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Assessing the Prognoses on Health Care in the Information Society 2013 - Thirteen Years After

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Health care and information technology in health care is advancing at tremendous speed. We analysed whether the prognoses by Haux et al. - first presented in 2000 and published in 2002 [1] - have been fulfilled in 2013 and which might be the reasons for match or mismatch. Twenty international experts in biomedical and health informatics met in May 2013 in a workshop to discuss match or mismatch of each of the 71 prognoses. After this meeting a web-based survey among workshop participants took place. Thirty-three prognoses were assessed matching; they reflect e.g. that there is good progress in storing patient data electronically in health care institutions. Twenty-three prognoses were assessed mismatching; they reflect e.g. that telemedicine and home monitoring as well as electronic exchange of patient data between institutions is not established as widespread as expected. Fifteen prognoses were assessed neither matching nor mismatching. ICT tools have considerably influenced health care in the last decade, but in many cases not as far as it was expected by Haux et al. in 2002. In most cases this is not a matter of the availability of technical solutions but of organizational and ethical issues. We need innovative and modern information system architectures which support multiple use of data for patient care as well as for research and reporting and which are able to integrate data from home monitoring into a patient centered health record. Since innovative technology is available the efficient and wide-spread use in health care has to be enabled by systematic information management.

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  1. University of Heidelberg, Institute for Medical Biometry and Informatics, Heidelberg, Germany

    Petra Knaup

  2. UMIT, Institute of Biomedical Informatics, Hall in Tirol, Austria

    Elske Ammenwerth

  3. Promedtheus AG, Erkelenz, Germany

    Carl Dujat

  4. Research Group Collaborative Research for Effective Diagnostics, University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada

    Andrew Grant

  5. Department of Medical Informatics, Academic Medical Center (AMC), University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Arie Hasman

  6. Department of Health Services Research, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany

    Andreas Hein

  7. Department of General Internal and Psychosomatic Medicine, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

    Achim Hochlehnert

  8. Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA

    Casimir Kulikowski

  9. Health Informatics Laboratory, National and Kapodastrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

    John Mantas

  10. Biomedical Informatics Group, Polytechnic University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    Victor Maojo

  11. Institute of Technology - and Hannover Medical School, Peter L. Reichertz Institute for Medical Informatics, University of Braunschweig, Hannover, Germany

    Michael Marschollek

  12. Assis Moura eHealth, Porto Alegre, Brazil

    Lincoln Moura

  13. BITZ, Center of Informatics and Technology, Braunschweig, Germany

    Maik Plischke

  14. Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Medical Informatics in Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Gießen, Germany

    Rainer Röhrig

  15. Institute of Medical Information Processing, Biometry and Epidemiology, Ludwig-Maximilians, University of Munich, Munich, Germany

    Jürgen Stausberg

  16. Division of Medical Informatics and Management, Chiba University Hospital, Chiba, Japan

    Katsuhiko Takabayashi

  17. Institute for Medial Biometry, Epidemiology and Informatics, University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany

    Frank Ückert

  18. Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

    Alfred Winter

  19. Institute of Technology - and Hannover Medical School, Peter L. Reichertz Institute for Medical Informatics, University of Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany

    Klaus-Hendrik Wolf & Reinhold Haux

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Knaup, P., Ammenwerth, E., Dujat, C. et al. Assessing the Prognoses on Health Care in the Information Society 2013 - Thirteen Years After. J Med Syst 38, 73 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-014-0073-6

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