InteropEHRate project present in the bicentenary celebration of modern nursing Florence 2020
InteropEHRate project present in the bicentenary celebration of modern nursing Florence 2020
25 February 2020
The Italian Nurses Association and the European Association for the History of Nursing organised an International Conference on Nursing History in Florence, Italy. This conference was attended by the European Federation of Nurses Association (EFN), who took this opportunity to disseminate the progress of the project in front of international nurses’ stakeholders and representatives – many of which will be the end-users of the project’s system for Electronic Health Records (EHR).
The choice of location is not a coincidence, Florence Nightingale – the mother of modern nursing – was born in Florence. She was not only a nurse but also a statistician and a health innovator. She was one of the first healthcare professionals who started collecting patient’s data and utilised it to improve the health outcomes of those who need it. In a similar vein, the system for exchanging EHR data that the InteropEHRate project is developing serves the same purpose, reason for which citizens/patients are at the centre of all the work the consortium is carrying out.
During the conference, EFN explained to others’ how having interoperable HER across the EU will change the way healthcare is provided, and dramatically change the nurses’ workload for the better as well.
