Andalusia offers its healthy population base in Europe as a source of data in research and innovation

the Andalusian Health Service (SAS)Through the Technical Sub-Directorate of Information and Consultation Management, I presented the population database at a meeting European Innovation Consortium EIT-Health Titled “The Right to Privacy vs. the Duty to Protect Lives. Health Data Management in Focus”, which took place in the German city of Mannheim. At this symposium, which brought together the institutions affiliated to EIT Health Germany-Switzerland and EIT Health Spain, SAS presented healthy population base As a source of research and innovation data.

At this meeting, it was estimated that Andalusia is the third largest region in Europe and that the public health system in the region provides universal and free coverage for all citizens, with Unified and undivided medical history By levels of care or specialties. All these characteristics make this health model and population health base unique in Europe.

The Population Health Base is a health information system that collects clinical data and health resource utilization for each of the people receiving health care in SAS. The rule also allows Longitudinal studiesEstimate the prevalence of diseases and make projections about the health status of the population as well as their resource needs. It also makes it possible to analyze the distribution’s efficiency Efficiency in the use of resources by health service providers.

Through it, it is possible to estimate the incidence of diseases and make predictions about the health status of the population, as well as their resource needs.

Demographic data, diagnoses, use of health resources and their providers are obtained from each user. Users are provisioned and identified through a user database. Clinical information and health resource use It comes from primary care and hospital care settings. Among the sources of clinical administrative data, the digital clinical record (Diraya) and minimal basic hospital data sets (hospitalization, medical, surgical and emergency hospitals) stand out.

The data collected in this database constitutes a health profile of individuals, and allows the study of the natural history of diseases in the population as a whole or in specific subgroups, the analysis of disease incidence or the making of projections of health status and resource needs. They also make cross-sectional analyses possible, such as population stratification to guide service delivery or approximate the prevalence of different diseases.

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