As a result of the activities of PROREC-HU there exists a collection of major Hospital Information Systems commercially available in Hungary including the description of the main services of these systems on the web site of PROREC-HU

WIDENET Workpackages

As a result of our former dissemination activities, we have deployed informations about a representative collection of the major commercially available Hospital Information Systems on the present web site of PROREC-HU. This information includes the description of the most important services offered by these systems that cover a substantial part of the whole healthcare IT arena in Hungary. Our intention is to resume the contacts with the vendors and developers of these HIS systems in order to extract and compare their recording functions and to initiate a homogeneity process among the different data structures and contents.

Besides aiming at the compatibility of the various recording formats and data representations used in the current local IT systems, this homogeneity approach should further be guided with the inevitable application of CEN EHCR and XML standards. One of the key factors in the success of our planned activities is the involvement and the cooperation of the representatives of the main healthcare providers (i.e. hospitals, GP's, etc.), as well as those of the national healthcare bodies (Ministry of Health, National Healthcare Insurance Administration, National and local Healthcare Associations, etc.). Similar collaboration is envisaged from behalf of the Hungarian Standardization Institute and the Software Accreditation Board.

We plan to be active mainly within the scope of Workpackages 3 and 4 with the help of the available resources.

WP3. EHCR promotion activities

Setting up a dedicated WWW server of PROREC-HU (separating it from the web site of MTA SZTAKI)
dissemination of EHCR informations on our web server, including publicly available CEN TC and other HealthCare related standards materials
opening and monitoring a forum for information exchange on EHCR conform products, solutions and services, supporting and servicing information access requests from the local HealthCare community, act as an information bridge between users and developers/vendors
organizing workshops and conferences, publishing proceedings and panel materials of external conferences

WP4. Widening EHCR collaboration and consolidation

Measures towards homogenization of the present heterogeneous record structures of the domestic HealthCare IT systems
Setting up working bodies with participation of all players (Ministry of Health, National Health Insurance Administration, Chamber of Doctors, Hospital Association, GP's Association, Medical/Biological Department of the John von Neumann Informatics Society, Medical Universities) to promote the widespread use of EHCR compliant solutions
Initiate the basis for the compulsory application of EHCR compliance accreditation processes in the public tenders for the delivery of HealthCare software systems

With reference to Angelo Mori's proposal, we are also ready to contribute to activity S5 within WP5 with the preparation of the Hungarian part of the multilingual database to facilitate the communication with foreign patients. Additionally to the above we plan to participate in the yearly coordination meetings of the WIDENET consortium.