Fundació TicSalut presents the shared medical record and the adjusted morbidity groups in Peking

One of the projects which aroused most expectation amongst those attending the meetings was the Shared Medical Record of Catalonia (HC3) as “China has a highly centralised health system focused on the main hospitals and with little accessibility, but without a developed primary healthcare network.  Therefore, everything which means reducing hospital queues can be of great use to them”, explains Dr. Òscar Solans, functional coordinator of the Catalonia Shared Medical Record, of Fundació TicSalut, and responsible for presenting the potential of a technological model that allows patient data to be integrated between the different medical centres.

In his turn, David Monterde, technical adviser of the Technical Secretariat of the Catalan Health Institute (ICS), talked about the advantages of the adjusted morbidity group model (GMA), a tool being developed by CatSalut and which enables the population at risk to be layered.  The Catalan representation also welcomed José Manuel Sánchez, operations manager of the company Linkcare Health Services. 

The Chinese Health Ministry, which is currently establishing the objectives for the next five-year plan, paid great attention to the projects displayed by Fundació TicSalut. Dr Yanjije Gao, directress of Health Statistics and Information Systems of the Chinese Ministry, closed the session and explained that one of the main goals of Chinese Healthcare is to attract foreign talent to improve the health system. Óscar Solans, in this sense, explained that “these lines of cooperation can always provide opportunities for Catalan companies in possible developments in China”.

He said that “the fact of being able to share projects or to maintain relations with the Chinese Health Ministry is always interesting”. In fact he says that these kinds of presentations facilitate interaction in international meetings, and provide greater knowledge and more possibilities of cooperating on projects, as well as exchanging knowledge between both countries.

Despite everything, Solans reiterates that the Chinese health system “is very different” and that therefore “it is difficult at the present time to incorporate synergies in our system”.

In any case, experiences like this explain the initiatives that are carried out in the health systems around the world and “we have to continue discovering mutual experiences to find solutions to the needs of each system and possible lines of collaboration”, sentences the coordinator of the HC3.