The integration of the information systems of the Department of Health I of l 'Barcelona City Council it will allow health and social services professionals from both administrations to exchange data in real time about the patients and users they care for and, in addition, to consult them whenever they consider it necessary.
The data exchange model is already working as a pilot test in the Barcelona neighborhoods of Nova Esquerra de l'Eixample and Besòs. It mainly focuses on care for the population over 64 years of age and in situations of high social and health complexity, but it aspires to extend to the set of basic social service centers and primary care teams in Barcelona and progressively to the next years throughout Catalonia, also for the population as a whole.
The new model for the exchange of health and social information facilitates decision-making in the process of caring for people and is another step towards speeding up and moving towards integrated social and health care. The person's prior consent is collected in writing and also electronically.
The experience of interoperability of the systems is the result of the joint work of both administrations during the last three years in order to be able to make the two information systems compatible, and the pilot test seeks to identify which minimum set of data exchange s 'must establish and which joint work processes must be considered between the primary health care teams and basic social services.
The first results of the operation will be assessed at the beginning of the second quarter of the year. Specifically, in the design of the pilot test, the eHealth Office of the Catalan Health Service, the Department of Health of the Generalitat, the Interdepartmental Social and Health Interaction Plan, the Health Consortium of Barcelona, the Health Department of Barcelona City Council, theMunicipal Institute of Social Services i theMunicipal Institute of Informatics.
You can more information on the website of the Department of Health
