ehealth bulletin june 2011
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LAUNCH OF THE ICN EHEALTH PROGRAMME<br />
ICN announced the launch of a new ICN<br />
eHealth Programme in May <strong>2011</strong>. This new<br />
programme encompasses the International<br />
Classification for Nursing Practice (ICNP ® ),<br />
the ICN Telenursing Network and other<br />
eHealth related ICN activities. The<br />
programme’s strategic vision is to transform<br />
nursing through the application of<br />
information and communication technology.<br />
The goals of the programme are (a) to<br />
support eHealth practice, (b) to have ICN<br />
recognised as an authority on eHealth, and<br />
(c) to have ICN positioned centrally in the<br />
eHealth Community. Specific programme<br />
goals address technology, professional<br />
practice and business processes,<br />
respectively.<br />
A new Strategic Advisory Group was formed,<br />
with its first meeting planned for September<br />
<strong>2011</strong> in Geneva. The ICN eHealth team is<br />
responsible for continuing the day-to-day<br />
work that advances projects, product<br />
development and information dissemination<br />
worldwide related to eHealth, including<br />
ICNP, the ICN Telenursing Network, and<br />
other related entities. The team consists of<br />
Nicholas Hardiker (Director eHealth<br />
Programme), Amy Coenen (ICNP<br />
Programme Director), Claudia Bartz<br />
(Programme Coordinator), Kay Jansen<br />
(Terminology Manager), Tae Youn Kim<br />
(Research Associate) and Amy Amherdt<br />
(Administrative Specialist).<br />
N° 1 June <strong>2011</strong><br />
A press release for the ICN eHealth<br />
Programme during the ICN Conference in<br />
Malta (4-7 May <strong>2011</strong>) notified organisations<br />
and individuals about the new programme<br />
and the news was further disseminated via<br />
informational products and conference<br />
sessions. The one-page information<br />
documents briefly describe the eHealth<br />
Programme, ICNP, C-Space and the<br />
Telenursing Network. The ICN eHealth<br />
Programme will collaborate with other ICN<br />
programmes, ICN member associations and<br />
with global eHealth organisations and<br />
programmes to advance the vision and<br />
goals of the programme.<br />
www.icn.ch/images/stories/documents/news<br />
/press_releases/<strong>2011</strong>_PR_06_ICN_New_e<br />
Health_Programme.pdf<br />
IN THIS ISSUE<br />
Launch of the ICN eHealth Programme<br />
ICN Conference in Malta<br />
ICNP <strong>2011</strong><br />
Spanish and CIPE (ICNP)<br />
C-Space<br />
ICN Core Data Sets<br />
ICN & International Health Information<br />
Standards<br />
ACENDIO <strong>2011</strong>, Madeira Portugal<br />
Global ICT Programmes<br />
HIFA 2015: A Global Campaign<br />
Conference Announcements<br />
eHealth Contact<br />
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ICN CONFERENCE IN MALTA<br />
About 2000 nurses met in Malta for the ICN<br />
Conference (4-7 May <strong>2011</strong>), “Nurses Driving<br />
Access, Quality and Health.” The Council of<br />
National Representatives held their<br />
business meeting 2-4 May <strong>2011</strong>.<br />
The ICN Telenursing Network held its<br />
second biennial meeting in Malta. Jennifer<br />
Chipps (South Africa), a Network Advisory<br />
Group member, provided a presentation<br />
about her efforts and accomplishments<br />
related to telenursing. The session allowed<br />
for networking among the participants and<br />
discussion of the ICN draft Position<br />
Statement on Telenursing. Anyone<br />
interested in participating in the Position<br />
Statement should contact Claudia Bartz<br />
(cbartz@uwm.edu). A main session on<br />
Tel<strong>ehealth</strong> was also held to inform<br />
participants about telenursing strategies and<br />
outcomes around the world. Speakers<br />
included Pirkko Kouri (Finland) and Angela<br />
Single (UK).<br />
The ICN-accredited ICNP Research and<br />
Development Centres Consortium held its<br />
fourth biennial meeting at the Grand Hotel<br />
Excelsior in Malta. About 35 people<br />
attended this meeting where seven of the<br />
nine Centre Directors, or their designees,<br />
presented information about their Centres.<br />
There was an enthusiastic discussion of<br />
how ICN Core Data Sets might be advanced<br />
through the Centres as well as how the<br />
Centres could collaborate on research and<br />
development, and use C-Space, to continue<br />
to implement and test the application of<br />
ICNP in care delivery settings.<br />
A Conference main session included<br />
presentations about the new ICN eHealth<br />
Programme and ICNP <strong>2011</strong> release (Nick<br />
Hardiker, UK); an example of ICNP EHR<br />
application from the vendor’s perspective<br />
(Ana Alves from ALERT, Portugal);<br />
considerations for policy and practice in an<br />
eHealth context (Kathy Mølstad, Norway);<br />
and the vision and reality of nurses working<br />
to translate and implement ICNP in care<br />
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delivery settings (Dorota Kilanska and Beata<br />
Dobrowolska, Poland).<br />
In addition, there were a number of peerreviewed<br />
papers and posters presented that<br />
described nurses’ involvement with ICNP<br />
and tel<strong>ehealth</strong>. These provided exciting<br />
evidence of the importance of eHealth in<br />
nursing today. The next ICN Congress will<br />
be held in Melbourne Australia in 2013.<br />
Dorota Kilanska, Kathy Mølstad, Julita Sansoni,<br />
Ana Alves, & Nicholas Hardiker<br />
ICNP <strong>2011</strong><br />
The next version of ICN’s terminology for<br />
nursing, ICNP <strong>2011</strong>, was released on 4 May<br />
<strong>2011</strong> at the ICN conference in Malta.<br />
Version <strong>2011</strong>, with a total of 5148 concepts,<br />
includes 454 new concepts, most of which<br />
are pre-coordinated diagnoses, outcomes<br />
and interventions. The collaboration with<br />
catalogue developers, such as the Scottish<br />
Community Nursing Catalogue working<br />
group and the Canadian C-HOBIC working<br />
group, generated many new ICNP concepts.<br />
As the number of pre-coordinated ICNP<br />
statements and clinically relevant subsets<br />
continues to increase, the terminology can<br />
more easily be implemented at the point of<br />
care. The electronic version of ICNP <strong>2011</strong> is<br />
available on ICN C-Space<br />
icnp.clinicaltemplates.org/icnp/<br />
The multi-lingual browser on C-Space is<br />
intended to support translators and<br />
developers of applications. Congratulations<br />
to the German Speaking Centre and the<br />
Mandarin translator for their pre-release<br />
translations of ICNP Version <strong>2011</strong>. ICNP is
available in various formats or “views”,<br />
depending on the user’s purpose(s). The<br />
formats available for download include, for<br />
example, comma separated values (CSV),<br />
PDF and web ontology language (OWL).<br />
See the multilingual browser Press Release<br />
at<br />
www.icn.ch/images/stories/documents/news<br />
/press_releases/<strong>2011</strong>_PR_01_ICN_announ<br />
ces_multilingual_browser_for_ICNP.pdf<br />
SPANISH AND CIPE (ICNP)<br />
Submitted by Organización Colegial de<br />
Enfermería<br />
It is a great pleasure for the Spanish<br />
General Council of Nursing to present the<br />
Spanish Version 2 of the International<br />
Classification for the Nursing Practice<br />
(ICNP ® ). The development of ICNP is<br />
without doubt a major project for the<br />
advancement of nursing promoted by the<br />
International Council of Nurses. ICNP is the<br />
contribution of international nursing to a<br />
universal language of the phenomena,<br />
actions and results of nursing practice. This<br />
is an indispensable tool for nurses to<br />
communicate their clinical practice, and<br />
promote education and research in nursing.<br />
It is also an essential tool for nursing training<br />
programmes and a guide for teaching<br />
nursing process at all levels, which enables<br />
the design of digital applications and<br />
advances for recording and reporting of<br />
nursing clinical practice.<br />
The translation process has been led and<br />
coordinated by the Spanish General Council<br />
of Nursing, through CGE Studies Office staff,<br />
including: Rafael Lletget, Alina de Almeida<br />
Souza, José Luis Cobos Serrano and<br />
Jerónimo Romero-Neiva Lozano. To<br />
establish consensus with the Spanishspeaking<br />
countries, the Spanish team has<br />
benefited from the collaboration of nurses in<br />
Latin America countries. The WHO Nursing<br />
Collaborating Center at the University of<br />
Concepción, Chile has played a major role<br />
since the beginning of this translation<br />
process, coordinating the Latin-American<br />
contacts through professors Verónica Behn<br />
and Julia Ramírez.<br />
This translation work has been ongoing<br />
across ICNP versions with the participation<br />
of professors Sandra Milena Velásquez<br />
Palacio and Luz Marina Alfonso Avila<br />
(Colombia), María Virginia Hernández<br />
Alonso (México), Teresa Estela Delgado<br />
González (Uruguay) and Maria Antonia<br />
Lopez Romero (Spain). ICNP translation<br />
efforts continued with the involvement of a<br />
group of fellow nurses from Latin America<br />
studying at the Spanish General Council of<br />
Nursing: María Esperanza Niño Álvarez<br />
(Colombia), Maritza Montero de Pachón<br />
(Panama), Sandra Maely Molina Nieto<br />
(Honduras), and Socorro Zuleyma Orellana<br />
Martínez (El Salvador) led by María Marcela<br />
Castro Méndez (Costa Rica). The ICNP<br />
Version 2 translation team was integrated by<br />
the previous participants from Latin America<br />
and the inclusion of two new members,<br />
professors María Figueroa (Chile) and María<br />
Antonia López Romero.<br />
We recognise the important contribution of<br />
all participants for reviewing terms and<br />
definitions of this classification, reflecting<br />
their experience with ICNP, and assisting in<br />
the search for the best nursing terminology<br />
to be shared across speakers of Spanish.<br />
This work has been an important effort of<br />
the General Council of Nursing provided by<br />
the interest in and commitment to the<br />
advancement of nursing by its president, Dr.<br />
Máximo A. González Jurado.<br />
C-SPACE<br />
ICN C-Space can be used for asynchronous<br />
communication among groups in eHealth<br />
activities, such as the ICNP Consortium<br />
group and the Telenursing Network group.<br />
C-Space also is used for ICNP catalogue or<br />
subset work. This web-based platform<br />
validates the collaboration of clinical experts<br />
in nursing practice with the ICNP and<br />
informatics experts in various projects, such<br />
as terminology subset development. C-<br />
Space also holds the ICNP browser and<br />
multilingual translations. We are always<br />
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interested in new ideas for communication.<br />
Your suggestions for advancing C-Space<br />
are welcome! icnp.clinicaltemplates.org/<br />
ICN CORE DATA SETS<br />
A pilot test for ICN Core Data Sets (I-CDS)<br />
was completed in April <strong>2011</strong>. Using the<br />
ICNP pre-coordinated statements for<br />
nursing diagnoses, outcomes and<br />
interventions from the Palliative Care<br />
Catalogue; participants were asked to<br />
respond to an online survey. The purposes<br />
of the pilot test were to validate the<br />
diagnoses and interventions and to test the<br />
use of an online survey method for data<br />
collection. Using a snowball sampling<br />
technique, the final number of respondents<br />
was 35, representing 5 countries. Both the<br />
collection of information about the<br />
statements for palliative nursing care and<br />
the use of the online survey method were<br />
considered successful. Work is underway on<br />
the research question for the next I-CDS.<br />
Please contact the eHealth programme if<br />
you like to participate in this exciting work.<br />
ICN AND INTERNATIONAL HEALTH<br />
INFORMATION STANDARDS<br />
ICNP AND IHTSDO<br />
Work continues to map ICNP and<br />
SNOMED-CT. Plans are to incorporate<br />
ICNP <strong>2011</strong> into the NLM UMLS continuing<br />
the work started several years ago to ensure<br />
that ICNP concepts are harmonised with the<br />
UMLS structure.<br />
ICN AND WHO-FAMILY OF INTERNATIONAL<br />
CLASSIFICATIONS<br />
The WHO-FIC Family Development<br />
Committee (FDC) is continuing to develop<br />
and test the International Classification of<br />
Health Interventions (ICHI). Members of the<br />
ICNP team contribute to this work through<br />
committee participation. The 23-year<br />
experience with developing and<br />
disseminating ICNP brings substantial<br />
expertise to the WHO work. The next<br />
meeting of the FDC will be held in Sydney,<br />
Australia in July. The annual WHO-FIC<br />
conference will be held 29 October – 6<br />
November in Cape Town, South Africa.<br />
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ICN AND ISO<br />
The ISO meeting was held in Kuopio,<br />
Finland 23-27 May <strong>2011</strong>. Work continues on<br />
ISO CD 18104:<strong>2011</strong> Health Informatics:<br />
Categorial Structures for Representation of<br />
Nursing Diagnoses and Nursing Actions in<br />
Terminological Systems. This standard will<br />
replace the 18104:2003 Health Informatics:<br />
Integration of a Reference Terminology for<br />
Nursing. While the models for nursing<br />
diagnoses and nursing actions are<br />
somewhat different between the 2003 and<br />
<strong>2011</strong> standards, the goal of the nursing<br />
working group has always been to clarify<br />
and make explicit the representation of<br />
diagnoses and actions. Existing nursing<br />
terminologies will continue to be in<br />
compliance with the proposed draft. This<br />
new standard was developed in response to<br />
the ISO requirement for regular and<br />
systematic review of standards. Since ISO is<br />
a country-membership organisation, any<br />
comments on the current draft standard (or<br />
any other standard in-progress) should be<br />
sent to the ISO Secretariat on the ISO<br />
Comment Form, via the ISO Technical<br />
Advisory Group of the country in which the<br />
respondent resides.<br />
ACIENDO <strong>2011</strong>, MADEIRA PORTUGAL<br />
Submitted by Kathy Mølstad,<br />
Secretary/Member of the Board of<br />
ACENDIO<br />
Nurses throughout Europe need to be able<br />
to share and compare information about<br />
practice in order to research and improve<br />
care, to manage nursing resources<br />
effectively and to ensure that nursing is<br />
visible in local, national and European<br />
policy. On the 25-26 March <strong>2011</strong>, the<br />
Association for Common European Nursing<br />
Diagnoses, Interventions and Outcomes<br />
celebrated its eighth European Conference<br />
under the title eHealth and Nursing –<br />
Opportunities for better nursing care. How<br />
can e-Health promote patient safety?<br />
Important speakers attended and shared<br />
with the participants their experience and<br />
knowledge about eHealth and Nursing,
Standardisation, Cross-Border Electronic<br />
Health Records, and the Nurse's Role in<br />
Creating a Safe Environment for Patients.<br />
Keynote speakers included Heimar Marin,<br />
Abel Avelino de Paiva e Silva, Amy Coenen<br />
and Linda Aiken. The next conference will<br />
be in Dublin in March 2013.<br />
GLOBAL ICT PROGRAMMES<br />
Millennia 2015 - Women and eHealth<br />
(WeHealth)<br />
The membership/partnership organisation<br />
envisions movement from information<br />
transfer to an intelligence platform dedicated<br />
to women, with particular reference to<br />
MDGs 4 and 5, which concern women and<br />
girls. The objectives of this organisation are<br />
(1) to support women through ICT in, for<br />
example, communications with family and<br />
improvement in health care; (2) to support<br />
women and girls in ICT development,<br />
transforming them from users into active<br />
builders; and (3) to enable women and girls<br />
to encourage industry and telecom providers<br />
to adapt ICT to female needs and local<br />
constraints.<br />
www.millennia2015.org/Women_and_eHealt<br />
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HEALTH INFORMATION FOR ALL BY 2015 -<br />
HIFA 2015: A GLOBAL CAMPAIGN<br />
The goal of this organisation is for every<br />
person worldwide to have access to an<br />
informed health care provider. The<br />
availability and use of appropriate, reliable<br />
health care information for nurses and other<br />
health professionals is vital for high-quality<br />
health care and the achievement of the<br />
MDGs. You can join HIFA2015 and CHILD<br />
2015 by sending your name, organisation<br />
and brief description of your professional<br />
interests to hifa2015-admin@dgroups.org<br />
and child2015-admin@dgroups.org. You will<br />
receive, on an almost daily basis, emails<br />
from members worldwide describing their<br />
work, interest areas and situations with<br />
respect to information and communication<br />
technology.<br />
www.hifa2015.org/<br />
UPCOMING CONFERENCES<br />
MIE <strong>2011</strong> - International Conference of the<br />
European Federation for Medical Informatics<br />
Oslo, Norway<br />
28-31 August <strong>2011</strong><br />
www.mie<strong>2011</strong>.org/<br />
ISQua <strong>2011</strong> - The International Society for<br />
Quality in Health Care<br />
Hong Kong, China<br />
14-17 September <strong>2011</strong><br />
www.isqua.org/<br />
ATA - American Telemedicine Association<br />
Fall Forum<br />
Anchorage Alaska<br />
19-21 September <strong>2011</strong><br />
www.americantelemed.org<br />
AMIA - American Medical Informatics<br />
Association Annual Symposium<br />
Washington DC<br />
22-26 October <strong>2011</strong><br />
www.amia.org/<br />
ITTC - International Telecare & Tel<strong>ehealth</strong><br />
Conference <strong>2011</strong><br />
London<br />
14-16 November <strong>2011</strong><br />
www.telecare-and-tel<strong>ehealth</strong>conference.com/<br />
ISfTeH - International Society for<br />
Telemedicine and eHealth<br />
Cape Town, South Africa<br />
14-15 September <strong>2011</strong><br />
www.satelemedicine.co.za/conference.asp<br />
NI 2012 - 11 th International Nursing<br />
Informatics Congress<br />
Montreal, Canada<br />
23-27 June 2012<br />
Abstract Deadline is 31 August <strong>2011</strong>.<br />
http://www.ni2012.org<br />
Med e Tel 2012<br />
Luxembourg City<br />
18-20 April 2012<br />
www.medetel.eu/<br />
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PUBLICATIONS<br />
A New Journal: International Journal of<br />
Person Centered Medicine<br />
The journal is dedicated to the promotion of<br />
health as a state of physical, mental, social<br />
and spiritual well-being as well as to the<br />
reduction of disease. It is founded on the<br />
articulation of science and humanism to<br />
enhance personalized understanding of<br />
illness and positive health, clinical<br />
communication, and respect for the dignity<br />
and responsibility of every person, at<br />
individual and community levels.<br />
See the press release at<br />
www.personcenteredmedicine.org/docs/gen<br />
eva<strong>2011</strong>h.pdf<br />
The International Council of Nurses (ICN) is a federation of 135 national nurses associations<br />
representing the millions of nurses worldwide. Operated by nurses and leading nursing internationally,<br />
ICN works to ensure quality nursing care for all and sound health policies globally.<br />
All rights, including translation into other languages, reserved. No part of this publication may be<br />
reproduced in print, by photostatic means or in any other manner, or stored in a retrieval system, or<br />
transmitted in any form, or sold without the express written permission of the International Council of<br />
Nurses. Short excerpts (under 300 words) may be reproduced without authorisation, on condition that the<br />
source is indicated.<br />
Copyright © <strong>2011</strong> by ICN - International Council of Nurses,<br />
3, place Jean-Marteau, 1201 Geneva, Switzerland<br />
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We welcome any and all suggestions for the ICN eHealth Bulletin topics or content.<br />
Examples of submissions include conferences, professional presentations and<br />
publications, ICNP translations, and research or clinical applications and professional<br />
news and publications. We reserve the right to edit all content submitted. Be sure to<br />
provide a contact person’s name and email address with any submission.<br />
For further information on ICN eHealth contact:<br />
Amy Amherdt<br />
Email: aamherdt@uwm.edu