Mediconsult Ltd

Benefits of the project

Mediconsult’s own experiences of the project How software companies can utilize the results What is there for the health care organisations Possible obstacles that might delay practical

applications

Mediconsult Ltd

Year of foundation 1975 18 years of experience in health care

information processing and consulting Offices in Helsinki and Kuopio Customers: hospitals, health centres, private

clinics, occupational health units, rehabilitation centres

Main product: Mediatri

Schedules RadiologyDomestic nursing and home services

Doctors’ appointments

Physiotherapy Ward

Child welfare clinic and school health care

Social work and rehabilitation

Occupational health

Maternity clinic and family planning

Psychologist Dental treatment

Laboratory Logopedist Invoices and ledger

Mediconsult and PlugIT

Mediconsult joined PlugIT in spring 2002 At first there seemed to be big expectations Later the project focused on a few concrete

problems Interfaces aroused our interest Participated actively in interface definition work

Context Manager

Implementation based on standard version 2 Only a little influence on client program code Clients are easy to implement Possible to extend usage to custom subjects

and items

Users, patients and codes

Interfaces: IdentifyProfile, ProfileAccess, Codeservice, Codeset, Code

Most applications have their own registers Information is needed throughout the

application Possibly difficult to alter existing program code Interfaces are recommended in new programs

Authentication and authorization

Interfaces: AuthenticateUser, AuthorizationAccess

Authentication is usually made only once Authorization is checked all the time and

everywhere AuthorizationAccess-interface may require

large code modifications in existing applications

Benefits

Increase of knowledge Cost savings Programs are easier to use simultaneously Time savings Duplicate registers can be avoided Centralized rights management

In the future

Implementations will reveal the problems in interface definitions

Standardization work must continue HL7 Common Services SIG SerAPI-project

Thank you !