SAS submits to the Aragonese Health Service the Analytical Test Coding Catalog Template

Seville, January 7 (Europe Press) –

The Andalusian Health Service (SAS) of the Andalusian Junta provided the analytical test coding catalog to serve as an “example” for the Aragonese Health Service. Prepared for the Unit Analytical Examinations (MPA) of digital health history of Andalusia, this resource has been codified in methodological terms and is the only one in Spanish found worldwide.

The MPA arose with the aim of creating a point of union between the electronic medical record and the information systems of the laboratories, supporting the request and extraction from any point of the Andalusian public health system and its automatic reception by the professional. applicant. The MPA also enables full test traceability and visualization at any healthcare setting in the autonomous community, SAS explained in a press release.

In order to implement the project, it was necessary to create a database of analytical tests, consisting of a complete and ordered list of all possible clinical laboratory tests that are generated in health centers. All of this information is “necessary” to obtain a unique history of laboratory tests in the electronic medical record, regardless of the clinical laboratory that performed them. Its purpose is to act as a translator of each laboratory’s local “dialects” into a single common language allowing all information to be combined into a single history of results.

It was the result of a presentation at the National Congress of Clinical Laboratories, made by Dr. Félix Gascon, Director of the Clinical Analysis Unit of the North Health Region of Córdoba, creator of the MPA catalog and functional director of said unit in Andalusia, when the Health Service of Aragon was interested to learn about said unit and the coding system that was made Develop it to share tests and results.

Then, a delegation from the Aragonese health services visited the Valle de los Bedroches hospital, where versions of this innovative system are being piloted throughout Andalusia, and they were able to learn more about everything related to it. The interest was embodied in a proposed cooperation agreement between the two health services, through which the Aragonese service would be able to use the entire database already prepared and even contribute to its continued growth.

To speed up the work necessary for the start-up, on December 1st, the first working day was held in Zaragoza, in the presence of Félix Gascon, and in which the directors of plants and new technologies from the Aragon service took part. In it, the basic concepts of the systematic nomenclature applied to the database were explained, so that they could begin to use it, and summarized, in addition to the use of the Andalusian analytical test unit and its benefits.

As a result of this working day, a working group was set up in Aragon, advised by Gascon, to code and develop the analytical testing module for the electronic medical record of the Aragonese Health Service. In Andalusia, the Analytical Testing Unit has more than 1,500 primary care centers, 49 hospitals and more than 60,000 health professionals. It is used at all levels of care in the Andalusian public health system, having processed nearly 90 million analytical requests since its launch.