Challenges and Issues in Health Care Information Management

28 April 2010, Brussels, Belgium.
The European FP7 Research Project DebugIT "Detecting and Eliminating Bacteria UsinG Information Technology" is delivering first results. It has developed an interoperability platform using Semantic Web technologies, a virtual clinical data repository pooling data from several hospitals in different European countries using a core ontology, a sophisticated datamining infrastructure and a comprehensive and interconnected knowledge repository and authoring tool.

DebugIT coordinator, Dr. Dirk Colaert of Agfa HealthCare, will give a presentation at a DAMA BeLux Event on "Challenges and Issues in Health Care Information Management", on Wednesday, 28 April 2010, 13:00 to 18:00, Avenue de Tervueren 211, Brussels, hosted by RIZIV / INAMI. The topic of his talk is "Scaling out the Healthcare Enterprise To support Regional E-health".

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