Anton Marrero, member of the supervisory board of the IT consortium Intecracy Group and honorary president of Softline IT LLC, outlined the prospects for automating routine processes in the healthcare sector at a meeting with journalists from specialized medical media on Thursday, September 6, 2012.
The IT expert is confident that the introduction of computer technology will bring a major leap in the quality of healthcare services for the population.
"Today a doctor has to deal not only with treatment itself but also spend quite a lot of time filling in numerous forms, templates and logs. Doctors have to do all of this by hand," says Anton Marrero. In his words, IT makes it possible to relieve doctors of this burden so that they can focus on patients rather than spend time on routine, the expert is convinced.
According to Anton Marrero, the technologies developed by the companies of the Intecracy Group consortium make it possible to move to full computerization of healthcare. "Our software envisages the widespread introduction of electronic medical passports," the expert says. The idea is that all the data a doctor needs, such as the diagnosis, the clinical features of the course of the disease and the examination report, is entered into the patient's electronic record. All these parameters are very important for solving a variety of clinical tasks, for diagnosis and for choosing treatment methods.
"But this is not only about using the computer as the doctor's assistant in solving clinical tasks, but also about exercising full control over the diagnostic and treatment process," notes Anton Marrero. For example, automating the reception desk and the hospital admissions department covers part of the clinic's practical work and helps with the initial paperwork and with searching for patient data. Summary reports also become more reliable.
For patients, the computerization of healthcare facilities means that treatment will be of higher quality, queues will disappear, and prices for services will become more affordable thanks to lower costs. "IT will take healthcare to a new level," Anton Marrero emphasizes.