2023-06-30 09:18:28
The interoperable clinical history project has been launched in private healthcare. The patient can access it and share the information with health professionals, regardless of the center and place where they are.
The interoperable medical record project, promoted by the Institute for the Development and Integration of Health (IDIS Foundation)which brings together the private healthcare sector in Spain, has started with a platform, which is already operational.
The tool is “secure, functional and robust,” according to IDIS.
The platform
Specifically, it is a platform based on the interoperability of IT systems and tools so that the patient “who owns their health history” can digitally access and share their reports or tests with the professional of their choice. integrated into the project.
The patient will access through the website or the application of the hospital center or the insurer, and after verifying your identity if it is the first time you are using the tool, you will be able to select the hospital groups where you have your clinical information, with the list of reports.
Once you have selected the one you need, you can share it with the professional to whom you will provide the verification code and six digits that the program will provide you.
The physician, for his part, will receive an email with a secure link to the report. When clicking, you must include the code provided by the patient.
guaranteed security
And to ensure data security, the link sent by the patient is “temporary, exclusive and unique” for each share.
Each affiliated entity will begin to use it for different groups of patients “progressively” in order to consolidate the project “little by little”.
IDIS insists that the protection of patient data is guaranteed, “since he himself decides what he shares and with whom”.
President of (IDIS), Juan Abarca./Photo courtesy of IDIS
The entities that have promoted the project are Adeslas, Asisa, Caser, DKV, Grupo Catalana Occidente, HLA, HM Hospitales, Hospiten, Mapfre, Hospital Order of San Juan de Dios, Quirónsalud, Ribera, Sanitas (Hospitals and medical centers and Insurance). and Vithas.
Each one of them will be incorporated gradually and the patient from the private sector will be able to have access to their clinical history in any center throughout the national territory.
In addition, the project wants to integrate other agents in the sector in the future, such as out-of-hospital doctors and the social health and pharmaceutical sectors.
“An important step”
For the IDIS Foundation the clinical record in private healthcare is “an important first step” before the arrival of the new European Health Data Space (EEDS), which aims to give each citizen full control of their health data and to provide them voluntarily to professionals of the EU health care or research purposes.
“All the development carried out helps us to be ready for the moment in which interoperability is real in Europe. This is the largest and most complex project undertaken by the IDIS Foundation”, affirms its president, Juan Abarca.
A tool that for the Foundation translates into accessibility, reduction of bureaucracy associated with the care process, comfort for the patient, improvement in quality and safety, as well as an increase in co-responsibility of the patient, reduction of duplication of evidence and delays, among others.
In this way, IDIS wants to achieve “a unique patient” in an integrated healthcare system.
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