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How do we create the continuum of care?
November 17, 2024 | article
2026 is the year that the dream of a unified health service, with the seamless exchange of information across healthcare systems and professionals, is no longer a distant dream and may become the reality. In fact, both the technology and digitalisation are in place. Rather, it is a question of deciding on a shared vision and approach.
Since the 1990s, the Nordics have led the way within message-based information exchange in the health and social sector. The SPAR in Sweden centralises all data around the individual to be accessible by all state entities including healthcare, thus simplifying all data related issues.
This has, among other things, resulted in effective solutions such as the Swedish BankID and the SPAR where doctors can easily access the patient records , which is widely used today and gives citizens access to much of their health data. Sweden's leading position within information exchange has played a decisive role in our ability to build up an efficient, modern, and citizen-focused public sector, however, it could be better.
The approach can therefore lead to unfortunate situations and costly decisions that benefit neither the citizen nor society.
2026 is the year that the dream of a unified health service, with the seamless exchange of information across healthcare systems and professionals, is no longer a distant dream and may become the reality. In fact, both the technology and digitalisation are in place. Rather, it is a question of deciding on a shared vision and approach.
Since the 1990s, the Nordics have led the way within message-based information exchange in the health and social sector. The SPAR in Sweden centralises all data around the individual to be accessible by all state entities including healthcare, thus simplifying all data related issues.
This has, among other things, resulted in effective solutions such as the Swedish BankID and the SPAR where doctors can easily access the patient records , which is widely used today and gives citizens access to much of their health data. Sweden's leading position within information exchange has played a decisive role in our ability to build up an efficient, modern, and citizen-focused public sector, however, it could be better.
The approach can therefore lead to unfortunate situations and costly decisions that benefit neither the citizen nor society.
Simple access to real-time data
The solution is to create the continuum of care. The idea of a unified health service is based on a principle of simple access to real-time data and information, where social and healthcare professionals can easily access relevant data on citizens and patients which are crucial for a given assessment or treatment.
“The continuum of care requires a paradigm shift in relation to how information is currently exchanged. More user-friendly and simpler access to a citizen’s health data should in future be ensured by merging data from all health providers into the individual clinician’s system. By ensuring such simple access to information, we create greater coherence in a patient/citizen process, which not only supports more effective treatment and a better experience for the citizen, it also ensures faster case processing in the municipalities, increased quality and greater interaction between individuals and different professional groups,” says Mikkel Harbo and continues:
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