Special meeting Coordinated information delivery from diabetes registers to improve quality and outcomes in Europe Rome, 4th-5th June 2010

Lectures

The policy Framework

• Diabetes Registers as an instrument for Quality Awareness (Massimo Massi Benedetti, U. Perugia, Italy)
• IDF Diabetes Atlas and the need for international comparison (David Whiting, IDF, Belgium)
• Coordinated information delivery from diabetes registers to improve quality and european outcomes in Europe (Paola Pisanti, Ministry of Labour, Health and Social Policies, Italy)
• Sanofi Aventis support to the BCD campaign (Mauro Lepore, Sanofi Aventis)
• The Italian National Plan for Health Information. The role of the Italian New National Health Information System (Rosa Rosini, Ministry of Health, Italy)
• Disease Registers and Privacy Protection: the case of Diabetes in the EUBIROD Project (Tania Di Iorio, Serectrix, Italy)

Materials, Methods and National Results

• The BIRO System and the EUBIROD Project (Fabrizio Carinci, U. Perugia, Italy)
• The Diabetes Register of AMNCH (Dublin, Ireland) (Tony Moulton, The Adelaide and Meath Hospital, Ireland)
• The Diabetes Register of West Friesland, The Netherlands (Fred Storms, CBO, Netherlands)
• Dutch National Diabetes Information System (Wil Kuijpers, Fred Storms, Netherlands)
• The Diabetes Register of Croatia (Željko Metelko, Tamara Poljicanin, Vuk Vrhovac University Clinic, Croatia)
• The Diabetes Register of Cyprus (Xenios Anastassiades, Ministry of Health, Cyprus)
• The Diabetes Register of Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany (Michael Jecht, Havelhöhe Hospital, Germany)
• The Diabetes Register in Malta (Joseph Azzopardi, U. Malta, Malta)
• The Diabetes Register of Bucharest, Romania (Simion Pruna, Paulescu Institute, Romania)
• The Diabetes Register of Upper Silesia, Poland (Przemyslawa Jarosz-Chobot, Upper Silesian Center of Child's Health, Poland)
• The Diabetes Register of GPMSSP, Hungary (Attila Nagy, School of Public Health, U. Debrecen, Hungary)
• The Diabetes Register of Primary Health Care of Skaraborg, Sweden (Ulf Lindblad, Mikael Åberg, U. Gothenburg, Sweden)
• The Diabetes Register of Tayside, Scotland (Ritchie McAlpine, U. Dundee, Scotland)
• The Diabetes Register of Umbria, Italy (Fabrizio Carinci, U. Perugia, Italy)
• The Diabetes Register of Belgium (Noëmi Debacker, Scientific Institute of Public Health, Belgium)