Health Ministerial Information:
Danish EU presidency: No improvement of care without data!
The US-based health plan Kaiser Permanente (KP) is among the forerunners of digitally assisted care delivery in the world. During the last decade, KP has built up a fully integrated care network that allows designing evidence-based care plans and sets standards in terms of transparency and patient involvement.
Press release, 9 May 2012
Germany: Electronic Health Card
After intensive preparation, the statutory health insurance funds commenced with the distribution of the electronic health card in 2011. Prior to this, new reading devices, which are capable of processing both the new electronic health card and the health insurance cards hitherto in use, were installed in hospitals as well as in medical and dental practices.
The new electronic health card contains, first of all, the same administrative data as the old health insurance card. These include: name, address, date of birth, gender, health insurance number as well as insurance and co-payment status. It also contains the technical prerequisites to enable, at a further developmental stage, medical data such as emergency data and references to advance health care directives or organ donation pledges to be stored at your request. The aim is to enable a better and more secure exchange of medical information among health care providers in the future. The patients will benefit through improved quality of care.
Press release, October 2011
Finland: Nurses get limited right to prescribe medication to patients in their care
Nurses would have the right to prescribe pre-defined vaccines and prescription drugs of which there is long experience. A nurse could continue the medication, for example, in case of arterial hypertension, type 2 diabetes, and asthma. The conditions are that a doctor has diagnosed the medical condition and indicated in the patient's care plan that the medication continues and that the patient's condition and medication are stable. In emergency situations a nurse could prescribe some pre-determined drugs on the basis of symptoms.
(...) Limited prescribing right improves the operational prerequisites for health centres
Even now, health centre nurses are relatively independent as they keep nurses' clinics. The possibility to prescribe medication speeds up the start of the treatment of sudden and common health problems and improves the running of the health centre.
The reform is estimated to improve the operational prerequisites for health centres and the access to services as well as to increase client satisfaction in those health care units where the limited prescribing right is introduced. The limited prescribing right, along with other ways of dividing tasks, is estimated to slow down the rise in demand for physicians and to improve the efficiency of the outpatient services at health centres.
Press release, 21 January 2010
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