Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital has recently made a major breakthrough in clinical information management, successfully developing and implementing a new clinical summary system that provides patients with more comprehensive and convenient health information services. This system not only integrates patients' past medical history, current health status, and treatment plans but also presents information in a structured format, making it easy to understand and highlighting key points.
The system is closely integrated with existing medical record data and image CD copying services, forming a complete personal health information ecosystem. Patients and their legal representatives can not only apply for copies of X-rays, CT, MRI, nuclear medicine images, and other examination results but also obtain structured clinical summaries, providing a comprehensive understanding of their health status. The application process is rigorous yet efficient, requiring relevant identity documents, with clear fee standards and preferential rates for specific groups such as veterans and military police.
The introduction of the clinical summary system has had a significant positive impact on multi-disciplinary collaborative diagnosis and treatment. Medical teams can quickly grasp patients' complete health status, effectively reducing repeated examinations and avoiding treatment conflicts, greatly improving medical efficiency and accuracy. At the same time, patients can access their health summaries at any time, strengthening their ability to manage their own health.
In establishing this system, our hospital paid special attention to information security and privacy protection, strictly reviewing applicants' identities and relationship proofs to ensure that personal health information can only be obtained by legally authorized persons. Whether self-collected, entrusted to others for collection, or opting for mailing services, the hospital has established comprehensive processes to ensure secure delivery of data.
Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital's clinical summary system represents best practice in modern medical information management, successfully balancing patients' rights to access personal medical information with legal requirements for personal data protection, providing patients with safe and convenient health information services, effectively supporting subsequent medical decision-making and various medical application needs.