The medical field, regarded from all its levels (local, regional, national and international) is assimilated to an open environment, characterized by a shared and distributed decisional process, which assumes co-operation and communication of different types of information between various participants (patients, physicians, laboratories, clinics etc.). In the last years, a general tendency towards growth of medical services quality, offered to population, was outlined, fact that assumes, among others, the existence of some software applications, able to allow errors reduction in patients’ diagnosis and treatments applying, growth of health education level and accessibility degree to medical information or its providing from distance etc. Within the context of following European integration, the national health system will have to align this tendency, the national research programs having a decisive role upon assuring optimal conditions of carrying out this process.
For the time being, the degree of adopting informatics within health system from Romania is relatively reduced, and the information about patients being spread on medical entities level, patients sheets not being unitary and complete, and cannot be accessed by the medical staff in case of necessity. In this way, the declared goal of the SIMOPAC system consists in activating on distributed medical environment and, in private, in solving the problems related to patients’ identifying and monitoring upon the basis of newest applicable technologies in the field: radio-frequency identification (Radio Frequency IDentification), co-operative solving of problems within a distributed environment (intelligent multi-agent technologies) and a communication infrastructure, which has to allow multi-point access to medical information transmitted through the system.
Using the SIMOPAC system will allow:
- access to medical services upon the basis of a medical identity card;
- developing some regional/national multimedia data base, that contain electronic medical records of patients, allowing sharing of patients’ information;
- secured access to medical information from data base (both by the medical staff and patient), assuring the two-directional, complete and fast transfer of the information;
- fast achieving of important patient information, vital in ruling the emergency medical act within mobile units (ambulances), in the view of suitable treatment applying;
- growth of communication extent between all health services providers: family physicians, specialists, hospitals, medical analyses laboratories, pharmacists;
- execution of prognoses and studies related to evolution tendencies of population health state by physicians, researchers, authorities in the health field;
Through the implemented services within the system, a co-operative work environment will be assured, both for structural components of a medical unit and for distributed medical entities on large fields. Executing the proposed system needs co-operation and creating of complex research teams, which involve specialists of informatics, electronics, telecommunication, computers engineering and medicine fields, as well as decision factors from health field, too.
All these elements support project encircling within thematic area 3.3.1, PT 3 platform, as well as priorities 1 (health – by optimization of medical services supply towards population) and 3 (informational and communication technologies – by developing specialized informatics applications) of Frame Program 7 (PC7).
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