The electronic prescription of medical examinations has already made it possible to make more than a million results digitally available since May, according to information released this Tuesday by the Shared Services of the Ministry of Health.
In a statement, the Shared Services of the Ministry of Health (SPMS) announce that more than one million test results have already been made available digitally, and can be consulted through the mobile application and the portal of the National Health Service (SNS).
“The project started in May and is already available in more than 300 units of the Unilabs group, and is now being extended to other laboratories,” reads the statement, in which the SPMS argues that “the electronic exchange of media results complementary diagnostic and therapeutic (MCDT) It presents many advantages for users, especially for the speed, ease and comfort in accessing the results of their exams”.
Since April, family doctors can electronically prescribe all complementary means of diagnosis and therapy, such as X-rays or colonoscopies, but also in areas such as physical medicine, rehabilitation or pneumology-immunoallergology.
“Since then, more than 6.2 million electronic requisitions have been prescribed, more than 90% of which are paperless,” says the SPMS, adding that the “expansion of this project will allow the number of people to access digitally to the results of your medical exams is getting bigger and bigger”.
Cited in the statement, the president of the SPMS board, Luis Pinheiro, underlines that with this project there is “an increase in the transparency of the processes” and an immediate availability of the results that “it is very beneficial for users, who will always have their exams with them”.
For his part, the executive editor of Unilabs, Luís Menezes, stressed that the path of digitization “is the best for users, for clinicians and for transparency”.
Source: Observadora
