The Shared Medical Record project in Catalonia, led by the Catalan Health Service (CatSalut), allows healthcare centres to share millions of medical documents in order to facilitate the health professionals’ work and improve user attention. In February we exceeded the figure of 80,000,000 published documents, a milestone that shows the good evolution of this tool that provides important information on a patient’s state and progress throughout their healthcare process. With respect to 2012, in one year viewer accesses increased by 44% and the average number of documents published in the HC3 by 24%.
Today 98% of acute hospitals and primary attention centres in the Public Network of Users are connected to the HC3, and also 91% of the social healthcare centres and 84% of the metal health centres in Catalonia, as is shown in the Map of Tendencies 2013. This deployment has led to the registry of more than 100 professional accesses to the HC3 per second.
“For the citizens, the HC3 is a great benefit as it reduces the duplication of medical tests and saves on travelling, but especially because it guarantees the continuity of the healthcare, the proactivity of the system and the availability of healthcare information between the health centres”, explains Dr. Francesc García Cuyàs, Director of Fundació TicSalut and ICT Coordinator for the Department of Health. The HC3 is therefore a tool to guarantee a 360º view of the citizen and to guarantee the quality of the healthcare as a stamp of quality for social healthcare institutions.
Furthermore, the medical records of the public healthcare network’s health centres have been made compatible by using mechanisms of interoperability and the use of standard web services between information systems, which means that it is now possible to access a patient’s healthcare and health information whenever and wherever it is needed.
With respect to interoperability and the use of standards, the experience with the HC3 in Catalonia has become a model in the state and abroad. A common platform of interoperability will soon be offered to health providers to enhance this network of information and services.
“The professionals’ growing use of the HC3 is a sign of its success. This encourages us to continue working and to develop the present model to reach all healthcare centres and to provide new developments to increase its flexibility and to facilitate its use with a clear healthcare and service vocation”, concludes Dr. García Cuyas.
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