www.tanjent.co.uk

 Hello and welcome to TanJent's web site. The events here illustrate TanJent's activities in eHealth across Europe, South America and the Commonwealth.

The first Kenya eHelath Strategy has now been completed. It took a team of healthcare professionals, senior civil servants, ICT vendors some and support from the Commonwealth Secretarat some five months.

Excellent commentaries by Danny Mustacchi on sharing medical information and business intellegence are at http://inteliprojects.com   

The Commonwealth Secretariat's draft methodology and templates for eHealth policies and strategies were reviewed with ECSA countries on 2 and 3 April 2009. The final versions are now complete and should be available from the Commonwealth Secretariat's web site soon. The home page address is www.thecommonwealth.org then follow the links to the health pages.

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The Commonwealth's second regional high-level dialogue on eHealth is for West Africa and will be on 10 and 11 December 2009

EC report Financing eHealth - now available at

http://www.financing-ehealth.eu/downloads/documents/FeH_D5_3_final_study_report.pdf 

TanJent's report on EC's workshop in on procuring benefits for telemedicine is now available. The workshop was at the WOHIT08 conference in Copenhagen and the EC plans to use the findings as part of its initiative to invest in large-scale telemedicine projects across the EU. It is available at:

http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/health/docs/events/whit2008/ec-whit08report-final.pdf  

The report is titled "WHIT08 - EC Workshop Procuring for health benefits: Critical Factors for Beneficial Deployment of Innovative eHealth and Telemedicine Services" was prepared by TanJent with empirica.

Telemed 08, Optimising Patient Centred Care - the role of eHealth, organised by the Royal Society of Medicine, was on 24 and 25 November in London. On 24 November, a parallel event was available; a repeat of the successful workshop Telehealth Business Case. More information is at:

www.rsm.ac.uk

Articles will be in the Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare. 

TanJent supports the Diretoria de Desenvolvimento Setorial (DIDES) of the Agência Nacional de Saúde Suplementar (ANS) in its economic and financial evaluation of TISS, the standards and  system that supports the exchange of supplementary health information in Brazil. The project is supported by the United Nations Development Programme. More details are on the project page.

The preliminary report of the economic evaluation is now complete and will be available from the ANS website soon. The address is www.ans.gov.br . The report will be availble in Engliah and Portuguese. Findings show the value of a national project that has relatively low costs when the solution is available for large populations such as the 40 million insured oversseen by ANS. A copy of the report can also be obtained from tomjones@tanjent.co.uk

Portugese speakers may want to read Troca de dados conusmirá R$11 bilhões  by Beth Kolke in Valor on Segunda-feira 8 de septembro de 2008

TanJent is working with empirica in Germany to develop the methodology and knowledge of eHealth economics, especially costs, benefits and net benefits over time. It includes eHealth financing and options for business models for eHealth, which is especially important because eHealth boundaries are expanding as new suppliers enter the eHealth market with new concepts of eHealth.

TanJent’s main goal is evaluating, achieving and improving the financial and ecomomic performance of eHealth and ICT-enabled healthcare. It builds on the general activities of developing and using economic and costing models to evaluate and improve the performance of health and social care providers, and the cost and benefit estimates of business cases and strategies within the eHealth community.

TanJent is involved with projects using economic models, such as cost-benefit analysis, and financing models evaluate to innovative health services and technologies, especially eHealth. The models enable ICT in healthcare, organisational change, eHealth cost profiles, eHealth benefit profiles, and the timing of these, of the estimated and valued. They can then be used for future decisions about eHealth financing, benefits realisation, health and healthcare quality gains,cost-effectiveness and efficiency gains. It also enables realistic decisions about eHealth, sometimes called ICT and organisational change, or ICT-enabled change, to advance realistically. This can be even more critical for developing countries where healthcare resources and finance are scarce.

Tom Jones, TanJent's Director, was at the Swiss eHealth Summit 2008 in Berne on 26 and 27 August to present some of the initial findings of the EHRI evaluation of the University Hospitals of Geneva's computerised patient record. He will be sharing this with his colleague Alex Dobrev from empirica.

http://www.ehealthsummit.ch 

Commonwealth Secretariat

The Commonweath Secretariat's report eHealth for DevelopingCountries:Affordable Strategies is available at www.thecommonwealth.org

Financing eHealth was the EC's DG INFSO Project of the Month for May 2008.

A commentary is at

http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/newsroom/cf/itemdetail.cfm?item_id=4062

The website for the EC's study on boosting finance for eHealth is at http://www.financing-ehealth.eu/

The website for the EC's study on the economic impact of interoperable EHRs and ePrescribing is now available at http://www.ehr-impact.eu/ 

TanJent has now evaluated the utilisation, benefits, costs and risks of 40 e-health investments from across the EU.  Of these, 82% showed positive economic returns, 18% were negative. These findings are from 54% reotrospective projects and 46% prospective projects. A further eight evaluations are scheduled to start in the remainded of 2008. It is delighted to beworking with empirica on these extra sites using interoperable EHR andePrescribing.

             Positive         Negative       Retrospective   Prospective

TanJent's projects include the EC's Study on the Imapct of Interoperable Electronic Health Records and ePrescribing Impact Study, eHealth Financing Study and eHealth Impact Study.

TheHunter Trust for Education in Malawi

The Trust provides direct, personal support for children in Malawi to help them complete their education. One of its current projects is equipping a school laboratory.The Trust's distinguishing feature is its personal, direct and local impact across the education spectrum based on first-hand, local knowledge. This ensures effective use of resoruces in providing grants for pupils and students, additional teaching training and helping to provide better faciltiites. TanJent is one of the Trust's many supporters.

More details about the Trust's work are at: www.huntertrust.org.uk

To contact TanJent,  phone Tom Jones on

+44 (0) 7802 336229

or email tomjones@tanjent.co.uk

or skype at tanjenttj

Last edited on 08 11 2009