The community can share case histories with other autonomous communities.

-health care professionals consult patient data when they need care outside their own community

-Madrid, among the first to integrate this system in the future European electronic medical history

Madrid, August of 2011- the community of Madrid was incorporated effectively in project history clinic Digital of the national system of health (HCDSNS) to fulfill all the technical requirements of the Ministry of Health, Social policy and equality. This is the result of the work of implementation of the project developed by the Madrid health service.

The HCDSNS project aims to ensure access to relevant clinical information for health care of a patient from any place in the national health system, with security of access to these data is restricted only to citizens and health professionals who will be authorized. The project allows, in this way, that when a citizen moves outside their region of origin and required health care, their most relevant health data accessible to professionals that will assist you.

On 29 July, la Comunidad de Madrid consolidated its full draft HCDSNS incorporation technically overcome its transition to a new version of the application that will allow, in addition to the services described further integration in the electronic medical history at European level (project epSOS). This achievement placed the community in a position advanced in the project along with other autonomous communities such as Valencia, the Balearic Islands and La Rioja.

pilot project

during 2010 began the pilot phase of the project HCDSNS in Madrid in two of its hospitals, Gregorio Maranon and October 12. These hospitals have participated actively as a host clinical information centres, in particular in the services of radiation therapy, cardiac surgery and Pediatrics of Gregorio Marañón Hospital; and Pediatrics, cardiac surgery, Neurology, neurosurgery and maxillofacial surgery on Hospital maternal child on October 12. These services authorized professionals began to dispose of relevant clinical information in any non-resident citizen in Madrid requiring health care, provided in the autonomous community of origin it have information shared by the node from the Ministry.

At the end of last year, the community of Madrid exceeded tests required by the Ministry of health, Social policy and equality to establish the necessary connection with node, to enable authorized health professionals of these hospital services agree to clinical information through digital certificates of public employee with the assurance of security and confidentiality.

The following

During this second half of 2011, is expected to continue with the deployment in five large hospitals (Clínico San Carlos, Ramon and Cajal, Puerta de Hierro, La Paz and child Jesus) and start it by 25% of primary care health centers, to reach complete all professionals in primary care and specialized care in December 2012. In the same way, will be available to authorized health professionals in the public system of other autonomous access to electronic clinical information relevant to the people of Madrid if they require assistance outside the community of Madrid.

In the system health Madrid already exists the possibility of sharing electronic clinical information between primary and specialized professionals through the HORUS viewfinder that has been designed following the standards of the HCDSNS project and currently has nearly 25,000 users, more than 369,000 accounted for access and provides more than 87 million references to clinical episodes, of which more than 15 million have reports in the format e.