What is sundhedsITnet - and why?
The network sundhedsITnet (healthcareIT network) wants to establish a permanent, multi-disciplinary and inter-regional research-based knowledge service network for the needs-driven development of new possibilities that aim to increase quality, flexibility and efficiency in health activities involving IT.
The treatment opportunities in the health sector, and the population’s expectations and wishes, are increasing significantly, which is resulting in a considerable pressure on resources.
The technological development also means that more and more IT is being embedded in our tools and surroundings. This radically increases the opportunities for communication and integration.
This potential is not exploited well enough in the health sector, which is still characterised by administrative systems and isolated appliances.
There will be a dramatic development in possibilities as we are able to follow up the introduction of the EPJ (Electronic Patient Journal) with applications and services that utilise EPJ, and that can function across sectors, e.g. between the hospital and the patient’s home.
sundhedsITnet has been founded on the experience that has been amassed in Copenhagen (The ITU, CBS and Copenhagen University Hospital), Aarhus (The Alexandra Institute, the Aarhus School of Business, The University of Aarhus, Skejby Hospital and Aarhus University Hospital) and Aalborg (Aalborg University and Aalborg Hospital).
sundhedsITnet wants to create a connection between the greatly increasing introduction of IT in everything, the need for a coherent patient follow-up and the need for common IT infrastructures with common standards and architectures. Efficient tools are also needed to implement, control quality and measure the effect of the introduction of new technology in the health sector.
