E-health VdA — Health in net : the territorial medicine in the Vallée d'Aoste regional healthcare system

The one-web solution to medical problems

The eHealth VdA project uses low-cost web technologies to share patients’ medical files between general practitioners and specialists distributed throughout the territory, and with resident hospital personnel.

The integrated local healthcare system set up in eHealth VdA is equipped to synchronise patients’ medical files on a daily basis. The data, input by healthcare professionals in the field and within the hospital, includes for example the patient ID, allergies, vaccines, reports from clinical laboratories and medical diagnoses.

The project uses the internet to integrate actions by family doctors and paediatricians with the regional healthcare structure more easily, through the use of a single folder per patient within a database structure. The doctor's clinical file on a patient is integrated with the data used by the Enterprise Resource Planning platform that the local healthcare provider uses as a business management system.

In this type of application, it is of course critical to assure the confidentiality and protection of the medical data of the citizen-patient at all times, the project organisers stress. To achieve a greater degree of efficiency in diagnostics, 100% of the regional operators share data and application systems.

The system is always available and within reach of the healthcare provider for ease of use. Moreover, the system allows some reduction in the need for patients to travel in order to be physically present at centralised healthcare facilities, such as hospitals and clinics.