At Samsung Medical Center in South Korea, HIE infrastructure is driving medical care efficiency while improving the experience for both patients and doctors.
Called DARWIN (Data Analysis and Research Window for Integrated Knowledge), this HIS can securely and electronically share medical records in real time with external organizations.
Through this system, SMCs are exchanging documents, such as medical claims, medical referrals, medical record summaries, and radiographic readings, that are compliant with HL7 CDA standards . This allows clinicians to quickly find a patient’s medical history, reducing the risk of overprescribing or duplicating prescriptions.
In a presentation at HIMSS22 APAC, Sang-Seob Lee, head of IT Operations at SMC, shared that DARWIN was developed to solve pressing problems, such as disconnected medical services, rising medical costs. for the elderly and unnecessary use of medical services.
“The biggest benefit of using this system from the patient’s point of view is [convenience]. Before going to HIS, patients have to carry their paperwork and travel through cities when they need to go to major hospitals for treatment,” he said.
In addition to patient convenience, DARWIN HIS also enables collaboration between SMC and partner organizations through seamless information exchange.
Two months ago, SMC acquired a Accreditation of EMRAM Phase 6. In a comment, Andrew Pearce, HIMSS Vice President of Analytics and Head of Global Advisory, noted the hospital’s “impressive” HIE capability, which can exchange data data through a number of national and external databases, such as the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Korea Institute for Drug Safety and Risk Management, “in most real-time.”
“This allows for timely and appropriate care and reduces the risk of overprescribing or repeating interventions,” he said.
DARWIN also has EMR and CPOE, which has a 100% user acceptance rate among SMC clinicians, a recent review found.
“Since HIE is an infrastructure that electronically links patients’ medical information scattered across individual healthcare facilities, it can boost the efficiency of the healthcare delivery system, device medical big data and introduce new healthcare services,” Lee said.
“Future, [SMC] plans to strengthen its care network towards focusing on critically ill patients and returning mildly ill patients, which will further promote the use of HIEs,” he added.
