Application of new technologies in health care for risk reduction in diagnosis and treatment

RIGHT, the real time intelligent electronic system, provides support for health care experts in the range of the quality and pertinence of medical diagnosis and treatment for new Member States of the EU. It can be an excellent tool for health care risk management. This aim is to be reached, for Lower Silesia, through the implementation of a computer system which helps doctors with electronic documentation, in the process of diagnosis and treatment. Sensitive medical data gathered in the Electronic Health Record (EHR) will be stored in the central medical database using special software (of System RIGHT) based on the newest achievements from the range of semantics and artificial intelligence for the analysis of described cases. Results of such analysis, based on EHR, will be automatically made available for doctors. In this range, the RIGHT project is based on co-operation with the e-Health programme, one of the main programmes in the EU, which aims to improve the quality of access to health services also for people residing outside academic centres. The RIGHT system aims to integrate all information needed for the health services. Furthermore, this System will become the platform which will enable consultation and experts’ discussion in each given medical field. It means that it is designed to perform two main functions: semantic, for finding information, and helping ensure accuracy in making diagnostic decisions. Based on the special structure (ontology) of information, the RIGHT project will support the knowledge of health service professionals and contribute to the increase of efficiency and effectiveness, and it will also indirectly influence the efficiency of the whole structure of the health care system. RIGHT will also contribute to the development of one of the most important issues, namely the European Health Care System. Therefore, in order to provide proper actions, there should be introduced such solutions, among others, which will consider changes connected with the aging of society.