eSante - Analysis & Feasibility Study for eHealth (eSanté-EFES)

At the end of 2006, the government had adopted a national plan to develop the healthcare ICT system of Luxembourg. It looks for contributing to improve the quality and the efficiency of healthcare systems throughout investments on the infrastructure and on an information system adapted to the Luxembourgish needs. CRP Henri Tudor has collaborating to reach this goal. Supported by the Ministry of Health and the Ministry for Public Service and Administrative Reform, eSanté-EFES project had started in October 2008. The first phase of this project intends to analyze the current healthcare systems in order to determine the existing relationships between the different actors and to identify the needs expressed by each one. It will also take into account potential information exchanges with other countries, international standards and potential interoperable systems, given to patients more mobility to obtain or to be followed in their treatments. The results carried out in the first phase of the project will be used in the second one for specifying new services, databases, interactions and potential exchanges between caregivers, healthcare institutions, governmental departments and others services providers. In the new healthcare organization, patients will be in center of the system and all information related to their health state will be electronically stored. Solutions will be proposed to facilitate the access to treatments, to minimize (or eliminate) prescriptions’ risks and to reduce administrative procedures and costs. The know-how of CRP in secured data exchange (acquired from HealthNet - more than 10 years of experience) will be used to guarantee confidentiality, authentication and integrity of medical data. Patients will be able to decide who, when and how their personal data will be used.

• Ministry of Health
• Ministry for Public Service and Administrative Reform
• eLuxembourg Service
• CR SANTEC of Centre de Recherche Public Henri Tudor

The objectives of eSanté project are to:

• Improve the knowledge about existing needs and constraints (functional, technical and informative ones), as well as the current working processes
• Propose concepts for the future eHealth Platform which satisfy the needs and constraints of users and match the requirements of interoperability
• Estimate the costs of implementation and maintenance of the platform
• Promote the interoperability of medical systems
• Propose a business models for new services in eSanté

This project is part of eSanté Programme from Luxembourg. [click here to see the presentation - in French]

Kick off Work group presentation. [click here to see the presentation - in French]