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In Belgium, the initiative of the Ministry of Public Health to develop new “patient-based” hospital management systems, using a selection of relevant medical and resource data (medical, nursing and financial record summaries), to be coded uniformly, gave an exceptional opportunity to the Centre for Medical Informatics at the University of Louvain, not only to develop and test the tools locally, but also to disseminate them. Research and teaching units in a University are rarely exposed to design and implement training programmes and methodologie courses to be used by a large variety of categories of personnel, as well as by all hospitals in a country. The ICD-9-CM coding system was translated and extended. Coding rules were published and taught to medical record analysts and physicians, before being inserted in computer aided systems. Courses and degrees were created at the Faculty of Medicine, for data interpretation and patient management (biomedical informatics, clinical research, quality of care development, hospital management, decision making). New experiences are in progress such as knowledge based decision support to define choices for hospital strategies (Saint-Luc 2000 project). Foreign countries have also access to this educative programme.
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