Projects abroad  PRIMACOM

We co-operated from 1997 to 1999 in the project PRIMACOM (PRIMAry Care physician’s COMunication Network), a part of EU project CoCo-INCO COPERNICUS, which was a strategic project in the Telematics Application for Health programme (HC1008). In a public-private partnership, two regions in Hungary and Slovenia have established Regional Health Care Network for exchange of routine messages between healthcare professionals. Discharge letters are now daily exchanged between Hospitals and General Practitioner. PRIMACOM have used European standards, developed by CEN TC 251, for exchange of medical data and experience by implementing Regional Health Care Networks from Denmark and Italy. PRIMACOM has paved the way for establishing Regional and National Health Care Networks in Slovenia and Hungary. PRIMACOM has supplied health care professionals with systems and infrastructure for enhancement of communication between primary and secondary healthcare.
INFONET role was to provide and implement the IT for the pilot regions, i.e. Hospital Information System (BIRPIS), Primary Healthcare IS (ISOZ21), integration with EDIFACT converter and mailer, as well as the establishment of a national Mail-box Server, connections to the network, and education and training of the end-users (i.e. doctors and nurses).
Project PRIMACOM has provided standard for the discharge letter and demonstrated the use of best practice.