Digitalisation is infiltrating every aspect of life, making life-saving ever more effective. And we're not just talking about the proliferation of digital instruments and high-tech machines, but also seemingly simple tasks like document management. Let's see how digitisation is affecting modern healthcare.
Digital health is the future of everything
As the role of the internet and digital technologies in society grows, more and more health services are moving online. One of the most important innovations in recent years is EESZT, the Electronic Health Service Space, which helps patients to keep track of their medical records and makes key health documents instantly available. This system could prove particularly important in the context of the pandemic, as it allows both patients and doctors to retrieve PCR test results, simplifying the compilation of various statistics.
Digitalisation for paperless administration
But it's not just the Covid tests that are digitally documented - the whole treatment process is paper-based. A single hospital can store tens of millions of pages of paper records, with charts, reports, minutes and other documents all being produced on paper over the past decades. Document management is a time-consuming and costly task for the staff of an institution, printing, storing and searching through documents. Digitalisation reduces the administrative burden, allowing healthcare institutions to optimise their resources more efficiently.
Authentic documents in digital format
The digitisation of documents and the corresponding document management system can facilitate the day-to-day operations of healthcare institutions, while guaranteeing the authenticity of all documents to the same extent as paper documents. Digitisation can eliminate printing, minimise storage and simplify document retrieval, while providing authentic signatures for digital documents. To ensure that the authenticity of various digital documents is the same as paper documents, an electronic signature or a time stamp is required to prove that the document has not been altered after digitisation.
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