About Diakonia

This is an umbrella project to aide service development in the Transplant and Haematology Departments at OUH.

Project Name: Diakonia

Diakonia - Ministers to the data needs of the departments

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A diaconia was originally an establishment built near a church building, for the care of the poor and distribution of the church's charity in medieval Rome or Naples (the successor to the Roman grain supply system, often standing on the very sites of its stationes annonae). Examples included the sites of San Vito, Santi Alessio e Bonifacio, and Sant'Agatha[1] in Rome, San Gennaro in Naples (headed by a deacon named John in the end of the ninth and the beginning of the tenth century.[2]
The word has now come to mean the titular church of a Cardinal Deacon.
An alternative spelling, diakonia, is a Christian theological term from Greek that encompasses the call to serve the poor and oppressed. The terms deaconess and diaconate also come from the same root, which refers to the emphasis on service within those vocations.
Diakonia is a term derived from Greek, used in the Bible, New Testament, with different meanings. Sometimes, refers to the specific kind to help any people in need. At other times, it means to serve the tables, and still others, refers to the distribution of financial resources.
Also in contemporary theology the word diakonia presents a variety of connotations and representations. For FLD (Diakonal Lutherans Foundation in Brazil)[1], diakonia means serve to change people's lives, to contribute to the construction of citizenship of the less fortunate.

Outline

Name: Diakonia

Goal: To develop processes and supporting applications for data management tasks within Transplant and Haematology

Metrics: See each sub-project

Target Group: Transplant and Haematology Department Staff

Sub Projects

  1. NHIC-TRA Export - Starting point from a timeline perspective (if not a logical one) is the NIHR Health Informatics Collaborative - Transplantation data export project.
  2. Pancreas DB - Process mapping and application development to capture Pancreas Transplant data for clinical evaluation
  3. Transplant EPR - Business proposal for a clinical EPR system to support the Transplant department
  4. BMT - Bone Marrow Transplant project
  5. FHIRstation - Development of an application server supporting the FHIR API built on top of the FHIRbase DB platform