Flaka Siqeca, Suzanne R. Dhaini, Sabina De Geest, Andreas Zeller, Mieke Deschodt, Thekla Brunkert
{"title":"Current use and openness to use assistive technologies among home-dwelling elders in Switzerland: a cross-sectional study","authors":"Flaka Siqeca, Suzanne R. Dhaini, Sabina De Geest, Andreas Zeller, Mieke Deschodt, Thekla Brunkert","doi":"10.4414/smi-e.2024.1533586071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4414/smi-e.2024.1533586071","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":156842,"journal":{"name":"Swiss medical informatics","volume":"41 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141334722","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New Year Wishes – the medical informatics view","authors":"M. Oertle","doi":"10.4414/SMI.37.00425","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4414/SMI.37.00425","url":null,"abstract":"The past few months, which will go down in the history books as the “Corona Year”, have demanded a lot of commitment, a lot of flexibility, a lot of stamina and sometimes also a lot of innovation from all of us. But they have also made us aware of what we have given too little weight to or neglected in the past: an ideal basis for listing wishes. Stephan Siegrist from the think tank W.I.R.E is a little more severe in his assessment of contemporary IT when he says: “Digitalisation has disappointed. This was foreseeable even before Corona, but the pandemic has revealed it even more clearly” [1]. Seen in this light, there is undoubtedly a need for action. In order to cope with the exceptional pandemic situation, many healthcare workers have already performed extraordinarily well under difficult conditions, and they will continue to do so. Complicating the effort in caring for the numerous and seriously ill patients, organisational adjustments were necessary in many places. Medical informatics specialists and IT staff have done their utmost to redefine and map processes, to relieve clinicians of administrative work as much as possible, through automation and innovation, and – especially in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic – to bring a certain stability to the uncertainty through information processing and transparency. On behalf of our Society, I would like to express our sincere thanks to all of them. Even if we can be proud of particularly quick and perhaps particularly innovative or efficient solutions, there are still some things that need to be addressed and put on a wish list (with a positive connotation) or to-do list (with an honest connotation) for the year that has just begun.","PeriodicalId":156842,"journal":{"name":"Swiss medical informatics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120977420","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"SGMI-MENTOR ‒ proximity tracing","authors":"Swiss Society for Medical Informatics","doi":"10.4414/smi.36.00424","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4414/smi.36.00424","url":null,"abstract":"In the context of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, various tools that may be useful in the epidemiological control of the spread of the disease are being discussed. These include (as a supplement to the instructions recommended for all persons, such as social distancing, hygiene measures, etc.) measures that enable consistent identification and isolation of persons who have been in contact with infected/sick persons [1]. In addition to the classic, personnel-intensive tracing of contacts of infected patients (auxiliary persons identify remembered contacts, call them by telephone and recommend self-isolation and, if necessary, further diagnostic tests), digital aids – known as proximity tracing apps – are increasingly being used and tested. From a medical informatics perspective, the use of such a proximity tracing app must be promoted for the reasons given below, provided that national requirements (e.g., FOPH/BAG recommendation, legislation [probably June 2020]) are met. It must be emphasised that this is not a replacement of the classic contact tracing, but rather a supplement to it.","PeriodicalId":156842,"journal":{"name":"Swiss medical informatics","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125528837","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Möglichkeiten und Herausforderungen bei der Einführung des elektronischen Patientendossiers: Erfahrungen aus dem deutschsprachigen Raum","authors":"Laura Küng, Matthias Mitterlechner","doi":"10.4414/smi.36.00423","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4414/smi.36.00423","url":null,"abstract":"RESEARCH QUESTION: Switzerland is in the process of implementing the law on electronic health records (EPD), which came into force in April 2017. The aim is to provide Swiss citizens with electronic access to their health data from 2020 onward. Other countries have already begun to digitise patient data across institutions. Even though healthcare systems are country-specific, these countries gained experiences during the implementation phase. This article examines what other countries experienced and derives opportunities and challenges for this phase.","PeriodicalId":156842,"journal":{"name":"Swiss medical informatics","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121179507","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Document de synthèse des laboratoires pour le DEP","authors":"R. Jiménez, Sana Mazouri, Stéphane Spahni","doi":"10.4414/smi.36.00422","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4414/smi.36.00422","url":null,"abstract":"As the number of documents increases, it becomes more difficult for a patient or health professional to use them: a solution to facilitate access to recent results has therefore been implemented, allowing better readability and saving time for quick reading by both the patient and the health professionals who care for them. This solution, based on a PDF laboratory summary document, is seen as an intermediate step until the appropriate tools are available for good visualization and intelligent use of fully coded and structured documents.","PeriodicalId":156842,"journal":{"name":"Swiss medical informatics","volume":"92 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114568365","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
G. Catho, Brigitte Waldisphl Suter, R. Valotti, J. Portela, S. DaSilva, N. Vernaz, NS Centemero, V. Coray, F. Pagnamenta, E. Bernasconi, R. Meyer, B. Huttner
{"title":"How to develop and implement a computerised decision support system integrated with a computerised prescriber order entry for antimicrobial stewardship: experience from two Swiss hospitals","authors":"G. Catho, Brigitte Waldisphl Suter, R. Valotti, J. Portela, S. DaSilva, N. Vernaz, NS Centemero, V. Coray, F. Pagnamenta, E. Bernasconi, R. Meyer, B. Huttner","doi":"10.4414/smi.35.00421","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4414/smi.35.00421","url":null,"abstract":"a Division of infectious diseases, Geneva University Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland b Division of clinical informatics, Ente Ospedaliero Cantonale, Bellinzona, Switzerland c Division of infectious diseases, Ente Ospedaliero Cantonale, Ospedale Regionale, Lugano, Switzerland d Division of informatics, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland e Medical direction, Geneva University Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland f Information and communication technologies, Ente Ospedaliero Cantonale, Bellinzona, Switzerland","PeriodicalId":156842,"journal":{"name":"Swiss medical informatics","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130976184","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. Gaudet-Blavignac, V. Foufi, E. Wehrli, C. Lovis
{"title":"De-identification of French medical narratives","authors":"C. Gaudet-Blavignac, V. Foufi, E. Wehrli, C. Lovis","doi":"10.4414/SMI.34.00417","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4414/SMI.34.00417","url":null,"abstract":"In this work, a rule-based method for the de-identification of French free-text medical data using natural language processing (NLP) tools is presented.","PeriodicalId":156842,"journal":{"name":"Swiss medical informatics","volume":"512 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132949756","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Welcome to the 31st annual congress of the Swiss Society for Medical Informatics!","authors":"M. Oertle","doi":"10.4414/smi.34.00410","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4414/smi.34.00410","url":null,"abstract":"If you have participated in international health informatics congresses during recent months, you will without doubt have noticed myriads of talks about artificial intelligence, big data, blockchain, robots and virtual reality. Some innovations in these areas are promising, some are fancy, and some will not succeed in entering the market. For example, radiologists are sometimes described as “prone to extinction” and upheavals in current healthcare settings are predicted. It was not with this discussion in mind that the Swiss Society for Medical Informatics and eHealthSummit HIMSS composed the current programme of this years’ summit. Although the titles of talks highlight a reboot of health informatics, content will be much more down to earth, as there are several needs and ways to reboot. And especially the persons deepest and longest involved in the field of medical informatics will be able to put the idea of rebooting into a proper light. We still have plenty of homework to do, from (perhaps complete) digitalisation of our processes to standardisation and interoperability, to showing the real (and vast) impact of this digitalisation and a clear return on investment. We want to continue this journey and we would like to achieve the best possible outcomes for our patients. However, we need a solid evidence base in order to improve, and this congress will be one possibility to add new evidence. Hopefully, during the congress we will, as always, hear success stories, but also of failures and we will be able to gather many ideas, using them as virtual Lego elements to build our (standardised, interoperable, usable, efficient, intuitive, safe, effective, persistent, sustainable, logical, interprofessional, interdisciplinary, patient centred, evaluable, analytical, supportive, affordable, performing, protected) eHealth micro-/macrocosm. A warm welcome to the annual congress of our national society and to Swiss eHealth Summit! Talks and discussions – on stage or during networking – will enforce our intentions to foster medical informatics per se, evidencebased usage of digitalisation, creation of interoperability and many more particular topics in this still heterogeneous landscape. And last but not least: don’t be afraid to talk about failures as well; it is these topics we learn most from!","PeriodicalId":156842,"journal":{"name":"Swiss medical informatics","volume":"121 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132037668","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
K. Blondon, David Cavin, C. Lovis, Frédéric Ehrler
{"title":"From the lab to the field: the challenges of the take-off process for a bedside mobility app","authors":"K. Blondon, David Cavin, C. Lovis, Frédéric Ehrler","doi":"10.4414/smi.34.00419","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4414/smi.34.00419","url":null,"abstract":"The implementation of mobile phone apps for patient care in hospital settings requires careful consideration of many challenges. The authors developed and pilot-tested a mobile app to support nursing workflow at the bedside in their institution,","PeriodicalId":156842,"journal":{"name":"Swiss medical informatics","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127200162","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Inpatients suffering from alcoholism automatically identified by electronic phenotyping","authors":"Alexandra N Griessbach, E. Battegay, P. Beeler","doi":"10.4414/SMI.34.00415","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4414/SMI.34.00415","url":null,"abstract":"The authors developed an algorithm that automatically detects stays of AUD patients in structured clinical data.","PeriodicalId":156842,"journal":{"name":"Swiss medical informatics","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131732103","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}