It has been amazing to see the progressive and revolutionary change in data processing during my working years. In middle school computer science and typing classes, I was able to study the ten-finger system, which has made typing faster and inspired me to produce written text and content in my work.
In the early years of my career, all issues were written on paper, continuous treatment plan forms, doctors’ texts, growth curves and lab results were on paper in patient reports written by secretaries. As a nurse, you could write down the treatment plan, goals, implementation and evaluation on paper. You could do part of the work on a computer, which you logged in manually without a professional card. There was no idea about one-time logins.
The massive digital development progressed rapidly, the capacity, speed, scope and digital content of computers began to come out of all channels. The generation of children “born with a cell phone in hand” emerged – we, the children’s parents, were amazed at the change, nothing was like before. At the same time, people started talking about the harm of mobile phones and digital devices to a child’s development. Of course, the advantages turned out to be greater than the disadvantages, the challenge was the suitability of the contents for different ages. Soon, all public transaction channels became electronic, as banks infiltrated the market of strong identification and online banking developed into a suitable platform.
Digitization crept into healthcare little by little and today almost all healthcare functions are digitized using different methods. All healthcare providers use digital methods in all treatment-related activities. Digitalization has taken over patient care, quality monitoring, personnel management, evaluation of the effects of treatment and management of resources based on evidence using different metrics.
GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) is an EU regulation that entered into force in May 2018. It also affects healthcare systems and users. The purpose of the GDPR is to protect privacy and the processing of personal data, also in the context of the health sector. The GDPR sets strict rules for the processing of personal data in healthcare. It defines how personal data may be collected, stored, processed and shared. GDPR requires that healthcare systems must ensure patients’ consent to the processing of personal data. GDPR helps protect patients’ personal data in healthcare. Patients have the right to know how their personal data is processed and to give their consent to data processing. Patient trust: GDPR compliance can increase patient trust in healthcare systems. Patients can rest assured that their information is in your trusted hands. GDPR implementation may also cause some disadvantages for healthcare and hospitals. Compliance with GDPR requirements can increase the administrative burden for healthcare organizations. It may require additional resources and time to develop and maintain data protection policies and processes. GDPR requires, that data systems and health care professionals must be ensured that the patient’s data is not disclosed to outsiders and that the patient himself decides who is allowed to process his data. This can lead to the fact, that care providers are sometimes denied access to data, the processing of which is a prerequisite for providing good and appropriate care.
FUTURE ORIENTATION IN DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT
1. Perspective for professionals: Health Care needs AI-driven support for making decisions and support end-user: some visions and time (and money) saving decisions in working with systems: AI could offer real-time help managing with information in different platforms in the data interface in complex and incompatible systems.
2. Perspective for patient care and decisions: Measuring the quality of treatment, prognosis and the use of treatment methods based on research data and practical treatment recommendations to support treatment decisions, taking into account dwindling resources.
3. Perspective for administration: Usage of analytics for human resources management: placement of personnel, mobility, substitutions, parameters for the utilization of expertise
4. Perspective for customer’s experience: improving patient experience and satisfaction in all electronic systems and electronic transactions in support of service design methods in customer’s councils. Exploitations from automatic feedback surveys about treatment and experiences in the hospital, for example simply measured by a wristwatch during the treatment.
LEARNING RESULTS
I learned to build the basics of my own blog site and got to know the learning materials. I was able to think about how I could learn more and use them in my work and personal life in the future. I also realized that I am a novice in building such an open channel, although I have built “closed” information platforms in my work at different units, for example, producing work unit pages for the internal intranet.