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A survey of doctors has found widespread concerns over the accuracy and reliability of electronic patient records. Researchers say that healthcare professionals also have worries about a new centralised medical records database.

”We noticed that doctors are not very pleased with their electronic patient record programmes,” said Tinja Lääveri, chair of the e-health committee at the Finnish Medical Association (FMA), who helped conduct the research.

The research, published in the FMA’s in-house journal, turned up problems in measurements for blood coagulation in eastern Finland, and the electronic prescription system in Päijät-Häme.

Read more: Finnish Medical Association: Electronic patient records unreliable

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The President of Finland confirmed that the Act on electronic auctions (eAuctions) and dynamic purchasing systems of 17 June 2011 will enter into force on 1 October 2011 along with related acts.

As a result of this new legislative package which partly amends Finland's Act on Public Procurement of 03 March 2007, the competitive procurement of public contracts for the provision of goods, services and works will be handled increasingly by electronic means.

Read more: FI: Act on eAuctions and dynamic purchasing systems to enter into force on 1 October 2011

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Vetuma, the Finnish public administration's joint service for electronic citizen identification and payment, has grown significantly during its 5 years of service, and will be updated during summer 2011, it was announced at a dedicated conference on 25 May 2011.

Tapani Puisto, Service Manager at the State Treasury's Government IT Shared Service Centre (Valtion IT-palvelukeskus - VIP, in Finnish), said: "The service was the first major project which had been launched by the Government IT Shared Service Centre. Since those first days of the service user numbers have increased 50-fold. Whereas at the beginning there were only a few [participating] municipalities, now there are over a hundred and more are coming all the time."

Read more: FI: Vetuma eID and ePayment service to be updated following rapid growth

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On 22 August 2011, an online discussion was launched by the Finnish government to collect citizens' views on the digitisation of health and social care services. The public consultation will close on 30 September 2011.

Anyone who is interested can express their opinions and comments via a governmental public consultation website (Otakantaa.fi), on the following questions:

  • Tell us about your experience with electronic health and social care services, or your lack of such experience
  • What electronic services would you wish to see addressed / developed in particular?
  • Can you easily find online all the health information you need, and do you find it easy to assess their reliability?

Read more: FI: Citizens consulted on electronic health and social care services

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Excellent growth figures - on EU levels the e-id volume would be 1,5bn. All public sector id-transactions are presently done by banks. This is extremely cost efficient (economy of reuse) and naturally preferred by citizens - as the tool (one-time code) is so familiar (economy of repetition and secure (economy of trust).

Difficult to understand why this public-private solution has not spread to more than some half a dozen countries (not a big source of income for banks of course - more a question of better customer service and taking responsibility for speeding up e-government. Technology vendors naturally try to sell a separate tool for every purpose - but endusers prefer familiar ones.

Read more: e-id services and e-commerce payments 2010 in Finland

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