Technology Assessment and Health Informatics

Aims and Missions 

 TAHI plays a regular role in the ESICM by contributing to the major meetings. The TAHI group holds its annual meeting at the ESICM congress.

 From 1999-2003 a Technology Assessment of Monitoring and Organ Support ESCIM section has held precongress workshops in conjunction with industry. in 2002 this section moved in the direction of Health Informatics. As a result the section changed its name in 2004 from ‘Technology Assessment (TA)’ to ‘Technology Assessment and Health Informatics (TAHI)’ .The Section has now published 6 monographs based on these precongress workshops, and in addition has contributed a PACT module on Technology Assessment.



 In 2011 the ESICM Council commitee decided to give a broader audience to the TAHI section by moving it as a TAHI transversal working goup (TAHI WG). The objectives are summarized in the Minutes of the BERLIN TAHI WG business meeting.

Major contributions

 At the congress in Amsterdam 2003 the precongress workshop covered the subject of Medical Error and the role of Health Informatics. This followed on from a successful well-attended thematic session in Barcelona in 2002 on Medical Error. There was no precongress workshop before the Berlin meeting but a workshop was run before the Amsterdam congress in 2005 in conjunction with Industry. The subject of this workshop was ‘Therapeutic Beds’. This proved a great success involving 5 industry representatives, 3 nurses, 1 physiotherapist and 6 doctors; it was a truly multi-disciplinary and multi-national clinician/industry interactive workshop. The monograph from this workshop was published and available in time for the recent Barcelona meeting. In Barcelona, we ran a workshop with industry on Temperature regulation. This was followed in Berlin in 2007 by a very useful workshop on Information technology again and we had input from 5 companies.

Our contribution to the Barcelona meeting in 2006 included an examination of situations where non-invasive technology can replace invasive technology, tissue perfusion, telemedicine, early warning systems and clinical decision support. Our main thematic session looked at “How to assess technology”. We also ran a joint session with MENN on the subject of Glucose control. We repeateded the "How to assess technology" session in Berlin 2007 and were honoured to have Susanne Ludgate the medical Director of the MHRA in the UK contributing to our session.
 

Chair and contact

Pierre Squara - France

Membership 

 

There are currently 22 registered members. Including représentatives of CD, ARF, MEN, Ethics, SIS, AKI, sections. Do you wish to be one of the members of this WG? Go to your My Data webpage or contact pierre Squara.
 
The WG welcomes new members with an interest in Technology assessment including nurse members and members who are allied health professionals. We welcome members interested in the field of Health Informatics
 

Meetings agenda and minutes 

Minutes of the Berlin 2011 Meeting.

Minutes of the Berlin 2007 Meeting.

Useful link    

Working group on Haemodynamic monitoring