Evaluating a Proof-of-Concept Approach of the German Health Telematics Infrastructure in the Context of Discharge Management
- Although national eHealth strategies have existed now for more than a decade in many countries, they have been implemented with varying success. In Germany, the eHealth strategy so far has resulted in a roll out of electronic health cards for all citizens in the statutory health insurance, but in no clinically meaningful IT-applications. The aim of this study was to test the technical and organisation feasibility, usability, and utility of an eDischarge application embedded into a laboratory Health Telematics Infrastructure (TI). The tests embraced the exchange of eDischarge summaries based on the multiprofessional HL7 eNursing Summary standard between a municipal hospital and a nursing home. All in all, 36 transmissions of electronic discharge documents took place. They demonstrated the technical-organisation feasibility and resulted in moderate usability ratings. A comparison between eDischarge and paper-based summaries hinted at higher ratings of utility and information completeness for eDischarges. Despite problems with handling the electronic health card, the proof-of-concept for the first clinically meaningful IT-application in the German Health TI could be regarded as successful.
Author: | Georg Schulte, Nicole EgbertORCiD, Ursula Hertha HübnerORCiD, Matthias Quade, Thorsten RottmannORCiD, Matthias Fenske, Björn SellemannORCiD, Raik KuhlischORCiD, Otto Rienhoff |
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Title (English): | Evaluating a Proof-of-Concept Approach of the German Health Telematics Infrastructure in the Context of Discharge Management |
URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:959-opus-20891 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-564-7-492 |
ISBN: | 978-1-61499-563-0 |
ISBN: | 978-1-61499-564-7 |
Parent Title (English): | MEDINFO 2015 : eHealth-enabled Health |
Publisher: | IOS Press |
Place of publication: | Amsterdam, Berlin, Washington (DC) |
Document Type: | Conference Proceeding |
Language: | English |
Year of Completion: | 2015 |
Release Date: | 2021/05/27 |
First Page: | 492 |
Last Page: | 496 |
Note: | MEDINFO 2015 - eHealth-enabled Health, 19.08. - 23.08.2015, São Paulo (Brazil) |
Faculties: | Fakultät WiSo |
DDC classes: | 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 610 Medizin, Gesundheit |
Review Status: | Veröffentlichte Fassung/Verlagsversion |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons - CC BY-NC - Namensnennung - Nicht kommerziell 4.0 International |