National E-Health Record – Romanian National Health Insurance House

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.

Project novelty

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.

Features

• Collects, manages and organizes medical data received from medical service providers.
• Allows safe and secured access to medical information from any location, via internet.
• Provides private and secured access for the physician and the patient to medical date in the health record.
• Facilitates tracking the health progress and ensures the continuity of the medical process.
• Ensures the transparency of the medical process.
• Reduces significantly the access time to medical records required in emergency cases.
• Increases the efficiency of the healthcare services received by the patient.

Benefits

• High social and economic impact thanks to the transparency of the provided medical data
• Increased quality of the medical services  by rapid online and secured access to the medical information
• Rapid and correct diagnosis
• The patient’s easy and transparent access to his medical data and to the data of the persons he represents
• Confidentiality of the medical data
• Increased interoperability with the health providers abroad
• Easy integration with other similar IT medical systems and interoperability with the eHealth platforms available in UE