ehealth bulletin june 2011

LAUNCH OF THE ICN EHEALTH PROGRAMME
ICN announced the launch of a new ICN
eHealth Programme in May 2011. This new
programme encompasses the International
Classification for Nursing Practice (ICNP ® ),
the ICN Telenursing Network and other
eHealth related ICN activities. The
programme’s strategic vision is to transform
nursing through the application of
information and communication technology.
The goals of the programme are (a) to
support eHealth practice, (b) to have ICN
recognised as an authority on eHealth, and
(c) to have ICN positioned centrally in the
eHealth Community. Specific programme
goals address technology, professional
practice and business processes,
respectively.
A new Strategic Advisory Group was formed,
with its first meeting planned for September
2011 in Geneva. The ICN eHealth team is
responsible for continuing the day-to-day
work that advances projects, product
development and information dissemination
worldwide related to eHealth, including
ICNP, the ICN Telenursing Network, and
other related entities. The team consists of
Nicholas Hardiker (Director eHealth
Programme), Amy Coenen (ICNP
Programme Director), Claudia Bartz
(Programme Coordinator), Kay Jansen
(Terminology Manager), Tae Youn Kim
(Research Associate) and Amy Amherdt
(Administrative Specialist).
N° 1 June 2011
A press release for the ICN eHealth
Programme during the ICN Conference in
Malta (4-7 May 2011) notified organisations
and individuals about the new programme
and the news was further disseminated via
informational products and conference
sessions. The one-page information
documents briefly describe the eHealth
Programme, ICNP, C-Space and the
Telenursing Network. The ICN eHealth
Programme will collaborate with other ICN
programmes, ICN member associations and
with global eHealth organisations and
programmes to advance the vision and
goals of the programme.
www.icn.ch/images/stories/documents/news
/press_releases/2011_PR_06_ICN_New_e
Health_Programme.pdf
IN THIS ISSUE
Launch of the ICN eHealth Programme
ICN Conference in Malta
ICNP 2011
Spanish and CIPE (ICNP)
C-Space
ICN Core Data Sets
ICN & International Health Information
Standards
ACENDIO 2011, Madeira Portugal
Global ICT Programmes
HIFA 2015: A Global Campaign
Conference Announcements
eHealth Contact
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ICN CONFERENCE IN MALTA
About 2000 nurses met in Malta for the ICN
Conference (4-7 May 2011), “Nurses Driving
Access, Quality and Health.” The Council of
National Representatives held their
business meeting 2-4 May 2011.
The ICN Telenursing Network held its
second biennial meeting in Malta. Jennifer
Chipps (South Africa), a Network Advisory
Group member, provided a presentation
about her efforts and accomplishments
related to telenursing. The session allowed
for networking among the participants and
discussion of the ICN draft Position
Statement on Telenursing. Anyone
interested in participating in the Position
Statement should contact Claudia Bartz
(cbartz@uwm.edu). A main session on
Telehealth was also held to inform
participants about telenursing strategies and
outcomes around the world. Speakers
included Pirkko Kouri (Finland) and Angela
Single (UK).
The ICN-accredited ICNP Research and
Development Centres Consortium held its
fourth biennial meeting at the Grand Hotel
Excelsior in Malta. About 35 people
attended this meeting where seven of the
nine Centre Directors, or their designees,
presented information about their Centres.
There was an enthusiastic discussion of
how ICN Core Data Sets might be advanced
through the Centres as well as how the
Centres could collaborate on research and
development, and use C-Space, to continue
to implement and test the application of
ICNP in care delivery settings.
A Conference main session included
presentations about the new ICN eHealth
Programme and ICNP 2011 release (Nick
Hardiker, UK); an example of ICNP EHR
application from the vendor’s perspective
(Ana Alves from ALERT, Portugal);
considerations for policy and practice in an
eHealth context (Kathy Mølstad, Norway);
and the vision and reality of nurses working
to translate and implement ICNP in care
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delivery settings (Dorota Kilanska and Beata
Dobrowolska, Poland).
In addition, there were a number of peerreviewed
papers and posters presented that
described nurses’ involvement with ICNP
and telehealth. These provided exciting
evidence of the importance of eHealth in
nursing today. The next ICN Congress will
be held in Melbourne Australia in 2013.
Dorota Kilanska, Kathy Mølstad, Julita Sansoni,
Ana Alves, & Nicholas Hardiker
ICNP 2011
The next version of ICN’s terminology for
nursing, ICNP 2011, was released on 4 May
2011 at the ICN conference in Malta.
Version 2011, with a total of 5148 concepts,
includes 454 new concepts, most of which
are pre-coordinated diagnoses, outcomes
and interventions. The collaboration with
catalogue developers, such as the Scottish
Community Nursing Catalogue working
group and the Canadian C-HOBIC working
group, generated many new ICNP concepts.
As the number of pre-coordinated ICNP
statements and clinically relevant subsets
continues to increase, the terminology can
more easily be implemented at the point of
care. The electronic version of ICNP 2011 is
available on ICN C-Space
icnp.clinicaltemplates.org/icnp/
The multi-lingual browser on C-Space is
intended to support translators and
developers of applications. Congratulations
to the German Speaking Centre and the
Mandarin translator for their pre-release
translations of ICNP Version 2011. ICNP is

available in various formats or “views”,
depending on the user’s purpose(s). The
formats available for download include, for
example, comma separated values (CSV),
PDF and web ontology language (OWL).
See the multilingual browser Press Release
at
www.icn.ch/images/stories/documents/news
/press_releases/2011_PR_01_ICN_announ
ces_multilingual_browser_for_ICNP.pdf
SPANISH AND CIPE (ICNP)
Submitted by Organización Colegial de
Enfermería
It is a great pleasure for the Spanish
General Council of Nursing to present the
Spanish Version 2 of the International
Classification for the Nursing Practice
(ICNP ® ). The development of ICNP is
without doubt a major project for the
advancement of nursing promoted by the
International Council of Nurses. ICNP is the
contribution of international nursing to a
universal language of the phenomena,
actions and results of nursing practice. This
is an indispensable tool for nurses to
communicate their clinical practice, and
promote education and research in nursing.
It is also an essential tool for nursing training
programmes and a guide for teaching
nursing process at all levels, which enables
the design of digital applications and
advances for recording and reporting of
nursing clinical practice.
The translation process has been led and
coordinated by the Spanish General Council
of Nursing, through CGE Studies Office staff,
including: Rafael Lletget, Alina de Almeida
Souza, José Luis Cobos Serrano and
Jerónimo Romero-Neiva Lozano. To
establish consensus with the Spanishspeaking
countries, the Spanish team has
benefited from the collaboration of nurses in
Latin America countries. The WHO Nursing
Collaborating Center at the University of
Concepción, Chile has played a major role
since the beginning of this translation
process, coordinating the Latin-American
contacts through professors Verónica Behn
and Julia Ramírez.
This translation work has been ongoing
across ICNP versions with the participation
of professors Sandra Milena Velásquez
Palacio and Luz Marina Alfonso Avila
(Colombia), María Virginia Hernández
Alonso (México), Teresa Estela Delgado
González (Uruguay) and Maria Antonia
Lopez Romero (Spain). ICNP translation
efforts continued with the involvement of a
group of fellow nurses from Latin America
studying at the Spanish General Council of
Nursing: María Esperanza Niño Álvarez
(Colombia), Maritza Montero de Pachón
(Panama), Sandra Maely Molina Nieto
(Honduras), and Socorro Zuleyma Orellana
Martínez (El Salvador) led by María Marcela
Castro Méndez (Costa Rica). The ICNP
Version 2 translation team was integrated by
the previous participants from Latin America
and the inclusion of two new members,
professors María Figueroa (Chile) and María
Antonia López Romero.
We recognise the important contribution of
all participants for reviewing terms and
definitions of this classification, reflecting
their experience with ICNP, and assisting in
the search for the best nursing terminology
to be shared across speakers of Spanish.
This work has been an important effort of
the General Council of Nursing provided by
the interest in and commitment to the
advancement of nursing by its president, Dr.
Máximo A. González Jurado.
C-SPACE
ICN C-Space can be used for asynchronous
communication among groups in eHealth
activities, such as the ICNP Consortium
group and the Telenursing Network group.
C-Space also is used for ICNP catalogue or
subset work. This web-based platform
validates the collaboration of clinical experts
in nursing practice with the ICNP and
informatics experts in various projects, such
as terminology subset development. C-
Space also holds the ICNP browser and
multilingual translations. We are always
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interested in new ideas for communication.
Your suggestions for advancing C-Space
are welcome! icnp.clinicaltemplates.org/
ICN CORE DATA SETS
A pilot test for ICN Core Data Sets (I-CDS)
was completed in April 2011. Using the
ICNP pre-coordinated statements for
nursing diagnoses, outcomes and
interventions from the Palliative Care
Catalogue; participants were asked to
respond to an online survey. The purposes
of the pilot test were to validate the
diagnoses and interventions and to test the
use of an online survey method for data
collection. Using a snowball sampling
technique, the final number of respondents
was 35, representing 5 countries. Both the
collection of information about the
statements for palliative nursing care and
the use of the online survey method were
considered successful. Work is underway on
the research question for the next I-CDS.
Please contact the eHealth programme if
you like to participate in this exciting work.
ICN AND INTERNATIONAL HEALTH
INFORMATION STANDARDS
ICNP AND IHTSDO
Work continues to map ICNP and
SNOMED-CT. Plans are to incorporate
ICNP 2011 into the NLM UMLS continuing
the work started several years ago to ensure
that ICNP concepts are harmonised with the
UMLS structure.
ICN AND WHO-FAMILY OF INTERNATIONAL
CLASSIFICATIONS
The WHO-FIC Family Development
Committee (FDC) is continuing to develop
and test the International Classification of
Health Interventions (ICHI). Members of the
ICNP team contribute to this work through
committee participation. The 23-year
experience with developing and
disseminating ICNP brings substantial
expertise to the WHO work. The next
meeting of the FDC will be held in Sydney,
Australia in July. The annual WHO-FIC
conference will be held 29 October – 6
November in Cape Town, South Africa.
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ICN AND ISO
The ISO meeting was held in Kuopio,
Finland 23-27 May 2011. Work continues on
ISO CD 18104:2011 Health Informatics:
Categorial Structures for Representation of
Nursing Diagnoses and Nursing Actions in
Terminological Systems. This standard will
replace the 18104:2003 Health Informatics:
Integration of a Reference Terminology for
Nursing. While the models for nursing
diagnoses and nursing actions are
somewhat different between the 2003 and
2011 standards, the goal of the nursing
working group has always been to clarify
and make explicit the representation of
diagnoses and actions. Existing nursing
terminologies will continue to be in
compliance with the proposed draft. This
new standard was developed in response to
the ISO requirement for regular and
systematic review of standards. Since ISO is
a country-membership organisation, any
comments on the current draft standard (or
any other standard in-progress) should be
sent to the ISO Secretariat on the ISO
Comment Form, via the ISO Technical
Advisory Group of the country in which the
respondent resides.
ACIENDO 2011, MADEIRA PORTUGAL
Submitted by Kathy Mølstad,
Secretary/Member of the Board of
ACENDIO
Nurses throughout Europe need to be able
to share and compare information about
practice in order to research and improve
care, to manage nursing resources
effectively and to ensure that nursing is
visible in local, national and European
policy. On the 25-26 March 2011, the
Association for Common European Nursing
Diagnoses, Interventions and Outcomes
celebrated its eighth European Conference
under the title eHealth and Nursing –
Opportunities for better nursing care. How
can e-Health promote patient safety?
Important speakers attended and shared
with the participants their experience and
knowledge about eHealth and Nursing,

Standardisation, Cross-Border Electronic
Health Records, and the Nurse's Role in
Creating a Safe Environment for Patients.
Keynote speakers included Heimar Marin,
Abel Avelino de Paiva e Silva, Amy Coenen
and Linda Aiken. The next conference will
be in Dublin in March 2013.
GLOBAL ICT PROGRAMMES
Millennia 2015 - Women and eHealth
(WeHealth)
The membership/partnership organisation
envisions movement from information
transfer to an intelligence platform dedicated
to women, with particular reference to
MDGs 4 and 5, which concern women and
girls. The objectives of this organisation are
(1) to support women through ICT in, for
example, communications with family and
improvement in health care; (2) to support
women and girls in ICT development,
transforming them from users into active
builders; and (3) to enable women and girls
to encourage industry and telecom providers
to adapt ICT to female needs and local
constraints.
www.millennia2015.org/Women_and_eHealt
h
HEALTH INFORMATION FOR ALL BY 2015 -
HIFA 2015: A GLOBAL CAMPAIGN
The goal of this organisation is for every
person worldwide to have access to an
informed health care provider. The
availability and use of appropriate, reliable
health care information for nurses and other
health professionals is vital for high-quality
health care and the achievement of the
MDGs. You can join HIFA2015 and CHILD
2015 by sending your name, organisation
and brief description of your professional
interests to hifa2015-admin@dgroups.org
and child2015-admin@dgroups.org. You will
receive, on an almost daily basis, emails
from members worldwide describing their
work, interest areas and situations with
respect to information and communication
technology.
www.hifa2015.org/
UPCOMING CONFERENCES
MIE 2011 - International Conference of the
European Federation for Medical Informatics
Oslo, Norway
28-31 August 2011
www.mie2011.org/
ISQua 2011 - The International Society for
Quality in Health Care
Hong Kong, China
14-17 September 2011
www.isqua.org/
ATA - American Telemedicine Association
Fall Forum
Anchorage Alaska
19-21 September 2011
www.americantelemed.org
AMIA - American Medical Informatics
Association Annual Symposium
Washington DC
22-26 October 2011
www.amia.org/
ITTC - International Telecare & Telehealth
Conference 2011
London
14-16 November 2011
www.telecare-and-telehealthconference.com/
ISfTeH - International Society for
Telemedicine and eHealth
Cape Town, South Africa
14-15 September 2011
www.satelemedicine.co.za/conference.asp
NI 2012 - 11 th International Nursing
Informatics Congress
Montreal, Canada
23-27 June 2012
Abstract Deadline is 31 August 2011.
http://www.ni2012.org
Med e Tel 2012
Luxembourg City
18-20 April 2012
www.medetel.eu/
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