From storing to utilization of patient data

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Promoting quality of specialized health care

PATIENT CARE

  • Safety in care increases
  • Quality of patient contacts increases
  • Delays, forgettings and duplicate events increase
  • Outward visits are needed less
  • Know-how of specialists is in use earlier and across organisational borders
  • Complications due to medication get less
  • Care flows seamlessly through all health services

PROFESSIONALS

  • Learning to use computer add general ability to act
  • Better layout and availability of information add professional skills
  • Personal safety and legal security increases
  • Workflows may be reconsidered more satisfactory
  • Work offers challenges and possibility for continuous learning and even feedback  

REGIONAL NETWORK

  • Network of information enables seamless co-operation
  • Regional planning may be based on data and on-line monitoring
  • Investments of primary healthcare on it begin to return

MANAGEMENT

  • Source reliability of statistics increases for both administrative and scientific use
  • Planning of human resources may be based on facts
  • All data may be reached online by one tool
  • Transportation costs decrease
  • Long-time availability and storage of data and data protection get less expensive to achieve

Portal as the first step towards e-health highway

Data processing systems
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eHealth highway
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THE ONLY RELEVANT PURPOSE  FOR PROFESSIONALS TO RECORD CARE 

Promotion of patient care

THE NATURE OF ORGINAL CARE DOCUMENTS

Data stored along the care offers the only authentic source of what, when, why, how, using what and by whom something was done.

FEATURES OF A SURVIVING PATIENT DATA SYSTEM

  • A system with low usability is a system without users
  • Data system allows new ways of working but practical workflows yet model the further direction of development of the surviving systems.
  • A system must reward every end-user and other involved in some way
  • Patient data system may be relevant only if it is leaning on the fact that masters of processing information - of a patient and of professional knowledge - are found inside healthcare.    

GOOD REASONS TO IMPLEMENT DATA SYSTEMS IN HEALTHCARE

  1. Effort to minimize routine work not focused on solving individual needs and problems
  2. Effort to decrease data by leaving out repeated illustrations of routines in a single record
  3. Need to arrange data according to its value and purpose
  4. Will to share information to co-workers and the patient
  5. Will to store and analyze processes automatically
  6. Need of a computer to remember, remind and warn
  7. Need to produce statistics for both internal and external use
  8. Need of different type of reviews on the data for care related or administrative or scientific purposes.

Processes of the project
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Tarja Rasi
Project manager
tarja.rasi@tyks.fi