Health Specialist Portal
What is it?
Tervisejuhtimise töölaud (Healthcare Specialist Portal) is a web-based tool designed for healthcare professionals and other specialists involved in patient care. It consolidates various e-services that support patient treatment. The tool provides a quick overview of an individual’s health data, allows for data updates, and facilitates collaboration among healthcare providers to create a comprehensive health plan for the person. All new generation health data system's e-services will be made available through the portal.
Specialists can access relevant information legally available to them. This includes a unified medication history, essential health details, and the patient’s medical background. Additionally, the dashboard provides condition-specific views and references to private-sector digital solutions.
Each specialist can tailor a personal dashboard to display the most relevant information for their work. This personalization ensures that critical data is readily accessible.
Patients wishing to access the same information can use Terviseportaal (Health Portal).
The Healthcare Specialist Portal was developed through collaboration between Tervisekassa, TEHIK, and analysis and development partners from Industry62, Net Group, and Nortal. It represents the next generation of health information system services.
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.
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.
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.”
Where are we now?
The Health Specialist Portal has been available for healthcare professionals since 4.12.2023. By the end of January 2025, Data Viewer (Andmevaatur) functions and an improved Medication Chart solution will have been realized in the Portal.
The focus for 2025 is to make the Portal easily accessible for all healthcare specialists in medical institutions. We will enable access through an institution's own information system without the need for additional authentication and with straight access to the already opened patient's chart.
We will create additional access rights for specialist groups who already have the right to see patients' health data but so far have not been able to use the Portal (physiotherapists, speech therapists, clinical psychotherapists and assistant doctors).
Planned new functions for 2025 to look forward to:
An efficient dashboard view of the patient's latest health data
View of referrals, appointments and contacts with a direct connection to the Digital Health Booking System
Personalized medicine data view
Medication chart upgrades
Nicotine products consumption habits service
Occupational medicine health certificate service
Notifications about important patient health events
Family medicine quality system data view
Pregnancy status service
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 Lead
patrick.pihelgas [at] tervisekassa.ee (patrick[dot]pihelgas[at]tervisekassa[dot]ee)