The new system of connectivity between hospitals and emergency medical services will be operational next week, caretaker Health Minister Assen Medjidiev announced on October 13
"Thanks to the joint work with the Ministry of e-Governance and the company “Information Services”, we managed to build it extremely quickly. Emergency teams will have real-time information about available hospital beds. In this way, when an ambulance takes an emergency case, the team will see if there are available beds in the nearest hospitals for the relevant pathology," the minister said.
The aim is to significantly reduce the time from receiving an alert from an emergency patient to hospitalisation, if required.
The system will operate throughout the country and will be controlled by the Health Ministry, the Executive Agency for Medical Supervision and regional health inspectorates.
"The introduction of the system is most important for patients because it will end the practice of sick people being transported from hospital to hospital in search of available beds," Dr Medjidiev stressed.
Caretaker Minister of e-Governance, Georgi Todorov, said that the system has been worked on over the past two months and this is not the first joint project of the two ministries.
"With the implementation of this project, we are preventing the loss of precious minutes and seconds within which human lives can be saved. I am sure that the effect of the introduction of the system will very quickly become tangible for people," said Georgi Todorov.
Ivaylo Filippov, the Executive Director of Information Services AD, explained that the National Health Information System, including the newly built registry of hospitals, is integrated with the systems of emergency aid and with the GPS of ambulances.
"We have more than 350 medical institutions, 52 emergency departments, 3,700 structural hospital wards, 27 Centres for Emergency Medical Care with 170 branches and more than 500 ambulances. All of them are now connected and everyone involved in the process can see in real time the total number of hospital beds, how many are occupied and how many are vacant," Filipov said.
He also pointed out that on the tablets, with which all ambulances are equipped, the nearest 3 medical institutions are visualized in real time, with regard to the pathology of the relevant - patient.
In this way, the time for transporting the patient is reduced and, on the other hand, it is ensured that the patient will be hospitalized in a medical facility that will provide quality and timely medical care.
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