on practical clinical applications at the MEDICA meet.IT user forum held as part of MEDICA. The forum, arranged by trade association VHitG in cooperation with Messe Düsseldorf, will this year be located in Hall 15.
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(Informationsquelle: Medica.de)
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