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With the start of a new project funded under ICT PSP, EuroRec co-ordinates a Thematic Network (EHR-Q TN) aiming at making the health community across Europe ready for implementing the quality assurance and the certification of eHealth products, hereby focusing on Electronic Health Record systems firstly. The project involves the participation of 28 European countries and builds on the results of the former QRec project which resulted in the production of +1500 functional statements (certification criteria) as well as in a number of certification and procurement tools to be validated.
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Biography
Professor Dr. Georges J.E. De Moor studied Medicine and specialised in Clinical Pathology and Nuclear Medicine at the State University of Ghent (Belgium), where he also obtained in 1994 his PhD in Medical Information Science.
He is head of the Department of Medical Informatics and Statistics at the State University of Ghent, Belgium, where he teaches Health Informatics, Medical Statistics, Decision Theory and Evidence Based Medicine.
As president of RAMIT (Research in Medical Informatics and Telematics), he has been involved in both European and International Research and Development projects (+85), as well as in Standardisation activities. For seven years, Prof. De Moor acted as the Founding Chairman of CEN/TC251, the official Technical Committee on standardisation in health informatics in Europe.
As a result of the conducted research, Prof. De Moor has been founding or co-founding a number of spin-off companies mainly active in eHealth.
In 2004, he has been elected President of the European Institute for Health Records EuroRec, (http://www.eurorec.org) which is the de facto body for certification of Electronic Health Record systems in Europe.
Dr. De Moor is also Head of the Clinical Pathology Laboratory in the Sint-Elisabeth Hospital of Zottegem, Belgium.
Prof. De Moor chairs in Belgium and in Europe a number of official Committees related to either ICT in Health or to Laboratory Medicine. He has edited twelve books related to ICT in Health and published over 200 articles in scientific journals.
In 2005 he was awarded with the International Rory O’Moore Medal (presented by Bertie Ahern, in Dublin) for Health Informatics.
