(Health Korea News / Lee Chang-yong) In the future, patients receiving treatment at Seoul National University Bundang Hospital will likely be able to check their treatment records through a mobile app.
Seoul National University Bundang Hospital successfully completed the ‘Health Information Highway (Personal Medical Record Access System) Medical Data Provider Expansion System Construction Project’ and held an opening ceremony in the hospital conference room on the 19th.
The Health Information Highway is a system that stores personal health information, such as patient treatment and prescription history, held by various organizations including medical institutions, the National Health Insurance Corporation, and the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service in a standardized format and allows easy access via mobile devices.
With this system, patients can access and use their medical data anytime and anywhere without having to visit their previous hospital. They can check their personal health information, such as test results, through a mobile app, and easily transfer it to the new hospital medical staff using a web viewer. The medical staff who receive the patient’s health information can use it to provide efficient and accurate diagnosis and treatment.
In this project promoted by the Ministry of Health and Welfare and the Korea Health Industry Development Institute, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital participated as the main organization and built a cloud-based central storage where medical institutions can store medical data from September of last year to August of this year. The technology for storing and transmitting medical data is the ‘FHIR (Fast Health Information Interoperability)’ standard.
This is a hub that standardizes and stores medical data that was previously incompatible between medical institutions, and medical institutions participating in the consortium can safely exchange medical data through the hub. Medical staff can easily understand medical data from new hospitals, and there is an advantage in that medical data from new medical institutions participating in this project can also be easily compatible.
The project completed this time is expected to be useful for both patients and medical staff. All patients can check ▲medical history ▲health checkup records ▲vaccination records ▲prescribed medication information, etc. through the ‘My Health Record’ app. In addition, patients who received treatment at medical institutions participating in this project can view ▲diagnosis and drug prescription history ▲diagnosis, imaging, and pathology test results ▲surgery and treatment history without a separate medical record.
If a patient who was treated at a medical institution participating in this project receives treatment at a new hospital, the patient can deliver health information to the medical staff through various methods such as app screens, PDFs, and web viewers. If the new hospital is participating in the project, the patient can also check the treatment records on the EMR web viewer screen.
Director Song Jeong-han of Seoul National University Bundang Hospital said, “This project provides convenience and continuity of treatment by allowing patients to more easily view and utilize their personal medical records,” and added, “We will continue to work to provide convenience to patients and more accurate treatment to medical staff.”
“When building the medical data hub, we focused on ensuring that each hospital could store and access patients’ health information in a standardized format,” said Lee Ho-young, head of the Digital Healthcare Research Division at Seoul National University Bundang Hospital and the person in charge of the project. “If more hospitals participate in the future, patients will be able to check and utilize their health records more conveniently.”
This consortium involved nine general hospitals and 30 clinics, including Keimyung University Dongsan Hospital Keimyung University Daegu Dongsan Hospital Gil Medical Foundation (Gachon University Gil Hospital) Dankook University Hospital Dongguk University Ilsan Hospital Ewha Mokdong Hospital Ewha Seoul Hospital Jeju National University Hospital. The plan is for 1,263 institutions, including 47 general hospitals, to participate in this project by next year.
Meanwhile, the opening ceremony was attended by Director Song Jeong-han of Bundang Seoul National University Hospital, Director Jeong Se-young of the Information Technology Center, and Director Yeom Min-seop of the Korea Health Industry Development Institute. In commemoration of the opening ceremony, a promotional booth was set up in the lobby on the first floor to inform patients and visitors about how to use the health information highway through the ‘My Health Record’ app.
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