The aim of the project has been to create a centralized IT system that collects a patient’s medical data from all medical providers, as well as its integration with the other IT platforms that the National Health Insurance House has: SIPE – The Electronic Prescription System, CEAS – The Electronic Health Insurance Card, SIUI – The Unique Integrated IT system.
As compared to the abovementioned platforms, which focus on the settlement and judicious management of healthcare funds, EHR targets both the patient and the physician, being an essential tool in improving the quality of healthcare services.
The Romanian EHR is the first national health system of EHR type (Electronic Health Records) and PHR (Patient Health Records) developed on the HL7 standard (an interoperability standard in the IT medical field). From this point of view, EHR is a premiere in the Balkan area. UTI GRUP has become member of the HL7 association in Romania and one of the promoters of this standard.
EHR is the first health system dedicated both to the patient and the physician. Personal and medical data can be viewed only by the patient. Full health information can be viewed by the physician only with the patient’s permission.
Technological challenge: the technical solution involved the implementation of more than 20 complex software products, over 125 virtual servers. In the data storage area, a5 Petabytes solution was installed, using complex technologies such as storage virtualization, replication, tiering.
Data security is guaranteed by the implemented IT security mechanisms, such as authentication based on digital certificate and security matrices, encryption of communication between the user and the central IT platform of EHR, permanent access control and auditing, safe data storage.