Doctors are legally obliged to supply statistical information to the Slovakian National Health Information Center (NHIC; Národné centrum zdravotníckych informácií - NCZI, in Slovak). The NHIC uses this information to support a system that enables healthcare professionals to inspect the statistics on diseases and treatments and to monitor the development of the health of the population. The NHIC also provides publications which monitor such issues as the number of cancer patients, the number of drug addicts, the occurrence of industrial accidents, and statistics on hospital admissions.
Currently the electronic transmission of the statistical returns can be made in two ways. The first is the completion and submission of electronic forms (spreadsheets). The second way is through the web application of the 'information system of health indicators' (Informačného systému zdravotníckych indikátorov - ISZI, in Slovak). The main advantage of this system is that it facilitates the easy inspection of historical data, filtered according to the user's own criteria.
Andrej Orban, Director of the NHIC, said: "We are pleased that doctors are learning to communicate electronically. The significant increase in the electronic transmission of statistics will benefit the entire medical community. For doctors the main benefit will be the saving of time and for the wider medical community it is the increased quality of the data, and in particular the lower error rate compared with manual processing."
He added: "The adoption of the system of electronic reporting by doctors is also one of the indicators of the preparedness of the healthcare system for the arrival of eHealth."
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Quelle/Source: epractice, 26.09.2011
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