Health & care professionals

Benefits of standardised, interoperable health data sources for health & care professionals

  • Make safe and effective decisions based on comprehensive and up-to-date insights in their patient’s health status
  • Improve quality of care through strengthened coordination
  • Access evidence-based clinical guidelines to support decision-making procedures
  • Personalise medicine to each patient’s individual profile

Coordinated, multidisciplinary care

As a result of high-complexity diseases and (sub)specialised expertise, multiple teams of care professionals intervene to provide the patient with the integrated care he deserves.

This plays at different levels: within and between care institutes and in relation with primary care and home care professionals.

And, of course, people move house during their lives.

Connecting health info between different health professionals will facilitate a seamless coordination of care. If different digital systems are used, interoperability standards will help smooth communication.

Multidisciplinary care coordination

A patient with bowel cancer will often be followed by a multidisciplinary team consisting of hospital staff such as a gastroenterologist, oncologist, radiotherapist, abdominal surgeon, pathologist, dietician, psychologist, together with his general practitioner.

Elderly people residing in a care home may intermittently be admitted in hospital for specialist care. Patients in need of complex surgery, can turn to their nearby hospital for pre and post surgery care, but go to another more specialised hospital for the complex surgical intervention.