| The Establishment of Telemedicine Protocol Repository |
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Task type: industrial research Professional management: Semmelweis University Participating consortium members:
In order to minimize losses resulting from unnecessary medical treatment, as well as to maximize health gain, more and more healthcare institutions apply up-to-date management systems. Medical expertise has embodied in institutional protocols significantly decreasing institutional losses. This opened a new path for foregrounding the quality elements and the professional, legal, and financial accountability of medical treatment. Beside the doctor and nurse providing treatment, the role of the manager also gained ground, and public organizations protecting patients' rights became more powerful as treatment, its planning and implementation became more transparent. In 1999, the integrated care coordination system was introduced on an experimental basis in Hungary, in which one fifth of the country's population takes part today. The new health insurance law provides extensive rights for the health insurance funds to be established in order for them to become treatment organizers. In this policy environment god protocols are an urgent need, because without them treatment is not manageable. There are several requirements related to these protocols:
The development of medical protocols is in process under the leadership of Dr. András Jávor. Priority areas of the project:
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