GENNERE: A Generic Epidemiological Network for Nephrology and Rheumatology

GENNERE is a networked information system designed to answer epidemiological needs. Based on a French experiment in the field of End-Stage Renal Diseases (ESRD), it has been thought of so as to be adapted to Chinese medical needs and administrative rules. It has been implemented for nephrology and rheumatology at the Rui Jin hospital in Shanghai, but its design and implementation have been guided by genericity in order to make easier its adaptation and extension to other diseases and other countries. The genericity aspects have been considered at the levels of events design, database design and production, and software design. This first experiment in China leads to some conclusions about the adaptability of the system to several diseases and the multilinguality of the interface and in medical terminologies.