The evaluation of the data content selection process for Finnish electronic Patient Care Record in the Emergency Medical services
Lahti, Pia-Marie (2020)
Lahti, Pia-Marie
2020
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2020061618856
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2020061618856
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The Finnish Ministry of Social Affairs and Health has advanced the national development of the Finnish electronic Patient Care Record in the Emergency Medical Services. The development has been going on for some years, the data content and the requirements for the electronic Patient Care Record have been formed as a result. On this evaluation the history behind the need for the national electronic Patient Care Record in Emergency Medical Service is described. One part of the advancement of the electronic Patient Care Record was the data content selection. This evaluation examined the process of the data content selection for the Finnish electronic Patient Care Record in Emergency Medical Service.
The digitalisation has offered new possibilities for the healthcare and as a part of that for the Emergency Medical Services. It has helped to develop information systems, communication methods and patient care pathways. The advancement of the information-based management has reached national and regional level reporting and decision making. Understanding of the information system solutions and the data has increased and they are seen as a possibility to assist decision making with accurate and real time information. This knowledge of the state of the services can be used to improve the quality of them. For these reasons, the need for a national solution to utilise and collect data from the Emergency Medical Services has been recognized. This has led to the development of the national electronic Patient Care Record in Emergency Medical Services. The electronic Patient Care Record will advance the utilisation of the data collection and trough that it offers significant opportunities to improve the availability and quality of the care, management and operational aspect of the services. The data content of the electronic Patient Care Record aims to answer for these needs set on a national and operational level.
The evaluation method used on this evaluation was Program Theory-driven Evaluation Science. The evaluator formed the evaluation questions with the help of the stakeholders and answered to them based on the data sources available of the data content selection process. As a result, the evaluator described the timeline of the data content selection process on written and visual form. The actual data content selection process was described by writing and by using visualization in a form of a logic model. Lastly the ready data content was presented and the suggestion for the future processes were made based on the results.
The evaluation process and the assessment indicated that it would be beneficiary to use more profound documenting methods of the processes similar. The assesment suggests that there is a need for more deeper evaluation to be made, to recognize the subcategories of the activities during the process. This kind of evaluation would offer more information about national level project models and enable better and more efficient work methods in the future.
The digitalisation has offered new possibilities for the healthcare and as a part of that for the Emergency Medical Services. It has helped to develop information systems, communication methods and patient care pathways. The advancement of the information-based management has reached national and regional level reporting and decision making. Understanding of the information system solutions and the data has increased and they are seen as a possibility to assist decision making with accurate and real time information. This knowledge of the state of the services can be used to improve the quality of them. For these reasons, the need for a national solution to utilise and collect data from the Emergency Medical Services has been recognized. This has led to the development of the national electronic Patient Care Record in Emergency Medical Services. The electronic Patient Care Record will advance the utilisation of the data collection and trough that it offers significant opportunities to improve the availability and quality of the care, management and operational aspect of the services. The data content of the electronic Patient Care Record aims to answer for these needs set on a national and operational level.
The evaluation method used on this evaluation was Program Theory-driven Evaluation Science. The evaluator formed the evaluation questions with the help of the stakeholders and answered to them based on the data sources available of the data content selection process. As a result, the evaluator described the timeline of the data content selection process on written and visual form. The actual data content selection process was described by writing and by using visualization in a form of a logic model. Lastly the ready data content was presented and the suggestion for the future processes were made based on the results.
The evaluation process and the assessment indicated that it would be beneficiary to use more profound documenting methods of the processes similar. The assesment suggests that there is a need for more deeper evaluation to be made, to recognize the subcategories of the activities during the process. This kind of evaluation would offer more information about national level project models and enable better and more efficient work methods in the future.