The Governing Council of the Community of Madrid has approved the contracts for services that will migrate the current clinical information systems of seven public hospitals to make them into digital hospitals.
To meet this objective, the Council of Health will invest – between 2014 and 2017 – almost 10.6 million euros which will allow it to modernize all the IT systems at the Ramón y Cajal, La Paz, Clínico San Carlos, Getafe, Santa Cristina, Niño Jesús and Central de la Cruz Roja Hospitals.
With this initiative, the Community of Madrid will be able to update the healthcare information systems of 27 of the 36 public hospitals in the network, including specialty centers.
The project will serve to optimize the quality of care, therapeutic continuity, patient safety, and the quality of clinical decision making and improve the use of healthcare resources. It will also make it possible to advance with the implementation of the Electronic Health Record.
The initiative arises from one of the strategic plans of the Madrid Health Service (SERMAS): to make use and take advantage of information systems and technologies to manage public health centers.To achieve the homogenization of all the health information systems, they have been working on the adoption of an open and integrated technological architecture that provides interoperability between systems on the different care levels and within them, as well as external systems.
In fact, it is worth remembering that in 2008 the Directive Plan for Technologically Updating Hospitals in the Digit@l Era (Plan Director ATHENE@) established a design to modernize systems and created a technological platform for hospitals, adapting them to the “digital hospital” model, taking into account the specific circumstances of each center.
Source: Comunidad de Madrid
Photo: Luis García
