📋 Tender Overview
Health insurers encourage the development of safe and efficient data exchange between patient and healthcare provider. In three places in the Netherlands data exchange between pharmacists and patients has now been established for the first time with a personal health environment PGO via the MedMij agreement system. This pilot has shown that MedMij works in practice and that the patient likes to have his own data. These are valuable conclusions for the further development of MedMij.MedMij is a system of agreements that ensures that a personal health environment PGO and the healthcare information systems of healthcare providers can communicate with each other not only securely but also in an unambiguous manner. A PGO is a digital tool that allows patients to access their own health data. Health insurers and the Ministry of Health Welfare and Sport have been jointly investing in the MedMij program for several years so that anyone who wants to can access their health data in one personal health environment. This is in line with the ambition health insurers to ensure efficient and safe information exchange between health care providers and between health care providers and patients. Then the patient has easy access to his own medical data which contributes to the patients own control.Healthcare users happy with insightThe patients participating in the controlled live walkways were predominantly enthusiastic that they had insight into their medication data thanks to the PGO. The participants became even more enthusiastic about the future possibilities of a personal health environment. They expect that when they can collect data from different healthcare providers in a PBL a PBL will gain real added value. They would also like to share this information with various healthcare providers in the future.A frequently heard comment was that the overview with medication provision was not clearly presented. In addition to the visual presentation of PGOs the clarity also depends on the method of registration by healthcare providers. It is therefore up to both the supplier of the personal health environment and the care provider to provide a clear overview of medication.Healthcare provider as a driverWhen healthcare users cite examples of added value of PGOs this is often shortly after or before a consultation or conversation with a healthcare provider. It is experienced as pleasant to read everything quietly at home or to view any results. Healthcare users would also like to share health data with healthcare providers themselves prior to a consultation. In addition PBLs are trusted when recommended by healthcare providers. Healthcare users see an important role for healthcare providers in stimulating PGO use. And not only care users see an important role for care providers many care providers in these controlled live corridors also see a role for themselves. They want to inform about and promote PGOs.
