Health Specialist Portal
What is it?
Tervisejuhtimise töölaud (TJT / Healthcare Specialist Portal) is a nationwide digital platform that helps doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals do their work more easily and efficiently. It brings together important patient information in one place and provides modern e-health services.
The main goal of TJT is to save healthcare workers’ valuable time so that more of it can be spent working with the patient. The workspace consolidates health data from different healthcare providers and presents it in a clear and understandable way. It works together with the existing information systems used in healthcare institutions and allows all specialists to use new e-services—regardless of which software their institution uses.
We are building the portal together with healthcare professionals so that it truly meets their needs. This helps the Estonian healthcare system move forward faster by replacing outdated systems with modern solutions.
TJT offers three types of services:
Viewing data: For example, lab results, diagnoses, procedures, sick leave certificates, and other important information, all accessible from one place.
For everyday work: Documenting visits, creating medication schemes, preparing treatment plans, issuing referrals, and other core tasks. Many of these services also exist in older systems, but TJT allows them to be done more easily and with modern tools.
Less frequently used services: For example, health certificates, recording vaccinations or allergies, e-consultations, etc.
In the future, healthcare institutions will be able to choose to what extent they want to use the Portal, selecting the parts that meet their specific needs. TJT’s functions can be used either temporarily or permanently.
TJT uses a secure national login solution (GovSSO) to ensure smooth cooperation with other information systems and keeps work sessions connected.
In addition, TJT services can be customized based on the institution and the user’s role—so everyone sees exactly the tools they need.
The development of TJT is led by the Estonian Health Insurance Fund (Tervisekassa), and it is built by TEHIK in cooperation with partners Net Group, Industry62, Snowhound and Nortal.
The Healthcare Specialist Portal has been available to healthcare workers since 4 December 2023 and continues to evolve.
Who is it meant for?
The Healthcare Specialist Portal is intended for use by healthcare professionals and other specialists involved in providing healthcare services. The dashboard brings together specialists from across Estonia into a unified information space to support the delivery of high-quality healthcare services. Data will be shown to healthcare workers only if the patient hasn't limited access through the Health Portal.
What are we aiming to achieve?
The primary goal of the dashboard is to provide healthcare professionals with the necessary information quickly and conveniently. This enables specialists to genuinely focus on the individual during consultations and address their concerns.
We are aiming to eliminate the need for specialists to dig through endless documents to access health information. With readily available historical data, professionals can avoid repeatedly asking the same questions during appointments.
The portal serves as a collaborative platform for healthcare workers, allowing them to perform their tasks more efficiently, comfortably, and with a patient-centric approach.
The Health Management Dashboard serves as the initial access point for next-generation health information system services. It also ensures that refined services are available to be seamlessly integrated into healthcare institutions' information systems.
The existence of the portal helps information systems' developers avoid developing smaller or more rarely used functions. By avoiding unnecessary development work, we save our shared healthcare funds.
How does it work?
There are two ways to use the Healthcare Specialist Portal: either as a standalone solution or through a healthcare institution’s information system. Users must authenticate themselves and enter the individual’s personal identification code. Over time, we plan to enable entry through the healthcare institution’s information system without additional authentication and ID code copying requirements.
By default, the dashboard displays essential data needed for an overview of an individual’s health. However, users can customize the dashboard to show other relevant data on the home screen. Services and information are accessible based on the user’s role and authorized rights, following the principle of “as much as necessary, but as little as possible.”
Who provides technical support?
TEHIK (Health and Welfare Information Systems Center)
abi [at] tehik.ee (abi[at]tehik[dot]ee)
Who to turn to with questions about the portal?
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Patrick Pihelgas
Product Manager
patrick.pihelgas [at] tervisekassa.ee (tjt[at]tervisekassa[dot]ee)