e-Health of the European Union of private hospitals Commission meets this Thursday in Paris
Jesus Gomez Montoya, Executive President of the clinic of the assumption, will be the Spanish representative at the meeting, which will decide which recommendations give the EU the unification of health coding standards for electronic medical records
Paris, June 2012.- global accessibility to personal medical data through the electronic health record, is one of the major projects of the EU on health. The European Union of private hospitals (UEHP), Member of the Commission who is advising the Commission on EU health, will meet this week in Paris to decide which recommendations to the European body with regard to the unification of terminology and coding standards.
Jesús Gómez Montoya, Member of the Board of Directors of the National Federation of private clinics (FNCP) and Executive President of the clinic of the Asunción de Tolosa, Center pioneer in the Basque country in the implementation of the electronic health record, will participate in this meeting as representative of Spain.
E-Health, the sum of the electronic healthcare medicine and the electronic health record is emerging, according to Gomez Montoya, as the future of Medicine: the eHealth is nothing more than doing well the medicine that was formerly with other tools and other instruments. The doctor will continue to work and the patient will continue to be patient. The basic difference is that the patient collaborates with health plus that in the traditional method ”.
Despite the difficult economic situation, both in Europe and in Spain of health information technologies are a sector of investor interest, in which not only are not making cuts, but it still having support for enhanced and stimulate ”, the Executive President of the clinic of the assumption says.
The application in situ by territories of the records of patients who receive homecare and the unification of the encoding and the Gazetteer for facilitating access to medical records anywhere in Europe are the two major challenges in the medium and short term e-Health on the continent. According to Gomez Montoya, access to medical history in the cloud so that it can be accessed from anywhere in the world to it is something that will be universalizado in about three years ”.
In regards to the situation in Spain in the field of e-Health, Gomez Montoya explained that while to be split into 17 communities, has had to carry out a work of standardization that other countries have not done as France or Belgium, from the point of view of application of technological advances are just like the rest of Europe or even more advanced than many countries ”.
The clinic of the assumption is a pioneer in the Basque country in to offer his patients access to its history Clinic online. In addition, pray to your agreement with the Ministry of health and consumption of the Basque Government, which serves as the regional hospital of Tolosaldea, patients in this region, are the only ones of Osakidetza that can access a similar service.
