“Tools and Approaches for the Adoption of LOINC for Interoperable Exchange of Laboratory Data”

The seminar was held on 9 November 2015 to explore how private and public laboratories could transmit laboratory data electronically in a standardised format to generate interoperable laboratory results for better information sharing in the eHRSS. Dr Clement McDonald, Director of the Lister Hill National Centre for Biomedical Communications, National Library of Medicine (NLM) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), was invited to speak in a workshop on Adopting LOINC for Semantic Interoperability of Laboratory Data.

“eHealth in Action”

The seminar was held on 10 November 2015 with the purpose of updating healthcare and IT professionals of the progress and implementation of the eHRSS, strengthening their knowledge on eHR standards, and examining the use of health IT in the private sector.

“Refresher Course for eHR Service Provider Training Scheme”

A half-day refresher course was held on 30 November 2015 to equip eHR service providers, trained healthcare providers (HCPs) and interested parties with updated knowledge for providing end-user support services to HCPs on the installation and maintenance of the Clinical Management System (CMS) On-ramp. A total of 16 organisations attended the course, which covered also the latest development of the eHRSS, the Public-Private Interface-Electronic Patient Record Sharing Pilot Project (PPI-ePR) HCP registration process and the relevant technical set-up for connection.