ePrescribing & Medication Management
Improving patient safety and healthcare efficiency by implementing interoperable ePrescribing services across Europe and worldwide

MONDAY 19 JUNE 2006

09:30 – 10:30	Opening Session Chairs: Mats Larson (EHTEL), Marjan Suselj (ZZZS)
09:30 - 09:40	Welcome by the European Health Telematics Association (EHTEL) Mats Larson, President of EHTEL
09:40 - 09:55	Welcome by the Ministry of Health, Republic of Slovenia Dorjan Marušic, State Secretary of the Ministry of Health
09:55 - 10:10	Welcome by the Health Insurance Institute of Slovenia (ZZZS) Borut Miklavcic, Director General of the ZZZS
10:10 - 10:30	Welcome Statement by the European Commission: State of eHealth in Europe - Perspectives for ePrescribing Flora Giorgio-Gerlach, European Commission, DG INFSO
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:45	ePrescribing: An essential eHealth service emerging throughout Europe Chair: Ib Johanson, Denmark; Ivana Silva, PGEU
11:00 - 11:20	Perspectives for ePrescribing: Enhancing Patient Safety and Reducing Medical Errors Marko Bitenc, Vice President of the Standing Committee of European Doctors (CPME)
11:20 - 11:40	Implementing ePrescribing: motivating health professionals Bengt Åstrand, Pharmaceutical Group of the European Union (PGEU)
11:40 - 12:00	Medication in Europe: Perspectives for ePrescribing and other innovative services Laurent Brassart, European Medicines Agency (EMEA)
12:00 - 12:20	State of ePrescribing across Europe and worldwide: Strategies and Implementations Stephan Schug, EHTEL Manager, WP4-Leader, i2-Health-Project
12:30 - 12:45	Discussion and Summing Up
12:45 - 13:45	Lunch
13:45 – 15:00	ePrescribing & Medication Management: Services and Processes in Healthcare and their equivalents in the Digital world Chair: Stephan Schug, EHTEL
13:45 - 14:05	Seven key Prescribing elements and their digital counterparts Dirk Broeckx, Association of Belgian Pharmacists (APB), Belgium
14:05 - 14:25	Functional requirements for prescription support systems - a new ISO model Gunnar Klein Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
14:25 - 14:45	Delivering Medicines instead of Bits and Bytes: State of Semantic interoperability and uniform medicine naming Robert Jakob, World Health Organisation (WHO)
14:45 - 15:00	Discussion and Summing Up
15:00 - 15:15	Coffee Break (and setup of the parallel sessions)

15:15 - 18:15	Parallel Session A Architectures, Methods, Standards and Tools for ePrescribing and Medication Management and their Implementation Chair: Jaqueline Surugue, EAHP; Karl Stroetmann, empirica
15:15 - 15:20	Introduction by the Chair of the Thematic Session
15:20 - 15:40	Messages and drug master files in hospital e-prescriptions Simon Letellier, Association Phast, France
15:40 - 16:00	Electronic Prescribing and Eligibility System in Northern Ireland - a system based on lessons learned in Europe Patrick M. Davis, Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety, Northern Ireland
16:00 - 16:20	Progress on ePrescribing in the Region of Lombardia, Italy Carlo Leonardi, Region of Lombardia, Italy
16:20 - 16:40	Coffee Break
16:40 - 17:00	ePrescribing implementation in Sweden Sten-Erik Öhlund, Sweden
17:00 - 17:20	Electronic Prescribing in Portugal Fernando Costa Freire, President of Consiste Portugal
17:20 - 17:40	A Finnish national medication information database - functionalities and beneficiaries Lauri Salmivalli (1), Mikko Leino (2), (1) Turku School of Economics and Business Administration, Finland;, (2) Mediweb, Finland
17:40 - 18:00	Electronic Prescribing in the Region of Andalucia, Spain María José Piña Vera. Junta de Andalucia, Spain
18:00 - 18:15	Joint Discussion and Summing Up

15:15 - 18:15	Parallel Session B Medication Records and Informed ePrescribing: Integrating eMedication into health services and networked eHealth systems Chair: Hannele Hypponen, STAKES; Ivana Silva, PGEU
15:15 - 15:20	Introduction by the Chair of the Thematic Session
15:20 - 15:40	IT-Programme for contra-indication alerts and e-prescribing in The Netherlands Michael Tan, National Institute for ICT in Healthcare (NICTIZ), The Netherlands
15:40 - 16:00	Electronic Medication Profiles in Germany's Healthcare System - Today and in the Future Katja Förster, Association of German Pharmacists (ABDA), Germany
16:00 - 16:20	Dossier Pharmaceutique - The approach to Medication Records in France Isabelle Adenot, Conseil Central A de l'Ordre des Pharmaciens de France
16:20 - 16:40	Coffee Break
16:40 - 17:00	Medication Records and ePrescribing in Denmark: The Danish National Medication Database Ib Johanson, MedCom, Denmark
17:00 - 17:20	Medication Records in Slovenia: Expectation and Needs of Physicians Martin Možina, Slovene Chamber of Physicians
17:20 - 17:40	Medication Records and ePrescribing in Sweden Bengt Åstrand, Apoteket AB, Sweden
17:40 - 18:15	Joint Discussion and Summing Up

TUESDAY 20 JUNE 2006

09:00 – 10:15	Medication Records in Slovenia: An initial Assessment Chair: Marjan Suselj, Slovenia; Martin Možina, Slovenia
09:00 - 09:15	Medication Cost Containment in Slovenia and Informatics Jurij Fuerst, Head, Department for Medicines, Health Insurance Institute of Slovenia
09:15 - 09:30	Recording of medication on the HIC - initial experiences from the national level roll-out in Slovenia Martina Zorko, Project Manager, Health Insurance Institute of Slovenia
09:30 - 09:45	Recording of medication on the HIC - Initial experience of General Practitioners Nena Kopcavar Gucek, Seat of Family Health Care, Ljubljana, Slovenia
09:45 - 10:00	Recording of medication on the HIC - user acceptance Eric Renko, Mediana, Slovenia
10:00 - 10:15	Joint Discussion and Summing Up
10:15 - 10:45	Coffee Break

10:45 - 12:15	Parallel Session C Cross-linking National Implementations and European Policies: What has to be achieved on a European Level Chair: Dirk Broeckx, Belgium; Marc Lange, EHTEL
10:45 - 10:50	Introduction by the Chair of the Thematic Session
10:50 - 11:15	The European Legal Framework for Transborder Medication Distribution and Data processing Christian Dierks, Dierks & Bohle, Attorneys, Germany
11:15 - 11:40	The National implementation strategy for Sweden Karina Tellinger, for the Ministry of Health, Sweden
11:40 - 12:05	Comparison of National implementation strategies in Finland and Sweden Hanneli Hypponen, National Research and Development Centre for Welfare and Health (STAKES), Finland
12:05 - 12:15	Joint Discussion and Summing Up

10:45 - 12:15	Parallel Session D Improving Patient Safety and Quality Gains in Practice: What evidence is available and what are the success factors? Chair: Lisette Tiddens-Engwirda
10:45 - 10:50	Introduction by the Chairs of the Thematic Session
10:50 - 11:15	Implementation of drug medication process in secondary care in France Franck Gener, Association Phast, France
11:15 - 11:40	How is available medicines information used in practice Jens Parker, General Practitioner, Denmark
11:40 - 12:05	Outcomes of ePrescribing implementations: Selected Results from the eHealth-Impact Study Karl Stroetmann, empirica, Germany
12:05 - 12:15	Joint Discussion and Summing Up

12:15 - 13:15

Lunch

13:15 - 14:45

Open Forum for Stakeholder Perspectives on ePrescribing Chairs: Karina Tellinger, Sweden; Stephan Schug, EHTEL

14:45 - 15:00

Closing of the Conference: First Recommendations in support of ePrescribing & Medication Management in Europe Mats Larson, EHTEL; Marjan Suselj (ZZZS)

15:00

End of the International EHTEL Conference