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Health Informatics Centrea collaboration between Stockholm County Council and KI

Health Informatics Centre, Dept. of LIME and Dept. of Medicine (MedSolna), KI

Meaningful use of EHRs in SwedenSabine Koch

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Swedish Healthcare

• 9 million inhabitants• 21 self-governed regions/county councils with

responsibility for hospital and primary care• 290 self-governed local authorities with responsibility

for healthcare of the elderly and functionally disabled• Legislation of healthcare on a national level – the

Parliament

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IT an integrated part of Swedish healthcare

• Electronic patient record (4 companies comprise 88% of the market)– 100 % of all documentation in primary care is electronic– 97 % in hospitals– 97 % in psychiatry– >90 % in ambulances (with direct communication to hospitals)

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+ Clinical champions supported by strong administrators

+ Collegial pressure / peer influence/ larger group practices in PC

+ Culture – ”Sweden as high-tech innovative country”

+ Use of an unique national patient identifier

+ User centricity

- Too many different, incompatible systems with local terminology

(27 different products in 1994)

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IT an integrated part of Swedish healthcare

• e-Prescriptions– 80 % of all pharmaceutical prescriptions in Sweden are issued and

transferred electronically

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+ Only one national provider of pharmacy retail from 1970-2009 (Apoteksbolaget AB)

- Decision support during prescription process is still lacking behind: In Sweden some 3000 deaths yearly are estimated to depend on medication errors.

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IT an integrated part of Swedish healthcare

• National Quality Registries• 60+ national quality registries containing individual-level data on

diagnoses, treatment interventions and oucomes, organized by condition

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+ Decentralization

+ Peer influence and practical use

+ Quality assurance – can be used for research

- No interoperability between registries

- Integration with EHR is lacking

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Applications• My Healthcare Contacts MVK (access to national health care

information, appointment scheduling etc.)• 1177 (national telephone and Internet advisory service)

• NPÖ (National Patient Summary)

• PASCAL (National Medication List)• SIL (National Drug Database)

Basic structures • Common technical platform

- Sjunet (National communication network, since 1999)- HSA registry (Health Services Address registry)- SITHS (National security solution/e-certificate)- BIF (Basic Services for Information Maintenance)

• NI, National information structure (ready 2009)• TIS, Technical information structure (EN13606/EHRcom)• IFK2, National Quality Registry Infrastructure• National terminology incl. SNOMED CT (member of IHTSDO)

• Patient Data Act (since July 2008)

Source: Swedish National eHealth Strategy, 2006 and its yearly updates 2007-2010

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The best tool is useless if you don’t know how to use it !

It’s a knife to open letters with.

What a stupid invention!

Meaningful use?

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Meaningful use in Sweden

• Towards process support at the point of need

• Handling patient information across organizational boundaries independant of EHR

• Meeting the needs of several stakeholders

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Most important challengesImplementation is done locally but with a national

consensus

• will it be the same for quality registries?

• legal and privacy issues?

• evaluation of the effects?

• education?

• implementation hampers interoperability – compliance with international standards?

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Contact

Sabine KochHealth Informatics CentreDepartment of learning, informatics, management and ethicsKarolinska InstitutetStockholm

[email protected]/hic