{"id":1101,"date":"2019-06-03T15:05:46","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T12:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.duodecim.fi\/english\/?p=1101"},"modified":"2021-01-29T12:51:52","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T10:51:52","slug":"duodecims-decision-support-system-ebmeds-to-be-deployed-in-estonia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duodecim.fi\/english\/2019\/06\/03\/duodecims-decision-support-system-ebmeds-to-be-deployed-in-estonia\/","title":{"rendered":"Duodecim\u2019s decision support system (EBMEDS) to be deployed in Estonia"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>The Estonian Health Insurance Fund will procure a Clinical Decision Support System for all Estonian family physicians during 2020. Duodecim Medical Publications Ltd. was selected as the supplier of the decision support solution<em>. <\/em><\/h6>\n<p>The Estonian Health Insurance Fund and the World Bank assessed the quality of the treatment of long-term illnesses in Estonia. During the assessment, it was discovered that the quality of care varied because, due to their heavy workload, physicians did not have enough time to learn about new clinical practice guidelines or the patient\u2019s earlier medical history: their diagnoses, performed examinations and medications. The Estonian Health Insurance Fund will now invest in improving the quality of family physicians\u2019 work by procuring Duodecim\u2019s decision support service.<\/p>\n<p>According to physician Le Vallikivi, President of the Family Physicians Association of Estonia, a decision support system is an essential tool for family physicians in a world of digital information. \u201cBy using a decision support system, physicians can make sure that they choose the approach that is the most beneficial to the patient\u2019s health,\u201d says Vallikivi.<\/p>\n<p>The Estonian Health Insurance Fund is planning to extend the decision support system to hospitals in the future.<\/p>\n<p>The procurement of the clinical decision system in Estonia is being funded by the European Regional Development Fund and the Estonian Health Insurance Fund together with Tervise ja Heaolu Infos\u00fcsteemide Keskus (TEHIK), the information systems centre of the Estonian Ministry of Health and Social Affairs.<\/p>\n<p>Further reading &gt;&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duodecim.fi\/english\/2019\/06\/03\/a-decision-support-system-can-cater-to-many-needs\/\"> A decision support system can cater to many needs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more information on EBMEDS visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebmeds.org\/en\">www.ebmeds.org\/en<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Estonian Health Insurance Fund will procure a Clinical Decision Support System for all Estonian family physicians during 2020. Duodecim Medical Publications Ltd. was selected as the supplier of the decision support solution. The Estonian Health Insurance Fund and the World Bank assessed the quality of the treatment of long-term illnesses in Estonia. During the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":1102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duodecim.fi\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duodecim.fi\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duodecim.fi\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duodecim.fi\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duodecim.fi\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1101"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.duodecim.fi\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1109,"href":"https:\/\/www.duodecim.fi\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101\/revisions\/1109"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duodecim.fi\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duodecim.fi\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duodecim.fi\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duodecim.fi\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}