@inproceedings{f2af22151d8440c783f2281bdae1a414,
title = "Decreasing medical risk by designing and implementing ehealth data exchange in the dawn of the new general healthcare system (Gesy) of cyprus: A nationwide survey",
abstract = "Healthcare has rapidly changed due to the advances in medicine during the past few decades. Moreover, digitalization comes to upgrade the conditions for providing healthcare today. Cyprus is amongst the healthiest populations in the EU, however the public health delivery before 2019 was based on an outdated system. In mid-2019 a newly established General Healthcare System (GHS) has been implemented. The latter includes all recent technological advances of a universal healthcare system, a constitutional part of which is the eHealth Data Exchange process. The scope of this research is to explore and capture the perceptions of the healthcare professionals and of citizens and beneficiaries of the new GHS that was implementation in June 2019 regarding the eHealth services provided. Our results show an initial positive feedback both from the healthcare professionals and from the beneficiaries. Both groups are of the opinion that through the directly available medical records the risk for the patient will be decreased. The findings of our research are very interesting, and they will act as feedback to the public authorities in order for them to proceed with any necessary amendments of the system.",
keywords = "Cyprus, EHealth, Health information exchange, Medical risk, Patient safety, Survey",
author = "Chris Bachtsetzis and George Athanasiou",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} ESREL2020-PSAM15 Organizers. Published by Research Publishing, Singapore.; 30th European Safety and Reliability Conference, ESREL 2020 and 15th Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management Conference, PSAM15 2020 ; Conference date: 01-11-2020 Through 05-11-2020",
year = "2020",
doi = "10.3850/978-981-14-8593-0\_4503-cd",
language = "English",
isbn = "9789811485930",
series = "Proceedings of the 30th European Safety and Reliability Conference and the 15th Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management Conference",
publisher = "Research Publishing, Singapore",
pages = "3107--3111",
editor = "Piero Baraldi and \{Di Maio\}, Francesco and Enrico Zio",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 30th European Safety and Reliability Conference and the 15th Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management Conference",
}
