Key Competencies

SANTEC has proven competencies in the fields listed below. SANTEC's activities will include competences from one or more fields below, in addition to competences coming from our national or international partners.

• Hospital and medical information systems
  • Specialized applications for medical or hospital departments
  • Electronic hospital / medical record
  • Medical databases

• Communication & interoperability
  • Interfaces and communication between IT applications
  • Enterprise Application Integration (EAI)
  • Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
  • Standardisation in healthcare (HL7, DICOM, LOINC, IHE, …)

• Secure Communication Networks
• Mobile and wireless computing
• Software development, quality & testing
• Free and Open Source Software

• National Patient related Records & Applications (Personal health, Medical Imaging, laboratory, ePrescription…)
• Processes and interconnections of the «care chain»
• Technical and semantical interoperability
• Managed care, including disease management
• Telemedicine & Home monitoring
• Patient identification, informed consent & safety
• Smart cards in healthcare

• Medical devices and hospital equipment
• Terminologies, classification and codification systems
• Clinical intelligence and performance
• Clinical processes & pathways
• Expert systems and clinical decision support (CDS)
• Intelligent sensors (with the LTI)
• Hospital management
  • Logistics and organisation (with the LTI)
  • Quality assurance (with the LTI)

• Health economical evaluations
• Evaluation of the impact of new methods, systems and/or solutions on quality of life and costs
• Analysis of use and efficiency of new methods, systems and/or solutions
• Market and requirement studies
• Cost-benefit and socio-economical studies

• General image processing

• Medical imaging
  • RIS-PACS
  • Imaging modalities
  • DICOM standard and DICOM tools
  • Image quality
  • Image visualisation and interpretation

• Bio-medical imaging

• Information security
  • Data privacy : Anonymization & Pseudonimization
  • Access rights & roles
  • Data & database encryption

• User Authentication
  • Authentication, Authorization & Accounting
  • 2-factor authentication system
  • Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) & Electronic Signature

• Computing security
  • Physical access protection (locks, racks, server room, etc.)
  • Secure Operation Systems
  • Protection from Malware
  • Logging & tracking

• Network security
  • Anti-intrusion, Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS)
  • Firewalls
  • Monitoring
  • Communications encryption
  • Demilitarized Zones (DMZ)

• Organizational security
  • Security Policies
  • Security Incident Management
  • Audit

• Business Continuity
  • Availability, back-up
  • Disaster recovery
  • Key Escrow