RAMIT vzw Research in Advanced Medical Informatics and Telematics Information

RAMIT vzw is a non‐profit association established with the support of the State University of Ghent. The membership of RAMIT is restricted. Founding President is Prof Dr Georges J.E. De Moor and Directors are, amongst others, the Rector of the Gent University and the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine (both qualitate qua). The working‐team in RAMIT is multidisciplinary: medical doctors, engineers, informaticians, statisticians and secretarial staff. Recent activities include successful national, European and International projects dealing with e.g. electronic medical record systems, health statistics, bioinformatics association studies, decision support systems, electronic health data interchange, eHealth standardization and interoperability, security, natural language processing and computer assisted instruction in medicine. RAMIT has participated successfully in more than 90 National and International R&D projects (often in a co‐ordinating capacity) in both the framework of EU‐Research Programmes (since the second EC Framework Programme) and of national R&D Programmes. RAMIT’s R&D activities resulted in the creation of five spin‐offs. Being an experienced coordinator of (many) EU funded projects, it has implemented a set of online tools to support the Online Collaborating Spaces.