September 12, 2006

Welcome on the on-line Q-REC EHR Tutorials

Abstract: The EHR Tutorials will aim to reach all those who should be made aware of the benefits of European quality labelling and certification services for Electronic Health Record (EHR) system products and who can or are likely to influence the uptake of such new services.

Such interest groups or stakeholders will include:

  • industry/vendors;
  • purchasers and policy makers (healthcare providers and authorities, hospitals);
  • end users (physicians and other health professionals, patients/citizens).

BookThe central messsage of the Tutorials will be about the quality labelling and certification of EHR systems products as meeting a set of prescribed criteria for functionality, interoperability and security or other standards based criteria. The aim will be to communicate to the different stakeholders an appreciation of what this process involves and enable them to learn of the potential impact of this and of the potential benefits to them.

 

The Tutorials are structured on the basis of 4 Modules.

MODULE 1:
The Development and Rationale for EHR Certification
Is aimed at all stakeholders.
MODULE 2:
About Electronic Health Records (EHRs)
Is expected to have different levels of learning interest amongst the various stakeholders.
MODULE 3:
Certification of EHRs
Is also likely to have different levels of learning interest depending on who is the stakeholder.
This module contains information on key learning points for different stakeholder groups about what quality labelling and certification of EHRs could mean for them.
MODULE 4:
European EHR Certification Initiative - The QREC project
Contains a range of learning information about the work of QREC, its objectives and expected outcomes. The material can be ’tailored’ for presentation to different levels of learning interest.
 
LabelIn addition to the general content of the Tutorials, it will also be possible to add content and emphasis later for different stakeholders as outlined above. The Pan European Assay currently under way under the QREC project will also contribute to this. The objective of the assay is to identify and describe all possible requirements amongst stakeholders across Europe related to EHR quality labelling and/or certification systems, using web-based questionnaires (with feedbacks). Hopefully, the responses to this assay will also provide information which can be drawn upon to refine the content of the Tutorials to meet different levels of learning requirement.

Tutorials will be delivered through a variety of means and formats:

  • Workshops/seminars and conference sessions,
  • Forum discussions,
  • eLearning and web based tools.