The MPI is an application that will empower Austria's healthcare professionals to perform a nationwide search for patient records. It is designed to find an individual no matter where their records are stored so that medical staff in different hospitals or departments in locations spread across Austria can access detailed information on a patient in their care.
By providing a nationwide search facility, the application improves the safety and quality of patient care as medical treatments will be based on the latest electronic record, which will also include emergency information such as blood type and allergies. Through the system, healthcare professionals will get a detailed, single view of a patient's medical record.
"The MPI will cut the administrative burden on hospital staff, and most importantly, improve patient care," said Horst-Martin Dreyer, director of the company. "Healthcare professionals often do not know where a patient has been treated in the past and where to source their latest records. By providing a system that can do this automatically, we will improve efficiency and allow doctors to concentrate on providing the best and safest care possible based on the latest information available for each patient."
The Austrian Federal Ministry for Health (Bundesministerium für Gesundheit - BMG, in German) holds overall responsibility for ELGA and is supported by the federal states and the country's social insurance department, HVB (Hauptverband der österreichischen Sozialversicherungsträger, in German). A division of HVB, the IT Services of the Austrian Social Security (IT Services der Sozialversicherung - ITSV, in German) appointed the aforementioned company to develop and integrate the MPI system into ELGA.
The MPI is one of six components of the ELGA project and is based on the Central Partner Management (ZPV) application installed at HVB, which contains more than 12 million data records. The other five aspects include a Health Service Provider Index, Document Register, Authorisation Concept, Health Portal and eMedication. The overall project is designed to deliver Austrian citizens a joined-up, efficient, electronic healthcare system.
The winning company along with its partner and in cooperation with the client are already designing the MPI with specialists in development management, business analysis and information architecture to deliver the project by early 2011.
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