The global state doctors: patients caught in the electronic Network
an article entitled "eHealth mania unabated" in the January issue of "The Free dentist," lay hold of me as a citizen and potential patient as follows:
was a few months ago there was a "First South East European eHealth Networking Conference in Sarajevo. 13 Southeast European countries dealt with this issue in health telematics. The EU funded the conference, for which there is already a successor appointment. Concerned, inter alia lifetime records ("patient records"). Cost savings are not achieved with eHealth said.
as a positive example for eHealth was a quote from Scotland:
There was a medical Emergency service system set up because the National Health Service (NHS) doctors are no longer wanted to work after 17h. The patient calls for a "NHS24-Call Center", managed by a non-medical force decides on the basis of the existing five million patient records (but only with records of medication and allergies), and telephone information to the patient what medical action is to take place: the hospital admission , home visit, or simply nothing. So far there had been only one serious adverse event: one patient died of meningitis, because the call center no doctor intervened. But that has not led to public unrest, as the acceptance of the system coverage was.
The Federal Ministry of Health (BMG), which also has responsibility for European and international e-health issues shares, the enthusiasm for eHealth and operates the establishment of basic structures and their international networks [Insert the Blogger: such as the creation of health-e-card with the central storage of all of our patient data on Internet servers and their global accessibility]. Already in 2007 a close cooperation in the field of European e-Health was agreed. be "Now could finally" di3 "cross-border 'patient summary' and 'ePrescribing'" forward. Allegedly, it basically goes
the efficient medical treatment traveling EU citizens. The German gematik presented epSOS (Smart Open Services for European Patients [Insert the Blogger: And perhaps a semantic SOS call from insiders to the unsuspecting public?]), And the Brussels EHTEL (European Health Telematics Association) presented CALLIOPE (Call for Interoperability) before. Both projects make similar: epSOS drives in 12 countries with opportunities for electronic prescriptions and the availability of all electronic medical record (EMR) above, with a focus on the legal and administrative aspects. CALLIOPE operates the same only in a few more countries and focusing on the technical side.
When asked how large was the number of potentially benefit from a "interoperable eHealth services next patient, and how many of these traveling patients to date arise from the absence of epSOS a health damage abroad or did you not answer. The Federal Health Ministry said at least that would be 1 to 1.5% of all cases settled in Germany treatment provided abroad! Whether these patients would improve by epSOS something, no one is interested, the main thing it's done. Everything is paid for by taxpayers.
