"Health care it is 5-10 years behind in development" - IDG.se

The ointment will from one of the country’s most senior health IT executives – Goran Ejbyfeldt, IT Director for Region Västra Götaland.
He started at his job for a little over a year ago. His drastic comparison of the quality of healthcare IT systems compared with those used in the industrial sector, he found on his own experience in the automotive industry, where he worked on IT and quality issues for many years.

Class=”paragraphIntro”> Computer Sweden has in the previous sections of the article series “Caring Clutter” told of the strong criticism of medical IT systems at Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg.

Doctors ongoing wrestling with IT systems not only helps to pump up stessnivåerna, but also to a lot of precious time down the drain for nothing instead of being used to care work.

When Computer Sweden calling Sahlgrenska CIO and IT Director of the Region Västra Götaland to hear what is being done about it-the problems, making none of them the slightest attempt at trying to downplay or reduce the problem description. Instead, they agree with almost everything in doctors cyber criticism, possibly just adding that there are also other categories of care that also face similar IT problems.

– Everyone realizes you it was not going to have it this way. But this is how it looks at the major hospitals today, it comes in and of itself not only Sahlgrenska says Olof Myrberg, who is the hospital’s IT manager.

The problems with the large amount of health IT systems, and the information in them are not connected has its roots far back in time, he says. Many systems used today were developed in the 90s out of individual cli nics.
– The businesses have had a lot of freedom to develop their own systems. That’s why today we have such an extensive system flora, says Olof Myrberg.

For Sahlgrenska part is it between thumb and forefinger about 300-400 systems.
In order to reverse the trend has now reorganized so that a larger proportion of IT investment money raised from the individual operations up to a little more central levels.

on a more overall level Goran Ejbyfeldt believe that the state should increase its efforts.

– The government should invest money in the process as quickly as possible to obtain a shared healthcare information systems, he says.