HCDSNS is aimed at ensuring that citizens and health professionals can access important patient health data from anywhere in Spain with the assurance that these data are accessible to authorised persons only. This means that when citizens are travelling outside their home regions and need healthcare, the physicians who will deal with their case will be able to view their most important health data.
The Autonomous Community joined HCDSNS on 29 July 2011; Madrid's regional health service completed the necessary actions to comply with the technical requirements of a new version of the HCDSNS application. This new version, furthermore, will enable the future integration of HCDSNS with the infrastructure to be established by the EU-funded epSOS project. EpSOS is intended to build and evaluate a service infrastructure which demonstrates cross-border interoperability between electronic health record systems in Europe.
This achievement places the Madrid region as a leading region in the project, like other Autonomous Communities such as Valencia, the Balearic Islands and Rioja.
The pilot phase of HCDSNS started in 2010; two hospitals (the 'Gregorio Marañón' and the '12 Octobre' hospitals) participated as centres receiving health records. The authorised professionals from such establishments could access important health data of those patients who were not Madrid residents, provided the patients' Autonomous Community was sharing this information through the node of the Health Ministry.
At the end of 2010, the Madrid region passed the tests required by the Ministry in order to establish - under sufficient conditions of security and confidentiality - the necessary connection with its node to make the health records accessible with the digital certificates of public sector staff.
During the second half of 2011 the deployment will continue in five more hospitals (Clínico San Carlos, Ramón y Cajal, Puerta de Hierro, La Paz y Niño Jesús) and 25 % of primary healthcare centres, so that the connection between primary and specialised care is completed in December 2012. Likewise, the authorised health professionals of other Autonomous Communities will be able to access Madrid region's residents health information in case their patients need care while they are outside of the region.
Further information:
- Original news article - Department of Health of the Autonomous Community of Madrid - (in Spanish)
- Historia Clínica Digital del Sistema Nacional de Salud - HCDSNS (in Spanish)
- epSOS
Note: Original article in Spanish published in the Health Portal of the Autonomous Community of Madrid. Translation performed by the ePractice Editorial Team.
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Quelle/Source: epractice, 02.09.2011
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