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Slide 1

eHealth
Case- Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net (MIC)

Speaker:

Pirkko Kouri,
Pricipal Lecturer in Healthcare Technology,
PhD, PHN, RN

Guests:

Tempus delegation

Time:

21 Feb 2007

Ultimate goals of Finnish health care
- Cost-effectiveness
- Patient/client & population centeredness
- Just distribution of the services (equity)
= use based on need

*********************************************************
MSAH’s own information society policy
-

Wide use of information and communication technology
Utilisation of internet penetration

Development levels – definition and projectwork
e.g. Area of eHealth / eWelfare
Levels of development

Development work

EU / National

Laws, standards, terminology, classifications, forms, data definitions

Regional

Aggreements, data transmissions, databases, archives, cooperation

Local

Working culture, division of labour, cooperation

Individual

Personal needs, user interface, way of working, teamwork

Milestones - Finnish health care system

2002
2007

National Project on Safeguarding the Future of Health Care Services
National law EHR

eHealth, National Project on Safeguarding the Future
of Health Care Services – main goals
•Ensure access to treatment
•Enhance co-ordination and co-operation in specialized health care
•Enhance regional co-ordination in primary health care
•Emphasize preventive work, one’s own responsibility for one’s own health and the
significance of primary health care
• Implementation - divided into 40 sub-projects
•Preparing the ground for the nationwide electronic patient records, which will be
introduced in 2007 (law will be launched Spring 2007)

Evolution of e-processes
- strategy and plan
- education
- culture, values
- publicity in control

5. Adaptation
of work
processes

4. Integration

Use
of e-Health
and e-Social
processes

Integration
of IT solutions
in daily life

Planning and
development
3. Processes
of e-processes,
working models

2. Basic
development

1. Services/
Products

Intranet,
Internet
groundwork
purpose-built

Electronic
documents
and lists
Adapted from www.done360.com

The Regional Project Area
Maternity care – births are over 99% in hospitals

.

JYVÄSKYLÄ

Map of Finland









85.585 km2
>1.000 lakes
681.000 inhabitants
One university hospital
Four central hospitals (five 10/03)
53 health centres
App. 20 000 social and health
care workers

NORMAL MATERNITY CARE SERVICE CHAIN
IN FINLAND (REGULAR PREGNANCY)

FIRST CONTACT
MOTHER/CHILD UNIT

PHN = public
health nurse

PHN/ FIRST
EXAMINATION
8-10 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
10-12 W

LABORATORY

PRE-NATAL
ULTRASOUND

HEALTH CENTRE
BEFORE 12 W
BASIC
INFORMATION
FORM
maternity clinic

CERTIFICATE
M/C CLINIC
NIB (KELA)

PHN/
EXAMINATION
16-18 W

SPECIAL CARE MATERNITY CLINIC
12-14 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
22-24 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
26-28 W
NIB =
National
Insurance
Bureau

PHN/
EXAMINATION
30-32 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
32-34 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
34-36 W

PAGE
2

BIRTH TRAINING COURSE,
(CONSISTS OF 8-10 MEETINGS)

PAGE
2

PHN/ EXAMINATION
37 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
38-40 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
40-42 W

DELIVERY ROOM

POST NATAL WARD

PHN/ (baby) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN/ (mother) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN / Mother´s Medical health check

DOCTOR/ Mother´s
Medical health check8-9 W after delivery

CHILD CLINIC

FAMILY
PLANNING

Basis of the Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net
The Long History of the (Finnish) Maternity Care Services (since 1940´s)
Development of Information Society (1990´s)
Idea of Maternity Services on the Internet (1997)
Basis of
Development
Work
•Research
• Multidisciplinary
co-operation
• Piloting
• Feedback /
Evaluation

Results
• Working
models for
experts and
families
•Networking
• Data/info
contents
• Software
technology

E- Service

Participants
• Health care
professionals
• Families
• Colleges
• Software
technology
experts
• Multimedia
experts

Expert teams





Central team
Social and Health care experts´ team
Technology experts´ team
Education experts´ team (Savonia was co-ordinator
of the MIC project)

• Families

MIC
•is supplementary to today's mother-child clinic services

•helps the user in decision making
•provides information that has been approved by the special
editorial board

•enables the use of the services independently of time and
place (Internet connection needed)
•can be used in many countries (adjustments will be made
according to the culture)

The MIC: options
•Entrance

•News
•Discussion groups (with peers)
•Questions and answers (confidential)
•Search (information)
•Feedback
•Links to other useful Internet sites

Search/ information or data bank











Pregnancy
Delivery
Post- natal period
Infant
Parent's relationship
Parenthood
Personal hygiene, appearance
Nutrition and exercise
Drugs, alcohol and smoking
Services to the public

MIC has 135 articles, two videos, 2 animations, 2 interactive photos, 86
photos and 53 drawings checked and approved by editorial board.

MIC / contents
Example: Drawings

Qualified information / content management
• Information is reliable, and easy to understand
• The quantity of information is adequate
• The required information is easy to find
• The content creation and management are carried on as
part of current (clinical) work processes
• The technical solutions guarantee e.g. data integrity,
authentication, security and data availability

Evaluation - family
• Modern way of having services
• No queuing in phone
• Discussions groups for families (anonymously), where
professionals appear by their names
• Service in your own language
• Information/contents is versatile, extensive, based on
expertise / reliable

Evaluation – maternity care professionals
•Extra visits were not needed during pilot phase
•The Net Clinic could be used as a manual or in
familiarising the new worker
•Counselling and giving advice was harmonised
•Families got deeper information and advice based
on their needs more effectively
•Networking and co-operation was more efficient
•Written answers took some time to get used to

The Project of the Year 2000
•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be expanded
into new application fields like public administration and so called soft
values
•Net Clinic is based on wide and versatile co-operation and on
application of new Internet technology
•Net Clinic proves that it is possible to develop new innovations also
outside big so called growing centres
•Net Clinic proves that women can work successfully in management
or other key positions which have conventionally been classified as
men´s work
(The evaluation criteria of the The Finnish Project Management Association)

Diploma of the Excellent Work
•Given by the Provincial State Office of Eastern Finland 4.9.2001

•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be
expanded into new application fields like public administration in
national level and in future international level

O

O
O

o
x

O

O MIC has been used/is in use
• Kuopio
• Helsinki
• North-East of Finland (Kuusamo,
Taivalkoski, Posio and Salla)
• Rovaniemi and its neighbourhood
Rovaniemi rural commune and
Ranua)

An eMaternal Health Care Data System

STORK

The Stork is
• secured electronic health data system (EHS) made for
professional use
• all the information about pregnancy, delivery and puerperium
is collected in the same system (so called seamless chain
between primary health care and special care)
• mutual data contents to maternal units involved

Data security
• The application
• built on special security system used by the hospital
• Access rights depends on task or position
• those who are involved maternal service chain
• Preconditions for usage
• mother´s permission to collect and transfer her data
(each organisation needs its own permission)
• agreement between different organisations
• every user has personal user identifier, all usage is
logged and saved, even edited/deleted parts will be
recorded permanently

Storks gives information
• Pregnancy follow up, continuous documentation;
appointments with public health nurses, midwifes, doctors
• Graphics; growth of the uterus, hypertension, weight,
partogram
• Internal- and external examinations
• Medication during pregnancy, delivery, puerperium
• Diagnosis of the foetus; e.g ultrasound, lab tests
• Lifestyle of the family (nutrition, exercise, smoking, drugs
etc)
• Sick leaves of the mother
• Special area for the nurse documentation

Stork gives
• The new-born baby his/her social security number
• Basic information from earlier pregnancies
• Statistics e.g.
– for the Stakes (the National Research and Development Centre for
Welfare and Health
– the nursing research

• Forms and applications

The first page of the Stork

Forms

Name, birth date, age, weeks,

Notify: the lamp sign, B-gluc high (red color)
Lab, X-ray

Mother->,
Child ->

Social worker documentation
Both the public health nurse in primary care and
the midwife in special care fulfil this area. The written
data is available in real time (mother´s permission needed)

From Netinformation – Portal
to Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID)

My personal computer

Aims of the Work
• To elaborate the co-operation of different
organisations
• To develop a consistent way to manage information
in Social Work and Health Care organisations
• To develop the ”Dynamic Integrated Desktop” (DID)
for Social Work and Health Care professionals
• To offer further education of Social Work and Health
Care professionals
• To determine the reliable security standards

Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID )
-a consistent way to manage information in Health Care organisations

Partnership information

Single sign-on





Professional information


On line (on special fields)



Education
•course

Contacts
Office times
Information of services

Professional web services



PubMed, Cinahl
Laws and orders

enrolment, forms

Web services for public
Integration of IT software



Contact information



”You get what you need”



Problem solving information



EHR, RIS/PACS (digital imaging), biosignals etc.



Education



High level of security

View of the DID page

Teams
Discussion
Forums

Document
management
Links
Courses

Patients 26.8.2002

Mail (3 new messages)

Time

Name

Social security number

8.00

Patrick Patient

12345679573

8.20

Donald Duck

89101128758

8.40

Clark Kent

98459734658

Maintenance
Magazines &
Periodicals

August 2002

News
Databases
Patients
Help

Personified, user oriented
Networked, user organization oriented

Information system,
task and position in the organization

Tutuks service

• Tutuks, a virtual visit to a maternity ward
• Utilised work done by MIC
• http://www.synnytystutuksi.fi/tutukspalvelu.
html

Challenges for the Future
•Family/citizen participation challenges professionals
•e-working environment (models, processes)
•eEducation and training
• “E-gap” between generations
•Usability of ICT-solutions
•Integration of ICT-solutions

New project
• Looking for partner organisations, next
Tempus Call or other suitable call

New project - Tree of problems
NO KNOWLEDGE
TRANSFER

NO NETWORKING

Lack of resources in
distance teaching in cultural maternity care

Unfamiliarity with new
teaching ways

Former education

Non-transferability of
tacit knowledge

Lack of ICT skills

Figure: Project - problem tree

Retiring
(growing)

Incapability to
respond future needs

Mobility (teachers
and students)

Lack of cooperation between
Euro-Asian HIEs

Need to study regardless
time and space

Tree of objectives
FLEXIBLE
NETWORKING

CULTURAL MATERNITY CARE
AND DISTANCE TEACHING

ENHANCING READINESS FOR
DISTANCE TEACHING IN CULTURAL
MATERNITY AND INFANT CARE

Definition of resources
needed

Testing of
ICT skills

Designing and evaluating
Networking and
Distance teaching model

Selection of Learning Evaluation of
Environment(s)
readiness

MAIN AIM

Reports, workshops
(Implementation)

Accepted
planns

EFFECT

Dissemination of
Project results

Evaluation of model
Implementation

OUTCOME

Thank you for your
attention

Contact info:
[email protected]


Slide 2

eHealth
Case- Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net (MIC)

Speaker:

Pirkko Kouri,
Pricipal Lecturer in Healthcare Technology,
PhD, PHN, RN

Guests:

Tempus delegation

Time:

21 Feb 2007

Ultimate goals of Finnish health care
- Cost-effectiveness
- Patient/client & population centeredness
- Just distribution of the services (equity)
= use based on need

*********************************************************
MSAH’s own information society policy
-

Wide use of information and communication technology
Utilisation of internet penetration

Development levels – definition and projectwork
e.g. Area of eHealth / eWelfare
Levels of development

Development work

EU / National

Laws, standards, terminology, classifications, forms, data definitions

Regional

Aggreements, data transmissions, databases, archives, cooperation

Local

Working culture, division of labour, cooperation

Individual

Personal needs, user interface, way of working, teamwork

Milestones - Finnish health care system

2002
2007

National Project on Safeguarding the Future of Health Care Services
National law EHR

eHealth, National Project on Safeguarding the Future
of Health Care Services – main goals
•Ensure access to treatment
•Enhance co-ordination and co-operation in specialized health care
•Enhance regional co-ordination in primary health care
•Emphasize preventive work, one’s own responsibility for one’s own health and the
significance of primary health care
• Implementation - divided into 40 sub-projects
•Preparing the ground for the nationwide electronic patient records, which will be
introduced in 2007 (law will be launched Spring 2007)

Evolution of e-processes
- strategy and plan
- education
- culture, values
- publicity in control

5. Adaptation
of work
processes

4. Integration

Use
of e-Health
and e-Social
processes

Integration
of IT solutions
in daily life

Planning and
development
3. Processes
of e-processes,
working models

2. Basic
development

1. Services/
Products

Intranet,
Internet
groundwork
purpose-built

Electronic
documents
and lists
Adapted from www.done360.com

The Regional Project Area
Maternity care – births are over 99% in hospitals

.

JYVÄSKYLÄ

Map of Finland









85.585 km2
>1.000 lakes
681.000 inhabitants
One university hospital
Four central hospitals (five 10/03)
53 health centres
App. 20 000 social and health
care workers

NORMAL MATERNITY CARE SERVICE CHAIN
IN FINLAND (REGULAR PREGNANCY)

FIRST CONTACT
MOTHER/CHILD UNIT

PHN = public
health nurse

PHN/ FIRST
EXAMINATION
8-10 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
10-12 W

LABORATORY

PRE-NATAL
ULTRASOUND

HEALTH CENTRE
BEFORE 12 W
BASIC
INFORMATION
FORM
maternity clinic

CERTIFICATE
M/C CLINIC
NIB (KELA)

PHN/
EXAMINATION
16-18 W

SPECIAL CARE MATERNITY CLINIC
12-14 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
22-24 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
26-28 W
NIB =
National
Insurance
Bureau

PHN/
EXAMINATION
30-32 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
32-34 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
34-36 W

PAGE
2

BIRTH TRAINING COURSE,
(CONSISTS OF 8-10 MEETINGS)

PAGE
2

PHN/ EXAMINATION
37 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
38-40 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
40-42 W

DELIVERY ROOM

POST NATAL WARD

PHN/ (baby) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN/ (mother) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN / Mother´s Medical health check

DOCTOR/ Mother´s
Medical health check8-9 W after delivery

CHILD CLINIC

FAMILY
PLANNING

Basis of the Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net
The Long History of the (Finnish) Maternity Care Services (since 1940´s)
Development of Information Society (1990´s)
Idea of Maternity Services on the Internet (1997)
Basis of
Development
Work
•Research
• Multidisciplinary
co-operation
• Piloting
• Feedback /
Evaluation

Results
• Working
models for
experts and
families
•Networking
• Data/info
contents
• Software
technology

E- Service

Participants
• Health care
professionals
• Families
• Colleges
• Software
technology
experts
• Multimedia
experts

Expert teams





Central team
Social and Health care experts´ team
Technology experts´ team
Education experts´ team (Savonia was co-ordinator
of the MIC project)

• Families

MIC
•is supplementary to today's mother-child clinic services

•helps the user in decision making
•provides information that has been approved by the special
editorial board

•enables the use of the services independently of time and
place (Internet connection needed)
•can be used in many countries (adjustments will be made
according to the culture)

The MIC: options
•Entrance

•News
•Discussion groups (with peers)
•Questions and answers (confidential)
•Search (information)
•Feedback
•Links to other useful Internet sites

Search/ information or data bank











Pregnancy
Delivery
Post- natal period
Infant
Parent's relationship
Parenthood
Personal hygiene, appearance
Nutrition and exercise
Drugs, alcohol and smoking
Services to the public

MIC has 135 articles, two videos, 2 animations, 2 interactive photos, 86
photos and 53 drawings checked and approved by editorial board.

MIC / contents
Example: Drawings

Qualified information / content management
• Information is reliable, and easy to understand
• The quantity of information is adequate
• The required information is easy to find
• The content creation and management are carried on as
part of current (clinical) work processes
• The technical solutions guarantee e.g. data integrity,
authentication, security and data availability

Evaluation - family
• Modern way of having services
• No queuing in phone
• Discussions groups for families (anonymously), where
professionals appear by their names
• Service in your own language
• Information/contents is versatile, extensive, based on
expertise / reliable

Evaluation – maternity care professionals
•Extra visits were not needed during pilot phase
•The Net Clinic could be used as a manual or in
familiarising the new worker
•Counselling and giving advice was harmonised
•Families got deeper information and advice based
on their needs more effectively
•Networking and co-operation was more efficient
•Written answers took some time to get used to

The Project of the Year 2000
•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be expanded
into new application fields like public administration and so called soft
values
•Net Clinic is based on wide and versatile co-operation and on
application of new Internet technology
•Net Clinic proves that it is possible to develop new innovations also
outside big so called growing centres
•Net Clinic proves that women can work successfully in management
or other key positions which have conventionally been classified as
men´s work
(The evaluation criteria of the The Finnish Project Management Association)

Diploma of the Excellent Work
•Given by the Provincial State Office of Eastern Finland 4.9.2001

•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be
expanded into new application fields like public administration in
national level and in future international level

O

O
O

o
x

O

O MIC has been used/is in use
• Kuopio
• Helsinki
• North-East of Finland (Kuusamo,
Taivalkoski, Posio and Salla)
• Rovaniemi and its neighbourhood
Rovaniemi rural commune and
Ranua)

An eMaternal Health Care Data System

STORK

The Stork is
• secured electronic health data system (EHS) made for
professional use
• all the information about pregnancy, delivery and puerperium
is collected in the same system (so called seamless chain
between primary health care and special care)
• mutual data contents to maternal units involved

Data security
• The application
• built on special security system used by the hospital
• Access rights depends on task or position
• those who are involved maternal service chain
• Preconditions for usage
• mother´s permission to collect and transfer her data
(each organisation needs its own permission)
• agreement between different organisations
• every user has personal user identifier, all usage is
logged and saved, even edited/deleted parts will be
recorded permanently

Storks gives information
• Pregnancy follow up, continuous documentation;
appointments with public health nurses, midwifes, doctors
• Graphics; growth of the uterus, hypertension, weight,
partogram
• Internal- and external examinations
• Medication during pregnancy, delivery, puerperium
• Diagnosis of the foetus; e.g ultrasound, lab tests
• Lifestyle of the family (nutrition, exercise, smoking, drugs
etc)
• Sick leaves of the mother
• Special area for the nurse documentation

Stork gives
• The new-born baby his/her social security number
• Basic information from earlier pregnancies
• Statistics e.g.
– for the Stakes (the National Research and Development Centre for
Welfare and Health
– the nursing research

• Forms and applications

The first page of the Stork

Forms

Name, birth date, age, weeks,

Notify: the lamp sign, B-gluc high (red color)
Lab, X-ray

Mother->,
Child ->

Social worker documentation
Both the public health nurse in primary care and
the midwife in special care fulfil this area. The written
data is available in real time (mother´s permission needed)

From Netinformation – Portal
to Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID)

My personal computer

Aims of the Work
• To elaborate the co-operation of different
organisations
• To develop a consistent way to manage information
in Social Work and Health Care organisations
• To develop the ”Dynamic Integrated Desktop” (DID)
for Social Work and Health Care professionals
• To offer further education of Social Work and Health
Care professionals
• To determine the reliable security standards

Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID )
-a consistent way to manage information in Health Care organisations

Partnership information

Single sign-on





Professional information


On line (on special fields)



Education
•course

Contacts
Office times
Information of services

Professional web services



PubMed, Cinahl
Laws and orders

enrolment, forms

Web services for public
Integration of IT software



Contact information



”You get what you need”



Problem solving information



EHR, RIS/PACS (digital imaging), biosignals etc.



Education



High level of security

View of the DID page

Teams
Discussion
Forums

Document
management
Links
Courses

Patients 26.8.2002

Mail (3 new messages)

Time

Name

Social security number

8.00

Patrick Patient

12345679573

8.20

Donald Duck

89101128758

8.40

Clark Kent

98459734658

Maintenance
Magazines &
Periodicals

August 2002

News
Databases
Patients
Help

Personified, user oriented
Networked, user organization oriented

Information system,
task and position in the organization

Tutuks service

• Tutuks, a virtual visit to a maternity ward
• Utilised work done by MIC
• http://www.synnytystutuksi.fi/tutukspalvelu.
html

Challenges for the Future
•Family/citizen participation challenges professionals
•e-working environment (models, processes)
•eEducation and training
• “E-gap” between generations
•Usability of ICT-solutions
•Integration of ICT-solutions

New project
• Looking for partner organisations, next
Tempus Call or other suitable call

New project - Tree of problems
NO KNOWLEDGE
TRANSFER

NO NETWORKING

Lack of resources in
distance teaching in cultural maternity care

Unfamiliarity with new
teaching ways

Former education

Non-transferability of
tacit knowledge

Lack of ICT skills

Figure: Project - problem tree

Retiring
(growing)

Incapability to
respond future needs

Mobility (teachers
and students)

Lack of cooperation between
Euro-Asian HIEs

Need to study regardless
time and space

Tree of objectives
FLEXIBLE
NETWORKING

CULTURAL MATERNITY CARE
AND DISTANCE TEACHING

ENHANCING READINESS FOR
DISTANCE TEACHING IN CULTURAL
MATERNITY AND INFANT CARE

Definition of resources
needed

Testing of
ICT skills

Designing and evaluating
Networking and
Distance teaching model

Selection of Learning Evaluation of
Environment(s)
readiness

MAIN AIM

Reports, workshops
(Implementation)

Accepted
planns

EFFECT

Dissemination of
Project results

Evaluation of model
Implementation

OUTCOME

Thank you for your
attention

Contact info:
[email protected]


Slide 3

eHealth
Case- Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net (MIC)

Speaker:

Pirkko Kouri,
Pricipal Lecturer in Healthcare Technology,
PhD, PHN, RN

Guests:

Tempus delegation

Time:

21 Feb 2007

Ultimate goals of Finnish health care
- Cost-effectiveness
- Patient/client & population centeredness
- Just distribution of the services (equity)
= use based on need

*********************************************************
MSAH’s own information society policy
-

Wide use of information and communication technology
Utilisation of internet penetration

Development levels – definition and projectwork
e.g. Area of eHealth / eWelfare
Levels of development

Development work

EU / National

Laws, standards, terminology, classifications, forms, data definitions

Regional

Aggreements, data transmissions, databases, archives, cooperation

Local

Working culture, division of labour, cooperation

Individual

Personal needs, user interface, way of working, teamwork

Milestones - Finnish health care system

2002
2007

National Project on Safeguarding the Future of Health Care Services
National law EHR

eHealth, National Project on Safeguarding the Future
of Health Care Services – main goals
•Ensure access to treatment
•Enhance co-ordination and co-operation in specialized health care
•Enhance regional co-ordination in primary health care
•Emphasize preventive work, one’s own responsibility for one’s own health and the
significance of primary health care
• Implementation - divided into 40 sub-projects
•Preparing the ground for the nationwide electronic patient records, which will be
introduced in 2007 (law will be launched Spring 2007)

Evolution of e-processes
- strategy and plan
- education
- culture, values
- publicity in control

5. Adaptation
of work
processes

4. Integration

Use
of e-Health
and e-Social
processes

Integration
of IT solutions
in daily life

Planning and
development
3. Processes
of e-processes,
working models

2. Basic
development

1. Services/
Products

Intranet,
Internet
groundwork
purpose-built

Electronic
documents
and lists
Adapted from www.done360.com

The Regional Project Area
Maternity care – births are over 99% in hospitals

.

JYVÄSKYLÄ

Map of Finland









85.585 km2
>1.000 lakes
681.000 inhabitants
One university hospital
Four central hospitals (five 10/03)
53 health centres
App. 20 000 social and health
care workers

NORMAL MATERNITY CARE SERVICE CHAIN
IN FINLAND (REGULAR PREGNANCY)

FIRST CONTACT
MOTHER/CHILD UNIT

PHN = public
health nurse

PHN/ FIRST
EXAMINATION
8-10 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
10-12 W

LABORATORY

PRE-NATAL
ULTRASOUND

HEALTH CENTRE
BEFORE 12 W
BASIC
INFORMATION
FORM
maternity clinic

CERTIFICATE
M/C CLINIC
NIB (KELA)

PHN/
EXAMINATION
16-18 W

SPECIAL CARE MATERNITY CLINIC
12-14 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
22-24 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
26-28 W
NIB =
National
Insurance
Bureau

PHN/
EXAMINATION
30-32 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
32-34 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
34-36 W

PAGE
2

BIRTH TRAINING COURSE,
(CONSISTS OF 8-10 MEETINGS)

PAGE
2

PHN/ EXAMINATION
37 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
38-40 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
40-42 W

DELIVERY ROOM

POST NATAL WARD

PHN/ (baby) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN/ (mother) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN / Mother´s Medical health check

DOCTOR/ Mother´s
Medical health check8-9 W after delivery

CHILD CLINIC

FAMILY
PLANNING

Basis of the Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net
The Long History of the (Finnish) Maternity Care Services (since 1940´s)
Development of Information Society (1990´s)
Idea of Maternity Services on the Internet (1997)
Basis of
Development
Work
•Research
• Multidisciplinary
co-operation
• Piloting
• Feedback /
Evaluation

Results
• Working
models for
experts and
families
•Networking
• Data/info
contents
• Software
technology

E- Service

Participants
• Health care
professionals
• Families
• Colleges
• Software
technology
experts
• Multimedia
experts

Expert teams





Central team
Social and Health care experts´ team
Technology experts´ team
Education experts´ team (Savonia was co-ordinator
of the MIC project)

• Families

MIC
•is supplementary to today's mother-child clinic services

•helps the user in decision making
•provides information that has been approved by the special
editorial board

•enables the use of the services independently of time and
place (Internet connection needed)
•can be used in many countries (adjustments will be made
according to the culture)

The MIC: options
•Entrance

•News
•Discussion groups (with peers)
•Questions and answers (confidential)
•Search (information)
•Feedback
•Links to other useful Internet sites

Search/ information or data bank











Pregnancy
Delivery
Post- natal period
Infant
Parent's relationship
Parenthood
Personal hygiene, appearance
Nutrition and exercise
Drugs, alcohol and smoking
Services to the public

MIC has 135 articles, two videos, 2 animations, 2 interactive photos, 86
photos and 53 drawings checked and approved by editorial board.

MIC / contents
Example: Drawings

Qualified information / content management
• Information is reliable, and easy to understand
• The quantity of information is adequate
• The required information is easy to find
• The content creation and management are carried on as
part of current (clinical) work processes
• The technical solutions guarantee e.g. data integrity,
authentication, security and data availability

Evaluation - family
• Modern way of having services
• No queuing in phone
• Discussions groups for families (anonymously), where
professionals appear by their names
• Service in your own language
• Information/contents is versatile, extensive, based on
expertise / reliable

Evaluation – maternity care professionals
•Extra visits were not needed during pilot phase
•The Net Clinic could be used as a manual or in
familiarising the new worker
•Counselling and giving advice was harmonised
•Families got deeper information and advice based
on their needs more effectively
•Networking and co-operation was more efficient
•Written answers took some time to get used to

The Project of the Year 2000
•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be expanded
into new application fields like public administration and so called soft
values
•Net Clinic is based on wide and versatile co-operation and on
application of new Internet technology
•Net Clinic proves that it is possible to develop new innovations also
outside big so called growing centres
•Net Clinic proves that women can work successfully in management
or other key positions which have conventionally been classified as
men´s work
(The evaluation criteria of the The Finnish Project Management Association)

Diploma of the Excellent Work
•Given by the Provincial State Office of Eastern Finland 4.9.2001

•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be
expanded into new application fields like public administration in
national level and in future international level

O

O
O

o
x

O

O MIC has been used/is in use
• Kuopio
• Helsinki
• North-East of Finland (Kuusamo,
Taivalkoski, Posio and Salla)
• Rovaniemi and its neighbourhood
Rovaniemi rural commune and
Ranua)

An eMaternal Health Care Data System

STORK

The Stork is
• secured electronic health data system (EHS) made for
professional use
• all the information about pregnancy, delivery and puerperium
is collected in the same system (so called seamless chain
between primary health care and special care)
• mutual data contents to maternal units involved

Data security
• The application
• built on special security system used by the hospital
• Access rights depends on task or position
• those who are involved maternal service chain
• Preconditions for usage
• mother´s permission to collect and transfer her data
(each organisation needs its own permission)
• agreement between different organisations
• every user has personal user identifier, all usage is
logged and saved, even edited/deleted parts will be
recorded permanently

Storks gives information
• Pregnancy follow up, continuous documentation;
appointments with public health nurses, midwifes, doctors
• Graphics; growth of the uterus, hypertension, weight,
partogram
• Internal- and external examinations
• Medication during pregnancy, delivery, puerperium
• Diagnosis of the foetus; e.g ultrasound, lab tests
• Lifestyle of the family (nutrition, exercise, smoking, drugs
etc)
• Sick leaves of the mother
• Special area for the nurse documentation

Stork gives
• The new-born baby his/her social security number
• Basic information from earlier pregnancies
• Statistics e.g.
– for the Stakes (the National Research and Development Centre for
Welfare and Health
– the nursing research

• Forms and applications

The first page of the Stork

Forms

Name, birth date, age, weeks,

Notify: the lamp sign, B-gluc high (red color)
Lab, X-ray

Mother->,
Child ->

Social worker documentation
Both the public health nurse in primary care and
the midwife in special care fulfil this area. The written
data is available in real time (mother´s permission needed)

From Netinformation – Portal
to Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID)

My personal computer

Aims of the Work
• To elaborate the co-operation of different
organisations
• To develop a consistent way to manage information
in Social Work and Health Care organisations
• To develop the ”Dynamic Integrated Desktop” (DID)
for Social Work and Health Care professionals
• To offer further education of Social Work and Health
Care professionals
• To determine the reliable security standards

Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID )
-a consistent way to manage information in Health Care organisations

Partnership information

Single sign-on





Professional information


On line (on special fields)



Education
•course

Contacts
Office times
Information of services

Professional web services



PubMed, Cinahl
Laws and orders

enrolment, forms

Web services for public
Integration of IT software



Contact information



”You get what you need”



Problem solving information



EHR, RIS/PACS (digital imaging), biosignals etc.



Education



High level of security

View of the DID page

Teams
Discussion
Forums

Document
management
Links
Courses

Patients 26.8.2002

Mail (3 new messages)

Time

Name

Social security number

8.00

Patrick Patient

12345679573

8.20

Donald Duck

89101128758

8.40

Clark Kent

98459734658

Maintenance
Magazines &
Periodicals

August 2002

News
Databases
Patients
Help

Personified, user oriented
Networked, user organization oriented

Information system,
task and position in the organization

Tutuks service

• Tutuks, a virtual visit to a maternity ward
• Utilised work done by MIC
• http://www.synnytystutuksi.fi/tutukspalvelu.
html

Challenges for the Future
•Family/citizen participation challenges professionals
•e-working environment (models, processes)
•eEducation and training
• “E-gap” between generations
•Usability of ICT-solutions
•Integration of ICT-solutions

New project
• Looking for partner organisations, next
Tempus Call or other suitable call

New project - Tree of problems
NO KNOWLEDGE
TRANSFER

NO NETWORKING

Lack of resources in
distance teaching in cultural maternity care

Unfamiliarity with new
teaching ways

Former education

Non-transferability of
tacit knowledge

Lack of ICT skills

Figure: Project - problem tree

Retiring
(growing)

Incapability to
respond future needs

Mobility (teachers
and students)

Lack of cooperation between
Euro-Asian HIEs

Need to study regardless
time and space

Tree of objectives
FLEXIBLE
NETWORKING

CULTURAL MATERNITY CARE
AND DISTANCE TEACHING

ENHANCING READINESS FOR
DISTANCE TEACHING IN CULTURAL
MATERNITY AND INFANT CARE

Definition of resources
needed

Testing of
ICT skills

Designing and evaluating
Networking and
Distance teaching model

Selection of Learning Evaluation of
Environment(s)
readiness

MAIN AIM

Reports, workshops
(Implementation)

Accepted
planns

EFFECT

Dissemination of
Project results

Evaluation of model
Implementation

OUTCOME

Thank you for your
attention

Contact info:
[email protected]


Slide 4

eHealth
Case- Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net (MIC)

Speaker:

Pirkko Kouri,
Pricipal Lecturer in Healthcare Technology,
PhD, PHN, RN

Guests:

Tempus delegation

Time:

21 Feb 2007

Ultimate goals of Finnish health care
- Cost-effectiveness
- Patient/client & population centeredness
- Just distribution of the services (equity)
= use based on need

*********************************************************
MSAH’s own information society policy
-

Wide use of information and communication technology
Utilisation of internet penetration

Development levels – definition and projectwork
e.g. Area of eHealth / eWelfare
Levels of development

Development work

EU / National

Laws, standards, terminology, classifications, forms, data definitions

Regional

Aggreements, data transmissions, databases, archives, cooperation

Local

Working culture, division of labour, cooperation

Individual

Personal needs, user interface, way of working, teamwork

Milestones - Finnish health care system

2002
2007

National Project on Safeguarding the Future of Health Care Services
National law EHR

eHealth, National Project on Safeguarding the Future
of Health Care Services – main goals
•Ensure access to treatment
•Enhance co-ordination and co-operation in specialized health care
•Enhance regional co-ordination in primary health care
•Emphasize preventive work, one’s own responsibility for one’s own health and the
significance of primary health care
• Implementation - divided into 40 sub-projects
•Preparing the ground for the nationwide electronic patient records, which will be
introduced in 2007 (law will be launched Spring 2007)

Evolution of e-processes
- strategy and plan
- education
- culture, values
- publicity in control

5. Adaptation
of work
processes

4. Integration

Use
of e-Health
and e-Social
processes

Integration
of IT solutions
in daily life

Planning and
development
3. Processes
of e-processes,
working models

2. Basic
development

1. Services/
Products

Intranet,
Internet
groundwork
purpose-built

Electronic
documents
and lists
Adapted from www.done360.com

The Regional Project Area
Maternity care – births are over 99% in hospitals

.

JYVÄSKYLÄ

Map of Finland









85.585 km2
>1.000 lakes
681.000 inhabitants
One university hospital
Four central hospitals (five 10/03)
53 health centres
App. 20 000 social and health
care workers

NORMAL MATERNITY CARE SERVICE CHAIN
IN FINLAND (REGULAR PREGNANCY)

FIRST CONTACT
MOTHER/CHILD UNIT

PHN = public
health nurse

PHN/ FIRST
EXAMINATION
8-10 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
10-12 W

LABORATORY

PRE-NATAL
ULTRASOUND

HEALTH CENTRE
BEFORE 12 W
BASIC
INFORMATION
FORM
maternity clinic

CERTIFICATE
M/C CLINIC
NIB (KELA)

PHN/
EXAMINATION
16-18 W

SPECIAL CARE MATERNITY CLINIC
12-14 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
22-24 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
26-28 W
NIB =
National
Insurance
Bureau

PHN/
EXAMINATION
30-32 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
32-34 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
34-36 W

PAGE
2

BIRTH TRAINING COURSE,
(CONSISTS OF 8-10 MEETINGS)

PAGE
2

PHN/ EXAMINATION
37 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
38-40 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
40-42 W

DELIVERY ROOM

POST NATAL WARD

PHN/ (baby) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN/ (mother) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN / Mother´s Medical health check

DOCTOR/ Mother´s
Medical health check8-9 W after delivery

CHILD CLINIC

FAMILY
PLANNING

Basis of the Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net
The Long History of the (Finnish) Maternity Care Services (since 1940´s)
Development of Information Society (1990´s)
Idea of Maternity Services on the Internet (1997)
Basis of
Development
Work
•Research
• Multidisciplinary
co-operation
• Piloting
• Feedback /
Evaluation

Results
• Working
models for
experts and
families
•Networking
• Data/info
contents
• Software
technology

E- Service

Participants
• Health care
professionals
• Families
• Colleges
• Software
technology
experts
• Multimedia
experts

Expert teams





Central team
Social and Health care experts´ team
Technology experts´ team
Education experts´ team (Savonia was co-ordinator
of the MIC project)

• Families

MIC
•is supplementary to today's mother-child clinic services

•helps the user in decision making
•provides information that has been approved by the special
editorial board

•enables the use of the services independently of time and
place (Internet connection needed)
•can be used in many countries (adjustments will be made
according to the culture)

The MIC: options
•Entrance

•News
•Discussion groups (with peers)
•Questions and answers (confidential)
•Search (information)
•Feedback
•Links to other useful Internet sites

Search/ information or data bank











Pregnancy
Delivery
Post- natal period
Infant
Parent's relationship
Parenthood
Personal hygiene, appearance
Nutrition and exercise
Drugs, alcohol and smoking
Services to the public

MIC has 135 articles, two videos, 2 animations, 2 interactive photos, 86
photos and 53 drawings checked and approved by editorial board.

MIC / contents
Example: Drawings

Qualified information / content management
• Information is reliable, and easy to understand
• The quantity of information is adequate
• The required information is easy to find
• The content creation and management are carried on as
part of current (clinical) work processes
• The technical solutions guarantee e.g. data integrity,
authentication, security and data availability

Evaluation - family
• Modern way of having services
• No queuing in phone
• Discussions groups for families (anonymously), where
professionals appear by their names
• Service in your own language
• Information/contents is versatile, extensive, based on
expertise / reliable

Evaluation – maternity care professionals
•Extra visits were not needed during pilot phase
•The Net Clinic could be used as a manual or in
familiarising the new worker
•Counselling and giving advice was harmonised
•Families got deeper information and advice based
on their needs more effectively
•Networking and co-operation was more efficient
•Written answers took some time to get used to

The Project of the Year 2000
•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be expanded
into new application fields like public administration and so called soft
values
•Net Clinic is based on wide and versatile co-operation and on
application of new Internet technology
•Net Clinic proves that it is possible to develop new innovations also
outside big so called growing centres
•Net Clinic proves that women can work successfully in management
or other key positions which have conventionally been classified as
men´s work
(The evaluation criteria of the The Finnish Project Management Association)

Diploma of the Excellent Work
•Given by the Provincial State Office of Eastern Finland 4.9.2001

•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be
expanded into new application fields like public administration in
national level and in future international level

O

O
O

o
x

O

O MIC has been used/is in use
• Kuopio
• Helsinki
• North-East of Finland (Kuusamo,
Taivalkoski, Posio and Salla)
• Rovaniemi and its neighbourhood
Rovaniemi rural commune and
Ranua)

An eMaternal Health Care Data System

STORK

The Stork is
• secured electronic health data system (EHS) made for
professional use
• all the information about pregnancy, delivery and puerperium
is collected in the same system (so called seamless chain
between primary health care and special care)
• mutual data contents to maternal units involved

Data security
• The application
• built on special security system used by the hospital
• Access rights depends on task or position
• those who are involved maternal service chain
• Preconditions for usage
• mother´s permission to collect and transfer her data
(each organisation needs its own permission)
• agreement between different organisations
• every user has personal user identifier, all usage is
logged and saved, even edited/deleted parts will be
recorded permanently

Storks gives information
• Pregnancy follow up, continuous documentation;
appointments with public health nurses, midwifes, doctors
• Graphics; growth of the uterus, hypertension, weight,
partogram
• Internal- and external examinations
• Medication during pregnancy, delivery, puerperium
• Diagnosis of the foetus; e.g ultrasound, lab tests
• Lifestyle of the family (nutrition, exercise, smoking, drugs
etc)
• Sick leaves of the mother
• Special area for the nurse documentation

Stork gives
• The new-born baby his/her social security number
• Basic information from earlier pregnancies
• Statistics e.g.
– for the Stakes (the National Research and Development Centre for
Welfare and Health
– the nursing research

• Forms and applications

The first page of the Stork

Forms

Name, birth date, age, weeks,

Notify: the lamp sign, B-gluc high (red color)
Lab, X-ray

Mother->,
Child ->

Social worker documentation
Both the public health nurse in primary care and
the midwife in special care fulfil this area. The written
data is available in real time (mother´s permission needed)

From Netinformation – Portal
to Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID)

My personal computer

Aims of the Work
• To elaborate the co-operation of different
organisations
• To develop a consistent way to manage information
in Social Work and Health Care organisations
• To develop the ”Dynamic Integrated Desktop” (DID)
for Social Work and Health Care professionals
• To offer further education of Social Work and Health
Care professionals
• To determine the reliable security standards

Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID )
-a consistent way to manage information in Health Care organisations

Partnership information

Single sign-on





Professional information


On line (on special fields)



Education
•course

Contacts
Office times
Information of services

Professional web services



PubMed, Cinahl
Laws and orders

enrolment, forms

Web services for public
Integration of IT software



Contact information



”You get what you need”



Problem solving information



EHR, RIS/PACS (digital imaging), biosignals etc.



Education



High level of security

View of the DID page

Teams
Discussion
Forums

Document
management
Links
Courses

Patients 26.8.2002

Mail (3 new messages)

Time

Name

Social security number

8.00

Patrick Patient

12345679573

8.20

Donald Duck

89101128758

8.40

Clark Kent

98459734658

Maintenance
Magazines &
Periodicals

August 2002

News
Databases
Patients
Help

Personified, user oriented
Networked, user organization oriented

Information system,
task and position in the organization

Tutuks service

• Tutuks, a virtual visit to a maternity ward
• Utilised work done by MIC
• http://www.synnytystutuksi.fi/tutukspalvelu.
html

Challenges for the Future
•Family/citizen participation challenges professionals
•e-working environment (models, processes)
•eEducation and training
• “E-gap” between generations
•Usability of ICT-solutions
•Integration of ICT-solutions

New project
• Looking for partner organisations, next
Tempus Call or other suitable call

New project - Tree of problems
NO KNOWLEDGE
TRANSFER

NO NETWORKING

Lack of resources in
distance teaching in cultural maternity care

Unfamiliarity with new
teaching ways

Former education

Non-transferability of
tacit knowledge

Lack of ICT skills

Figure: Project - problem tree

Retiring
(growing)

Incapability to
respond future needs

Mobility (teachers
and students)

Lack of cooperation between
Euro-Asian HIEs

Need to study regardless
time and space

Tree of objectives
FLEXIBLE
NETWORKING

CULTURAL MATERNITY CARE
AND DISTANCE TEACHING

ENHANCING READINESS FOR
DISTANCE TEACHING IN CULTURAL
MATERNITY AND INFANT CARE

Definition of resources
needed

Testing of
ICT skills

Designing and evaluating
Networking and
Distance teaching model

Selection of Learning Evaluation of
Environment(s)
readiness

MAIN AIM

Reports, workshops
(Implementation)

Accepted
planns

EFFECT

Dissemination of
Project results

Evaluation of model
Implementation

OUTCOME

Thank you for your
attention

Contact info:
[email protected]


Slide 5

eHealth
Case- Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net (MIC)

Speaker:

Pirkko Kouri,
Pricipal Lecturer in Healthcare Technology,
PhD, PHN, RN

Guests:

Tempus delegation

Time:

21 Feb 2007

Ultimate goals of Finnish health care
- Cost-effectiveness
- Patient/client & population centeredness
- Just distribution of the services (equity)
= use based on need

*********************************************************
MSAH’s own information society policy
-

Wide use of information and communication technology
Utilisation of internet penetration

Development levels – definition and projectwork
e.g. Area of eHealth / eWelfare
Levels of development

Development work

EU / National

Laws, standards, terminology, classifications, forms, data definitions

Regional

Aggreements, data transmissions, databases, archives, cooperation

Local

Working culture, division of labour, cooperation

Individual

Personal needs, user interface, way of working, teamwork

Milestones - Finnish health care system

2002
2007

National Project on Safeguarding the Future of Health Care Services
National law EHR

eHealth, National Project on Safeguarding the Future
of Health Care Services – main goals
•Ensure access to treatment
•Enhance co-ordination and co-operation in specialized health care
•Enhance regional co-ordination in primary health care
•Emphasize preventive work, one’s own responsibility for one’s own health and the
significance of primary health care
• Implementation - divided into 40 sub-projects
•Preparing the ground for the nationwide electronic patient records, which will be
introduced in 2007 (law will be launched Spring 2007)

Evolution of e-processes
- strategy and plan
- education
- culture, values
- publicity in control

5. Adaptation
of work
processes

4. Integration

Use
of e-Health
and e-Social
processes

Integration
of IT solutions
in daily life

Planning and
development
3. Processes
of e-processes,
working models

2. Basic
development

1. Services/
Products

Intranet,
Internet
groundwork
purpose-built

Electronic
documents
and lists
Adapted from www.done360.com

The Regional Project Area
Maternity care – births are over 99% in hospitals

.

JYVÄSKYLÄ

Map of Finland









85.585 km2
>1.000 lakes
681.000 inhabitants
One university hospital
Four central hospitals (five 10/03)
53 health centres
App. 20 000 social and health
care workers

NORMAL MATERNITY CARE SERVICE CHAIN
IN FINLAND (REGULAR PREGNANCY)

FIRST CONTACT
MOTHER/CHILD UNIT

PHN = public
health nurse

PHN/ FIRST
EXAMINATION
8-10 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
10-12 W

LABORATORY

PRE-NATAL
ULTRASOUND

HEALTH CENTRE
BEFORE 12 W
BASIC
INFORMATION
FORM
maternity clinic

CERTIFICATE
M/C CLINIC
NIB (KELA)

PHN/
EXAMINATION
16-18 W

SPECIAL CARE MATERNITY CLINIC
12-14 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
22-24 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
26-28 W
NIB =
National
Insurance
Bureau

PHN/
EXAMINATION
30-32 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
32-34 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
34-36 W

PAGE
2

BIRTH TRAINING COURSE,
(CONSISTS OF 8-10 MEETINGS)

PAGE
2

PHN/ EXAMINATION
37 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
38-40 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
40-42 W

DELIVERY ROOM

POST NATAL WARD

PHN/ (baby) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN/ (mother) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN / Mother´s Medical health check

DOCTOR/ Mother´s
Medical health check8-9 W after delivery

CHILD CLINIC

FAMILY
PLANNING

Basis of the Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net
The Long History of the (Finnish) Maternity Care Services (since 1940´s)
Development of Information Society (1990´s)
Idea of Maternity Services on the Internet (1997)
Basis of
Development
Work
•Research
• Multidisciplinary
co-operation
• Piloting
• Feedback /
Evaluation

Results
• Working
models for
experts and
families
•Networking
• Data/info
contents
• Software
technology

E- Service

Participants
• Health care
professionals
• Families
• Colleges
• Software
technology
experts
• Multimedia
experts

Expert teams





Central team
Social and Health care experts´ team
Technology experts´ team
Education experts´ team (Savonia was co-ordinator
of the MIC project)

• Families

MIC
•is supplementary to today's mother-child clinic services

•helps the user in decision making
•provides information that has been approved by the special
editorial board

•enables the use of the services independently of time and
place (Internet connection needed)
•can be used in many countries (adjustments will be made
according to the culture)

The MIC: options
•Entrance

•News
•Discussion groups (with peers)
•Questions and answers (confidential)
•Search (information)
•Feedback
•Links to other useful Internet sites

Search/ information or data bank











Pregnancy
Delivery
Post- natal period
Infant
Parent's relationship
Parenthood
Personal hygiene, appearance
Nutrition and exercise
Drugs, alcohol and smoking
Services to the public

MIC has 135 articles, two videos, 2 animations, 2 interactive photos, 86
photos and 53 drawings checked and approved by editorial board.

MIC / contents
Example: Drawings

Qualified information / content management
• Information is reliable, and easy to understand
• The quantity of information is adequate
• The required information is easy to find
• The content creation and management are carried on as
part of current (clinical) work processes
• The technical solutions guarantee e.g. data integrity,
authentication, security and data availability

Evaluation - family
• Modern way of having services
• No queuing in phone
• Discussions groups for families (anonymously), where
professionals appear by their names
• Service in your own language
• Information/contents is versatile, extensive, based on
expertise / reliable

Evaluation – maternity care professionals
•Extra visits were not needed during pilot phase
•The Net Clinic could be used as a manual or in
familiarising the new worker
•Counselling and giving advice was harmonised
•Families got deeper information and advice based
on their needs more effectively
•Networking and co-operation was more efficient
•Written answers took some time to get used to

The Project of the Year 2000
•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be expanded
into new application fields like public administration and so called soft
values
•Net Clinic is based on wide and versatile co-operation and on
application of new Internet technology
•Net Clinic proves that it is possible to develop new innovations also
outside big so called growing centres
•Net Clinic proves that women can work successfully in management
or other key positions which have conventionally been classified as
men´s work
(The evaluation criteria of the The Finnish Project Management Association)

Diploma of the Excellent Work
•Given by the Provincial State Office of Eastern Finland 4.9.2001

•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be
expanded into new application fields like public administration in
national level and in future international level

O

O
O

o
x

O

O MIC has been used/is in use
• Kuopio
• Helsinki
• North-East of Finland (Kuusamo,
Taivalkoski, Posio and Salla)
• Rovaniemi and its neighbourhood
Rovaniemi rural commune and
Ranua)

An eMaternal Health Care Data System

STORK

The Stork is
• secured electronic health data system (EHS) made for
professional use
• all the information about pregnancy, delivery and puerperium
is collected in the same system (so called seamless chain
between primary health care and special care)
• mutual data contents to maternal units involved

Data security
• The application
• built on special security system used by the hospital
• Access rights depends on task or position
• those who are involved maternal service chain
• Preconditions for usage
• mother´s permission to collect and transfer her data
(each organisation needs its own permission)
• agreement between different organisations
• every user has personal user identifier, all usage is
logged and saved, even edited/deleted parts will be
recorded permanently

Storks gives information
• Pregnancy follow up, continuous documentation;
appointments with public health nurses, midwifes, doctors
• Graphics; growth of the uterus, hypertension, weight,
partogram
• Internal- and external examinations
• Medication during pregnancy, delivery, puerperium
• Diagnosis of the foetus; e.g ultrasound, lab tests
• Lifestyle of the family (nutrition, exercise, smoking, drugs
etc)
• Sick leaves of the mother
• Special area for the nurse documentation

Stork gives
• The new-born baby his/her social security number
• Basic information from earlier pregnancies
• Statistics e.g.
– for the Stakes (the National Research and Development Centre for
Welfare and Health
– the nursing research

• Forms and applications

The first page of the Stork

Forms

Name, birth date, age, weeks,

Notify: the lamp sign, B-gluc high (red color)
Lab, X-ray

Mother->,
Child ->

Social worker documentation
Both the public health nurse in primary care and
the midwife in special care fulfil this area. The written
data is available in real time (mother´s permission needed)

From Netinformation – Portal
to Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID)

My personal computer

Aims of the Work
• To elaborate the co-operation of different
organisations
• To develop a consistent way to manage information
in Social Work and Health Care organisations
• To develop the ”Dynamic Integrated Desktop” (DID)
for Social Work and Health Care professionals
• To offer further education of Social Work and Health
Care professionals
• To determine the reliable security standards

Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID )
-a consistent way to manage information in Health Care organisations

Partnership information

Single sign-on





Professional information


On line (on special fields)



Education
•course

Contacts
Office times
Information of services

Professional web services



PubMed, Cinahl
Laws and orders

enrolment, forms

Web services for public
Integration of IT software



Contact information



”You get what you need”



Problem solving information



EHR, RIS/PACS (digital imaging), biosignals etc.



Education



High level of security

View of the DID page

Teams
Discussion
Forums

Document
management
Links
Courses

Patients 26.8.2002

Mail (3 new messages)

Time

Name

Social security number

8.00

Patrick Patient

12345679573

8.20

Donald Duck

89101128758

8.40

Clark Kent

98459734658

Maintenance
Magazines &
Periodicals

August 2002

News
Databases
Patients
Help

Personified, user oriented
Networked, user organization oriented

Information system,
task and position in the organization

Tutuks service

• Tutuks, a virtual visit to a maternity ward
• Utilised work done by MIC
• http://www.synnytystutuksi.fi/tutukspalvelu.
html

Challenges for the Future
•Family/citizen participation challenges professionals
•e-working environment (models, processes)
•eEducation and training
• “E-gap” between generations
•Usability of ICT-solutions
•Integration of ICT-solutions

New project
• Looking for partner organisations, next
Tempus Call or other suitable call

New project - Tree of problems
NO KNOWLEDGE
TRANSFER

NO NETWORKING

Lack of resources in
distance teaching in cultural maternity care

Unfamiliarity with new
teaching ways

Former education

Non-transferability of
tacit knowledge

Lack of ICT skills

Figure: Project - problem tree

Retiring
(growing)

Incapability to
respond future needs

Mobility (teachers
and students)

Lack of cooperation between
Euro-Asian HIEs

Need to study regardless
time and space

Tree of objectives
FLEXIBLE
NETWORKING

CULTURAL MATERNITY CARE
AND DISTANCE TEACHING

ENHANCING READINESS FOR
DISTANCE TEACHING IN CULTURAL
MATERNITY AND INFANT CARE

Definition of resources
needed

Testing of
ICT skills

Designing and evaluating
Networking and
Distance teaching model

Selection of Learning Evaluation of
Environment(s)
readiness

MAIN AIM

Reports, workshops
(Implementation)

Accepted
planns

EFFECT

Dissemination of
Project results

Evaluation of model
Implementation

OUTCOME

Thank you for your
attention

Contact info:
[email protected]


Slide 6

eHealth
Case- Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net (MIC)

Speaker:

Pirkko Kouri,
Pricipal Lecturer in Healthcare Technology,
PhD, PHN, RN

Guests:

Tempus delegation

Time:

21 Feb 2007

Ultimate goals of Finnish health care
- Cost-effectiveness
- Patient/client & population centeredness
- Just distribution of the services (equity)
= use based on need

*********************************************************
MSAH’s own information society policy
-

Wide use of information and communication technology
Utilisation of internet penetration

Development levels – definition and projectwork
e.g. Area of eHealth / eWelfare
Levels of development

Development work

EU / National

Laws, standards, terminology, classifications, forms, data definitions

Regional

Aggreements, data transmissions, databases, archives, cooperation

Local

Working culture, division of labour, cooperation

Individual

Personal needs, user interface, way of working, teamwork

Milestones - Finnish health care system

2002
2007

National Project on Safeguarding the Future of Health Care Services
National law EHR

eHealth, National Project on Safeguarding the Future
of Health Care Services – main goals
•Ensure access to treatment
•Enhance co-ordination and co-operation in specialized health care
•Enhance regional co-ordination in primary health care
•Emphasize preventive work, one’s own responsibility for one’s own health and the
significance of primary health care
• Implementation - divided into 40 sub-projects
•Preparing the ground for the nationwide electronic patient records, which will be
introduced in 2007 (law will be launched Spring 2007)

Evolution of e-processes
- strategy and plan
- education
- culture, values
- publicity in control

5. Adaptation
of work
processes

4. Integration

Use
of e-Health
and e-Social
processes

Integration
of IT solutions
in daily life

Planning and
development
3. Processes
of e-processes,
working models

2. Basic
development

1. Services/
Products

Intranet,
Internet
groundwork
purpose-built

Electronic
documents
and lists
Adapted from www.done360.com

The Regional Project Area
Maternity care – births are over 99% in hospitals

.

JYVÄSKYLÄ

Map of Finland









85.585 km2
>1.000 lakes
681.000 inhabitants
One university hospital
Four central hospitals (five 10/03)
53 health centres
App. 20 000 social and health
care workers

NORMAL MATERNITY CARE SERVICE CHAIN
IN FINLAND (REGULAR PREGNANCY)

FIRST CONTACT
MOTHER/CHILD UNIT

PHN = public
health nurse

PHN/ FIRST
EXAMINATION
8-10 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
10-12 W

LABORATORY

PRE-NATAL
ULTRASOUND

HEALTH CENTRE
BEFORE 12 W
BASIC
INFORMATION
FORM
maternity clinic

CERTIFICATE
M/C CLINIC
NIB (KELA)

PHN/
EXAMINATION
16-18 W

SPECIAL CARE MATERNITY CLINIC
12-14 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
22-24 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
26-28 W
NIB =
National
Insurance
Bureau

PHN/
EXAMINATION
30-32 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
32-34 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
34-36 W

PAGE
2

BIRTH TRAINING COURSE,
(CONSISTS OF 8-10 MEETINGS)

PAGE
2

PHN/ EXAMINATION
37 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
38-40 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
40-42 W

DELIVERY ROOM

POST NATAL WARD

PHN/ (baby) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN/ (mother) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN / Mother´s Medical health check

DOCTOR/ Mother´s
Medical health check8-9 W after delivery

CHILD CLINIC

FAMILY
PLANNING

Basis of the Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net
The Long History of the (Finnish) Maternity Care Services (since 1940´s)
Development of Information Society (1990´s)
Idea of Maternity Services on the Internet (1997)
Basis of
Development
Work
•Research
• Multidisciplinary
co-operation
• Piloting
• Feedback /
Evaluation

Results
• Working
models for
experts and
families
•Networking
• Data/info
contents
• Software
technology

E- Service

Participants
• Health care
professionals
• Families
• Colleges
• Software
technology
experts
• Multimedia
experts

Expert teams





Central team
Social and Health care experts´ team
Technology experts´ team
Education experts´ team (Savonia was co-ordinator
of the MIC project)

• Families

MIC
•is supplementary to today's mother-child clinic services

•helps the user in decision making
•provides information that has been approved by the special
editorial board

•enables the use of the services independently of time and
place (Internet connection needed)
•can be used in many countries (adjustments will be made
according to the culture)

The MIC: options
•Entrance

•News
•Discussion groups (with peers)
•Questions and answers (confidential)
•Search (information)
•Feedback
•Links to other useful Internet sites

Search/ information or data bank











Pregnancy
Delivery
Post- natal period
Infant
Parent's relationship
Parenthood
Personal hygiene, appearance
Nutrition and exercise
Drugs, alcohol and smoking
Services to the public

MIC has 135 articles, two videos, 2 animations, 2 interactive photos, 86
photos and 53 drawings checked and approved by editorial board.

MIC / contents
Example: Drawings

Qualified information / content management
• Information is reliable, and easy to understand
• The quantity of information is adequate
• The required information is easy to find
• The content creation and management are carried on as
part of current (clinical) work processes
• The technical solutions guarantee e.g. data integrity,
authentication, security and data availability

Evaluation - family
• Modern way of having services
• No queuing in phone
• Discussions groups for families (anonymously), where
professionals appear by their names
• Service in your own language
• Information/contents is versatile, extensive, based on
expertise / reliable

Evaluation – maternity care professionals
•Extra visits were not needed during pilot phase
•The Net Clinic could be used as a manual or in
familiarising the new worker
•Counselling and giving advice was harmonised
•Families got deeper information and advice based
on their needs more effectively
•Networking and co-operation was more efficient
•Written answers took some time to get used to

The Project of the Year 2000
•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be expanded
into new application fields like public administration and so called soft
values
•Net Clinic is based on wide and versatile co-operation and on
application of new Internet technology
•Net Clinic proves that it is possible to develop new innovations also
outside big so called growing centres
•Net Clinic proves that women can work successfully in management
or other key positions which have conventionally been classified as
men´s work
(The evaluation criteria of the The Finnish Project Management Association)

Diploma of the Excellent Work
•Given by the Provincial State Office of Eastern Finland 4.9.2001

•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be
expanded into new application fields like public administration in
national level and in future international level

O

O
O

o
x

O

O MIC has been used/is in use
• Kuopio
• Helsinki
• North-East of Finland (Kuusamo,
Taivalkoski, Posio and Salla)
• Rovaniemi and its neighbourhood
Rovaniemi rural commune and
Ranua)

An eMaternal Health Care Data System

STORK

The Stork is
• secured electronic health data system (EHS) made for
professional use
• all the information about pregnancy, delivery and puerperium
is collected in the same system (so called seamless chain
between primary health care and special care)
• mutual data contents to maternal units involved

Data security
• The application
• built on special security system used by the hospital
• Access rights depends on task or position
• those who are involved maternal service chain
• Preconditions for usage
• mother´s permission to collect and transfer her data
(each organisation needs its own permission)
• agreement between different organisations
• every user has personal user identifier, all usage is
logged and saved, even edited/deleted parts will be
recorded permanently

Storks gives information
• Pregnancy follow up, continuous documentation;
appointments with public health nurses, midwifes, doctors
• Graphics; growth of the uterus, hypertension, weight,
partogram
• Internal- and external examinations
• Medication during pregnancy, delivery, puerperium
• Diagnosis of the foetus; e.g ultrasound, lab tests
• Lifestyle of the family (nutrition, exercise, smoking, drugs
etc)
• Sick leaves of the mother
• Special area for the nurse documentation

Stork gives
• The new-born baby his/her social security number
• Basic information from earlier pregnancies
• Statistics e.g.
– for the Stakes (the National Research and Development Centre for
Welfare and Health
– the nursing research

• Forms and applications

The first page of the Stork

Forms

Name, birth date, age, weeks,

Notify: the lamp sign, B-gluc high (red color)
Lab, X-ray

Mother->,
Child ->

Social worker documentation
Both the public health nurse in primary care and
the midwife in special care fulfil this area. The written
data is available in real time (mother´s permission needed)

From Netinformation – Portal
to Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID)

My personal computer

Aims of the Work
• To elaborate the co-operation of different
organisations
• To develop a consistent way to manage information
in Social Work and Health Care organisations
• To develop the ”Dynamic Integrated Desktop” (DID)
for Social Work and Health Care professionals
• To offer further education of Social Work and Health
Care professionals
• To determine the reliable security standards

Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID )
-a consistent way to manage information in Health Care organisations

Partnership information

Single sign-on





Professional information


On line (on special fields)



Education
•course

Contacts
Office times
Information of services

Professional web services



PubMed, Cinahl
Laws and orders

enrolment, forms

Web services for public
Integration of IT software



Contact information



”You get what you need”



Problem solving information



EHR, RIS/PACS (digital imaging), biosignals etc.



Education



High level of security

View of the DID page

Teams
Discussion
Forums

Document
management
Links
Courses

Patients 26.8.2002

Mail (3 new messages)

Time

Name

Social security number

8.00

Patrick Patient

12345679573

8.20

Donald Duck

89101128758

8.40

Clark Kent

98459734658

Maintenance
Magazines &
Periodicals

August 2002

News
Databases
Patients
Help

Personified, user oriented
Networked, user organization oriented

Information system,
task and position in the organization

Tutuks service

• Tutuks, a virtual visit to a maternity ward
• Utilised work done by MIC
• http://www.synnytystutuksi.fi/tutukspalvelu.
html

Challenges for the Future
•Family/citizen participation challenges professionals
•e-working environment (models, processes)
•eEducation and training
• “E-gap” between generations
•Usability of ICT-solutions
•Integration of ICT-solutions

New project
• Looking for partner organisations, next
Tempus Call or other suitable call

New project - Tree of problems
NO KNOWLEDGE
TRANSFER

NO NETWORKING

Lack of resources in
distance teaching in cultural maternity care

Unfamiliarity with new
teaching ways

Former education

Non-transferability of
tacit knowledge

Lack of ICT skills

Figure: Project - problem tree

Retiring
(growing)

Incapability to
respond future needs

Mobility (teachers
and students)

Lack of cooperation between
Euro-Asian HIEs

Need to study regardless
time and space

Tree of objectives
FLEXIBLE
NETWORKING

CULTURAL MATERNITY CARE
AND DISTANCE TEACHING

ENHANCING READINESS FOR
DISTANCE TEACHING IN CULTURAL
MATERNITY AND INFANT CARE

Definition of resources
needed

Testing of
ICT skills

Designing and evaluating
Networking and
Distance teaching model

Selection of Learning Evaluation of
Environment(s)
readiness

MAIN AIM

Reports, workshops
(Implementation)

Accepted
planns

EFFECT

Dissemination of
Project results

Evaluation of model
Implementation

OUTCOME

Thank you for your
attention

Contact info:
[email protected]


Slide 7

eHealth
Case- Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net (MIC)

Speaker:

Pirkko Kouri,
Pricipal Lecturer in Healthcare Technology,
PhD, PHN, RN

Guests:

Tempus delegation

Time:

21 Feb 2007

Ultimate goals of Finnish health care
- Cost-effectiveness
- Patient/client & population centeredness
- Just distribution of the services (equity)
= use based on need

*********************************************************
MSAH’s own information society policy
-

Wide use of information and communication technology
Utilisation of internet penetration

Development levels – definition and projectwork
e.g. Area of eHealth / eWelfare
Levels of development

Development work

EU / National

Laws, standards, terminology, classifications, forms, data definitions

Regional

Aggreements, data transmissions, databases, archives, cooperation

Local

Working culture, division of labour, cooperation

Individual

Personal needs, user interface, way of working, teamwork

Milestones - Finnish health care system

2002
2007

National Project on Safeguarding the Future of Health Care Services
National law EHR

eHealth, National Project on Safeguarding the Future
of Health Care Services – main goals
•Ensure access to treatment
•Enhance co-ordination and co-operation in specialized health care
•Enhance regional co-ordination in primary health care
•Emphasize preventive work, one’s own responsibility for one’s own health and the
significance of primary health care
• Implementation - divided into 40 sub-projects
•Preparing the ground for the nationwide electronic patient records, which will be
introduced in 2007 (law will be launched Spring 2007)

Evolution of e-processes
- strategy and plan
- education
- culture, values
- publicity in control

5. Adaptation
of work
processes

4. Integration

Use
of e-Health
and e-Social
processes

Integration
of IT solutions
in daily life

Planning and
development
3. Processes
of e-processes,
working models

2. Basic
development

1. Services/
Products

Intranet,
Internet
groundwork
purpose-built

Electronic
documents
and lists
Adapted from www.done360.com

The Regional Project Area
Maternity care – births are over 99% in hospitals

.

JYVÄSKYLÄ

Map of Finland









85.585 km2
>1.000 lakes
681.000 inhabitants
One university hospital
Four central hospitals (five 10/03)
53 health centres
App. 20 000 social and health
care workers

NORMAL MATERNITY CARE SERVICE CHAIN
IN FINLAND (REGULAR PREGNANCY)

FIRST CONTACT
MOTHER/CHILD UNIT

PHN = public
health nurse

PHN/ FIRST
EXAMINATION
8-10 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
10-12 W

LABORATORY

PRE-NATAL
ULTRASOUND

HEALTH CENTRE
BEFORE 12 W
BASIC
INFORMATION
FORM
maternity clinic

CERTIFICATE
M/C CLINIC
NIB (KELA)

PHN/
EXAMINATION
16-18 W

SPECIAL CARE MATERNITY CLINIC
12-14 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
22-24 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
26-28 W
NIB =
National
Insurance
Bureau

PHN/
EXAMINATION
30-32 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
32-34 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
34-36 W

PAGE
2

BIRTH TRAINING COURSE,
(CONSISTS OF 8-10 MEETINGS)

PAGE
2

PHN/ EXAMINATION
37 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
38-40 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
40-42 W

DELIVERY ROOM

POST NATAL WARD

PHN/ (baby) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN/ (mother) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN / Mother´s Medical health check

DOCTOR/ Mother´s
Medical health check8-9 W after delivery

CHILD CLINIC

FAMILY
PLANNING

Basis of the Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net
The Long History of the (Finnish) Maternity Care Services (since 1940´s)
Development of Information Society (1990´s)
Idea of Maternity Services on the Internet (1997)
Basis of
Development
Work
•Research
• Multidisciplinary
co-operation
• Piloting
• Feedback /
Evaluation

Results
• Working
models for
experts and
families
•Networking
• Data/info
contents
• Software
technology

E- Service

Participants
• Health care
professionals
• Families
• Colleges
• Software
technology
experts
• Multimedia
experts

Expert teams





Central team
Social and Health care experts´ team
Technology experts´ team
Education experts´ team (Savonia was co-ordinator
of the MIC project)

• Families

MIC
•is supplementary to today's mother-child clinic services

•helps the user in decision making
•provides information that has been approved by the special
editorial board

•enables the use of the services independently of time and
place (Internet connection needed)
•can be used in many countries (adjustments will be made
according to the culture)

The MIC: options
•Entrance

•News
•Discussion groups (with peers)
•Questions and answers (confidential)
•Search (information)
•Feedback
•Links to other useful Internet sites

Search/ information or data bank











Pregnancy
Delivery
Post- natal period
Infant
Parent's relationship
Parenthood
Personal hygiene, appearance
Nutrition and exercise
Drugs, alcohol and smoking
Services to the public

MIC has 135 articles, two videos, 2 animations, 2 interactive photos, 86
photos and 53 drawings checked and approved by editorial board.

MIC / contents
Example: Drawings

Qualified information / content management
• Information is reliable, and easy to understand
• The quantity of information is adequate
• The required information is easy to find
• The content creation and management are carried on as
part of current (clinical) work processes
• The technical solutions guarantee e.g. data integrity,
authentication, security and data availability

Evaluation - family
• Modern way of having services
• No queuing in phone
• Discussions groups for families (anonymously), where
professionals appear by their names
• Service in your own language
• Information/contents is versatile, extensive, based on
expertise / reliable

Evaluation – maternity care professionals
•Extra visits were not needed during pilot phase
•The Net Clinic could be used as a manual or in
familiarising the new worker
•Counselling and giving advice was harmonised
•Families got deeper information and advice based
on their needs more effectively
•Networking and co-operation was more efficient
•Written answers took some time to get used to

The Project of the Year 2000
•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be expanded
into new application fields like public administration and so called soft
values
•Net Clinic is based on wide and versatile co-operation and on
application of new Internet technology
•Net Clinic proves that it is possible to develop new innovations also
outside big so called growing centres
•Net Clinic proves that women can work successfully in management
or other key positions which have conventionally been classified as
men´s work
(The evaluation criteria of the The Finnish Project Management Association)

Diploma of the Excellent Work
•Given by the Provincial State Office of Eastern Finland 4.9.2001

•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be
expanded into new application fields like public administration in
national level and in future international level

O

O
O

o
x

O

O MIC has been used/is in use
• Kuopio
• Helsinki
• North-East of Finland (Kuusamo,
Taivalkoski, Posio and Salla)
• Rovaniemi and its neighbourhood
Rovaniemi rural commune and
Ranua)

An eMaternal Health Care Data System

STORK

The Stork is
• secured electronic health data system (EHS) made for
professional use
• all the information about pregnancy, delivery and puerperium
is collected in the same system (so called seamless chain
between primary health care and special care)
• mutual data contents to maternal units involved

Data security
• The application
• built on special security system used by the hospital
• Access rights depends on task or position
• those who are involved maternal service chain
• Preconditions for usage
• mother´s permission to collect and transfer her data
(each organisation needs its own permission)
• agreement between different organisations
• every user has personal user identifier, all usage is
logged and saved, even edited/deleted parts will be
recorded permanently

Storks gives information
• Pregnancy follow up, continuous documentation;
appointments with public health nurses, midwifes, doctors
• Graphics; growth of the uterus, hypertension, weight,
partogram
• Internal- and external examinations
• Medication during pregnancy, delivery, puerperium
• Diagnosis of the foetus; e.g ultrasound, lab tests
• Lifestyle of the family (nutrition, exercise, smoking, drugs
etc)
• Sick leaves of the mother
• Special area for the nurse documentation

Stork gives
• The new-born baby his/her social security number
• Basic information from earlier pregnancies
• Statistics e.g.
– for the Stakes (the National Research and Development Centre for
Welfare and Health
– the nursing research

• Forms and applications

The first page of the Stork

Forms

Name, birth date, age, weeks,

Notify: the lamp sign, B-gluc high (red color)
Lab, X-ray

Mother->,
Child ->

Social worker documentation
Both the public health nurse in primary care and
the midwife in special care fulfil this area. The written
data is available in real time (mother´s permission needed)

From Netinformation – Portal
to Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID)

My personal computer

Aims of the Work
• To elaborate the co-operation of different
organisations
• To develop a consistent way to manage information
in Social Work and Health Care organisations
• To develop the ”Dynamic Integrated Desktop” (DID)
for Social Work and Health Care professionals
• To offer further education of Social Work and Health
Care professionals
• To determine the reliable security standards

Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID )
-a consistent way to manage information in Health Care organisations

Partnership information

Single sign-on





Professional information


On line (on special fields)



Education
•course

Contacts
Office times
Information of services

Professional web services



PubMed, Cinahl
Laws and orders

enrolment, forms

Web services for public
Integration of IT software



Contact information



”You get what you need”



Problem solving information



EHR, RIS/PACS (digital imaging), biosignals etc.



Education



High level of security

View of the DID page

Teams
Discussion
Forums

Document
management
Links
Courses

Patients 26.8.2002

Mail (3 new messages)

Time

Name

Social security number

8.00

Patrick Patient

12345679573

8.20

Donald Duck

89101128758

8.40

Clark Kent

98459734658

Maintenance
Magazines &
Periodicals

August 2002

News
Databases
Patients
Help

Personified, user oriented
Networked, user organization oriented

Information system,
task and position in the organization

Tutuks service

• Tutuks, a virtual visit to a maternity ward
• Utilised work done by MIC
• http://www.synnytystutuksi.fi/tutukspalvelu.
html

Challenges for the Future
•Family/citizen participation challenges professionals
•e-working environment (models, processes)
•eEducation and training
• “E-gap” between generations
•Usability of ICT-solutions
•Integration of ICT-solutions

New project
• Looking for partner organisations, next
Tempus Call or other suitable call

New project - Tree of problems
NO KNOWLEDGE
TRANSFER

NO NETWORKING

Lack of resources in
distance teaching in cultural maternity care

Unfamiliarity with new
teaching ways

Former education

Non-transferability of
tacit knowledge

Lack of ICT skills

Figure: Project - problem tree

Retiring
(growing)

Incapability to
respond future needs

Mobility (teachers
and students)

Lack of cooperation between
Euro-Asian HIEs

Need to study regardless
time and space

Tree of objectives
FLEXIBLE
NETWORKING

CULTURAL MATERNITY CARE
AND DISTANCE TEACHING

ENHANCING READINESS FOR
DISTANCE TEACHING IN CULTURAL
MATERNITY AND INFANT CARE

Definition of resources
needed

Testing of
ICT skills

Designing and evaluating
Networking and
Distance teaching model

Selection of Learning Evaluation of
Environment(s)
readiness

MAIN AIM

Reports, workshops
(Implementation)

Accepted
planns

EFFECT

Dissemination of
Project results

Evaluation of model
Implementation

OUTCOME

Thank you for your
attention

Contact info:
[email protected]


Slide 8

eHealth
Case- Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net (MIC)

Speaker:

Pirkko Kouri,
Pricipal Lecturer in Healthcare Technology,
PhD, PHN, RN

Guests:

Tempus delegation

Time:

21 Feb 2007

Ultimate goals of Finnish health care
- Cost-effectiveness
- Patient/client & population centeredness
- Just distribution of the services (equity)
= use based on need

*********************************************************
MSAH’s own information society policy
-

Wide use of information and communication technology
Utilisation of internet penetration

Development levels – definition and projectwork
e.g. Area of eHealth / eWelfare
Levels of development

Development work

EU / National

Laws, standards, terminology, classifications, forms, data definitions

Regional

Aggreements, data transmissions, databases, archives, cooperation

Local

Working culture, division of labour, cooperation

Individual

Personal needs, user interface, way of working, teamwork

Milestones - Finnish health care system

2002
2007

National Project on Safeguarding the Future of Health Care Services
National law EHR

eHealth, National Project on Safeguarding the Future
of Health Care Services – main goals
•Ensure access to treatment
•Enhance co-ordination and co-operation in specialized health care
•Enhance regional co-ordination in primary health care
•Emphasize preventive work, one’s own responsibility for one’s own health and the
significance of primary health care
• Implementation - divided into 40 sub-projects
•Preparing the ground for the nationwide electronic patient records, which will be
introduced in 2007 (law will be launched Spring 2007)

Evolution of e-processes
- strategy and plan
- education
- culture, values
- publicity in control

5. Adaptation
of work
processes

4. Integration

Use
of e-Health
and e-Social
processes

Integration
of IT solutions
in daily life

Planning and
development
3. Processes
of e-processes,
working models

2. Basic
development

1. Services/
Products

Intranet,
Internet
groundwork
purpose-built

Electronic
documents
and lists
Adapted from www.done360.com

The Regional Project Area
Maternity care – births are over 99% in hospitals

.

JYVÄSKYLÄ

Map of Finland









85.585 km2
>1.000 lakes
681.000 inhabitants
One university hospital
Four central hospitals (five 10/03)
53 health centres
App. 20 000 social and health
care workers

NORMAL MATERNITY CARE SERVICE CHAIN
IN FINLAND (REGULAR PREGNANCY)

FIRST CONTACT
MOTHER/CHILD UNIT

PHN = public
health nurse

PHN/ FIRST
EXAMINATION
8-10 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
10-12 W

LABORATORY

PRE-NATAL
ULTRASOUND

HEALTH CENTRE
BEFORE 12 W
BASIC
INFORMATION
FORM
maternity clinic

CERTIFICATE
M/C CLINIC
NIB (KELA)

PHN/
EXAMINATION
16-18 W

SPECIAL CARE MATERNITY CLINIC
12-14 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
22-24 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
26-28 W
NIB =
National
Insurance
Bureau

PHN/
EXAMINATION
30-32 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
32-34 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
34-36 W

PAGE
2

BIRTH TRAINING COURSE,
(CONSISTS OF 8-10 MEETINGS)

PAGE
2

PHN/ EXAMINATION
37 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
38-40 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
40-42 W

DELIVERY ROOM

POST NATAL WARD

PHN/ (baby) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN/ (mother) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN / Mother´s Medical health check

DOCTOR/ Mother´s
Medical health check8-9 W after delivery

CHILD CLINIC

FAMILY
PLANNING

Basis of the Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net
The Long History of the (Finnish) Maternity Care Services (since 1940´s)
Development of Information Society (1990´s)
Idea of Maternity Services on the Internet (1997)
Basis of
Development
Work
•Research
• Multidisciplinary
co-operation
• Piloting
• Feedback /
Evaluation

Results
• Working
models for
experts and
families
•Networking
• Data/info
contents
• Software
technology

E- Service

Participants
• Health care
professionals
• Families
• Colleges
• Software
technology
experts
• Multimedia
experts

Expert teams





Central team
Social and Health care experts´ team
Technology experts´ team
Education experts´ team (Savonia was co-ordinator
of the MIC project)

• Families

MIC
•is supplementary to today's mother-child clinic services

•helps the user in decision making
•provides information that has been approved by the special
editorial board

•enables the use of the services independently of time and
place (Internet connection needed)
•can be used in many countries (adjustments will be made
according to the culture)

The MIC: options
•Entrance

•News
•Discussion groups (with peers)
•Questions and answers (confidential)
•Search (information)
•Feedback
•Links to other useful Internet sites

Search/ information or data bank











Pregnancy
Delivery
Post- natal period
Infant
Parent's relationship
Parenthood
Personal hygiene, appearance
Nutrition and exercise
Drugs, alcohol and smoking
Services to the public

MIC has 135 articles, two videos, 2 animations, 2 interactive photos, 86
photos and 53 drawings checked and approved by editorial board.

MIC / contents
Example: Drawings

Qualified information / content management
• Information is reliable, and easy to understand
• The quantity of information is adequate
• The required information is easy to find
• The content creation and management are carried on as
part of current (clinical) work processes
• The technical solutions guarantee e.g. data integrity,
authentication, security and data availability

Evaluation - family
• Modern way of having services
• No queuing in phone
• Discussions groups for families (anonymously), where
professionals appear by their names
• Service in your own language
• Information/contents is versatile, extensive, based on
expertise / reliable

Evaluation – maternity care professionals
•Extra visits were not needed during pilot phase
•The Net Clinic could be used as a manual or in
familiarising the new worker
•Counselling and giving advice was harmonised
•Families got deeper information and advice based
on their needs more effectively
•Networking and co-operation was more efficient
•Written answers took some time to get used to

The Project of the Year 2000
•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be expanded
into new application fields like public administration and so called soft
values
•Net Clinic is based on wide and versatile co-operation and on
application of new Internet technology
•Net Clinic proves that it is possible to develop new innovations also
outside big so called growing centres
•Net Clinic proves that women can work successfully in management
or other key positions which have conventionally been classified as
men´s work
(The evaluation criteria of the The Finnish Project Management Association)

Diploma of the Excellent Work
•Given by the Provincial State Office of Eastern Finland 4.9.2001

•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be
expanded into new application fields like public administration in
national level and in future international level

O

O
O

o
x

O

O MIC has been used/is in use
• Kuopio
• Helsinki
• North-East of Finland (Kuusamo,
Taivalkoski, Posio and Salla)
• Rovaniemi and its neighbourhood
Rovaniemi rural commune and
Ranua)

An eMaternal Health Care Data System

STORK

The Stork is
• secured electronic health data system (EHS) made for
professional use
• all the information about pregnancy, delivery and puerperium
is collected in the same system (so called seamless chain
between primary health care and special care)
• mutual data contents to maternal units involved

Data security
• The application
• built on special security system used by the hospital
• Access rights depends on task or position
• those who are involved maternal service chain
• Preconditions for usage
• mother´s permission to collect and transfer her data
(each organisation needs its own permission)
• agreement between different organisations
• every user has personal user identifier, all usage is
logged and saved, even edited/deleted parts will be
recorded permanently

Storks gives information
• Pregnancy follow up, continuous documentation;
appointments with public health nurses, midwifes, doctors
• Graphics; growth of the uterus, hypertension, weight,
partogram
• Internal- and external examinations
• Medication during pregnancy, delivery, puerperium
• Diagnosis of the foetus; e.g ultrasound, lab tests
• Lifestyle of the family (nutrition, exercise, smoking, drugs
etc)
• Sick leaves of the mother
• Special area for the nurse documentation

Stork gives
• The new-born baby his/her social security number
• Basic information from earlier pregnancies
• Statistics e.g.
– for the Stakes (the National Research and Development Centre for
Welfare and Health
– the nursing research

• Forms and applications

The first page of the Stork

Forms

Name, birth date, age, weeks,

Notify: the lamp sign, B-gluc high (red color)
Lab, X-ray

Mother->,
Child ->

Social worker documentation
Both the public health nurse in primary care and
the midwife in special care fulfil this area. The written
data is available in real time (mother´s permission needed)

From Netinformation – Portal
to Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID)

My personal computer

Aims of the Work
• To elaborate the co-operation of different
organisations
• To develop a consistent way to manage information
in Social Work and Health Care organisations
• To develop the ”Dynamic Integrated Desktop” (DID)
for Social Work and Health Care professionals
• To offer further education of Social Work and Health
Care professionals
• To determine the reliable security standards

Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID )
-a consistent way to manage information in Health Care organisations

Partnership information

Single sign-on





Professional information


On line (on special fields)



Education
•course

Contacts
Office times
Information of services

Professional web services



PubMed, Cinahl
Laws and orders

enrolment, forms

Web services for public
Integration of IT software



Contact information



”You get what you need”



Problem solving information



EHR, RIS/PACS (digital imaging), biosignals etc.



Education



High level of security

View of the DID page

Teams
Discussion
Forums

Document
management
Links
Courses

Patients 26.8.2002

Mail (3 new messages)

Time

Name

Social security number

8.00

Patrick Patient

12345679573

8.20

Donald Duck

89101128758

8.40

Clark Kent

98459734658

Maintenance
Magazines &
Periodicals

August 2002

News
Databases
Patients
Help

Personified, user oriented
Networked, user organization oriented

Information system,
task and position in the organization

Tutuks service

• Tutuks, a virtual visit to a maternity ward
• Utilised work done by MIC
• http://www.synnytystutuksi.fi/tutukspalvelu.
html

Challenges for the Future
•Family/citizen participation challenges professionals
•e-working environment (models, processes)
•eEducation and training
• “E-gap” between generations
•Usability of ICT-solutions
•Integration of ICT-solutions

New project
• Looking for partner organisations, next
Tempus Call or other suitable call

New project - Tree of problems
NO KNOWLEDGE
TRANSFER

NO NETWORKING

Lack of resources in
distance teaching in cultural maternity care

Unfamiliarity with new
teaching ways

Former education

Non-transferability of
tacit knowledge

Lack of ICT skills

Figure: Project - problem tree

Retiring
(growing)

Incapability to
respond future needs

Mobility (teachers
and students)

Lack of cooperation between
Euro-Asian HIEs

Need to study regardless
time and space

Tree of objectives
FLEXIBLE
NETWORKING

CULTURAL MATERNITY CARE
AND DISTANCE TEACHING

ENHANCING READINESS FOR
DISTANCE TEACHING IN CULTURAL
MATERNITY AND INFANT CARE

Definition of resources
needed

Testing of
ICT skills

Designing and evaluating
Networking and
Distance teaching model

Selection of Learning Evaluation of
Environment(s)
readiness

MAIN AIM

Reports, workshops
(Implementation)

Accepted
planns

EFFECT

Dissemination of
Project results

Evaluation of model
Implementation

OUTCOME

Thank you for your
attention

Contact info:
[email protected]


Slide 9

eHealth
Case- Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net (MIC)

Speaker:

Pirkko Kouri,
Pricipal Lecturer in Healthcare Technology,
PhD, PHN, RN

Guests:

Tempus delegation

Time:

21 Feb 2007

Ultimate goals of Finnish health care
- Cost-effectiveness
- Patient/client & population centeredness
- Just distribution of the services (equity)
= use based on need

*********************************************************
MSAH’s own information society policy
-

Wide use of information and communication technology
Utilisation of internet penetration

Development levels – definition and projectwork
e.g. Area of eHealth / eWelfare
Levels of development

Development work

EU / National

Laws, standards, terminology, classifications, forms, data definitions

Regional

Aggreements, data transmissions, databases, archives, cooperation

Local

Working culture, division of labour, cooperation

Individual

Personal needs, user interface, way of working, teamwork

Milestones - Finnish health care system

2002
2007

National Project on Safeguarding the Future of Health Care Services
National law EHR

eHealth, National Project on Safeguarding the Future
of Health Care Services – main goals
•Ensure access to treatment
•Enhance co-ordination and co-operation in specialized health care
•Enhance regional co-ordination in primary health care
•Emphasize preventive work, one’s own responsibility for one’s own health and the
significance of primary health care
• Implementation - divided into 40 sub-projects
•Preparing the ground for the nationwide electronic patient records, which will be
introduced in 2007 (law will be launched Spring 2007)

Evolution of e-processes
- strategy and plan
- education
- culture, values
- publicity in control

5. Adaptation
of work
processes

4. Integration

Use
of e-Health
and e-Social
processes

Integration
of IT solutions
in daily life

Planning and
development
3. Processes
of e-processes,
working models

2. Basic
development

1. Services/
Products

Intranet,
Internet
groundwork
purpose-built

Electronic
documents
and lists
Adapted from www.done360.com

The Regional Project Area
Maternity care – births are over 99% in hospitals

.

JYVÄSKYLÄ

Map of Finland









85.585 km2
>1.000 lakes
681.000 inhabitants
One university hospital
Four central hospitals (five 10/03)
53 health centres
App. 20 000 social and health
care workers

NORMAL MATERNITY CARE SERVICE CHAIN
IN FINLAND (REGULAR PREGNANCY)

FIRST CONTACT
MOTHER/CHILD UNIT

PHN = public
health nurse

PHN/ FIRST
EXAMINATION
8-10 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
10-12 W

LABORATORY

PRE-NATAL
ULTRASOUND

HEALTH CENTRE
BEFORE 12 W
BASIC
INFORMATION
FORM
maternity clinic

CERTIFICATE
M/C CLINIC
NIB (KELA)

PHN/
EXAMINATION
16-18 W

SPECIAL CARE MATERNITY CLINIC
12-14 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
22-24 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
26-28 W
NIB =
National
Insurance
Bureau

PHN/
EXAMINATION
30-32 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
32-34 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
34-36 W

PAGE
2

BIRTH TRAINING COURSE,
(CONSISTS OF 8-10 MEETINGS)

PAGE
2

PHN/ EXAMINATION
37 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
38-40 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
40-42 W

DELIVERY ROOM

POST NATAL WARD

PHN/ (baby) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN/ (mother) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN / Mother´s Medical health check

DOCTOR/ Mother´s
Medical health check8-9 W after delivery

CHILD CLINIC

FAMILY
PLANNING

Basis of the Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net
The Long History of the (Finnish) Maternity Care Services (since 1940´s)
Development of Information Society (1990´s)
Idea of Maternity Services on the Internet (1997)
Basis of
Development
Work
•Research
• Multidisciplinary
co-operation
• Piloting
• Feedback /
Evaluation

Results
• Working
models for
experts and
families
•Networking
• Data/info
contents
• Software
technology

E- Service

Participants
• Health care
professionals
• Families
• Colleges
• Software
technology
experts
• Multimedia
experts

Expert teams





Central team
Social and Health care experts´ team
Technology experts´ team
Education experts´ team (Savonia was co-ordinator
of the MIC project)

• Families

MIC
•is supplementary to today's mother-child clinic services

•helps the user in decision making
•provides information that has been approved by the special
editorial board

•enables the use of the services independently of time and
place (Internet connection needed)
•can be used in many countries (adjustments will be made
according to the culture)

The MIC: options
•Entrance

•News
•Discussion groups (with peers)
•Questions and answers (confidential)
•Search (information)
•Feedback
•Links to other useful Internet sites

Search/ information or data bank











Pregnancy
Delivery
Post- natal period
Infant
Parent's relationship
Parenthood
Personal hygiene, appearance
Nutrition and exercise
Drugs, alcohol and smoking
Services to the public

MIC has 135 articles, two videos, 2 animations, 2 interactive photos, 86
photos and 53 drawings checked and approved by editorial board.

MIC / contents
Example: Drawings

Qualified information / content management
• Information is reliable, and easy to understand
• The quantity of information is adequate
• The required information is easy to find
• The content creation and management are carried on as
part of current (clinical) work processes
• The technical solutions guarantee e.g. data integrity,
authentication, security and data availability

Evaluation - family
• Modern way of having services
• No queuing in phone
• Discussions groups for families (anonymously), where
professionals appear by their names
• Service in your own language
• Information/contents is versatile, extensive, based on
expertise / reliable

Evaluation – maternity care professionals
•Extra visits were not needed during pilot phase
•The Net Clinic could be used as a manual or in
familiarising the new worker
•Counselling and giving advice was harmonised
•Families got deeper information and advice based
on their needs more effectively
•Networking and co-operation was more efficient
•Written answers took some time to get used to

The Project of the Year 2000
•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be expanded
into new application fields like public administration and so called soft
values
•Net Clinic is based on wide and versatile co-operation and on
application of new Internet technology
•Net Clinic proves that it is possible to develop new innovations also
outside big so called growing centres
•Net Clinic proves that women can work successfully in management
or other key positions which have conventionally been classified as
men´s work
(The evaluation criteria of the The Finnish Project Management Association)

Diploma of the Excellent Work
•Given by the Provincial State Office of Eastern Finland 4.9.2001

•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be
expanded into new application fields like public administration in
national level and in future international level

O

O
O

o
x

O

O MIC has been used/is in use
• Kuopio
• Helsinki
• North-East of Finland (Kuusamo,
Taivalkoski, Posio and Salla)
• Rovaniemi and its neighbourhood
Rovaniemi rural commune and
Ranua)

An eMaternal Health Care Data System

STORK

The Stork is
• secured electronic health data system (EHS) made for
professional use
• all the information about pregnancy, delivery and puerperium
is collected in the same system (so called seamless chain
between primary health care and special care)
• mutual data contents to maternal units involved

Data security
• The application
• built on special security system used by the hospital
• Access rights depends on task or position
• those who are involved maternal service chain
• Preconditions for usage
• mother´s permission to collect and transfer her data
(each organisation needs its own permission)
• agreement between different organisations
• every user has personal user identifier, all usage is
logged and saved, even edited/deleted parts will be
recorded permanently

Storks gives information
• Pregnancy follow up, continuous documentation;
appointments with public health nurses, midwifes, doctors
• Graphics; growth of the uterus, hypertension, weight,
partogram
• Internal- and external examinations
• Medication during pregnancy, delivery, puerperium
• Diagnosis of the foetus; e.g ultrasound, lab tests
• Lifestyle of the family (nutrition, exercise, smoking, drugs
etc)
• Sick leaves of the mother
• Special area for the nurse documentation

Stork gives
• The new-born baby his/her social security number
• Basic information from earlier pregnancies
• Statistics e.g.
– for the Stakes (the National Research and Development Centre for
Welfare and Health
– the nursing research

• Forms and applications

The first page of the Stork

Forms

Name, birth date, age, weeks,

Notify: the lamp sign, B-gluc high (red color)
Lab, X-ray

Mother->,
Child ->

Social worker documentation
Both the public health nurse in primary care and
the midwife in special care fulfil this area. The written
data is available in real time (mother´s permission needed)

From Netinformation – Portal
to Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID)

My personal computer

Aims of the Work
• To elaborate the co-operation of different
organisations
• To develop a consistent way to manage information
in Social Work and Health Care organisations
• To develop the ”Dynamic Integrated Desktop” (DID)
for Social Work and Health Care professionals
• To offer further education of Social Work and Health
Care professionals
• To determine the reliable security standards

Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID )
-a consistent way to manage information in Health Care organisations

Partnership information

Single sign-on





Professional information


On line (on special fields)



Education
•course

Contacts
Office times
Information of services

Professional web services



PubMed, Cinahl
Laws and orders

enrolment, forms

Web services for public
Integration of IT software



Contact information



”You get what you need”



Problem solving information



EHR, RIS/PACS (digital imaging), biosignals etc.



Education



High level of security

View of the DID page

Teams
Discussion
Forums

Document
management
Links
Courses

Patients 26.8.2002

Mail (3 new messages)

Time

Name

Social security number

8.00

Patrick Patient

12345679573

8.20

Donald Duck

89101128758

8.40

Clark Kent

98459734658

Maintenance
Magazines &
Periodicals

August 2002

News
Databases
Patients
Help

Personified, user oriented
Networked, user organization oriented

Information system,
task and position in the organization

Tutuks service

• Tutuks, a virtual visit to a maternity ward
• Utilised work done by MIC
• http://www.synnytystutuksi.fi/tutukspalvelu.
html

Challenges for the Future
•Family/citizen participation challenges professionals
•e-working environment (models, processes)
•eEducation and training
• “E-gap” between generations
•Usability of ICT-solutions
•Integration of ICT-solutions

New project
• Looking for partner organisations, next
Tempus Call or other suitable call

New project - Tree of problems
NO KNOWLEDGE
TRANSFER

NO NETWORKING

Lack of resources in
distance teaching in cultural maternity care

Unfamiliarity with new
teaching ways

Former education

Non-transferability of
tacit knowledge

Lack of ICT skills

Figure: Project - problem tree

Retiring
(growing)

Incapability to
respond future needs

Mobility (teachers
and students)

Lack of cooperation between
Euro-Asian HIEs

Need to study regardless
time and space

Tree of objectives
FLEXIBLE
NETWORKING

CULTURAL MATERNITY CARE
AND DISTANCE TEACHING

ENHANCING READINESS FOR
DISTANCE TEACHING IN CULTURAL
MATERNITY AND INFANT CARE

Definition of resources
needed

Testing of
ICT skills

Designing and evaluating
Networking and
Distance teaching model

Selection of Learning Evaluation of
Environment(s)
readiness

MAIN AIM

Reports, workshops
(Implementation)

Accepted
planns

EFFECT

Dissemination of
Project results

Evaluation of model
Implementation

OUTCOME

Thank you for your
attention

Contact info:
[email protected]


Slide 10

eHealth
Case- Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net (MIC)

Speaker:

Pirkko Kouri,
Pricipal Lecturer in Healthcare Technology,
PhD, PHN, RN

Guests:

Tempus delegation

Time:

21 Feb 2007

Ultimate goals of Finnish health care
- Cost-effectiveness
- Patient/client & population centeredness
- Just distribution of the services (equity)
= use based on need

*********************************************************
MSAH’s own information society policy
-

Wide use of information and communication technology
Utilisation of internet penetration

Development levels – definition and projectwork
e.g. Area of eHealth / eWelfare
Levels of development

Development work

EU / National

Laws, standards, terminology, classifications, forms, data definitions

Regional

Aggreements, data transmissions, databases, archives, cooperation

Local

Working culture, division of labour, cooperation

Individual

Personal needs, user interface, way of working, teamwork

Milestones - Finnish health care system

2002
2007

National Project on Safeguarding the Future of Health Care Services
National law EHR

eHealth, National Project on Safeguarding the Future
of Health Care Services – main goals
•Ensure access to treatment
•Enhance co-ordination and co-operation in specialized health care
•Enhance regional co-ordination in primary health care
•Emphasize preventive work, one’s own responsibility for one’s own health and the
significance of primary health care
• Implementation - divided into 40 sub-projects
•Preparing the ground for the nationwide electronic patient records, which will be
introduced in 2007 (law will be launched Spring 2007)

Evolution of e-processes
- strategy and plan
- education
- culture, values
- publicity in control

5. Adaptation
of work
processes

4. Integration

Use
of e-Health
and e-Social
processes

Integration
of IT solutions
in daily life

Planning and
development
3. Processes
of e-processes,
working models

2. Basic
development

1. Services/
Products

Intranet,
Internet
groundwork
purpose-built

Electronic
documents
and lists
Adapted from www.done360.com

The Regional Project Area
Maternity care – births are over 99% in hospitals

.

JYVÄSKYLÄ

Map of Finland









85.585 km2
>1.000 lakes
681.000 inhabitants
One university hospital
Four central hospitals (five 10/03)
53 health centres
App. 20 000 social and health
care workers

NORMAL MATERNITY CARE SERVICE CHAIN
IN FINLAND (REGULAR PREGNANCY)

FIRST CONTACT
MOTHER/CHILD UNIT

PHN = public
health nurse

PHN/ FIRST
EXAMINATION
8-10 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
10-12 W

LABORATORY

PRE-NATAL
ULTRASOUND

HEALTH CENTRE
BEFORE 12 W
BASIC
INFORMATION
FORM
maternity clinic

CERTIFICATE
M/C CLINIC
NIB (KELA)

PHN/
EXAMINATION
16-18 W

SPECIAL CARE MATERNITY CLINIC
12-14 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
22-24 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
26-28 W
NIB =
National
Insurance
Bureau

PHN/
EXAMINATION
30-32 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
32-34 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
34-36 W

PAGE
2

BIRTH TRAINING COURSE,
(CONSISTS OF 8-10 MEETINGS)

PAGE
2

PHN/ EXAMINATION
37 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
38-40 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
40-42 W

DELIVERY ROOM

POST NATAL WARD

PHN/ (baby) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN/ (mother) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN / Mother´s Medical health check

DOCTOR/ Mother´s
Medical health check8-9 W after delivery

CHILD CLINIC

FAMILY
PLANNING

Basis of the Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net
The Long History of the (Finnish) Maternity Care Services (since 1940´s)
Development of Information Society (1990´s)
Idea of Maternity Services on the Internet (1997)
Basis of
Development
Work
•Research
• Multidisciplinary
co-operation
• Piloting
• Feedback /
Evaluation

Results
• Working
models for
experts and
families
•Networking
• Data/info
contents
• Software
technology

E- Service

Participants
• Health care
professionals
• Families
• Colleges
• Software
technology
experts
• Multimedia
experts

Expert teams





Central team
Social and Health care experts´ team
Technology experts´ team
Education experts´ team (Savonia was co-ordinator
of the MIC project)

• Families

MIC
•is supplementary to today's mother-child clinic services

•helps the user in decision making
•provides information that has been approved by the special
editorial board

•enables the use of the services independently of time and
place (Internet connection needed)
•can be used in many countries (adjustments will be made
according to the culture)

The MIC: options
•Entrance

•News
•Discussion groups (with peers)
•Questions and answers (confidential)
•Search (information)
•Feedback
•Links to other useful Internet sites

Search/ information or data bank











Pregnancy
Delivery
Post- natal period
Infant
Parent's relationship
Parenthood
Personal hygiene, appearance
Nutrition and exercise
Drugs, alcohol and smoking
Services to the public

MIC has 135 articles, two videos, 2 animations, 2 interactive photos, 86
photos and 53 drawings checked and approved by editorial board.

MIC / contents
Example: Drawings

Qualified information / content management
• Information is reliable, and easy to understand
• The quantity of information is adequate
• The required information is easy to find
• The content creation and management are carried on as
part of current (clinical) work processes
• The technical solutions guarantee e.g. data integrity,
authentication, security and data availability

Evaluation - family
• Modern way of having services
• No queuing in phone
• Discussions groups for families (anonymously), where
professionals appear by their names
• Service in your own language
• Information/contents is versatile, extensive, based on
expertise / reliable

Evaluation – maternity care professionals
•Extra visits were not needed during pilot phase
•The Net Clinic could be used as a manual or in
familiarising the new worker
•Counselling and giving advice was harmonised
•Families got deeper information and advice based
on their needs more effectively
•Networking and co-operation was more efficient
•Written answers took some time to get used to

The Project of the Year 2000
•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be expanded
into new application fields like public administration and so called soft
values
•Net Clinic is based on wide and versatile co-operation and on
application of new Internet technology
•Net Clinic proves that it is possible to develop new innovations also
outside big so called growing centres
•Net Clinic proves that women can work successfully in management
or other key positions which have conventionally been classified as
men´s work
(The evaluation criteria of the The Finnish Project Management Association)

Diploma of the Excellent Work
•Given by the Provincial State Office of Eastern Finland 4.9.2001

•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be
expanded into new application fields like public administration in
national level and in future international level

O

O
O

o
x

O

O MIC has been used/is in use
• Kuopio
• Helsinki
• North-East of Finland (Kuusamo,
Taivalkoski, Posio and Salla)
• Rovaniemi and its neighbourhood
Rovaniemi rural commune and
Ranua)

An eMaternal Health Care Data System

STORK

The Stork is
• secured electronic health data system (EHS) made for
professional use
• all the information about pregnancy, delivery and puerperium
is collected in the same system (so called seamless chain
between primary health care and special care)
• mutual data contents to maternal units involved

Data security
• The application
• built on special security system used by the hospital
• Access rights depends on task or position
• those who are involved maternal service chain
• Preconditions for usage
• mother´s permission to collect and transfer her data
(each organisation needs its own permission)
• agreement between different organisations
• every user has personal user identifier, all usage is
logged and saved, even edited/deleted parts will be
recorded permanently

Storks gives information
• Pregnancy follow up, continuous documentation;
appointments with public health nurses, midwifes, doctors
• Graphics; growth of the uterus, hypertension, weight,
partogram
• Internal- and external examinations
• Medication during pregnancy, delivery, puerperium
• Diagnosis of the foetus; e.g ultrasound, lab tests
• Lifestyle of the family (nutrition, exercise, smoking, drugs
etc)
• Sick leaves of the mother
• Special area for the nurse documentation

Stork gives
• The new-born baby his/her social security number
• Basic information from earlier pregnancies
• Statistics e.g.
– for the Stakes (the National Research and Development Centre for
Welfare and Health
– the nursing research

• Forms and applications

The first page of the Stork

Forms

Name, birth date, age, weeks,

Notify: the lamp sign, B-gluc high (red color)
Lab, X-ray

Mother->,
Child ->

Social worker documentation
Both the public health nurse in primary care and
the midwife in special care fulfil this area. The written
data is available in real time (mother´s permission needed)

From Netinformation – Portal
to Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID)

My personal computer

Aims of the Work
• To elaborate the co-operation of different
organisations
• To develop a consistent way to manage information
in Social Work and Health Care organisations
• To develop the ”Dynamic Integrated Desktop” (DID)
for Social Work and Health Care professionals
• To offer further education of Social Work and Health
Care professionals
• To determine the reliable security standards

Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID )
-a consistent way to manage information in Health Care organisations

Partnership information

Single sign-on





Professional information


On line (on special fields)



Education
•course

Contacts
Office times
Information of services

Professional web services



PubMed, Cinahl
Laws and orders

enrolment, forms

Web services for public
Integration of IT software



Contact information



”You get what you need”



Problem solving information



EHR, RIS/PACS (digital imaging), biosignals etc.



Education



High level of security

View of the DID page

Teams
Discussion
Forums

Document
management
Links
Courses

Patients 26.8.2002

Mail (3 new messages)

Time

Name

Social security number

8.00

Patrick Patient

12345679573

8.20

Donald Duck

89101128758

8.40

Clark Kent

98459734658

Maintenance
Magazines &
Periodicals

August 2002

News
Databases
Patients
Help

Personified, user oriented
Networked, user organization oriented

Information system,
task and position in the organization

Tutuks service

• Tutuks, a virtual visit to a maternity ward
• Utilised work done by MIC
• http://www.synnytystutuksi.fi/tutukspalvelu.
html

Challenges for the Future
•Family/citizen participation challenges professionals
•e-working environment (models, processes)
•eEducation and training
• “E-gap” between generations
•Usability of ICT-solutions
•Integration of ICT-solutions

New project
• Looking for partner organisations, next
Tempus Call or other suitable call

New project - Tree of problems
NO KNOWLEDGE
TRANSFER

NO NETWORKING

Lack of resources in
distance teaching in cultural maternity care

Unfamiliarity with new
teaching ways

Former education

Non-transferability of
tacit knowledge

Lack of ICT skills

Figure: Project - problem tree

Retiring
(growing)

Incapability to
respond future needs

Mobility (teachers
and students)

Lack of cooperation between
Euro-Asian HIEs

Need to study regardless
time and space

Tree of objectives
FLEXIBLE
NETWORKING

CULTURAL MATERNITY CARE
AND DISTANCE TEACHING

ENHANCING READINESS FOR
DISTANCE TEACHING IN CULTURAL
MATERNITY AND INFANT CARE

Definition of resources
needed

Testing of
ICT skills

Designing and evaluating
Networking and
Distance teaching model

Selection of Learning Evaluation of
Environment(s)
readiness

MAIN AIM

Reports, workshops
(Implementation)

Accepted
planns

EFFECT

Dissemination of
Project results

Evaluation of model
Implementation

OUTCOME

Thank you for your
attention

Contact info:
[email protected]


Slide 11

eHealth
Case- Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net (MIC)

Speaker:

Pirkko Kouri,
Pricipal Lecturer in Healthcare Technology,
PhD, PHN, RN

Guests:

Tempus delegation

Time:

21 Feb 2007

Ultimate goals of Finnish health care
- Cost-effectiveness
- Patient/client & population centeredness
- Just distribution of the services (equity)
= use based on need

*********************************************************
MSAH’s own information society policy
-

Wide use of information and communication technology
Utilisation of internet penetration

Development levels – definition and projectwork
e.g. Area of eHealth / eWelfare
Levels of development

Development work

EU / National

Laws, standards, terminology, classifications, forms, data definitions

Regional

Aggreements, data transmissions, databases, archives, cooperation

Local

Working culture, division of labour, cooperation

Individual

Personal needs, user interface, way of working, teamwork

Milestones - Finnish health care system

2002
2007

National Project on Safeguarding the Future of Health Care Services
National law EHR

eHealth, National Project on Safeguarding the Future
of Health Care Services – main goals
•Ensure access to treatment
•Enhance co-ordination and co-operation in specialized health care
•Enhance regional co-ordination in primary health care
•Emphasize preventive work, one’s own responsibility for one’s own health and the
significance of primary health care
• Implementation - divided into 40 sub-projects
•Preparing the ground for the nationwide electronic patient records, which will be
introduced in 2007 (law will be launched Spring 2007)

Evolution of e-processes
- strategy and plan
- education
- culture, values
- publicity in control

5. Adaptation
of work
processes

4. Integration

Use
of e-Health
and e-Social
processes

Integration
of IT solutions
in daily life

Planning and
development
3. Processes
of e-processes,
working models

2. Basic
development

1. Services/
Products

Intranet,
Internet
groundwork
purpose-built

Electronic
documents
and lists
Adapted from www.done360.com

The Regional Project Area
Maternity care – births are over 99% in hospitals

.

JYVÄSKYLÄ

Map of Finland









85.585 km2
>1.000 lakes
681.000 inhabitants
One university hospital
Four central hospitals (five 10/03)
53 health centres
App. 20 000 social and health
care workers

NORMAL MATERNITY CARE SERVICE CHAIN
IN FINLAND (REGULAR PREGNANCY)

FIRST CONTACT
MOTHER/CHILD UNIT

PHN = public
health nurse

PHN/ FIRST
EXAMINATION
8-10 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
10-12 W

LABORATORY

PRE-NATAL
ULTRASOUND

HEALTH CENTRE
BEFORE 12 W
BASIC
INFORMATION
FORM
maternity clinic

CERTIFICATE
M/C CLINIC
NIB (KELA)

PHN/
EXAMINATION
16-18 W

SPECIAL CARE MATERNITY CLINIC
12-14 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
22-24 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
26-28 W
NIB =
National
Insurance
Bureau

PHN/
EXAMINATION
30-32 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
32-34 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
34-36 W

PAGE
2

BIRTH TRAINING COURSE,
(CONSISTS OF 8-10 MEETINGS)

PAGE
2

PHN/ EXAMINATION
37 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
38-40 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
40-42 W

DELIVERY ROOM

POST NATAL WARD

PHN/ (baby) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN/ (mother) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN / Mother´s Medical health check

DOCTOR/ Mother´s
Medical health check8-9 W after delivery

CHILD CLINIC

FAMILY
PLANNING

Basis of the Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net
The Long History of the (Finnish) Maternity Care Services (since 1940´s)
Development of Information Society (1990´s)
Idea of Maternity Services on the Internet (1997)
Basis of
Development
Work
•Research
• Multidisciplinary
co-operation
• Piloting
• Feedback /
Evaluation

Results
• Working
models for
experts and
families
•Networking
• Data/info
contents
• Software
technology

E- Service

Participants
• Health care
professionals
• Families
• Colleges
• Software
technology
experts
• Multimedia
experts

Expert teams





Central team
Social and Health care experts´ team
Technology experts´ team
Education experts´ team (Savonia was co-ordinator
of the MIC project)

• Families

MIC
•is supplementary to today's mother-child clinic services

•helps the user in decision making
•provides information that has been approved by the special
editorial board

•enables the use of the services independently of time and
place (Internet connection needed)
•can be used in many countries (adjustments will be made
according to the culture)

The MIC: options
•Entrance

•News
•Discussion groups (with peers)
•Questions and answers (confidential)
•Search (information)
•Feedback
•Links to other useful Internet sites

Search/ information or data bank











Pregnancy
Delivery
Post- natal period
Infant
Parent's relationship
Parenthood
Personal hygiene, appearance
Nutrition and exercise
Drugs, alcohol and smoking
Services to the public

MIC has 135 articles, two videos, 2 animations, 2 interactive photos, 86
photos and 53 drawings checked and approved by editorial board.

MIC / contents
Example: Drawings

Qualified information / content management
• Information is reliable, and easy to understand
• The quantity of information is adequate
• The required information is easy to find
• The content creation and management are carried on as
part of current (clinical) work processes
• The technical solutions guarantee e.g. data integrity,
authentication, security and data availability

Evaluation - family
• Modern way of having services
• No queuing in phone
• Discussions groups for families (anonymously), where
professionals appear by their names
• Service in your own language
• Information/contents is versatile, extensive, based on
expertise / reliable

Evaluation – maternity care professionals
•Extra visits were not needed during pilot phase
•The Net Clinic could be used as a manual or in
familiarising the new worker
•Counselling and giving advice was harmonised
•Families got deeper information and advice based
on their needs more effectively
•Networking and co-operation was more efficient
•Written answers took some time to get used to

The Project of the Year 2000
•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be expanded
into new application fields like public administration and so called soft
values
•Net Clinic is based on wide and versatile co-operation and on
application of new Internet technology
•Net Clinic proves that it is possible to develop new innovations also
outside big so called growing centres
•Net Clinic proves that women can work successfully in management
or other key positions which have conventionally been classified as
men´s work
(The evaluation criteria of the The Finnish Project Management Association)

Diploma of the Excellent Work
•Given by the Provincial State Office of Eastern Finland 4.9.2001

•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be
expanded into new application fields like public administration in
national level and in future international level

O

O
O

o
x

O

O MIC has been used/is in use
• Kuopio
• Helsinki
• North-East of Finland (Kuusamo,
Taivalkoski, Posio and Salla)
• Rovaniemi and its neighbourhood
Rovaniemi rural commune and
Ranua)

An eMaternal Health Care Data System

STORK

The Stork is
• secured electronic health data system (EHS) made for
professional use
• all the information about pregnancy, delivery and puerperium
is collected in the same system (so called seamless chain
between primary health care and special care)
• mutual data contents to maternal units involved

Data security
• The application
• built on special security system used by the hospital
• Access rights depends on task or position
• those who are involved maternal service chain
• Preconditions for usage
• mother´s permission to collect and transfer her data
(each organisation needs its own permission)
• agreement between different organisations
• every user has personal user identifier, all usage is
logged and saved, even edited/deleted parts will be
recorded permanently

Storks gives information
• Pregnancy follow up, continuous documentation;
appointments with public health nurses, midwifes, doctors
• Graphics; growth of the uterus, hypertension, weight,
partogram
• Internal- and external examinations
• Medication during pregnancy, delivery, puerperium
• Diagnosis of the foetus; e.g ultrasound, lab tests
• Lifestyle of the family (nutrition, exercise, smoking, drugs
etc)
• Sick leaves of the mother
• Special area for the nurse documentation

Stork gives
• The new-born baby his/her social security number
• Basic information from earlier pregnancies
• Statistics e.g.
– for the Stakes (the National Research and Development Centre for
Welfare and Health
– the nursing research

• Forms and applications

The first page of the Stork

Forms

Name, birth date, age, weeks,

Notify: the lamp sign, B-gluc high (red color)
Lab, X-ray

Mother->,
Child ->

Social worker documentation
Both the public health nurse in primary care and
the midwife in special care fulfil this area. The written
data is available in real time (mother´s permission needed)

From Netinformation – Portal
to Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID)

My personal computer

Aims of the Work
• To elaborate the co-operation of different
organisations
• To develop a consistent way to manage information
in Social Work and Health Care organisations
• To develop the ”Dynamic Integrated Desktop” (DID)
for Social Work and Health Care professionals
• To offer further education of Social Work and Health
Care professionals
• To determine the reliable security standards

Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID )
-a consistent way to manage information in Health Care organisations

Partnership information

Single sign-on





Professional information


On line (on special fields)



Education
•course

Contacts
Office times
Information of services

Professional web services



PubMed, Cinahl
Laws and orders

enrolment, forms

Web services for public
Integration of IT software



Contact information



”You get what you need”



Problem solving information



EHR, RIS/PACS (digital imaging), biosignals etc.



Education



High level of security

View of the DID page

Teams
Discussion
Forums

Document
management
Links
Courses

Patients 26.8.2002

Mail (3 new messages)

Time

Name

Social security number

8.00

Patrick Patient

12345679573

8.20

Donald Duck

89101128758

8.40

Clark Kent

98459734658

Maintenance
Magazines &
Periodicals

August 2002

News
Databases
Patients
Help

Personified, user oriented
Networked, user organization oriented

Information system,
task and position in the organization

Tutuks service

• Tutuks, a virtual visit to a maternity ward
• Utilised work done by MIC
• http://www.synnytystutuksi.fi/tutukspalvelu.
html

Challenges for the Future
•Family/citizen participation challenges professionals
•e-working environment (models, processes)
•eEducation and training
• “E-gap” between generations
•Usability of ICT-solutions
•Integration of ICT-solutions

New project
• Looking for partner organisations, next
Tempus Call or other suitable call

New project - Tree of problems
NO KNOWLEDGE
TRANSFER

NO NETWORKING

Lack of resources in
distance teaching in cultural maternity care

Unfamiliarity with new
teaching ways

Former education

Non-transferability of
tacit knowledge

Lack of ICT skills

Figure: Project - problem tree

Retiring
(growing)

Incapability to
respond future needs

Mobility (teachers
and students)

Lack of cooperation between
Euro-Asian HIEs

Need to study regardless
time and space

Tree of objectives
FLEXIBLE
NETWORKING

CULTURAL MATERNITY CARE
AND DISTANCE TEACHING

ENHANCING READINESS FOR
DISTANCE TEACHING IN CULTURAL
MATERNITY AND INFANT CARE

Definition of resources
needed

Testing of
ICT skills

Designing and evaluating
Networking and
Distance teaching model

Selection of Learning Evaluation of
Environment(s)
readiness

MAIN AIM

Reports, workshops
(Implementation)

Accepted
planns

EFFECT

Dissemination of
Project results

Evaluation of model
Implementation

OUTCOME

Thank you for your
attention

Contact info:
[email protected]


Slide 12

eHealth
Case- Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net (MIC)

Speaker:

Pirkko Kouri,
Pricipal Lecturer in Healthcare Technology,
PhD, PHN, RN

Guests:

Tempus delegation

Time:

21 Feb 2007

Ultimate goals of Finnish health care
- Cost-effectiveness
- Patient/client & population centeredness
- Just distribution of the services (equity)
= use based on need

*********************************************************
MSAH’s own information society policy
-

Wide use of information and communication technology
Utilisation of internet penetration

Development levels – definition and projectwork
e.g. Area of eHealth / eWelfare
Levels of development

Development work

EU / National

Laws, standards, terminology, classifications, forms, data definitions

Regional

Aggreements, data transmissions, databases, archives, cooperation

Local

Working culture, division of labour, cooperation

Individual

Personal needs, user interface, way of working, teamwork

Milestones - Finnish health care system

2002
2007

National Project on Safeguarding the Future of Health Care Services
National law EHR

eHealth, National Project on Safeguarding the Future
of Health Care Services – main goals
•Ensure access to treatment
•Enhance co-ordination and co-operation in specialized health care
•Enhance regional co-ordination in primary health care
•Emphasize preventive work, one’s own responsibility for one’s own health and the
significance of primary health care
• Implementation - divided into 40 sub-projects
•Preparing the ground for the nationwide electronic patient records, which will be
introduced in 2007 (law will be launched Spring 2007)

Evolution of e-processes
- strategy and plan
- education
- culture, values
- publicity in control

5. Adaptation
of work
processes

4. Integration

Use
of e-Health
and e-Social
processes

Integration
of IT solutions
in daily life

Planning and
development
3. Processes
of e-processes,
working models

2. Basic
development

1. Services/
Products

Intranet,
Internet
groundwork
purpose-built

Electronic
documents
and lists
Adapted from www.done360.com

The Regional Project Area
Maternity care – births are over 99% in hospitals

.

JYVÄSKYLÄ

Map of Finland









85.585 km2
>1.000 lakes
681.000 inhabitants
One university hospital
Four central hospitals (five 10/03)
53 health centres
App. 20 000 social and health
care workers

NORMAL MATERNITY CARE SERVICE CHAIN
IN FINLAND (REGULAR PREGNANCY)

FIRST CONTACT
MOTHER/CHILD UNIT

PHN = public
health nurse

PHN/ FIRST
EXAMINATION
8-10 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
10-12 W

LABORATORY

PRE-NATAL
ULTRASOUND

HEALTH CENTRE
BEFORE 12 W
BASIC
INFORMATION
FORM
maternity clinic

CERTIFICATE
M/C CLINIC
NIB (KELA)

PHN/
EXAMINATION
16-18 W

SPECIAL CARE MATERNITY CLINIC
12-14 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
22-24 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
26-28 W
NIB =
National
Insurance
Bureau

PHN/
EXAMINATION
30-32 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
32-34 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
34-36 W

PAGE
2

BIRTH TRAINING COURSE,
(CONSISTS OF 8-10 MEETINGS)

PAGE
2

PHN/ EXAMINATION
37 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
38-40 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
40-42 W

DELIVERY ROOM

POST NATAL WARD

PHN/ (baby) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN/ (mother) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN / Mother´s Medical health check

DOCTOR/ Mother´s
Medical health check8-9 W after delivery

CHILD CLINIC

FAMILY
PLANNING

Basis of the Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net
The Long History of the (Finnish) Maternity Care Services (since 1940´s)
Development of Information Society (1990´s)
Idea of Maternity Services on the Internet (1997)
Basis of
Development
Work
•Research
• Multidisciplinary
co-operation
• Piloting
• Feedback /
Evaluation

Results
• Working
models for
experts and
families
•Networking
• Data/info
contents
• Software
technology

E- Service

Participants
• Health care
professionals
• Families
• Colleges
• Software
technology
experts
• Multimedia
experts

Expert teams





Central team
Social and Health care experts´ team
Technology experts´ team
Education experts´ team (Savonia was co-ordinator
of the MIC project)

• Families

MIC
•is supplementary to today's mother-child clinic services

•helps the user in decision making
•provides information that has been approved by the special
editorial board

•enables the use of the services independently of time and
place (Internet connection needed)
•can be used in many countries (adjustments will be made
according to the culture)

The MIC: options
•Entrance

•News
•Discussion groups (with peers)
•Questions and answers (confidential)
•Search (information)
•Feedback
•Links to other useful Internet sites

Search/ information or data bank











Pregnancy
Delivery
Post- natal period
Infant
Parent's relationship
Parenthood
Personal hygiene, appearance
Nutrition and exercise
Drugs, alcohol and smoking
Services to the public

MIC has 135 articles, two videos, 2 animations, 2 interactive photos, 86
photos and 53 drawings checked and approved by editorial board.

MIC / contents
Example: Drawings

Qualified information / content management
• Information is reliable, and easy to understand
• The quantity of information is adequate
• The required information is easy to find
• The content creation and management are carried on as
part of current (clinical) work processes
• The technical solutions guarantee e.g. data integrity,
authentication, security and data availability

Evaluation - family
• Modern way of having services
• No queuing in phone
• Discussions groups for families (anonymously), where
professionals appear by their names
• Service in your own language
• Information/contents is versatile, extensive, based on
expertise / reliable

Evaluation – maternity care professionals
•Extra visits were not needed during pilot phase
•The Net Clinic could be used as a manual or in
familiarising the new worker
•Counselling and giving advice was harmonised
•Families got deeper information and advice based
on their needs more effectively
•Networking and co-operation was more efficient
•Written answers took some time to get used to

The Project of the Year 2000
•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be expanded
into new application fields like public administration and so called soft
values
•Net Clinic is based on wide and versatile co-operation and on
application of new Internet technology
•Net Clinic proves that it is possible to develop new innovations also
outside big so called growing centres
•Net Clinic proves that women can work successfully in management
or other key positions which have conventionally been classified as
men´s work
(The evaluation criteria of the The Finnish Project Management Association)

Diploma of the Excellent Work
•Given by the Provincial State Office of Eastern Finland 4.9.2001

•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be
expanded into new application fields like public administration in
national level and in future international level

O

O
O

o
x

O

O MIC has been used/is in use
• Kuopio
• Helsinki
• North-East of Finland (Kuusamo,
Taivalkoski, Posio and Salla)
• Rovaniemi and its neighbourhood
Rovaniemi rural commune and
Ranua)

An eMaternal Health Care Data System

STORK

The Stork is
• secured electronic health data system (EHS) made for
professional use
• all the information about pregnancy, delivery and puerperium
is collected in the same system (so called seamless chain
between primary health care and special care)
• mutual data contents to maternal units involved

Data security
• The application
• built on special security system used by the hospital
• Access rights depends on task or position
• those who are involved maternal service chain
• Preconditions for usage
• mother´s permission to collect and transfer her data
(each organisation needs its own permission)
• agreement between different organisations
• every user has personal user identifier, all usage is
logged and saved, even edited/deleted parts will be
recorded permanently

Storks gives information
• Pregnancy follow up, continuous documentation;
appointments with public health nurses, midwifes, doctors
• Graphics; growth of the uterus, hypertension, weight,
partogram
• Internal- and external examinations
• Medication during pregnancy, delivery, puerperium
• Diagnosis of the foetus; e.g ultrasound, lab tests
• Lifestyle of the family (nutrition, exercise, smoking, drugs
etc)
• Sick leaves of the mother
• Special area for the nurse documentation

Stork gives
• The new-born baby his/her social security number
• Basic information from earlier pregnancies
• Statistics e.g.
– for the Stakes (the National Research and Development Centre for
Welfare and Health
– the nursing research

• Forms and applications

The first page of the Stork

Forms

Name, birth date, age, weeks,

Notify: the lamp sign, B-gluc high (red color)
Lab, X-ray

Mother->,
Child ->

Social worker documentation
Both the public health nurse in primary care and
the midwife in special care fulfil this area. The written
data is available in real time (mother´s permission needed)

From Netinformation – Portal
to Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID)

My personal computer

Aims of the Work
• To elaborate the co-operation of different
organisations
• To develop a consistent way to manage information
in Social Work and Health Care organisations
• To develop the ”Dynamic Integrated Desktop” (DID)
for Social Work and Health Care professionals
• To offer further education of Social Work and Health
Care professionals
• To determine the reliable security standards

Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID )
-a consistent way to manage information in Health Care organisations

Partnership information

Single sign-on





Professional information


On line (on special fields)



Education
•course

Contacts
Office times
Information of services

Professional web services



PubMed, Cinahl
Laws and orders

enrolment, forms

Web services for public
Integration of IT software



Contact information



”You get what you need”



Problem solving information



EHR, RIS/PACS (digital imaging), biosignals etc.



Education



High level of security

View of the DID page

Teams
Discussion
Forums

Document
management
Links
Courses

Patients 26.8.2002

Mail (3 new messages)

Time

Name

Social security number

8.00

Patrick Patient

12345679573

8.20

Donald Duck

89101128758

8.40

Clark Kent

98459734658

Maintenance
Magazines &
Periodicals

August 2002

News
Databases
Patients
Help

Personified, user oriented
Networked, user organization oriented

Information system,
task and position in the organization

Tutuks service

• Tutuks, a virtual visit to a maternity ward
• Utilised work done by MIC
• http://www.synnytystutuksi.fi/tutukspalvelu.
html

Challenges for the Future
•Family/citizen participation challenges professionals
•e-working environment (models, processes)
•eEducation and training
• “E-gap” between generations
•Usability of ICT-solutions
•Integration of ICT-solutions

New project
• Looking for partner organisations, next
Tempus Call or other suitable call

New project - Tree of problems
NO KNOWLEDGE
TRANSFER

NO NETWORKING

Lack of resources in
distance teaching in cultural maternity care

Unfamiliarity with new
teaching ways

Former education

Non-transferability of
tacit knowledge

Lack of ICT skills

Figure: Project - problem tree

Retiring
(growing)

Incapability to
respond future needs

Mobility (teachers
and students)

Lack of cooperation between
Euro-Asian HIEs

Need to study regardless
time and space

Tree of objectives
FLEXIBLE
NETWORKING

CULTURAL MATERNITY CARE
AND DISTANCE TEACHING

ENHANCING READINESS FOR
DISTANCE TEACHING IN CULTURAL
MATERNITY AND INFANT CARE

Definition of resources
needed

Testing of
ICT skills

Designing and evaluating
Networking and
Distance teaching model

Selection of Learning Evaluation of
Environment(s)
readiness

MAIN AIM

Reports, workshops
(Implementation)

Accepted
planns

EFFECT

Dissemination of
Project results

Evaluation of model
Implementation

OUTCOME

Thank you for your
attention

Contact info:
[email protected]


Slide 13

eHealth
Case- Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net (MIC)

Speaker:

Pirkko Kouri,
Pricipal Lecturer in Healthcare Technology,
PhD, PHN, RN

Guests:

Tempus delegation

Time:

21 Feb 2007

Ultimate goals of Finnish health care
- Cost-effectiveness
- Patient/client & population centeredness
- Just distribution of the services (equity)
= use based on need

*********************************************************
MSAH’s own information society policy
-

Wide use of information and communication technology
Utilisation of internet penetration

Development levels – definition and projectwork
e.g. Area of eHealth / eWelfare
Levels of development

Development work

EU / National

Laws, standards, terminology, classifications, forms, data definitions

Regional

Aggreements, data transmissions, databases, archives, cooperation

Local

Working culture, division of labour, cooperation

Individual

Personal needs, user interface, way of working, teamwork

Milestones - Finnish health care system

2002
2007

National Project on Safeguarding the Future of Health Care Services
National law EHR

eHealth, National Project on Safeguarding the Future
of Health Care Services – main goals
•Ensure access to treatment
•Enhance co-ordination and co-operation in specialized health care
•Enhance regional co-ordination in primary health care
•Emphasize preventive work, one’s own responsibility for one’s own health and the
significance of primary health care
• Implementation - divided into 40 sub-projects
•Preparing the ground for the nationwide electronic patient records, which will be
introduced in 2007 (law will be launched Spring 2007)

Evolution of e-processes
- strategy and plan
- education
- culture, values
- publicity in control

5. Adaptation
of work
processes

4. Integration

Use
of e-Health
and e-Social
processes

Integration
of IT solutions
in daily life

Planning and
development
3. Processes
of e-processes,
working models

2. Basic
development

1. Services/
Products

Intranet,
Internet
groundwork
purpose-built

Electronic
documents
and lists
Adapted from www.done360.com

The Regional Project Area
Maternity care – births are over 99% in hospitals

.

JYVÄSKYLÄ

Map of Finland









85.585 km2
>1.000 lakes
681.000 inhabitants
One university hospital
Four central hospitals (five 10/03)
53 health centres
App. 20 000 social and health
care workers

NORMAL MATERNITY CARE SERVICE CHAIN
IN FINLAND (REGULAR PREGNANCY)

FIRST CONTACT
MOTHER/CHILD UNIT

PHN = public
health nurse

PHN/ FIRST
EXAMINATION
8-10 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
10-12 W

LABORATORY

PRE-NATAL
ULTRASOUND

HEALTH CENTRE
BEFORE 12 W
BASIC
INFORMATION
FORM
maternity clinic

CERTIFICATE
M/C CLINIC
NIB (KELA)

PHN/
EXAMINATION
16-18 W

SPECIAL CARE MATERNITY CLINIC
12-14 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
22-24 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
26-28 W
NIB =
National
Insurance
Bureau

PHN/
EXAMINATION
30-32 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
32-34 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
34-36 W

PAGE
2

BIRTH TRAINING COURSE,
(CONSISTS OF 8-10 MEETINGS)

PAGE
2

PHN/ EXAMINATION
37 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
38-40 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
40-42 W

DELIVERY ROOM

POST NATAL WARD

PHN/ (baby) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN/ (mother) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN / Mother´s Medical health check

DOCTOR/ Mother´s
Medical health check8-9 W after delivery

CHILD CLINIC

FAMILY
PLANNING

Basis of the Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net
The Long History of the (Finnish) Maternity Care Services (since 1940´s)
Development of Information Society (1990´s)
Idea of Maternity Services on the Internet (1997)
Basis of
Development
Work
•Research
• Multidisciplinary
co-operation
• Piloting
• Feedback /
Evaluation

Results
• Working
models for
experts and
families
•Networking
• Data/info
contents
• Software
technology

E- Service

Participants
• Health care
professionals
• Families
• Colleges
• Software
technology
experts
• Multimedia
experts

Expert teams





Central team
Social and Health care experts´ team
Technology experts´ team
Education experts´ team (Savonia was co-ordinator
of the MIC project)

• Families

MIC
•is supplementary to today's mother-child clinic services

•helps the user in decision making
•provides information that has been approved by the special
editorial board

•enables the use of the services independently of time and
place (Internet connection needed)
•can be used in many countries (adjustments will be made
according to the culture)

The MIC: options
•Entrance

•News
•Discussion groups (with peers)
•Questions and answers (confidential)
•Search (information)
•Feedback
•Links to other useful Internet sites

Search/ information or data bank











Pregnancy
Delivery
Post- natal period
Infant
Parent's relationship
Parenthood
Personal hygiene, appearance
Nutrition and exercise
Drugs, alcohol and smoking
Services to the public

MIC has 135 articles, two videos, 2 animations, 2 interactive photos, 86
photos and 53 drawings checked and approved by editorial board.

MIC / contents
Example: Drawings

Qualified information / content management
• Information is reliable, and easy to understand
• The quantity of information is adequate
• The required information is easy to find
• The content creation and management are carried on as
part of current (clinical) work processes
• The technical solutions guarantee e.g. data integrity,
authentication, security and data availability

Evaluation - family
• Modern way of having services
• No queuing in phone
• Discussions groups for families (anonymously), where
professionals appear by their names
• Service in your own language
• Information/contents is versatile, extensive, based on
expertise / reliable

Evaluation – maternity care professionals
•Extra visits were not needed during pilot phase
•The Net Clinic could be used as a manual or in
familiarising the new worker
•Counselling and giving advice was harmonised
•Families got deeper information and advice based
on their needs more effectively
•Networking and co-operation was more efficient
•Written answers took some time to get used to

The Project of the Year 2000
•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be expanded
into new application fields like public administration and so called soft
values
•Net Clinic is based on wide and versatile co-operation and on
application of new Internet technology
•Net Clinic proves that it is possible to develop new innovations also
outside big so called growing centres
•Net Clinic proves that women can work successfully in management
or other key positions which have conventionally been classified as
men´s work
(The evaluation criteria of the The Finnish Project Management Association)

Diploma of the Excellent Work
•Given by the Provincial State Office of Eastern Finland 4.9.2001

•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be
expanded into new application fields like public administration in
national level and in future international level

O

O
O

o
x

O

O MIC has been used/is in use
• Kuopio
• Helsinki
• North-East of Finland (Kuusamo,
Taivalkoski, Posio and Salla)
• Rovaniemi and its neighbourhood
Rovaniemi rural commune and
Ranua)

An eMaternal Health Care Data System

STORK

The Stork is
• secured electronic health data system (EHS) made for
professional use
• all the information about pregnancy, delivery and puerperium
is collected in the same system (so called seamless chain
between primary health care and special care)
• mutual data contents to maternal units involved

Data security
• The application
• built on special security system used by the hospital
• Access rights depends on task or position
• those who are involved maternal service chain
• Preconditions for usage
• mother´s permission to collect and transfer her data
(each organisation needs its own permission)
• agreement between different organisations
• every user has personal user identifier, all usage is
logged and saved, even edited/deleted parts will be
recorded permanently

Storks gives information
• Pregnancy follow up, continuous documentation;
appointments with public health nurses, midwifes, doctors
• Graphics; growth of the uterus, hypertension, weight,
partogram
• Internal- and external examinations
• Medication during pregnancy, delivery, puerperium
• Diagnosis of the foetus; e.g ultrasound, lab tests
• Lifestyle of the family (nutrition, exercise, smoking, drugs
etc)
• Sick leaves of the mother
• Special area for the nurse documentation

Stork gives
• The new-born baby his/her social security number
• Basic information from earlier pregnancies
• Statistics e.g.
– for the Stakes (the National Research and Development Centre for
Welfare and Health
– the nursing research

• Forms and applications

The first page of the Stork

Forms

Name, birth date, age, weeks,

Notify: the lamp sign, B-gluc high (red color)
Lab, X-ray

Mother->,
Child ->

Social worker documentation
Both the public health nurse in primary care and
the midwife in special care fulfil this area. The written
data is available in real time (mother´s permission needed)

From Netinformation – Portal
to Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID)

My personal computer

Aims of the Work
• To elaborate the co-operation of different
organisations
• To develop a consistent way to manage information
in Social Work and Health Care organisations
• To develop the ”Dynamic Integrated Desktop” (DID)
for Social Work and Health Care professionals
• To offer further education of Social Work and Health
Care professionals
• To determine the reliable security standards

Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID )
-a consistent way to manage information in Health Care organisations

Partnership information

Single sign-on





Professional information


On line (on special fields)



Education
•course

Contacts
Office times
Information of services

Professional web services



PubMed, Cinahl
Laws and orders

enrolment, forms

Web services for public
Integration of IT software



Contact information



”You get what you need”



Problem solving information



EHR, RIS/PACS (digital imaging), biosignals etc.



Education



High level of security

View of the DID page

Teams
Discussion
Forums

Document
management
Links
Courses

Patients 26.8.2002

Mail (3 new messages)

Time

Name

Social security number

8.00

Patrick Patient

12345679573

8.20

Donald Duck

89101128758

8.40

Clark Kent

98459734658

Maintenance
Magazines &
Periodicals

August 2002

News
Databases
Patients
Help

Personified, user oriented
Networked, user organization oriented

Information system,
task and position in the organization

Tutuks service

• Tutuks, a virtual visit to a maternity ward
• Utilised work done by MIC
• http://www.synnytystutuksi.fi/tutukspalvelu.
html

Challenges for the Future
•Family/citizen participation challenges professionals
•e-working environment (models, processes)
•eEducation and training
• “E-gap” between generations
•Usability of ICT-solutions
•Integration of ICT-solutions

New project
• Looking for partner organisations, next
Tempus Call or other suitable call

New project - Tree of problems
NO KNOWLEDGE
TRANSFER

NO NETWORKING

Lack of resources in
distance teaching in cultural maternity care

Unfamiliarity with new
teaching ways

Former education

Non-transferability of
tacit knowledge

Lack of ICT skills

Figure: Project - problem tree

Retiring
(growing)

Incapability to
respond future needs

Mobility (teachers
and students)

Lack of cooperation between
Euro-Asian HIEs

Need to study regardless
time and space

Tree of objectives
FLEXIBLE
NETWORKING

CULTURAL MATERNITY CARE
AND DISTANCE TEACHING

ENHANCING READINESS FOR
DISTANCE TEACHING IN CULTURAL
MATERNITY AND INFANT CARE

Definition of resources
needed

Testing of
ICT skills

Designing and evaluating
Networking and
Distance teaching model

Selection of Learning Evaluation of
Environment(s)
readiness

MAIN AIM

Reports, workshops
(Implementation)

Accepted
planns

EFFECT

Dissemination of
Project results

Evaluation of model
Implementation

OUTCOME

Thank you for your
attention

Contact info:
[email protected]


Slide 14

eHealth
Case- Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net (MIC)

Speaker:

Pirkko Kouri,
Pricipal Lecturer in Healthcare Technology,
PhD, PHN, RN

Guests:

Tempus delegation

Time:

21 Feb 2007

Ultimate goals of Finnish health care
- Cost-effectiveness
- Patient/client & population centeredness
- Just distribution of the services (equity)
= use based on need

*********************************************************
MSAH’s own information society policy
-

Wide use of information and communication technology
Utilisation of internet penetration

Development levels – definition and projectwork
e.g. Area of eHealth / eWelfare
Levels of development

Development work

EU / National

Laws, standards, terminology, classifications, forms, data definitions

Regional

Aggreements, data transmissions, databases, archives, cooperation

Local

Working culture, division of labour, cooperation

Individual

Personal needs, user interface, way of working, teamwork

Milestones - Finnish health care system

2002
2007

National Project on Safeguarding the Future of Health Care Services
National law EHR

eHealth, National Project on Safeguarding the Future
of Health Care Services – main goals
•Ensure access to treatment
•Enhance co-ordination and co-operation in specialized health care
•Enhance regional co-ordination in primary health care
•Emphasize preventive work, one’s own responsibility for one’s own health and the
significance of primary health care
• Implementation - divided into 40 sub-projects
•Preparing the ground for the nationwide electronic patient records, which will be
introduced in 2007 (law will be launched Spring 2007)

Evolution of e-processes
- strategy and plan
- education
- culture, values
- publicity in control

5. Adaptation
of work
processes

4. Integration

Use
of e-Health
and e-Social
processes

Integration
of IT solutions
in daily life

Planning and
development
3. Processes
of e-processes,
working models

2. Basic
development

1. Services/
Products

Intranet,
Internet
groundwork
purpose-built

Electronic
documents
and lists
Adapted from www.done360.com

The Regional Project Area
Maternity care – births are over 99% in hospitals

.

JYVÄSKYLÄ

Map of Finland









85.585 km2
>1.000 lakes
681.000 inhabitants
One university hospital
Four central hospitals (five 10/03)
53 health centres
App. 20 000 social and health
care workers

NORMAL MATERNITY CARE SERVICE CHAIN
IN FINLAND (REGULAR PREGNANCY)

FIRST CONTACT
MOTHER/CHILD UNIT

PHN = public
health nurse

PHN/ FIRST
EXAMINATION
8-10 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
10-12 W

LABORATORY

PRE-NATAL
ULTRASOUND

HEALTH CENTRE
BEFORE 12 W
BASIC
INFORMATION
FORM
maternity clinic

CERTIFICATE
M/C CLINIC
NIB (KELA)

PHN/
EXAMINATION
16-18 W

SPECIAL CARE MATERNITY CLINIC
12-14 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
22-24 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
26-28 W
NIB =
National
Insurance
Bureau

PHN/
EXAMINATION
30-32 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
32-34 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
34-36 W

PAGE
2

BIRTH TRAINING COURSE,
(CONSISTS OF 8-10 MEETINGS)

PAGE
2

PHN/ EXAMINATION
37 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
38-40 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
40-42 W

DELIVERY ROOM

POST NATAL WARD

PHN/ (baby) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN/ (mother) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN / Mother´s Medical health check

DOCTOR/ Mother´s
Medical health check8-9 W after delivery

CHILD CLINIC

FAMILY
PLANNING

Basis of the Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net
The Long History of the (Finnish) Maternity Care Services (since 1940´s)
Development of Information Society (1990´s)
Idea of Maternity Services on the Internet (1997)
Basis of
Development
Work
•Research
• Multidisciplinary
co-operation
• Piloting
• Feedback /
Evaluation

Results
• Working
models for
experts and
families
•Networking
• Data/info
contents
• Software
technology

E- Service

Participants
• Health care
professionals
• Families
• Colleges
• Software
technology
experts
• Multimedia
experts

Expert teams





Central team
Social and Health care experts´ team
Technology experts´ team
Education experts´ team (Savonia was co-ordinator
of the MIC project)

• Families

MIC
•is supplementary to today's mother-child clinic services

•helps the user in decision making
•provides information that has been approved by the special
editorial board

•enables the use of the services independently of time and
place (Internet connection needed)
•can be used in many countries (adjustments will be made
according to the culture)

The MIC: options
•Entrance

•News
•Discussion groups (with peers)
•Questions and answers (confidential)
•Search (information)
•Feedback
•Links to other useful Internet sites

Search/ information or data bank











Pregnancy
Delivery
Post- natal period
Infant
Parent's relationship
Parenthood
Personal hygiene, appearance
Nutrition and exercise
Drugs, alcohol and smoking
Services to the public

MIC has 135 articles, two videos, 2 animations, 2 interactive photos, 86
photos and 53 drawings checked and approved by editorial board.

MIC / contents
Example: Drawings

Qualified information / content management
• Information is reliable, and easy to understand
• The quantity of information is adequate
• The required information is easy to find
• The content creation and management are carried on as
part of current (clinical) work processes
• The technical solutions guarantee e.g. data integrity,
authentication, security and data availability

Evaluation - family
• Modern way of having services
• No queuing in phone
• Discussions groups for families (anonymously), where
professionals appear by their names
• Service in your own language
• Information/contents is versatile, extensive, based on
expertise / reliable

Evaluation – maternity care professionals
•Extra visits were not needed during pilot phase
•The Net Clinic could be used as a manual or in
familiarising the new worker
•Counselling and giving advice was harmonised
•Families got deeper information and advice based
on their needs more effectively
•Networking and co-operation was more efficient
•Written answers took some time to get used to

The Project of the Year 2000
•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be expanded
into new application fields like public administration and so called soft
values
•Net Clinic is based on wide and versatile co-operation and on
application of new Internet technology
•Net Clinic proves that it is possible to develop new innovations also
outside big so called growing centres
•Net Clinic proves that women can work successfully in management
or other key positions which have conventionally been classified as
men´s work
(The evaluation criteria of the The Finnish Project Management Association)

Diploma of the Excellent Work
•Given by the Provincial State Office of Eastern Finland 4.9.2001

•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be
expanded into new application fields like public administration in
national level and in future international level

O

O
O

o
x

O

O MIC has been used/is in use
• Kuopio
• Helsinki
• North-East of Finland (Kuusamo,
Taivalkoski, Posio and Salla)
• Rovaniemi and its neighbourhood
Rovaniemi rural commune and
Ranua)

An eMaternal Health Care Data System

STORK

The Stork is
• secured electronic health data system (EHS) made for
professional use
• all the information about pregnancy, delivery and puerperium
is collected in the same system (so called seamless chain
between primary health care and special care)
• mutual data contents to maternal units involved

Data security
• The application
• built on special security system used by the hospital
• Access rights depends on task or position
• those who are involved maternal service chain
• Preconditions for usage
• mother´s permission to collect and transfer her data
(each organisation needs its own permission)
• agreement between different organisations
• every user has personal user identifier, all usage is
logged and saved, even edited/deleted parts will be
recorded permanently

Storks gives information
• Pregnancy follow up, continuous documentation;
appointments with public health nurses, midwifes, doctors
• Graphics; growth of the uterus, hypertension, weight,
partogram
• Internal- and external examinations
• Medication during pregnancy, delivery, puerperium
• Diagnosis of the foetus; e.g ultrasound, lab tests
• Lifestyle of the family (nutrition, exercise, smoking, drugs
etc)
• Sick leaves of the mother
• Special area for the nurse documentation

Stork gives
• The new-born baby his/her social security number
• Basic information from earlier pregnancies
• Statistics e.g.
– for the Stakes (the National Research and Development Centre for
Welfare and Health
– the nursing research

• Forms and applications

The first page of the Stork

Forms

Name, birth date, age, weeks,

Notify: the lamp sign, B-gluc high (red color)
Lab, X-ray

Mother->,
Child ->

Social worker documentation
Both the public health nurse in primary care and
the midwife in special care fulfil this area. The written
data is available in real time (mother´s permission needed)

From Netinformation – Portal
to Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID)

My personal computer

Aims of the Work
• To elaborate the co-operation of different
organisations
• To develop a consistent way to manage information
in Social Work and Health Care organisations
• To develop the ”Dynamic Integrated Desktop” (DID)
for Social Work and Health Care professionals
• To offer further education of Social Work and Health
Care professionals
• To determine the reliable security standards

Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID )
-a consistent way to manage information in Health Care organisations

Partnership information

Single sign-on





Professional information


On line (on special fields)



Education
•course

Contacts
Office times
Information of services

Professional web services



PubMed, Cinahl
Laws and orders

enrolment, forms

Web services for public
Integration of IT software



Contact information



”You get what you need”



Problem solving information



EHR, RIS/PACS (digital imaging), biosignals etc.



Education



High level of security

View of the DID page

Teams
Discussion
Forums

Document
management
Links
Courses

Patients 26.8.2002

Mail (3 new messages)

Time

Name

Social security number

8.00

Patrick Patient

12345679573

8.20

Donald Duck

89101128758

8.40

Clark Kent

98459734658

Maintenance
Magazines &
Periodicals

August 2002

News
Databases
Patients
Help

Personified, user oriented
Networked, user organization oriented

Information system,
task and position in the organization

Tutuks service

• Tutuks, a virtual visit to a maternity ward
• Utilised work done by MIC
• http://www.synnytystutuksi.fi/tutukspalvelu.
html

Challenges for the Future
•Family/citizen participation challenges professionals
•e-working environment (models, processes)
•eEducation and training
• “E-gap” between generations
•Usability of ICT-solutions
•Integration of ICT-solutions

New project
• Looking for partner organisations, next
Tempus Call or other suitable call

New project - Tree of problems
NO KNOWLEDGE
TRANSFER

NO NETWORKING

Lack of resources in
distance teaching in cultural maternity care

Unfamiliarity with new
teaching ways

Former education

Non-transferability of
tacit knowledge

Lack of ICT skills

Figure: Project - problem tree

Retiring
(growing)

Incapability to
respond future needs

Mobility (teachers
and students)

Lack of cooperation between
Euro-Asian HIEs

Need to study regardless
time and space

Tree of objectives
FLEXIBLE
NETWORKING

CULTURAL MATERNITY CARE
AND DISTANCE TEACHING

ENHANCING READINESS FOR
DISTANCE TEACHING IN CULTURAL
MATERNITY AND INFANT CARE

Definition of resources
needed

Testing of
ICT skills

Designing and evaluating
Networking and
Distance teaching model

Selection of Learning Evaluation of
Environment(s)
readiness

MAIN AIM

Reports, workshops
(Implementation)

Accepted
planns

EFFECT

Dissemination of
Project results

Evaluation of model
Implementation

OUTCOME

Thank you for your
attention

Contact info:
[email protected]


Slide 15

eHealth
Case- Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net (MIC)

Speaker:

Pirkko Kouri,
Pricipal Lecturer in Healthcare Technology,
PhD, PHN, RN

Guests:

Tempus delegation

Time:

21 Feb 2007

Ultimate goals of Finnish health care
- Cost-effectiveness
- Patient/client & population centeredness
- Just distribution of the services (equity)
= use based on need

*********************************************************
MSAH’s own information society policy
-

Wide use of information and communication technology
Utilisation of internet penetration

Development levels – definition and projectwork
e.g. Area of eHealth / eWelfare
Levels of development

Development work

EU / National

Laws, standards, terminology, classifications, forms, data definitions

Regional

Aggreements, data transmissions, databases, archives, cooperation

Local

Working culture, division of labour, cooperation

Individual

Personal needs, user interface, way of working, teamwork

Milestones - Finnish health care system

2002
2007

National Project on Safeguarding the Future of Health Care Services
National law EHR

eHealth, National Project on Safeguarding the Future
of Health Care Services – main goals
•Ensure access to treatment
•Enhance co-ordination and co-operation in specialized health care
•Enhance regional co-ordination in primary health care
•Emphasize preventive work, one’s own responsibility for one’s own health and the
significance of primary health care
• Implementation - divided into 40 sub-projects
•Preparing the ground for the nationwide electronic patient records, which will be
introduced in 2007 (law will be launched Spring 2007)

Evolution of e-processes
- strategy and plan
- education
- culture, values
- publicity in control

5. Adaptation
of work
processes

4. Integration

Use
of e-Health
and e-Social
processes

Integration
of IT solutions
in daily life

Planning and
development
3. Processes
of e-processes,
working models

2. Basic
development

1. Services/
Products

Intranet,
Internet
groundwork
purpose-built

Electronic
documents
and lists
Adapted from www.done360.com

The Regional Project Area
Maternity care – births are over 99% in hospitals

.

JYVÄSKYLÄ

Map of Finland









85.585 km2
>1.000 lakes
681.000 inhabitants
One university hospital
Four central hospitals (five 10/03)
53 health centres
App. 20 000 social and health
care workers

NORMAL MATERNITY CARE SERVICE CHAIN
IN FINLAND (REGULAR PREGNANCY)

FIRST CONTACT
MOTHER/CHILD UNIT

PHN = public
health nurse

PHN/ FIRST
EXAMINATION
8-10 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
10-12 W

LABORATORY

PRE-NATAL
ULTRASOUND

HEALTH CENTRE
BEFORE 12 W
BASIC
INFORMATION
FORM
maternity clinic

CERTIFICATE
M/C CLINIC
NIB (KELA)

PHN/
EXAMINATION
16-18 W

SPECIAL CARE MATERNITY CLINIC
12-14 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
22-24 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
26-28 W
NIB =
National
Insurance
Bureau

PHN/
EXAMINATION
30-32 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
32-34 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
34-36 W

PAGE
2

BIRTH TRAINING COURSE,
(CONSISTS OF 8-10 MEETINGS)

PAGE
2

PHN/ EXAMINATION
37 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
38-40 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
40-42 W

DELIVERY ROOM

POST NATAL WARD

PHN/ (baby) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN/ (mother) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN / Mother´s Medical health check

DOCTOR/ Mother´s
Medical health check8-9 W after delivery

CHILD CLINIC

FAMILY
PLANNING

Basis of the Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net
The Long History of the (Finnish) Maternity Care Services (since 1940´s)
Development of Information Society (1990´s)
Idea of Maternity Services on the Internet (1997)
Basis of
Development
Work
•Research
• Multidisciplinary
co-operation
• Piloting
• Feedback /
Evaluation

Results
• Working
models for
experts and
families
•Networking
• Data/info
contents
• Software
technology

E- Service

Participants
• Health care
professionals
• Families
• Colleges
• Software
technology
experts
• Multimedia
experts

Expert teams





Central team
Social and Health care experts´ team
Technology experts´ team
Education experts´ team (Savonia was co-ordinator
of the MIC project)

• Families

MIC
•is supplementary to today's mother-child clinic services

•helps the user in decision making
•provides information that has been approved by the special
editorial board

•enables the use of the services independently of time and
place (Internet connection needed)
•can be used in many countries (adjustments will be made
according to the culture)

The MIC: options
•Entrance

•News
•Discussion groups (with peers)
•Questions and answers (confidential)
•Search (information)
•Feedback
•Links to other useful Internet sites

Search/ information or data bank











Pregnancy
Delivery
Post- natal period
Infant
Parent's relationship
Parenthood
Personal hygiene, appearance
Nutrition and exercise
Drugs, alcohol and smoking
Services to the public

MIC has 135 articles, two videos, 2 animations, 2 interactive photos, 86
photos and 53 drawings checked and approved by editorial board.

MIC / contents
Example: Drawings

Qualified information / content management
• Information is reliable, and easy to understand
• The quantity of information is adequate
• The required information is easy to find
• The content creation and management are carried on as
part of current (clinical) work processes
• The technical solutions guarantee e.g. data integrity,
authentication, security and data availability

Evaluation - family
• Modern way of having services
• No queuing in phone
• Discussions groups for families (anonymously), where
professionals appear by their names
• Service in your own language
• Information/contents is versatile, extensive, based on
expertise / reliable

Evaluation – maternity care professionals
•Extra visits were not needed during pilot phase
•The Net Clinic could be used as a manual or in
familiarising the new worker
•Counselling and giving advice was harmonised
•Families got deeper information and advice based
on their needs more effectively
•Networking and co-operation was more efficient
•Written answers took some time to get used to

The Project of the Year 2000
•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be expanded
into new application fields like public administration and so called soft
values
•Net Clinic is based on wide and versatile co-operation and on
application of new Internet technology
•Net Clinic proves that it is possible to develop new innovations also
outside big so called growing centres
•Net Clinic proves that women can work successfully in management
or other key positions which have conventionally been classified as
men´s work
(The evaluation criteria of the The Finnish Project Management Association)

Diploma of the Excellent Work
•Given by the Provincial State Office of Eastern Finland 4.9.2001

•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be
expanded into new application fields like public administration in
national level and in future international level

O

O
O

o
x

O

O MIC has been used/is in use
• Kuopio
• Helsinki
• North-East of Finland (Kuusamo,
Taivalkoski, Posio and Salla)
• Rovaniemi and its neighbourhood
Rovaniemi rural commune and
Ranua)

An eMaternal Health Care Data System

STORK

The Stork is
• secured electronic health data system (EHS) made for
professional use
• all the information about pregnancy, delivery and puerperium
is collected in the same system (so called seamless chain
between primary health care and special care)
• mutual data contents to maternal units involved

Data security
• The application
• built on special security system used by the hospital
• Access rights depends on task or position
• those who are involved maternal service chain
• Preconditions for usage
• mother´s permission to collect and transfer her data
(each organisation needs its own permission)
• agreement between different organisations
• every user has personal user identifier, all usage is
logged and saved, even edited/deleted parts will be
recorded permanently

Storks gives information
• Pregnancy follow up, continuous documentation;
appointments with public health nurses, midwifes, doctors
• Graphics; growth of the uterus, hypertension, weight,
partogram
• Internal- and external examinations
• Medication during pregnancy, delivery, puerperium
• Diagnosis of the foetus; e.g ultrasound, lab tests
• Lifestyle of the family (nutrition, exercise, smoking, drugs
etc)
• Sick leaves of the mother
• Special area for the nurse documentation

Stork gives
• The new-born baby his/her social security number
• Basic information from earlier pregnancies
• Statistics e.g.
– for the Stakes (the National Research and Development Centre for
Welfare and Health
– the nursing research

• Forms and applications

The first page of the Stork

Forms

Name, birth date, age, weeks,

Notify: the lamp sign, B-gluc high (red color)
Lab, X-ray

Mother->,
Child ->

Social worker documentation
Both the public health nurse in primary care and
the midwife in special care fulfil this area. The written
data is available in real time (mother´s permission needed)

From Netinformation – Portal
to Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID)

My personal computer

Aims of the Work
• To elaborate the co-operation of different
organisations
• To develop a consistent way to manage information
in Social Work and Health Care organisations
• To develop the ”Dynamic Integrated Desktop” (DID)
for Social Work and Health Care professionals
• To offer further education of Social Work and Health
Care professionals
• To determine the reliable security standards

Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID )
-a consistent way to manage information in Health Care organisations

Partnership information

Single sign-on





Professional information


On line (on special fields)



Education
•course

Contacts
Office times
Information of services

Professional web services



PubMed, Cinahl
Laws and orders

enrolment, forms

Web services for public
Integration of IT software



Contact information



”You get what you need”



Problem solving information



EHR, RIS/PACS (digital imaging), biosignals etc.



Education



High level of security

View of the DID page

Teams
Discussion
Forums

Document
management
Links
Courses

Patients 26.8.2002

Mail (3 new messages)

Time

Name

Social security number

8.00

Patrick Patient

12345679573

8.20

Donald Duck

89101128758

8.40

Clark Kent

98459734658

Maintenance
Magazines &
Periodicals

August 2002

News
Databases
Patients
Help

Personified, user oriented
Networked, user organization oriented

Information system,
task and position in the organization

Tutuks service

• Tutuks, a virtual visit to a maternity ward
• Utilised work done by MIC
• http://www.synnytystutuksi.fi/tutukspalvelu.
html

Challenges for the Future
•Family/citizen participation challenges professionals
•e-working environment (models, processes)
•eEducation and training
• “E-gap” between generations
•Usability of ICT-solutions
•Integration of ICT-solutions

New project
• Looking for partner organisations, next
Tempus Call or other suitable call

New project - Tree of problems
NO KNOWLEDGE
TRANSFER

NO NETWORKING

Lack of resources in
distance teaching in cultural maternity care

Unfamiliarity with new
teaching ways

Former education

Non-transferability of
tacit knowledge

Lack of ICT skills

Figure: Project - problem tree

Retiring
(growing)

Incapability to
respond future needs

Mobility (teachers
and students)

Lack of cooperation between
Euro-Asian HIEs

Need to study regardless
time and space

Tree of objectives
FLEXIBLE
NETWORKING

CULTURAL MATERNITY CARE
AND DISTANCE TEACHING

ENHANCING READINESS FOR
DISTANCE TEACHING IN CULTURAL
MATERNITY AND INFANT CARE

Definition of resources
needed

Testing of
ICT skills

Designing and evaluating
Networking and
Distance teaching model

Selection of Learning Evaluation of
Environment(s)
readiness

MAIN AIM

Reports, workshops
(Implementation)

Accepted
planns

EFFECT

Dissemination of
Project results

Evaluation of model
Implementation

OUTCOME

Thank you for your
attention

Contact info:
[email protected]


Slide 16

eHealth
Case- Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net (MIC)

Speaker:

Pirkko Kouri,
Pricipal Lecturer in Healthcare Technology,
PhD, PHN, RN

Guests:

Tempus delegation

Time:

21 Feb 2007

Ultimate goals of Finnish health care
- Cost-effectiveness
- Patient/client & population centeredness
- Just distribution of the services (equity)
= use based on need

*********************************************************
MSAH’s own information society policy
-

Wide use of information and communication technology
Utilisation of internet penetration

Development levels – definition and projectwork
e.g. Area of eHealth / eWelfare
Levels of development

Development work

EU / National

Laws, standards, terminology, classifications, forms, data definitions

Regional

Aggreements, data transmissions, databases, archives, cooperation

Local

Working culture, division of labour, cooperation

Individual

Personal needs, user interface, way of working, teamwork

Milestones - Finnish health care system

2002
2007

National Project on Safeguarding the Future of Health Care Services
National law EHR

eHealth, National Project on Safeguarding the Future
of Health Care Services – main goals
•Ensure access to treatment
•Enhance co-ordination and co-operation in specialized health care
•Enhance regional co-ordination in primary health care
•Emphasize preventive work, one’s own responsibility for one’s own health and the
significance of primary health care
• Implementation - divided into 40 sub-projects
•Preparing the ground for the nationwide electronic patient records, which will be
introduced in 2007 (law will be launched Spring 2007)

Evolution of e-processes
- strategy and plan
- education
- culture, values
- publicity in control

5. Adaptation
of work
processes

4. Integration

Use
of e-Health
and e-Social
processes

Integration
of IT solutions
in daily life

Planning and
development
3. Processes
of e-processes,
working models

2. Basic
development

1. Services/
Products

Intranet,
Internet
groundwork
purpose-built

Electronic
documents
and lists
Adapted from www.done360.com

The Regional Project Area
Maternity care – births are over 99% in hospitals

.

JYVÄSKYLÄ

Map of Finland









85.585 km2
>1.000 lakes
681.000 inhabitants
One university hospital
Four central hospitals (five 10/03)
53 health centres
App. 20 000 social and health
care workers

NORMAL MATERNITY CARE SERVICE CHAIN
IN FINLAND (REGULAR PREGNANCY)

FIRST CONTACT
MOTHER/CHILD UNIT

PHN = public
health nurse

PHN/ FIRST
EXAMINATION
8-10 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
10-12 W

LABORATORY

PRE-NATAL
ULTRASOUND

HEALTH CENTRE
BEFORE 12 W
BASIC
INFORMATION
FORM
maternity clinic

CERTIFICATE
M/C CLINIC
NIB (KELA)

PHN/
EXAMINATION
16-18 W

SPECIAL CARE MATERNITY CLINIC
12-14 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
22-24 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
26-28 W
NIB =
National
Insurance
Bureau

PHN/
EXAMINATION
30-32 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
32-34 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
34-36 W

PAGE
2

BIRTH TRAINING COURSE,
(CONSISTS OF 8-10 MEETINGS)

PAGE
2

PHN/ EXAMINATION
37 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
38-40 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
40-42 W

DELIVERY ROOM

POST NATAL WARD

PHN/ (baby) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN/ (mother) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN / Mother´s Medical health check

DOCTOR/ Mother´s
Medical health check8-9 W after delivery

CHILD CLINIC

FAMILY
PLANNING

Basis of the Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net
The Long History of the (Finnish) Maternity Care Services (since 1940´s)
Development of Information Society (1990´s)
Idea of Maternity Services on the Internet (1997)
Basis of
Development
Work
•Research
• Multidisciplinary
co-operation
• Piloting
• Feedback /
Evaluation

Results
• Working
models for
experts and
families
•Networking
• Data/info
contents
• Software
technology

E- Service

Participants
• Health care
professionals
• Families
• Colleges
• Software
technology
experts
• Multimedia
experts

Expert teams





Central team
Social and Health care experts´ team
Technology experts´ team
Education experts´ team (Savonia was co-ordinator
of the MIC project)

• Families

MIC
•is supplementary to today's mother-child clinic services

•helps the user in decision making
•provides information that has been approved by the special
editorial board

•enables the use of the services independently of time and
place (Internet connection needed)
•can be used in many countries (adjustments will be made
according to the culture)

The MIC: options
•Entrance

•News
•Discussion groups (with peers)
•Questions and answers (confidential)
•Search (information)
•Feedback
•Links to other useful Internet sites

Search/ information or data bank











Pregnancy
Delivery
Post- natal period
Infant
Parent's relationship
Parenthood
Personal hygiene, appearance
Nutrition and exercise
Drugs, alcohol and smoking
Services to the public

MIC has 135 articles, two videos, 2 animations, 2 interactive photos, 86
photos and 53 drawings checked and approved by editorial board.

MIC / contents
Example: Drawings

Qualified information / content management
• Information is reliable, and easy to understand
• The quantity of information is adequate
• The required information is easy to find
• The content creation and management are carried on as
part of current (clinical) work processes
• The technical solutions guarantee e.g. data integrity,
authentication, security and data availability

Evaluation - family
• Modern way of having services
• No queuing in phone
• Discussions groups for families (anonymously), where
professionals appear by their names
• Service in your own language
• Information/contents is versatile, extensive, based on
expertise / reliable

Evaluation – maternity care professionals
•Extra visits were not needed during pilot phase
•The Net Clinic could be used as a manual or in
familiarising the new worker
•Counselling and giving advice was harmonised
•Families got deeper information and advice based
on their needs more effectively
•Networking and co-operation was more efficient
•Written answers took some time to get used to

The Project of the Year 2000
•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be expanded
into new application fields like public administration and so called soft
values
•Net Clinic is based on wide and versatile co-operation and on
application of new Internet technology
•Net Clinic proves that it is possible to develop new innovations also
outside big so called growing centres
•Net Clinic proves that women can work successfully in management
or other key positions which have conventionally been classified as
men´s work
(The evaluation criteria of the The Finnish Project Management Association)

Diploma of the Excellent Work
•Given by the Provincial State Office of Eastern Finland 4.9.2001

•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be
expanded into new application fields like public administration in
national level and in future international level

O

O
O

o
x

O

O MIC has been used/is in use
• Kuopio
• Helsinki
• North-East of Finland (Kuusamo,
Taivalkoski, Posio and Salla)
• Rovaniemi and its neighbourhood
Rovaniemi rural commune and
Ranua)

An eMaternal Health Care Data System

STORK

The Stork is
• secured electronic health data system (EHS) made for
professional use
• all the information about pregnancy, delivery and puerperium
is collected in the same system (so called seamless chain
between primary health care and special care)
• mutual data contents to maternal units involved

Data security
• The application
• built on special security system used by the hospital
• Access rights depends on task or position
• those who are involved maternal service chain
• Preconditions for usage
• mother´s permission to collect and transfer her data
(each organisation needs its own permission)
• agreement between different organisations
• every user has personal user identifier, all usage is
logged and saved, even edited/deleted parts will be
recorded permanently

Storks gives information
• Pregnancy follow up, continuous documentation;
appointments with public health nurses, midwifes, doctors
• Graphics; growth of the uterus, hypertension, weight,
partogram
• Internal- and external examinations
• Medication during pregnancy, delivery, puerperium
• Diagnosis of the foetus; e.g ultrasound, lab tests
• Lifestyle of the family (nutrition, exercise, smoking, drugs
etc)
• Sick leaves of the mother
• Special area for the nurse documentation

Stork gives
• The new-born baby his/her social security number
• Basic information from earlier pregnancies
• Statistics e.g.
– for the Stakes (the National Research and Development Centre for
Welfare and Health
– the nursing research

• Forms and applications

The first page of the Stork

Forms

Name, birth date, age, weeks,

Notify: the lamp sign, B-gluc high (red color)
Lab, X-ray

Mother->,
Child ->

Social worker documentation
Both the public health nurse in primary care and
the midwife in special care fulfil this area. The written
data is available in real time (mother´s permission needed)

From Netinformation – Portal
to Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID)

My personal computer

Aims of the Work
• To elaborate the co-operation of different
organisations
• To develop a consistent way to manage information
in Social Work and Health Care organisations
• To develop the ”Dynamic Integrated Desktop” (DID)
for Social Work and Health Care professionals
• To offer further education of Social Work and Health
Care professionals
• To determine the reliable security standards

Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID )
-a consistent way to manage information in Health Care organisations

Partnership information

Single sign-on





Professional information


On line (on special fields)



Education
•course

Contacts
Office times
Information of services

Professional web services



PubMed, Cinahl
Laws and orders

enrolment, forms

Web services for public
Integration of IT software



Contact information



”You get what you need”



Problem solving information



EHR, RIS/PACS (digital imaging), biosignals etc.



Education



High level of security

View of the DID page

Teams
Discussion
Forums

Document
management
Links
Courses

Patients 26.8.2002

Mail (3 new messages)

Time

Name

Social security number

8.00

Patrick Patient

12345679573

8.20

Donald Duck

89101128758

8.40

Clark Kent

98459734658

Maintenance
Magazines &
Periodicals

August 2002

News
Databases
Patients
Help

Personified, user oriented
Networked, user organization oriented

Information system,
task and position in the organization

Tutuks service

• Tutuks, a virtual visit to a maternity ward
• Utilised work done by MIC
• http://www.synnytystutuksi.fi/tutukspalvelu.
html

Challenges for the Future
•Family/citizen participation challenges professionals
•e-working environment (models, processes)
•eEducation and training
• “E-gap” between generations
•Usability of ICT-solutions
•Integration of ICT-solutions

New project
• Looking for partner organisations, next
Tempus Call or other suitable call

New project - Tree of problems
NO KNOWLEDGE
TRANSFER

NO NETWORKING

Lack of resources in
distance teaching in cultural maternity care

Unfamiliarity with new
teaching ways

Former education

Non-transferability of
tacit knowledge

Lack of ICT skills

Figure: Project - problem tree

Retiring
(growing)

Incapability to
respond future needs

Mobility (teachers
and students)

Lack of cooperation between
Euro-Asian HIEs

Need to study regardless
time and space

Tree of objectives
FLEXIBLE
NETWORKING

CULTURAL MATERNITY CARE
AND DISTANCE TEACHING

ENHANCING READINESS FOR
DISTANCE TEACHING IN CULTURAL
MATERNITY AND INFANT CARE

Definition of resources
needed

Testing of
ICT skills

Designing and evaluating
Networking and
Distance teaching model

Selection of Learning Evaluation of
Environment(s)
readiness

MAIN AIM

Reports, workshops
(Implementation)

Accepted
planns

EFFECT

Dissemination of
Project results

Evaluation of model
Implementation

OUTCOME

Thank you for your
attention

Contact info:
[email protected]


Slide 17

eHealth
Case- Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net (MIC)

Speaker:

Pirkko Kouri,
Pricipal Lecturer in Healthcare Technology,
PhD, PHN, RN

Guests:

Tempus delegation

Time:

21 Feb 2007

Ultimate goals of Finnish health care
- Cost-effectiveness
- Patient/client & population centeredness
- Just distribution of the services (equity)
= use based on need

*********************************************************
MSAH’s own information society policy
-

Wide use of information and communication technology
Utilisation of internet penetration

Development levels – definition and projectwork
e.g. Area of eHealth / eWelfare
Levels of development

Development work

EU / National

Laws, standards, terminology, classifications, forms, data definitions

Regional

Aggreements, data transmissions, databases, archives, cooperation

Local

Working culture, division of labour, cooperation

Individual

Personal needs, user interface, way of working, teamwork

Milestones - Finnish health care system

2002
2007

National Project on Safeguarding the Future of Health Care Services
National law EHR

eHealth, National Project on Safeguarding the Future
of Health Care Services – main goals
•Ensure access to treatment
•Enhance co-ordination and co-operation in specialized health care
•Enhance regional co-ordination in primary health care
•Emphasize preventive work, one’s own responsibility for one’s own health and the
significance of primary health care
• Implementation - divided into 40 sub-projects
•Preparing the ground for the nationwide electronic patient records, which will be
introduced in 2007 (law will be launched Spring 2007)

Evolution of e-processes
- strategy and plan
- education
- culture, values
- publicity in control

5. Adaptation
of work
processes

4. Integration

Use
of e-Health
and e-Social
processes

Integration
of IT solutions
in daily life

Planning and
development
3. Processes
of e-processes,
working models

2. Basic
development

1. Services/
Products

Intranet,
Internet
groundwork
purpose-built

Electronic
documents
and lists
Adapted from www.done360.com

The Regional Project Area
Maternity care – births are over 99% in hospitals

.

JYVÄSKYLÄ

Map of Finland









85.585 km2
>1.000 lakes
681.000 inhabitants
One university hospital
Four central hospitals (five 10/03)
53 health centres
App. 20 000 social and health
care workers

NORMAL MATERNITY CARE SERVICE CHAIN
IN FINLAND (REGULAR PREGNANCY)

FIRST CONTACT
MOTHER/CHILD UNIT

PHN = public
health nurse

PHN/ FIRST
EXAMINATION
8-10 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
10-12 W

LABORATORY

PRE-NATAL
ULTRASOUND

HEALTH CENTRE
BEFORE 12 W
BASIC
INFORMATION
FORM
maternity clinic

CERTIFICATE
M/C CLINIC
NIB (KELA)

PHN/
EXAMINATION
16-18 W

SPECIAL CARE MATERNITY CLINIC
12-14 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
22-24 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
26-28 W
NIB =
National
Insurance
Bureau

PHN/
EXAMINATION
30-32 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
32-34 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
34-36 W

PAGE
2

BIRTH TRAINING COURSE,
(CONSISTS OF 8-10 MEETINGS)

PAGE
2

PHN/ EXAMINATION
37 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
38-40 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
40-42 W

DELIVERY ROOM

POST NATAL WARD

PHN/ (baby) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN/ (mother) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN / Mother´s Medical health check

DOCTOR/ Mother´s
Medical health check8-9 W after delivery

CHILD CLINIC

FAMILY
PLANNING

Basis of the Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net
The Long History of the (Finnish) Maternity Care Services (since 1940´s)
Development of Information Society (1990´s)
Idea of Maternity Services on the Internet (1997)
Basis of
Development
Work
•Research
• Multidisciplinary
co-operation
• Piloting
• Feedback /
Evaluation

Results
• Working
models for
experts and
families
•Networking
• Data/info
contents
• Software
technology

E- Service

Participants
• Health care
professionals
• Families
• Colleges
• Software
technology
experts
• Multimedia
experts

Expert teams





Central team
Social and Health care experts´ team
Technology experts´ team
Education experts´ team (Savonia was co-ordinator
of the MIC project)

• Families

MIC
•is supplementary to today's mother-child clinic services

•helps the user in decision making
•provides information that has been approved by the special
editorial board

•enables the use of the services independently of time and
place (Internet connection needed)
•can be used in many countries (adjustments will be made
according to the culture)

The MIC: options
•Entrance

•News
•Discussion groups (with peers)
•Questions and answers (confidential)
•Search (information)
•Feedback
•Links to other useful Internet sites

Search/ information or data bank











Pregnancy
Delivery
Post- natal period
Infant
Parent's relationship
Parenthood
Personal hygiene, appearance
Nutrition and exercise
Drugs, alcohol and smoking
Services to the public

MIC has 135 articles, two videos, 2 animations, 2 interactive photos, 86
photos and 53 drawings checked and approved by editorial board.

MIC / contents
Example: Drawings

Qualified information / content management
• Information is reliable, and easy to understand
• The quantity of information is adequate
• The required information is easy to find
• The content creation and management are carried on as
part of current (clinical) work processes
• The technical solutions guarantee e.g. data integrity,
authentication, security and data availability

Evaluation - family
• Modern way of having services
• No queuing in phone
• Discussions groups for families (anonymously), where
professionals appear by their names
• Service in your own language
• Information/contents is versatile, extensive, based on
expertise / reliable

Evaluation – maternity care professionals
•Extra visits were not needed during pilot phase
•The Net Clinic could be used as a manual or in
familiarising the new worker
•Counselling and giving advice was harmonised
•Families got deeper information and advice based
on their needs more effectively
•Networking and co-operation was more efficient
•Written answers took some time to get used to

The Project of the Year 2000
•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be expanded
into new application fields like public administration and so called soft
values
•Net Clinic is based on wide and versatile co-operation and on
application of new Internet technology
•Net Clinic proves that it is possible to develop new innovations also
outside big so called growing centres
•Net Clinic proves that women can work successfully in management
or other key positions which have conventionally been classified as
men´s work
(The evaluation criteria of the The Finnish Project Management Association)

Diploma of the Excellent Work
•Given by the Provincial State Office of Eastern Finland 4.9.2001

•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be
expanded into new application fields like public administration in
national level and in future international level

O

O
O

o
x

O

O MIC has been used/is in use
• Kuopio
• Helsinki
• North-East of Finland (Kuusamo,
Taivalkoski, Posio and Salla)
• Rovaniemi and its neighbourhood
Rovaniemi rural commune and
Ranua)

An eMaternal Health Care Data System

STORK

The Stork is
• secured electronic health data system (EHS) made for
professional use
• all the information about pregnancy, delivery and puerperium
is collected in the same system (so called seamless chain
between primary health care and special care)
• mutual data contents to maternal units involved

Data security
• The application
• built on special security system used by the hospital
• Access rights depends on task or position
• those who are involved maternal service chain
• Preconditions for usage
• mother´s permission to collect and transfer her data
(each organisation needs its own permission)
• agreement between different organisations
• every user has personal user identifier, all usage is
logged and saved, even edited/deleted parts will be
recorded permanently

Storks gives information
• Pregnancy follow up, continuous documentation;
appointments with public health nurses, midwifes, doctors
• Graphics; growth of the uterus, hypertension, weight,
partogram
• Internal- and external examinations
• Medication during pregnancy, delivery, puerperium
• Diagnosis of the foetus; e.g ultrasound, lab tests
• Lifestyle of the family (nutrition, exercise, smoking, drugs
etc)
• Sick leaves of the mother
• Special area for the nurse documentation

Stork gives
• The new-born baby his/her social security number
• Basic information from earlier pregnancies
• Statistics e.g.
– for the Stakes (the National Research and Development Centre for
Welfare and Health
– the nursing research

• Forms and applications

The first page of the Stork

Forms

Name, birth date, age, weeks,

Notify: the lamp sign, B-gluc high (red color)
Lab, X-ray

Mother->,
Child ->

Social worker documentation
Both the public health nurse in primary care and
the midwife in special care fulfil this area. The written
data is available in real time (mother´s permission needed)

From Netinformation – Portal
to Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID)

My personal computer

Aims of the Work
• To elaborate the co-operation of different
organisations
• To develop a consistent way to manage information
in Social Work and Health Care organisations
• To develop the ”Dynamic Integrated Desktop” (DID)
for Social Work and Health Care professionals
• To offer further education of Social Work and Health
Care professionals
• To determine the reliable security standards

Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID )
-a consistent way to manage information in Health Care organisations

Partnership information

Single sign-on





Professional information


On line (on special fields)



Education
•course

Contacts
Office times
Information of services

Professional web services



PubMed, Cinahl
Laws and orders

enrolment, forms

Web services for public
Integration of IT software



Contact information



”You get what you need”



Problem solving information



EHR, RIS/PACS (digital imaging), biosignals etc.



Education



High level of security

View of the DID page

Teams
Discussion
Forums

Document
management
Links
Courses

Patients 26.8.2002

Mail (3 new messages)

Time

Name

Social security number

8.00

Patrick Patient

12345679573

8.20

Donald Duck

89101128758

8.40

Clark Kent

98459734658

Maintenance
Magazines &
Periodicals

August 2002

News
Databases
Patients
Help

Personified, user oriented
Networked, user organization oriented

Information system,
task and position in the organization

Tutuks service

• Tutuks, a virtual visit to a maternity ward
• Utilised work done by MIC
• http://www.synnytystutuksi.fi/tutukspalvelu.
html

Challenges for the Future
•Family/citizen participation challenges professionals
•e-working environment (models, processes)
•eEducation and training
• “E-gap” between generations
•Usability of ICT-solutions
•Integration of ICT-solutions

New project
• Looking for partner organisations, next
Tempus Call or other suitable call

New project - Tree of problems
NO KNOWLEDGE
TRANSFER

NO NETWORKING

Lack of resources in
distance teaching in cultural maternity care

Unfamiliarity with new
teaching ways

Former education

Non-transferability of
tacit knowledge

Lack of ICT skills

Figure: Project - problem tree

Retiring
(growing)

Incapability to
respond future needs

Mobility (teachers
and students)

Lack of cooperation between
Euro-Asian HIEs

Need to study regardless
time and space

Tree of objectives
FLEXIBLE
NETWORKING

CULTURAL MATERNITY CARE
AND DISTANCE TEACHING

ENHANCING READINESS FOR
DISTANCE TEACHING IN CULTURAL
MATERNITY AND INFANT CARE

Definition of resources
needed

Testing of
ICT skills

Designing and evaluating
Networking and
Distance teaching model

Selection of Learning Evaluation of
Environment(s)
readiness

MAIN AIM

Reports, workshops
(Implementation)

Accepted
planns

EFFECT

Dissemination of
Project results

Evaluation of model
Implementation

OUTCOME

Thank you for your
attention

Contact info:
[email protected]


Slide 18

eHealth
Case- Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net (MIC)

Speaker:

Pirkko Kouri,
Pricipal Lecturer in Healthcare Technology,
PhD, PHN, RN

Guests:

Tempus delegation

Time:

21 Feb 2007

Ultimate goals of Finnish health care
- Cost-effectiveness
- Patient/client & population centeredness
- Just distribution of the services (equity)
= use based on need

*********************************************************
MSAH’s own information society policy
-

Wide use of information and communication technology
Utilisation of internet penetration

Development levels – definition and projectwork
e.g. Area of eHealth / eWelfare
Levels of development

Development work

EU / National

Laws, standards, terminology, classifications, forms, data definitions

Regional

Aggreements, data transmissions, databases, archives, cooperation

Local

Working culture, division of labour, cooperation

Individual

Personal needs, user interface, way of working, teamwork

Milestones - Finnish health care system

2002
2007

National Project on Safeguarding the Future of Health Care Services
National law EHR

eHealth, National Project on Safeguarding the Future
of Health Care Services – main goals
•Ensure access to treatment
•Enhance co-ordination and co-operation in specialized health care
•Enhance regional co-ordination in primary health care
•Emphasize preventive work, one’s own responsibility for one’s own health and the
significance of primary health care
• Implementation - divided into 40 sub-projects
•Preparing the ground for the nationwide electronic patient records, which will be
introduced in 2007 (law will be launched Spring 2007)

Evolution of e-processes
- strategy and plan
- education
- culture, values
- publicity in control

5. Adaptation
of work
processes

4. Integration

Use
of e-Health
and e-Social
processes

Integration
of IT solutions
in daily life

Planning and
development
3. Processes
of e-processes,
working models

2. Basic
development

1. Services/
Products

Intranet,
Internet
groundwork
purpose-built

Electronic
documents
and lists
Adapted from www.done360.com

The Regional Project Area
Maternity care – births are over 99% in hospitals

.

JYVÄSKYLÄ

Map of Finland









85.585 km2
>1.000 lakes
681.000 inhabitants
One university hospital
Four central hospitals (five 10/03)
53 health centres
App. 20 000 social and health
care workers

NORMAL MATERNITY CARE SERVICE CHAIN
IN FINLAND (REGULAR PREGNANCY)

FIRST CONTACT
MOTHER/CHILD UNIT

PHN = public
health nurse

PHN/ FIRST
EXAMINATION
8-10 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
10-12 W

LABORATORY

PRE-NATAL
ULTRASOUND

HEALTH CENTRE
BEFORE 12 W
BASIC
INFORMATION
FORM
maternity clinic

CERTIFICATE
M/C CLINIC
NIB (KELA)

PHN/
EXAMINATION
16-18 W

SPECIAL CARE MATERNITY CLINIC
12-14 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
22-24 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
26-28 W
NIB =
National
Insurance
Bureau

PHN/
EXAMINATION
30-32 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
32-34 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
34-36 W

PAGE
2

BIRTH TRAINING COURSE,
(CONSISTS OF 8-10 MEETINGS)

PAGE
2

PHN/ EXAMINATION
37 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
38-40 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
40-42 W

DELIVERY ROOM

POST NATAL WARD

PHN/ (baby) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN/ (mother) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN / Mother´s Medical health check

DOCTOR/ Mother´s
Medical health check8-9 W after delivery

CHILD CLINIC

FAMILY
PLANNING

Basis of the Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net
The Long History of the (Finnish) Maternity Care Services (since 1940´s)
Development of Information Society (1990´s)
Idea of Maternity Services on the Internet (1997)
Basis of
Development
Work
•Research
• Multidisciplinary
co-operation
• Piloting
• Feedback /
Evaluation

Results
• Working
models for
experts and
families
•Networking
• Data/info
contents
• Software
technology

E- Service

Participants
• Health care
professionals
• Families
• Colleges
• Software
technology
experts
• Multimedia
experts

Expert teams





Central team
Social and Health care experts´ team
Technology experts´ team
Education experts´ team (Savonia was co-ordinator
of the MIC project)

• Families

MIC
•is supplementary to today's mother-child clinic services

•helps the user in decision making
•provides information that has been approved by the special
editorial board

•enables the use of the services independently of time and
place (Internet connection needed)
•can be used in many countries (adjustments will be made
according to the culture)

The MIC: options
•Entrance

•News
•Discussion groups (with peers)
•Questions and answers (confidential)
•Search (information)
•Feedback
•Links to other useful Internet sites

Search/ information or data bank











Pregnancy
Delivery
Post- natal period
Infant
Parent's relationship
Parenthood
Personal hygiene, appearance
Nutrition and exercise
Drugs, alcohol and smoking
Services to the public

MIC has 135 articles, two videos, 2 animations, 2 interactive photos, 86
photos and 53 drawings checked and approved by editorial board.

MIC / contents
Example: Drawings

Qualified information / content management
• Information is reliable, and easy to understand
• The quantity of information is adequate
• The required information is easy to find
• The content creation and management are carried on as
part of current (clinical) work processes
• The technical solutions guarantee e.g. data integrity,
authentication, security and data availability

Evaluation - family
• Modern way of having services
• No queuing in phone
• Discussions groups for families (anonymously), where
professionals appear by their names
• Service in your own language
• Information/contents is versatile, extensive, based on
expertise / reliable

Evaluation – maternity care professionals
•Extra visits were not needed during pilot phase
•The Net Clinic could be used as a manual or in
familiarising the new worker
•Counselling and giving advice was harmonised
•Families got deeper information and advice based
on their needs more effectively
•Networking and co-operation was more efficient
•Written answers took some time to get used to

The Project of the Year 2000
•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be expanded
into new application fields like public administration and so called soft
values
•Net Clinic is based on wide and versatile co-operation and on
application of new Internet technology
•Net Clinic proves that it is possible to develop new innovations also
outside big so called growing centres
•Net Clinic proves that women can work successfully in management
or other key positions which have conventionally been classified as
men´s work
(The evaluation criteria of the The Finnish Project Management Association)

Diploma of the Excellent Work
•Given by the Provincial State Office of Eastern Finland 4.9.2001

•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be
expanded into new application fields like public administration in
national level and in future international level

O

O
O

o
x

O

O MIC has been used/is in use
• Kuopio
• Helsinki
• North-East of Finland (Kuusamo,
Taivalkoski, Posio and Salla)
• Rovaniemi and its neighbourhood
Rovaniemi rural commune and
Ranua)

An eMaternal Health Care Data System

STORK

The Stork is
• secured electronic health data system (EHS) made for
professional use
• all the information about pregnancy, delivery and puerperium
is collected in the same system (so called seamless chain
between primary health care and special care)
• mutual data contents to maternal units involved

Data security
• The application
• built on special security system used by the hospital
• Access rights depends on task or position
• those who are involved maternal service chain
• Preconditions for usage
• mother´s permission to collect and transfer her data
(each organisation needs its own permission)
• agreement between different organisations
• every user has personal user identifier, all usage is
logged and saved, even edited/deleted parts will be
recorded permanently

Storks gives information
• Pregnancy follow up, continuous documentation;
appointments with public health nurses, midwifes, doctors
• Graphics; growth of the uterus, hypertension, weight,
partogram
• Internal- and external examinations
• Medication during pregnancy, delivery, puerperium
• Diagnosis of the foetus; e.g ultrasound, lab tests
• Lifestyle of the family (nutrition, exercise, smoking, drugs
etc)
• Sick leaves of the mother
• Special area for the nurse documentation

Stork gives
• The new-born baby his/her social security number
• Basic information from earlier pregnancies
• Statistics e.g.
– for the Stakes (the National Research and Development Centre for
Welfare and Health
– the nursing research

• Forms and applications

The first page of the Stork

Forms

Name, birth date, age, weeks,

Notify: the lamp sign, B-gluc high (red color)
Lab, X-ray

Mother->,
Child ->

Social worker documentation
Both the public health nurse in primary care and
the midwife in special care fulfil this area. The written
data is available in real time (mother´s permission needed)

From Netinformation – Portal
to Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID)

My personal computer

Aims of the Work
• To elaborate the co-operation of different
organisations
• To develop a consistent way to manage information
in Social Work and Health Care organisations
• To develop the ”Dynamic Integrated Desktop” (DID)
for Social Work and Health Care professionals
• To offer further education of Social Work and Health
Care professionals
• To determine the reliable security standards

Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID )
-a consistent way to manage information in Health Care organisations

Partnership information

Single sign-on





Professional information


On line (on special fields)



Education
•course

Contacts
Office times
Information of services

Professional web services



PubMed, Cinahl
Laws and orders

enrolment, forms

Web services for public
Integration of IT software



Contact information



”You get what you need”



Problem solving information



EHR, RIS/PACS (digital imaging), biosignals etc.



Education



High level of security

View of the DID page

Teams
Discussion
Forums

Document
management
Links
Courses

Patients 26.8.2002

Mail (3 new messages)

Time

Name

Social security number

8.00

Patrick Patient

12345679573

8.20

Donald Duck

89101128758

8.40

Clark Kent

98459734658

Maintenance
Magazines &
Periodicals

August 2002

News
Databases
Patients
Help

Personified, user oriented
Networked, user organization oriented

Information system,
task and position in the organization

Tutuks service

• Tutuks, a virtual visit to a maternity ward
• Utilised work done by MIC
• http://www.synnytystutuksi.fi/tutukspalvelu.
html

Challenges for the Future
•Family/citizen participation challenges professionals
•e-working environment (models, processes)
•eEducation and training
• “E-gap” between generations
•Usability of ICT-solutions
•Integration of ICT-solutions

New project
• Looking for partner organisations, next
Tempus Call or other suitable call

New project - Tree of problems
NO KNOWLEDGE
TRANSFER

NO NETWORKING

Lack of resources in
distance teaching in cultural maternity care

Unfamiliarity with new
teaching ways

Former education

Non-transferability of
tacit knowledge

Lack of ICT skills

Figure: Project - problem tree

Retiring
(growing)

Incapability to
respond future needs

Mobility (teachers
and students)

Lack of cooperation between
Euro-Asian HIEs

Need to study regardless
time and space

Tree of objectives
FLEXIBLE
NETWORKING

CULTURAL MATERNITY CARE
AND DISTANCE TEACHING

ENHANCING READINESS FOR
DISTANCE TEACHING IN CULTURAL
MATERNITY AND INFANT CARE

Definition of resources
needed

Testing of
ICT skills

Designing and evaluating
Networking and
Distance teaching model

Selection of Learning Evaluation of
Environment(s)
readiness

MAIN AIM

Reports, workshops
(Implementation)

Accepted
planns

EFFECT

Dissemination of
Project results

Evaluation of model
Implementation

OUTCOME

Thank you for your
attention

Contact info:
[email protected]


Slide 19

eHealth
Case- Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net (MIC)

Speaker:

Pirkko Kouri,
Pricipal Lecturer in Healthcare Technology,
PhD, PHN, RN

Guests:

Tempus delegation

Time:

21 Feb 2007

Ultimate goals of Finnish health care
- Cost-effectiveness
- Patient/client & population centeredness
- Just distribution of the services (equity)
= use based on need

*********************************************************
MSAH’s own information society policy
-

Wide use of information and communication technology
Utilisation of internet penetration

Development levels – definition and projectwork
e.g. Area of eHealth / eWelfare
Levels of development

Development work

EU / National

Laws, standards, terminology, classifications, forms, data definitions

Regional

Aggreements, data transmissions, databases, archives, cooperation

Local

Working culture, division of labour, cooperation

Individual

Personal needs, user interface, way of working, teamwork

Milestones - Finnish health care system

2002
2007

National Project on Safeguarding the Future of Health Care Services
National law EHR

eHealth, National Project on Safeguarding the Future
of Health Care Services – main goals
•Ensure access to treatment
•Enhance co-ordination and co-operation in specialized health care
•Enhance regional co-ordination in primary health care
•Emphasize preventive work, one’s own responsibility for one’s own health and the
significance of primary health care
• Implementation - divided into 40 sub-projects
•Preparing the ground for the nationwide electronic patient records, which will be
introduced in 2007 (law will be launched Spring 2007)

Evolution of e-processes
- strategy and plan
- education
- culture, values
- publicity in control

5. Adaptation
of work
processes

4. Integration

Use
of e-Health
and e-Social
processes

Integration
of IT solutions
in daily life

Planning and
development
3. Processes
of e-processes,
working models

2. Basic
development

1. Services/
Products

Intranet,
Internet
groundwork
purpose-built

Electronic
documents
and lists
Adapted from www.done360.com

The Regional Project Area
Maternity care – births are over 99% in hospitals

.

JYVÄSKYLÄ

Map of Finland









85.585 km2
>1.000 lakes
681.000 inhabitants
One university hospital
Four central hospitals (five 10/03)
53 health centres
App. 20 000 social and health
care workers

NORMAL MATERNITY CARE SERVICE CHAIN
IN FINLAND (REGULAR PREGNANCY)

FIRST CONTACT
MOTHER/CHILD UNIT

PHN = public
health nurse

PHN/ FIRST
EXAMINATION
8-10 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
10-12 W

LABORATORY

PRE-NATAL
ULTRASOUND

HEALTH CENTRE
BEFORE 12 W
BASIC
INFORMATION
FORM
maternity clinic

CERTIFICATE
M/C CLINIC
NIB (KELA)

PHN/
EXAMINATION
16-18 W

SPECIAL CARE MATERNITY CLINIC
12-14 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
22-24 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
26-28 W
NIB =
National
Insurance
Bureau

PHN/
EXAMINATION
30-32 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
32-34 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
34-36 W

PAGE
2

BIRTH TRAINING COURSE,
(CONSISTS OF 8-10 MEETINGS)

PAGE
2

PHN/ EXAMINATION
37 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
38-40 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
40-42 W

DELIVERY ROOM

POST NATAL WARD

PHN/ (baby) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN/ (mother) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN / Mother´s Medical health check

DOCTOR/ Mother´s
Medical health check8-9 W after delivery

CHILD CLINIC

FAMILY
PLANNING

Basis of the Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net
The Long History of the (Finnish) Maternity Care Services (since 1940´s)
Development of Information Society (1990´s)
Idea of Maternity Services on the Internet (1997)
Basis of
Development
Work
•Research
• Multidisciplinary
co-operation
• Piloting
• Feedback /
Evaluation

Results
• Working
models for
experts and
families
•Networking
• Data/info
contents
• Software
technology

E- Service

Participants
• Health care
professionals
• Families
• Colleges
• Software
technology
experts
• Multimedia
experts

Expert teams





Central team
Social and Health care experts´ team
Technology experts´ team
Education experts´ team (Savonia was co-ordinator
of the MIC project)

• Families

MIC
•is supplementary to today's mother-child clinic services

•helps the user in decision making
•provides information that has been approved by the special
editorial board

•enables the use of the services independently of time and
place (Internet connection needed)
•can be used in many countries (adjustments will be made
according to the culture)

The MIC: options
•Entrance

•News
•Discussion groups (with peers)
•Questions and answers (confidential)
•Search (information)
•Feedback
•Links to other useful Internet sites

Search/ information or data bank











Pregnancy
Delivery
Post- natal period
Infant
Parent's relationship
Parenthood
Personal hygiene, appearance
Nutrition and exercise
Drugs, alcohol and smoking
Services to the public

MIC has 135 articles, two videos, 2 animations, 2 interactive photos, 86
photos and 53 drawings checked and approved by editorial board.

MIC / contents
Example: Drawings

Qualified information / content management
• Information is reliable, and easy to understand
• The quantity of information is adequate
• The required information is easy to find
• The content creation and management are carried on as
part of current (clinical) work processes
• The technical solutions guarantee e.g. data integrity,
authentication, security and data availability

Evaluation - family
• Modern way of having services
• No queuing in phone
• Discussions groups for families (anonymously), where
professionals appear by their names
• Service in your own language
• Information/contents is versatile, extensive, based on
expertise / reliable

Evaluation – maternity care professionals
•Extra visits were not needed during pilot phase
•The Net Clinic could be used as a manual or in
familiarising the new worker
•Counselling and giving advice was harmonised
•Families got deeper information and advice based
on their needs more effectively
•Networking and co-operation was more efficient
•Written answers took some time to get used to

The Project of the Year 2000
•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be expanded
into new application fields like public administration and so called soft
values
•Net Clinic is based on wide and versatile co-operation and on
application of new Internet technology
•Net Clinic proves that it is possible to develop new innovations also
outside big so called growing centres
•Net Clinic proves that women can work successfully in management
or other key positions which have conventionally been classified as
men´s work
(The evaluation criteria of the The Finnish Project Management Association)

Diploma of the Excellent Work
•Given by the Provincial State Office of Eastern Finland 4.9.2001

•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be
expanded into new application fields like public administration in
national level and in future international level

O

O
O

o
x

O

O MIC has been used/is in use
• Kuopio
• Helsinki
• North-East of Finland (Kuusamo,
Taivalkoski, Posio and Salla)
• Rovaniemi and its neighbourhood
Rovaniemi rural commune and
Ranua)

An eMaternal Health Care Data System

STORK

The Stork is
• secured electronic health data system (EHS) made for
professional use
• all the information about pregnancy, delivery and puerperium
is collected in the same system (so called seamless chain
between primary health care and special care)
• mutual data contents to maternal units involved

Data security
• The application
• built on special security system used by the hospital
• Access rights depends on task or position
• those who are involved maternal service chain
• Preconditions for usage
• mother´s permission to collect and transfer her data
(each organisation needs its own permission)
• agreement between different organisations
• every user has personal user identifier, all usage is
logged and saved, even edited/deleted parts will be
recorded permanently

Storks gives information
• Pregnancy follow up, continuous documentation;
appointments with public health nurses, midwifes, doctors
• Graphics; growth of the uterus, hypertension, weight,
partogram
• Internal- and external examinations
• Medication during pregnancy, delivery, puerperium
• Diagnosis of the foetus; e.g ultrasound, lab tests
• Lifestyle of the family (nutrition, exercise, smoking, drugs
etc)
• Sick leaves of the mother
• Special area for the nurse documentation

Stork gives
• The new-born baby his/her social security number
• Basic information from earlier pregnancies
• Statistics e.g.
– for the Stakes (the National Research and Development Centre for
Welfare and Health
– the nursing research

• Forms and applications

The first page of the Stork

Forms

Name, birth date, age, weeks,

Notify: the lamp sign, B-gluc high (red color)
Lab, X-ray

Mother->,
Child ->

Social worker documentation
Both the public health nurse in primary care and
the midwife in special care fulfil this area. The written
data is available in real time (mother´s permission needed)

From Netinformation – Portal
to Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID)

My personal computer

Aims of the Work
• To elaborate the co-operation of different
organisations
• To develop a consistent way to manage information
in Social Work and Health Care organisations
• To develop the ”Dynamic Integrated Desktop” (DID)
for Social Work and Health Care professionals
• To offer further education of Social Work and Health
Care professionals
• To determine the reliable security standards

Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID )
-a consistent way to manage information in Health Care organisations

Partnership information

Single sign-on





Professional information


On line (on special fields)



Education
•course

Contacts
Office times
Information of services

Professional web services



PubMed, Cinahl
Laws and orders

enrolment, forms

Web services for public
Integration of IT software



Contact information



”You get what you need”



Problem solving information



EHR, RIS/PACS (digital imaging), biosignals etc.



Education



High level of security

View of the DID page

Teams
Discussion
Forums

Document
management
Links
Courses

Patients 26.8.2002

Mail (3 new messages)

Time

Name

Social security number

8.00

Patrick Patient

12345679573

8.20

Donald Duck

89101128758

8.40

Clark Kent

98459734658

Maintenance
Magazines &
Periodicals

August 2002

News
Databases
Patients
Help

Personified, user oriented
Networked, user organization oriented

Information system,
task and position in the organization

Tutuks service

• Tutuks, a virtual visit to a maternity ward
• Utilised work done by MIC
• http://www.synnytystutuksi.fi/tutukspalvelu.
html

Challenges for the Future
•Family/citizen participation challenges professionals
•e-working environment (models, processes)
•eEducation and training
• “E-gap” between generations
•Usability of ICT-solutions
•Integration of ICT-solutions

New project
• Looking for partner organisations, next
Tempus Call or other suitable call

New project - Tree of problems
NO KNOWLEDGE
TRANSFER

NO NETWORKING

Lack of resources in
distance teaching in cultural maternity care

Unfamiliarity with new
teaching ways

Former education

Non-transferability of
tacit knowledge

Lack of ICT skills

Figure: Project - problem tree

Retiring
(growing)

Incapability to
respond future needs

Mobility (teachers
and students)

Lack of cooperation between
Euro-Asian HIEs

Need to study regardless
time and space

Tree of objectives
FLEXIBLE
NETWORKING

CULTURAL MATERNITY CARE
AND DISTANCE TEACHING

ENHANCING READINESS FOR
DISTANCE TEACHING IN CULTURAL
MATERNITY AND INFANT CARE

Definition of resources
needed

Testing of
ICT skills

Designing and evaluating
Networking and
Distance teaching model

Selection of Learning Evaluation of
Environment(s)
readiness

MAIN AIM

Reports, workshops
(Implementation)

Accepted
planns

EFFECT

Dissemination of
Project results

Evaluation of model
Implementation

OUTCOME

Thank you for your
attention

Contact info:
[email protected]


Slide 20

eHealth
Case- Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net (MIC)

Speaker:

Pirkko Kouri,
Pricipal Lecturer in Healthcare Technology,
PhD, PHN, RN

Guests:

Tempus delegation

Time:

21 Feb 2007

Ultimate goals of Finnish health care
- Cost-effectiveness
- Patient/client & population centeredness
- Just distribution of the services (equity)
= use based on need

*********************************************************
MSAH’s own information society policy
-

Wide use of information and communication technology
Utilisation of internet penetration

Development levels – definition and projectwork
e.g. Area of eHealth / eWelfare
Levels of development

Development work

EU / National

Laws, standards, terminology, classifications, forms, data definitions

Regional

Aggreements, data transmissions, databases, archives, cooperation

Local

Working culture, division of labour, cooperation

Individual

Personal needs, user interface, way of working, teamwork

Milestones - Finnish health care system

2002
2007

National Project on Safeguarding the Future of Health Care Services
National law EHR

eHealth, National Project on Safeguarding the Future
of Health Care Services – main goals
•Ensure access to treatment
•Enhance co-ordination and co-operation in specialized health care
•Enhance regional co-ordination in primary health care
•Emphasize preventive work, one’s own responsibility for one’s own health and the
significance of primary health care
• Implementation - divided into 40 sub-projects
•Preparing the ground for the nationwide electronic patient records, which will be
introduced in 2007 (law will be launched Spring 2007)

Evolution of e-processes
- strategy and plan
- education
- culture, values
- publicity in control

5. Adaptation
of work
processes

4. Integration

Use
of e-Health
and e-Social
processes

Integration
of IT solutions
in daily life

Planning and
development
3. Processes
of e-processes,
working models

2. Basic
development

1. Services/
Products

Intranet,
Internet
groundwork
purpose-built

Electronic
documents
and lists
Adapted from www.done360.com

The Regional Project Area
Maternity care – births are over 99% in hospitals

.

JYVÄSKYLÄ

Map of Finland









85.585 km2
>1.000 lakes
681.000 inhabitants
One university hospital
Four central hospitals (five 10/03)
53 health centres
App. 20 000 social and health
care workers

NORMAL MATERNITY CARE SERVICE CHAIN
IN FINLAND (REGULAR PREGNANCY)

FIRST CONTACT
MOTHER/CHILD UNIT

PHN = public
health nurse

PHN/ FIRST
EXAMINATION
8-10 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
10-12 W

LABORATORY

PRE-NATAL
ULTRASOUND

HEALTH CENTRE
BEFORE 12 W
BASIC
INFORMATION
FORM
maternity clinic

CERTIFICATE
M/C CLINIC
NIB (KELA)

PHN/
EXAMINATION
16-18 W

SPECIAL CARE MATERNITY CLINIC
12-14 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
22-24 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
26-28 W
NIB =
National
Insurance
Bureau

PHN/
EXAMINATION
30-32 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
32-34 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
34-36 W

PAGE
2

BIRTH TRAINING COURSE,
(CONSISTS OF 8-10 MEETINGS)

PAGE
2

PHN/ EXAMINATION
37 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
38-40 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
40-42 W

DELIVERY ROOM

POST NATAL WARD

PHN/ (baby) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN/ (mother) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN / Mother´s Medical health check

DOCTOR/ Mother´s
Medical health check8-9 W after delivery

CHILD CLINIC

FAMILY
PLANNING

Basis of the Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net
The Long History of the (Finnish) Maternity Care Services (since 1940´s)
Development of Information Society (1990´s)
Idea of Maternity Services on the Internet (1997)
Basis of
Development
Work
•Research
• Multidisciplinary
co-operation
• Piloting
• Feedback /
Evaluation

Results
• Working
models for
experts and
families
•Networking
• Data/info
contents
• Software
technology

E- Service

Participants
• Health care
professionals
• Families
• Colleges
• Software
technology
experts
• Multimedia
experts

Expert teams





Central team
Social and Health care experts´ team
Technology experts´ team
Education experts´ team (Savonia was co-ordinator
of the MIC project)

• Families

MIC
•is supplementary to today's mother-child clinic services

•helps the user in decision making
•provides information that has been approved by the special
editorial board

•enables the use of the services independently of time and
place (Internet connection needed)
•can be used in many countries (adjustments will be made
according to the culture)

The MIC: options
•Entrance

•News
•Discussion groups (with peers)
•Questions and answers (confidential)
•Search (information)
•Feedback
•Links to other useful Internet sites

Search/ information or data bank











Pregnancy
Delivery
Post- natal period
Infant
Parent's relationship
Parenthood
Personal hygiene, appearance
Nutrition and exercise
Drugs, alcohol and smoking
Services to the public

MIC has 135 articles, two videos, 2 animations, 2 interactive photos, 86
photos and 53 drawings checked and approved by editorial board.

MIC / contents
Example: Drawings

Qualified information / content management
• Information is reliable, and easy to understand
• The quantity of information is adequate
• The required information is easy to find
• The content creation and management are carried on as
part of current (clinical) work processes
• The technical solutions guarantee e.g. data integrity,
authentication, security and data availability

Evaluation - family
• Modern way of having services
• No queuing in phone
• Discussions groups for families (anonymously), where
professionals appear by their names
• Service in your own language
• Information/contents is versatile, extensive, based on
expertise / reliable

Evaluation – maternity care professionals
•Extra visits were not needed during pilot phase
•The Net Clinic could be used as a manual or in
familiarising the new worker
•Counselling and giving advice was harmonised
•Families got deeper information and advice based
on their needs more effectively
•Networking and co-operation was more efficient
•Written answers took some time to get used to

The Project of the Year 2000
•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be expanded
into new application fields like public administration and so called soft
values
•Net Clinic is based on wide and versatile co-operation and on
application of new Internet technology
•Net Clinic proves that it is possible to develop new innovations also
outside big so called growing centres
•Net Clinic proves that women can work successfully in management
or other key positions which have conventionally been classified as
men´s work
(The evaluation criteria of the The Finnish Project Management Association)

Diploma of the Excellent Work
•Given by the Provincial State Office of Eastern Finland 4.9.2001

•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be
expanded into new application fields like public administration in
national level and in future international level

O

O
O

o
x

O

O MIC has been used/is in use
• Kuopio
• Helsinki
• North-East of Finland (Kuusamo,
Taivalkoski, Posio and Salla)
• Rovaniemi and its neighbourhood
Rovaniemi rural commune and
Ranua)

An eMaternal Health Care Data System

STORK

The Stork is
• secured electronic health data system (EHS) made for
professional use
• all the information about pregnancy, delivery and puerperium
is collected in the same system (so called seamless chain
between primary health care and special care)
• mutual data contents to maternal units involved

Data security
• The application
• built on special security system used by the hospital
• Access rights depends on task or position
• those who are involved maternal service chain
• Preconditions for usage
• mother´s permission to collect and transfer her data
(each organisation needs its own permission)
• agreement between different organisations
• every user has personal user identifier, all usage is
logged and saved, even edited/deleted parts will be
recorded permanently

Storks gives information
• Pregnancy follow up, continuous documentation;
appointments with public health nurses, midwifes, doctors
• Graphics; growth of the uterus, hypertension, weight,
partogram
• Internal- and external examinations
• Medication during pregnancy, delivery, puerperium
• Diagnosis of the foetus; e.g ultrasound, lab tests
• Lifestyle of the family (nutrition, exercise, smoking, drugs
etc)
• Sick leaves of the mother
• Special area for the nurse documentation

Stork gives
• The new-born baby his/her social security number
• Basic information from earlier pregnancies
• Statistics e.g.
– for the Stakes (the National Research and Development Centre for
Welfare and Health
– the nursing research

• Forms and applications

The first page of the Stork

Forms

Name, birth date, age, weeks,

Notify: the lamp sign, B-gluc high (red color)
Lab, X-ray

Mother->,
Child ->

Social worker documentation
Both the public health nurse in primary care and
the midwife in special care fulfil this area. The written
data is available in real time (mother´s permission needed)

From Netinformation – Portal
to Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID)

My personal computer

Aims of the Work
• To elaborate the co-operation of different
organisations
• To develop a consistent way to manage information
in Social Work and Health Care organisations
• To develop the ”Dynamic Integrated Desktop” (DID)
for Social Work and Health Care professionals
• To offer further education of Social Work and Health
Care professionals
• To determine the reliable security standards

Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID )
-a consistent way to manage information in Health Care organisations

Partnership information

Single sign-on





Professional information


On line (on special fields)



Education
•course

Contacts
Office times
Information of services

Professional web services



PubMed, Cinahl
Laws and orders

enrolment, forms

Web services for public
Integration of IT software



Contact information



”You get what you need”



Problem solving information



EHR, RIS/PACS (digital imaging), biosignals etc.



Education



High level of security

View of the DID page

Teams
Discussion
Forums

Document
management
Links
Courses

Patients 26.8.2002

Mail (3 new messages)

Time

Name

Social security number

8.00

Patrick Patient

12345679573

8.20

Donald Duck

89101128758

8.40

Clark Kent

98459734658

Maintenance
Magazines &
Periodicals

August 2002

News
Databases
Patients
Help

Personified, user oriented
Networked, user organization oriented

Information system,
task and position in the organization

Tutuks service

• Tutuks, a virtual visit to a maternity ward
• Utilised work done by MIC
• http://www.synnytystutuksi.fi/tutukspalvelu.
html

Challenges for the Future
•Family/citizen participation challenges professionals
•e-working environment (models, processes)
•eEducation and training
• “E-gap” between generations
•Usability of ICT-solutions
•Integration of ICT-solutions

New project
• Looking for partner organisations, next
Tempus Call or other suitable call

New project - Tree of problems
NO KNOWLEDGE
TRANSFER

NO NETWORKING

Lack of resources in
distance teaching in cultural maternity care

Unfamiliarity with new
teaching ways

Former education

Non-transferability of
tacit knowledge

Lack of ICT skills

Figure: Project - problem tree

Retiring
(growing)

Incapability to
respond future needs

Mobility (teachers
and students)

Lack of cooperation between
Euro-Asian HIEs

Need to study regardless
time and space

Tree of objectives
FLEXIBLE
NETWORKING

CULTURAL MATERNITY CARE
AND DISTANCE TEACHING

ENHANCING READINESS FOR
DISTANCE TEACHING IN CULTURAL
MATERNITY AND INFANT CARE

Definition of resources
needed

Testing of
ICT skills

Designing and evaluating
Networking and
Distance teaching model

Selection of Learning Evaluation of
Environment(s)
readiness

MAIN AIM

Reports, workshops
(Implementation)

Accepted
planns

EFFECT

Dissemination of
Project results

Evaluation of model
Implementation

OUTCOME

Thank you for your
attention

Contact info:
[email protected]


Slide 21

eHealth
Case- Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net (MIC)

Speaker:

Pirkko Kouri,
Pricipal Lecturer in Healthcare Technology,
PhD, PHN, RN

Guests:

Tempus delegation

Time:

21 Feb 2007

Ultimate goals of Finnish health care
- Cost-effectiveness
- Patient/client & population centeredness
- Just distribution of the services (equity)
= use based on need

*********************************************************
MSAH’s own information society policy
-

Wide use of information and communication technology
Utilisation of internet penetration

Development levels – definition and projectwork
e.g. Area of eHealth / eWelfare
Levels of development

Development work

EU / National

Laws, standards, terminology, classifications, forms, data definitions

Regional

Aggreements, data transmissions, databases, archives, cooperation

Local

Working culture, division of labour, cooperation

Individual

Personal needs, user interface, way of working, teamwork

Milestones - Finnish health care system

2002
2007

National Project on Safeguarding the Future of Health Care Services
National law EHR

eHealth, National Project on Safeguarding the Future
of Health Care Services – main goals
•Ensure access to treatment
•Enhance co-ordination and co-operation in specialized health care
•Enhance regional co-ordination in primary health care
•Emphasize preventive work, one’s own responsibility for one’s own health and the
significance of primary health care
• Implementation - divided into 40 sub-projects
•Preparing the ground for the nationwide electronic patient records, which will be
introduced in 2007 (law will be launched Spring 2007)

Evolution of e-processes
- strategy and plan
- education
- culture, values
- publicity in control

5. Adaptation
of work
processes

4. Integration

Use
of e-Health
and e-Social
processes

Integration
of IT solutions
in daily life

Planning and
development
3. Processes
of e-processes,
working models

2. Basic
development

1. Services/
Products

Intranet,
Internet
groundwork
purpose-built

Electronic
documents
and lists
Adapted from www.done360.com

The Regional Project Area
Maternity care – births are over 99% in hospitals

.

JYVÄSKYLÄ

Map of Finland









85.585 km2
>1.000 lakes
681.000 inhabitants
One university hospital
Four central hospitals (five 10/03)
53 health centres
App. 20 000 social and health
care workers

NORMAL MATERNITY CARE SERVICE CHAIN
IN FINLAND (REGULAR PREGNANCY)

FIRST CONTACT
MOTHER/CHILD UNIT

PHN = public
health nurse

PHN/ FIRST
EXAMINATION
8-10 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
10-12 W

LABORATORY

PRE-NATAL
ULTRASOUND

HEALTH CENTRE
BEFORE 12 W
BASIC
INFORMATION
FORM
maternity clinic

CERTIFICATE
M/C CLINIC
NIB (KELA)

PHN/
EXAMINATION
16-18 W

SPECIAL CARE MATERNITY CLINIC
12-14 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
22-24 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
26-28 W
NIB =
National
Insurance
Bureau

PHN/
EXAMINATION
30-32 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
32-34 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
34-36 W

PAGE
2

BIRTH TRAINING COURSE,
(CONSISTS OF 8-10 MEETINGS)

PAGE
2

PHN/ EXAMINATION
37 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
38-40 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
40-42 W

DELIVERY ROOM

POST NATAL WARD

PHN/ (baby) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN/ (mother) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN / Mother´s Medical health check

DOCTOR/ Mother´s
Medical health check8-9 W after delivery

CHILD CLINIC

FAMILY
PLANNING

Basis of the Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net
The Long History of the (Finnish) Maternity Care Services (since 1940´s)
Development of Information Society (1990´s)
Idea of Maternity Services on the Internet (1997)
Basis of
Development
Work
•Research
• Multidisciplinary
co-operation
• Piloting
• Feedback /
Evaluation

Results
• Working
models for
experts and
families
•Networking
• Data/info
contents
• Software
technology

E- Service

Participants
• Health care
professionals
• Families
• Colleges
• Software
technology
experts
• Multimedia
experts

Expert teams





Central team
Social and Health care experts´ team
Technology experts´ team
Education experts´ team (Savonia was co-ordinator
of the MIC project)

• Families

MIC
•is supplementary to today's mother-child clinic services

•helps the user in decision making
•provides information that has been approved by the special
editorial board

•enables the use of the services independently of time and
place (Internet connection needed)
•can be used in many countries (adjustments will be made
according to the culture)

The MIC: options
•Entrance

•News
•Discussion groups (with peers)
•Questions and answers (confidential)
•Search (information)
•Feedback
•Links to other useful Internet sites

Search/ information or data bank











Pregnancy
Delivery
Post- natal period
Infant
Parent's relationship
Parenthood
Personal hygiene, appearance
Nutrition and exercise
Drugs, alcohol and smoking
Services to the public

MIC has 135 articles, two videos, 2 animations, 2 interactive photos, 86
photos and 53 drawings checked and approved by editorial board.

MIC / contents
Example: Drawings

Qualified information / content management
• Information is reliable, and easy to understand
• The quantity of information is adequate
• The required information is easy to find
• The content creation and management are carried on as
part of current (clinical) work processes
• The technical solutions guarantee e.g. data integrity,
authentication, security and data availability

Evaluation - family
• Modern way of having services
• No queuing in phone
• Discussions groups for families (anonymously), where
professionals appear by their names
• Service in your own language
• Information/contents is versatile, extensive, based on
expertise / reliable

Evaluation – maternity care professionals
•Extra visits were not needed during pilot phase
•The Net Clinic could be used as a manual or in
familiarising the new worker
•Counselling and giving advice was harmonised
•Families got deeper information and advice based
on their needs more effectively
•Networking and co-operation was more efficient
•Written answers took some time to get used to

The Project of the Year 2000
•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be expanded
into new application fields like public administration and so called soft
values
•Net Clinic is based on wide and versatile co-operation and on
application of new Internet technology
•Net Clinic proves that it is possible to develop new innovations also
outside big so called growing centres
•Net Clinic proves that women can work successfully in management
or other key positions which have conventionally been classified as
men´s work
(The evaluation criteria of the The Finnish Project Management Association)

Diploma of the Excellent Work
•Given by the Provincial State Office of Eastern Finland 4.9.2001

•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be
expanded into new application fields like public administration in
national level and in future international level

O

O
O

o
x

O

O MIC has been used/is in use
• Kuopio
• Helsinki
• North-East of Finland (Kuusamo,
Taivalkoski, Posio and Salla)
• Rovaniemi and its neighbourhood
Rovaniemi rural commune and
Ranua)

An eMaternal Health Care Data System

STORK

The Stork is
• secured electronic health data system (EHS) made for
professional use
• all the information about pregnancy, delivery and puerperium
is collected in the same system (so called seamless chain
between primary health care and special care)
• mutual data contents to maternal units involved

Data security
• The application
• built on special security system used by the hospital
• Access rights depends on task or position
• those who are involved maternal service chain
• Preconditions for usage
• mother´s permission to collect and transfer her data
(each organisation needs its own permission)
• agreement between different organisations
• every user has personal user identifier, all usage is
logged and saved, even edited/deleted parts will be
recorded permanently

Storks gives information
• Pregnancy follow up, continuous documentation;
appointments with public health nurses, midwifes, doctors
• Graphics; growth of the uterus, hypertension, weight,
partogram
• Internal- and external examinations
• Medication during pregnancy, delivery, puerperium
• Diagnosis of the foetus; e.g ultrasound, lab tests
• Lifestyle of the family (nutrition, exercise, smoking, drugs
etc)
• Sick leaves of the mother
• Special area for the nurse documentation

Stork gives
• The new-born baby his/her social security number
• Basic information from earlier pregnancies
• Statistics e.g.
– for the Stakes (the National Research and Development Centre for
Welfare and Health
– the nursing research

• Forms and applications

The first page of the Stork

Forms

Name, birth date, age, weeks,

Notify: the lamp sign, B-gluc high (red color)
Lab, X-ray

Mother->,
Child ->

Social worker documentation
Both the public health nurse in primary care and
the midwife in special care fulfil this area. The written
data is available in real time (mother´s permission needed)

From Netinformation – Portal
to Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID)

My personal computer

Aims of the Work
• To elaborate the co-operation of different
organisations
• To develop a consistent way to manage information
in Social Work and Health Care organisations
• To develop the ”Dynamic Integrated Desktop” (DID)
for Social Work and Health Care professionals
• To offer further education of Social Work and Health
Care professionals
• To determine the reliable security standards

Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID )
-a consistent way to manage information in Health Care organisations

Partnership information

Single sign-on





Professional information


On line (on special fields)



Education
•course

Contacts
Office times
Information of services

Professional web services



PubMed, Cinahl
Laws and orders

enrolment, forms

Web services for public
Integration of IT software



Contact information



”You get what you need”



Problem solving information



EHR, RIS/PACS (digital imaging), biosignals etc.



Education



High level of security

View of the DID page

Teams
Discussion
Forums

Document
management
Links
Courses

Patients 26.8.2002

Mail (3 new messages)

Time

Name

Social security number

8.00

Patrick Patient

12345679573

8.20

Donald Duck

89101128758

8.40

Clark Kent

98459734658

Maintenance
Magazines &
Periodicals

August 2002

News
Databases
Patients
Help

Personified, user oriented
Networked, user organization oriented

Information system,
task and position in the organization

Tutuks service

• Tutuks, a virtual visit to a maternity ward
• Utilised work done by MIC
• http://www.synnytystutuksi.fi/tutukspalvelu.
html

Challenges for the Future
•Family/citizen participation challenges professionals
•e-working environment (models, processes)
•eEducation and training
• “E-gap” between generations
•Usability of ICT-solutions
•Integration of ICT-solutions

New project
• Looking for partner organisations, next
Tempus Call or other suitable call

New project - Tree of problems
NO KNOWLEDGE
TRANSFER

NO NETWORKING

Lack of resources in
distance teaching in cultural maternity care

Unfamiliarity with new
teaching ways

Former education

Non-transferability of
tacit knowledge

Lack of ICT skills

Figure: Project - problem tree

Retiring
(growing)

Incapability to
respond future needs

Mobility (teachers
and students)

Lack of cooperation between
Euro-Asian HIEs

Need to study regardless
time and space

Tree of objectives
FLEXIBLE
NETWORKING

CULTURAL MATERNITY CARE
AND DISTANCE TEACHING

ENHANCING READINESS FOR
DISTANCE TEACHING IN CULTURAL
MATERNITY AND INFANT CARE

Definition of resources
needed

Testing of
ICT skills

Designing and evaluating
Networking and
Distance teaching model

Selection of Learning Evaluation of
Environment(s)
readiness

MAIN AIM

Reports, workshops
(Implementation)

Accepted
planns

EFFECT

Dissemination of
Project results

Evaluation of model
Implementation

OUTCOME

Thank you for your
attention

Contact info:
[email protected]


Slide 22

eHealth
Case- Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net (MIC)

Speaker:

Pirkko Kouri,
Pricipal Lecturer in Healthcare Technology,
PhD, PHN, RN

Guests:

Tempus delegation

Time:

21 Feb 2007

Ultimate goals of Finnish health care
- Cost-effectiveness
- Patient/client & population centeredness
- Just distribution of the services (equity)
= use based on need

*********************************************************
MSAH’s own information society policy
-

Wide use of information and communication technology
Utilisation of internet penetration

Development levels – definition and projectwork
e.g. Area of eHealth / eWelfare
Levels of development

Development work

EU / National

Laws, standards, terminology, classifications, forms, data definitions

Regional

Aggreements, data transmissions, databases, archives, cooperation

Local

Working culture, division of labour, cooperation

Individual

Personal needs, user interface, way of working, teamwork

Milestones - Finnish health care system

2002
2007

National Project on Safeguarding the Future of Health Care Services
National law EHR

eHealth, National Project on Safeguarding the Future
of Health Care Services – main goals
•Ensure access to treatment
•Enhance co-ordination and co-operation in specialized health care
•Enhance regional co-ordination in primary health care
•Emphasize preventive work, one’s own responsibility for one’s own health and the
significance of primary health care
• Implementation - divided into 40 sub-projects
•Preparing the ground for the nationwide electronic patient records, which will be
introduced in 2007 (law will be launched Spring 2007)

Evolution of e-processes
- strategy and plan
- education
- culture, values
- publicity in control

5. Adaptation
of work
processes

4. Integration

Use
of e-Health
and e-Social
processes

Integration
of IT solutions
in daily life

Planning and
development
3. Processes
of e-processes,
working models

2. Basic
development

1. Services/
Products

Intranet,
Internet
groundwork
purpose-built

Electronic
documents
and lists
Adapted from www.done360.com

The Regional Project Area
Maternity care – births are over 99% in hospitals

.

JYVÄSKYLÄ

Map of Finland









85.585 km2
>1.000 lakes
681.000 inhabitants
One university hospital
Four central hospitals (five 10/03)
53 health centres
App. 20 000 social and health
care workers

NORMAL MATERNITY CARE SERVICE CHAIN
IN FINLAND (REGULAR PREGNANCY)

FIRST CONTACT
MOTHER/CHILD UNIT

PHN = public
health nurse

PHN/ FIRST
EXAMINATION
8-10 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
10-12 W

LABORATORY

PRE-NATAL
ULTRASOUND

HEALTH CENTRE
BEFORE 12 W
BASIC
INFORMATION
FORM
maternity clinic

CERTIFICATE
M/C CLINIC
NIB (KELA)

PHN/
EXAMINATION
16-18 W

SPECIAL CARE MATERNITY CLINIC
12-14 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
22-24 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
26-28 W
NIB =
National
Insurance
Bureau

PHN/
EXAMINATION
30-32 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
32-34 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
34-36 W

PAGE
2

BIRTH TRAINING COURSE,
(CONSISTS OF 8-10 MEETINGS)

PAGE
2

PHN/ EXAMINATION
37 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
38-40 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
40-42 W

DELIVERY ROOM

POST NATAL WARD

PHN/ (baby) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN/ (mother) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN / Mother´s Medical health check

DOCTOR/ Mother´s
Medical health check8-9 W after delivery

CHILD CLINIC

FAMILY
PLANNING

Basis of the Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net
The Long History of the (Finnish) Maternity Care Services (since 1940´s)
Development of Information Society (1990´s)
Idea of Maternity Services on the Internet (1997)
Basis of
Development
Work
•Research
• Multidisciplinary
co-operation
• Piloting
• Feedback /
Evaluation

Results
• Working
models for
experts and
families
•Networking
• Data/info
contents
• Software
technology

E- Service

Participants
• Health care
professionals
• Families
• Colleges
• Software
technology
experts
• Multimedia
experts

Expert teams





Central team
Social and Health care experts´ team
Technology experts´ team
Education experts´ team (Savonia was co-ordinator
of the MIC project)

• Families

MIC
•is supplementary to today's mother-child clinic services

•helps the user in decision making
•provides information that has been approved by the special
editorial board

•enables the use of the services independently of time and
place (Internet connection needed)
•can be used in many countries (adjustments will be made
according to the culture)

The MIC: options
•Entrance

•News
•Discussion groups (with peers)
•Questions and answers (confidential)
•Search (information)
•Feedback
•Links to other useful Internet sites

Search/ information or data bank











Pregnancy
Delivery
Post- natal period
Infant
Parent's relationship
Parenthood
Personal hygiene, appearance
Nutrition and exercise
Drugs, alcohol and smoking
Services to the public

MIC has 135 articles, two videos, 2 animations, 2 interactive photos, 86
photos and 53 drawings checked and approved by editorial board.

MIC / contents
Example: Drawings

Qualified information / content management
• Information is reliable, and easy to understand
• The quantity of information is adequate
• The required information is easy to find
• The content creation and management are carried on as
part of current (clinical) work processes
• The technical solutions guarantee e.g. data integrity,
authentication, security and data availability

Evaluation - family
• Modern way of having services
• No queuing in phone
• Discussions groups for families (anonymously), where
professionals appear by their names
• Service in your own language
• Information/contents is versatile, extensive, based on
expertise / reliable

Evaluation – maternity care professionals
•Extra visits were not needed during pilot phase
•The Net Clinic could be used as a manual or in
familiarising the new worker
•Counselling and giving advice was harmonised
•Families got deeper information and advice based
on their needs more effectively
•Networking and co-operation was more efficient
•Written answers took some time to get used to

The Project of the Year 2000
•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be expanded
into new application fields like public administration and so called soft
values
•Net Clinic is based on wide and versatile co-operation and on
application of new Internet technology
•Net Clinic proves that it is possible to develop new innovations also
outside big so called growing centres
•Net Clinic proves that women can work successfully in management
or other key positions which have conventionally been classified as
men´s work
(The evaluation criteria of the The Finnish Project Management Association)

Diploma of the Excellent Work
•Given by the Provincial State Office of Eastern Finland 4.9.2001

•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be
expanded into new application fields like public administration in
national level and in future international level

O

O
O

o
x

O

O MIC has been used/is in use
• Kuopio
• Helsinki
• North-East of Finland (Kuusamo,
Taivalkoski, Posio and Salla)
• Rovaniemi and its neighbourhood
Rovaniemi rural commune and
Ranua)

An eMaternal Health Care Data System

STORK

The Stork is
• secured electronic health data system (EHS) made for
professional use
• all the information about pregnancy, delivery and puerperium
is collected in the same system (so called seamless chain
between primary health care and special care)
• mutual data contents to maternal units involved

Data security
• The application
• built on special security system used by the hospital
• Access rights depends on task or position
• those who are involved maternal service chain
• Preconditions for usage
• mother´s permission to collect and transfer her data
(each organisation needs its own permission)
• agreement between different organisations
• every user has personal user identifier, all usage is
logged and saved, even edited/deleted parts will be
recorded permanently

Storks gives information
• Pregnancy follow up, continuous documentation;
appointments with public health nurses, midwifes, doctors
• Graphics; growth of the uterus, hypertension, weight,
partogram
• Internal- and external examinations
• Medication during pregnancy, delivery, puerperium
• Diagnosis of the foetus; e.g ultrasound, lab tests
• Lifestyle of the family (nutrition, exercise, smoking, drugs
etc)
• Sick leaves of the mother
• Special area for the nurse documentation

Stork gives
• The new-born baby his/her social security number
• Basic information from earlier pregnancies
• Statistics e.g.
– for the Stakes (the National Research and Development Centre for
Welfare and Health
– the nursing research

• Forms and applications

The first page of the Stork

Forms

Name, birth date, age, weeks,

Notify: the lamp sign, B-gluc high (red color)
Lab, X-ray

Mother->,
Child ->

Social worker documentation
Both the public health nurse in primary care and
the midwife in special care fulfil this area. The written
data is available in real time (mother´s permission needed)

From Netinformation – Portal
to Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID)

My personal computer

Aims of the Work
• To elaborate the co-operation of different
organisations
• To develop a consistent way to manage information
in Social Work and Health Care organisations
• To develop the ”Dynamic Integrated Desktop” (DID)
for Social Work and Health Care professionals
• To offer further education of Social Work and Health
Care professionals
• To determine the reliable security standards

Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID )
-a consistent way to manage information in Health Care organisations

Partnership information

Single sign-on





Professional information


On line (on special fields)



Education
•course

Contacts
Office times
Information of services

Professional web services



PubMed, Cinahl
Laws and orders

enrolment, forms

Web services for public
Integration of IT software



Contact information



”You get what you need”



Problem solving information



EHR, RIS/PACS (digital imaging), biosignals etc.



Education



High level of security

View of the DID page

Teams
Discussion
Forums

Document
management
Links
Courses

Patients 26.8.2002

Mail (3 new messages)

Time

Name

Social security number

8.00

Patrick Patient

12345679573

8.20

Donald Duck

89101128758

8.40

Clark Kent

98459734658

Maintenance
Magazines &
Periodicals

August 2002

News
Databases
Patients
Help

Personified, user oriented
Networked, user organization oriented

Information system,
task and position in the organization

Tutuks service

• Tutuks, a virtual visit to a maternity ward
• Utilised work done by MIC
• http://www.synnytystutuksi.fi/tutukspalvelu.
html

Challenges for the Future
•Family/citizen participation challenges professionals
•e-working environment (models, processes)
•eEducation and training
• “E-gap” between generations
•Usability of ICT-solutions
•Integration of ICT-solutions

New project
• Looking for partner organisations, next
Tempus Call or other suitable call

New project - Tree of problems
NO KNOWLEDGE
TRANSFER

NO NETWORKING

Lack of resources in
distance teaching in cultural maternity care

Unfamiliarity with new
teaching ways

Former education

Non-transferability of
tacit knowledge

Lack of ICT skills

Figure: Project - problem tree

Retiring
(growing)

Incapability to
respond future needs

Mobility (teachers
and students)

Lack of cooperation between
Euro-Asian HIEs

Need to study regardless
time and space

Tree of objectives
FLEXIBLE
NETWORKING

CULTURAL MATERNITY CARE
AND DISTANCE TEACHING

ENHANCING READINESS FOR
DISTANCE TEACHING IN CULTURAL
MATERNITY AND INFANT CARE

Definition of resources
needed

Testing of
ICT skills

Designing and evaluating
Networking and
Distance teaching model

Selection of Learning Evaluation of
Environment(s)
readiness

MAIN AIM

Reports, workshops
(Implementation)

Accepted
planns

EFFECT

Dissemination of
Project results

Evaluation of model
Implementation

OUTCOME

Thank you for your
attention

Contact info:
[email protected]


Slide 23

eHealth
Case- Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net (MIC)

Speaker:

Pirkko Kouri,
Pricipal Lecturer in Healthcare Technology,
PhD, PHN, RN

Guests:

Tempus delegation

Time:

21 Feb 2007

Ultimate goals of Finnish health care
- Cost-effectiveness
- Patient/client & population centeredness
- Just distribution of the services (equity)
= use based on need

*********************************************************
MSAH’s own information society policy
-

Wide use of information and communication technology
Utilisation of internet penetration

Development levels – definition and projectwork
e.g. Area of eHealth / eWelfare
Levels of development

Development work

EU / National

Laws, standards, terminology, classifications, forms, data definitions

Regional

Aggreements, data transmissions, databases, archives, cooperation

Local

Working culture, division of labour, cooperation

Individual

Personal needs, user interface, way of working, teamwork

Milestones - Finnish health care system

2002
2007

National Project on Safeguarding the Future of Health Care Services
National law EHR

eHealth, National Project on Safeguarding the Future
of Health Care Services – main goals
•Ensure access to treatment
•Enhance co-ordination and co-operation in specialized health care
•Enhance regional co-ordination in primary health care
•Emphasize preventive work, one’s own responsibility for one’s own health and the
significance of primary health care
• Implementation - divided into 40 sub-projects
•Preparing the ground for the nationwide electronic patient records, which will be
introduced in 2007 (law will be launched Spring 2007)

Evolution of e-processes
- strategy and plan
- education
- culture, values
- publicity in control

5. Adaptation
of work
processes

4. Integration

Use
of e-Health
and e-Social
processes

Integration
of IT solutions
in daily life

Planning and
development
3. Processes
of e-processes,
working models

2. Basic
development

1. Services/
Products

Intranet,
Internet
groundwork
purpose-built

Electronic
documents
and lists
Adapted from www.done360.com

The Regional Project Area
Maternity care – births are over 99% in hospitals

.

JYVÄSKYLÄ

Map of Finland









85.585 km2
>1.000 lakes
681.000 inhabitants
One university hospital
Four central hospitals (five 10/03)
53 health centres
App. 20 000 social and health
care workers

NORMAL MATERNITY CARE SERVICE CHAIN
IN FINLAND (REGULAR PREGNANCY)

FIRST CONTACT
MOTHER/CHILD UNIT

PHN = public
health nurse

PHN/ FIRST
EXAMINATION
8-10 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
10-12 W

LABORATORY

PRE-NATAL
ULTRASOUND

HEALTH CENTRE
BEFORE 12 W
BASIC
INFORMATION
FORM
maternity clinic

CERTIFICATE
M/C CLINIC
NIB (KELA)

PHN/
EXAMINATION
16-18 W

SPECIAL CARE MATERNITY CLINIC
12-14 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
22-24 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
26-28 W
NIB =
National
Insurance
Bureau

PHN/
EXAMINATION
30-32 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
32-34 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
34-36 W

PAGE
2

BIRTH TRAINING COURSE,
(CONSISTS OF 8-10 MEETINGS)

PAGE
2

PHN/ EXAMINATION
37 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
38-40 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
40-42 W

DELIVERY ROOM

POST NATAL WARD

PHN/ (baby) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN/ (mother) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN / Mother´s Medical health check

DOCTOR/ Mother´s
Medical health check8-9 W after delivery

CHILD CLINIC

FAMILY
PLANNING

Basis of the Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net
The Long History of the (Finnish) Maternity Care Services (since 1940´s)
Development of Information Society (1990´s)
Idea of Maternity Services on the Internet (1997)
Basis of
Development
Work
•Research
• Multidisciplinary
co-operation
• Piloting
• Feedback /
Evaluation

Results
• Working
models for
experts and
families
•Networking
• Data/info
contents
• Software
technology

E- Service

Participants
• Health care
professionals
• Families
• Colleges
• Software
technology
experts
• Multimedia
experts

Expert teams





Central team
Social and Health care experts´ team
Technology experts´ team
Education experts´ team (Savonia was co-ordinator
of the MIC project)

• Families

MIC
•is supplementary to today's mother-child clinic services

•helps the user in decision making
•provides information that has been approved by the special
editorial board

•enables the use of the services independently of time and
place (Internet connection needed)
•can be used in many countries (adjustments will be made
according to the culture)

The MIC: options
•Entrance

•News
•Discussion groups (with peers)
•Questions and answers (confidential)
•Search (information)
•Feedback
•Links to other useful Internet sites

Search/ information or data bank











Pregnancy
Delivery
Post- natal period
Infant
Parent's relationship
Parenthood
Personal hygiene, appearance
Nutrition and exercise
Drugs, alcohol and smoking
Services to the public

MIC has 135 articles, two videos, 2 animations, 2 interactive photos, 86
photos and 53 drawings checked and approved by editorial board.

MIC / contents
Example: Drawings

Qualified information / content management
• Information is reliable, and easy to understand
• The quantity of information is adequate
• The required information is easy to find
• The content creation and management are carried on as
part of current (clinical) work processes
• The technical solutions guarantee e.g. data integrity,
authentication, security and data availability

Evaluation - family
• Modern way of having services
• No queuing in phone
• Discussions groups for families (anonymously), where
professionals appear by their names
• Service in your own language
• Information/contents is versatile, extensive, based on
expertise / reliable

Evaluation – maternity care professionals
•Extra visits were not needed during pilot phase
•The Net Clinic could be used as a manual or in
familiarising the new worker
•Counselling and giving advice was harmonised
•Families got deeper information and advice based
on their needs more effectively
•Networking and co-operation was more efficient
•Written answers took some time to get used to

The Project of the Year 2000
•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be expanded
into new application fields like public administration and so called soft
values
•Net Clinic is based on wide and versatile co-operation and on
application of new Internet technology
•Net Clinic proves that it is possible to develop new innovations also
outside big so called growing centres
•Net Clinic proves that women can work successfully in management
or other key positions which have conventionally been classified as
men´s work
(The evaluation criteria of the The Finnish Project Management Association)

Diploma of the Excellent Work
•Given by the Provincial State Office of Eastern Finland 4.9.2001

•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be
expanded into new application fields like public administration in
national level and in future international level

O

O
O

o
x

O

O MIC has been used/is in use
• Kuopio
• Helsinki
• North-East of Finland (Kuusamo,
Taivalkoski, Posio and Salla)
• Rovaniemi and its neighbourhood
Rovaniemi rural commune and
Ranua)

An eMaternal Health Care Data System

STORK

The Stork is
• secured electronic health data system (EHS) made for
professional use
• all the information about pregnancy, delivery and puerperium
is collected in the same system (so called seamless chain
between primary health care and special care)
• mutual data contents to maternal units involved

Data security
• The application
• built on special security system used by the hospital
• Access rights depends on task or position
• those who are involved maternal service chain
• Preconditions for usage
• mother´s permission to collect and transfer her data
(each organisation needs its own permission)
• agreement between different organisations
• every user has personal user identifier, all usage is
logged and saved, even edited/deleted parts will be
recorded permanently

Storks gives information
• Pregnancy follow up, continuous documentation;
appointments with public health nurses, midwifes, doctors
• Graphics; growth of the uterus, hypertension, weight,
partogram
• Internal- and external examinations
• Medication during pregnancy, delivery, puerperium
• Diagnosis of the foetus; e.g ultrasound, lab tests
• Lifestyle of the family (nutrition, exercise, smoking, drugs
etc)
• Sick leaves of the mother
• Special area for the nurse documentation

Stork gives
• The new-born baby his/her social security number
• Basic information from earlier pregnancies
• Statistics e.g.
– for the Stakes (the National Research and Development Centre for
Welfare and Health
– the nursing research

• Forms and applications

The first page of the Stork

Forms

Name, birth date, age, weeks,

Notify: the lamp sign, B-gluc high (red color)
Lab, X-ray

Mother->,
Child ->

Social worker documentation
Both the public health nurse in primary care and
the midwife in special care fulfil this area. The written
data is available in real time (mother´s permission needed)

From Netinformation – Portal
to Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID)

My personal computer

Aims of the Work
• To elaborate the co-operation of different
organisations
• To develop a consistent way to manage information
in Social Work and Health Care organisations
• To develop the ”Dynamic Integrated Desktop” (DID)
for Social Work and Health Care professionals
• To offer further education of Social Work and Health
Care professionals
• To determine the reliable security standards

Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID )
-a consistent way to manage information in Health Care organisations

Partnership information

Single sign-on





Professional information


On line (on special fields)



Education
•course

Contacts
Office times
Information of services

Professional web services



PubMed, Cinahl
Laws and orders

enrolment, forms

Web services for public
Integration of IT software



Contact information



”You get what you need”



Problem solving information



EHR, RIS/PACS (digital imaging), biosignals etc.



Education



High level of security

View of the DID page

Teams
Discussion
Forums

Document
management
Links
Courses

Patients 26.8.2002

Mail (3 new messages)

Time

Name

Social security number

8.00

Patrick Patient

12345679573

8.20

Donald Duck

89101128758

8.40

Clark Kent

98459734658

Maintenance
Magazines &
Periodicals

August 2002

News
Databases
Patients
Help

Personified, user oriented
Networked, user organization oriented

Information system,
task and position in the organization

Tutuks service

• Tutuks, a virtual visit to a maternity ward
• Utilised work done by MIC
• http://www.synnytystutuksi.fi/tutukspalvelu.
html

Challenges for the Future
•Family/citizen participation challenges professionals
•e-working environment (models, processes)
•eEducation and training
• “E-gap” between generations
•Usability of ICT-solutions
•Integration of ICT-solutions

New project
• Looking for partner organisations, next
Tempus Call or other suitable call

New project - Tree of problems
NO KNOWLEDGE
TRANSFER

NO NETWORKING

Lack of resources in
distance teaching in cultural maternity care

Unfamiliarity with new
teaching ways

Former education

Non-transferability of
tacit knowledge

Lack of ICT skills

Figure: Project - problem tree

Retiring
(growing)

Incapability to
respond future needs

Mobility (teachers
and students)

Lack of cooperation between
Euro-Asian HIEs

Need to study regardless
time and space

Tree of objectives
FLEXIBLE
NETWORKING

CULTURAL MATERNITY CARE
AND DISTANCE TEACHING

ENHANCING READINESS FOR
DISTANCE TEACHING IN CULTURAL
MATERNITY AND INFANT CARE

Definition of resources
needed

Testing of
ICT skills

Designing and evaluating
Networking and
Distance teaching model

Selection of Learning Evaluation of
Environment(s)
readiness

MAIN AIM

Reports, workshops
(Implementation)

Accepted
planns

EFFECT

Dissemination of
Project results

Evaluation of model
Implementation

OUTCOME

Thank you for your
attention

Contact info:
[email protected]


Slide 24

eHealth
Case- Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net (MIC)

Speaker:

Pirkko Kouri,
Pricipal Lecturer in Healthcare Technology,
PhD, PHN, RN

Guests:

Tempus delegation

Time:

21 Feb 2007

Ultimate goals of Finnish health care
- Cost-effectiveness
- Patient/client & population centeredness
- Just distribution of the services (equity)
= use based on need

*********************************************************
MSAH’s own information society policy
-

Wide use of information and communication technology
Utilisation of internet penetration

Development levels – definition and projectwork
e.g. Area of eHealth / eWelfare
Levels of development

Development work

EU / National

Laws, standards, terminology, classifications, forms, data definitions

Regional

Aggreements, data transmissions, databases, archives, cooperation

Local

Working culture, division of labour, cooperation

Individual

Personal needs, user interface, way of working, teamwork

Milestones - Finnish health care system

2002
2007

National Project on Safeguarding the Future of Health Care Services
National law EHR

eHealth, National Project on Safeguarding the Future
of Health Care Services – main goals
•Ensure access to treatment
•Enhance co-ordination and co-operation in specialized health care
•Enhance regional co-ordination in primary health care
•Emphasize preventive work, one’s own responsibility for one’s own health and the
significance of primary health care
• Implementation - divided into 40 sub-projects
•Preparing the ground for the nationwide electronic patient records, which will be
introduced in 2007 (law will be launched Spring 2007)

Evolution of e-processes
- strategy and plan
- education
- culture, values
- publicity in control

5. Adaptation
of work
processes

4. Integration

Use
of e-Health
and e-Social
processes

Integration
of IT solutions
in daily life

Planning and
development
3. Processes
of e-processes,
working models

2. Basic
development

1. Services/
Products

Intranet,
Internet
groundwork
purpose-built

Electronic
documents
and lists
Adapted from www.done360.com

The Regional Project Area
Maternity care – births are over 99% in hospitals

.

JYVÄSKYLÄ

Map of Finland









85.585 km2
>1.000 lakes
681.000 inhabitants
One university hospital
Four central hospitals (five 10/03)
53 health centres
App. 20 000 social and health
care workers

NORMAL MATERNITY CARE SERVICE CHAIN
IN FINLAND (REGULAR PREGNANCY)

FIRST CONTACT
MOTHER/CHILD UNIT

PHN = public
health nurse

PHN/ FIRST
EXAMINATION
8-10 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
10-12 W

LABORATORY

PRE-NATAL
ULTRASOUND

HEALTH CENTRE
BEFORE 12 W
BASIC
INFORMATION
FORM
maternity clinic

CERTIFICATE
M/C CLINIC
NIB (KELA)

PHN/
EXAMINATION
16-18 W

SPECIAL CARE MATERNITY CLINIC
12-14 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
22-24 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
26-28 W
NIB =
National
Insurance
Bureau

PHN/
EXAMINATION
30-32 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
32-34 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
34-36 W

PAGE
2

BIRTH TRAINING COURSE,
(CONSISTS OF 8-10 MEETINGS)

PAGE
2

PHN/ EXAMINATION
37 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
38-40 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
40-42 W

DELIVERY ROOM

POST NATAL WARD

PHN/ (baby) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN/ (mother) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN / Mother´s Medical health check

DOCTOR/ Mother´s
Medical health check8-9 W after delivery

CHILD CLINIC

FAMILY
PLANNING

Basis of the Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net
The Long History of the (Finnish) Maternity Care Services (since 1940´s)
Development of Information Society (1990´s)
Idea of Maternity Services on the Internet (1997)
Basis of
Development
Work
•Research
• Multidisciplinary
co-operation
• Piloting
• Feedback /
Evaluation

Results
• Working
models for
experts and
families
•Networking
• Data/info
contents
• Software
technology

E- Service

Participants
• Health care
professionals
• Families
• Colleges
• Software
technology
experts
• Multimedia
experts

Expert teams





Central team
Social and Health care experts´ team
Technology experts´ team
Education experts´ team (Savonia was co-ordinator
of the MIC project)

• Families

MIC
•is supplementary to today's mother-child clinic services

•helps the user in decision making
•provides information that has been approved by the special
editorial board

•enables the use of the services independently of time and
place (Internet connection needed)
•can be used in many countries (adjustments will be made
according to the culture)

The MIC: options
•Entrance

•News
•Discussion groups (with peers)
•Questions and answers (confidential)
•Search (information)
•Feedback
•Links to other useful Internet sites

Search/ information or data bank











Pregnancy
Delivery
Post- natal period
Infant
Parent's relationship
Parenthood
Personal hygiene, appearance
Nutrition and exercise
Drugs, alcohol and smoking
Services to the public

MIC has 135 articles, two videos, 2 animations, 2 interactive photos, 86
photos and 53 drawings checked and approved by editorial board.

MIC / contents
Example: Drawings

Qualified information / content management
• Information is reliable, and easy to understand
• The quantity of information is adequate
• The required information is easy to find
• The content creation and management are carried on as
part of current (clinical) work processes
• The technical solutions guarantee e.g. data integrity,
authentication, security and data availability

Evaluation - family
• Modern way of having services
• No queuing in phone
• Discussions groups for families (anonymously), where
professionals appear by their names
• Service in your own language
• Information/contents is versatile, extensive, based on
expertise / reliable

Evaluation – maternity care professionals
•Extra visits were not needed during pilot phase
•The Net Clinic could be used as a manual or in
familiarising the new worker
•Counselling and giving advice was harmonised
•Families got deeper information and advice based
on their needs more effectively
•Networking and co-operation was more efficient
•Written answers took some time to get used to

The Project of the Year 2000
•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be expanded
into new application fields like public administration and so called soft
values
•Net Clinic is based on wide and versatile co-operation and on
application of new Internet technology
•Net Clinic proves that it is possible to develop new innovations also
outside big so called growing centres
•Net Clinic proves that women can work successfully in management
or other key positions which have conventionally been classified as
men´s work
(The evaluation criteria of the The Finnish Project Management Association)

Diploma of the Excellent Work
•Given by the Provincial State Office of Eastern Finland 4.9.2001

•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be
expanded into new application fields like public administration in
national level and in future international level

O

O
O

o
x

O

O MIC has been used/is in use
• Kuopio
• Helsinki
• North-East of Finland (Kuusamo,
Taivalkoski, Posio and Salla)
• Rovaniemi and its neighbourhood
Rovaniemi rural commune and
Ranua)

An eMaternal Health Care Data System

STORK

The Stork is
• secured electronic health data system (EHS) made for
professional use
• all the information about pregnancy, delivery and puerperium
is collected in the same system (so called seamless chain
between primary health care and special care)
• mutual data contents to maternal units involved

Data security
• The application
• built on special security system used by the hospital
• Access rights depends on task or position
• those who are involved maternal service chain
• Preconditions for usage
• mother´s permission to collect and transfer her data
(each organisation needs its own permission)
• agreement between different organisations
• every user has personal user identifier, all usage is
logged and saved, even edited/deleted parts will be
recorded permanently

Storks gives information
• Pregnancy follow up, continuous documentation;
appointments with public health nurses, midwifes, doctors
• Graphics; growth of the uterus, hypertension, weight,
partogram
• Internal- and external examinations
• Medication during pregnancy, delivery, puerperium
• Diagnosis of the foetus; e.g ultrasound, lab tests
• Lifestyle of the family (nutrition, exercise, smoking, drugs
etc)
• Sick leaves of the mother
• Special area for the nurse documentation

Stork gives
• The new-born baby his/her social security number
• Basic information from earlier pregnancies
• Statistics e.g.
– for the Stakes (the National Research and Development Centre for
Welfare and Health
– the nursing research

• Forms and applications

The first page of the Stork

Forms

Name, birth date, age, weeks,

Notify: the lamp sign, B-gluc high (red color)
Lab, X-ray

Mother->,
Child ->

Social worker documentation
Both the public health nurse in primary care and
the midwife in special care fulfil this area. The written
data is available in real time (mother´s permission needed)

From Netinformation – Portal
to Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID)

My personal computer

Aims of the Work
• To elaborate the co-operation of different
organisations
• To develop a consistent way to manage information
in Social Work and Health Care organisations
• To develop the ”Dynamic Integrated Desktop” (DID)
for Social Work and Health Care professionals
• To offer further education of Social Work and Health
Care professionals
• To determine the reliable security standards

Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID )
-a consistent way to manage information in Health Care organisations

Partnership information

Single sign-on





Professional information


On line (on special fields)



Education
•course

Contacts
Office times
Information of services

Professional web services



PubMed, Cinahl
Laws and orders

enrolment, forms

Web services for public
Integration of IT software



Contact information



”You get what you need”



Problem solving information



EHR, RIS/PACS (digital imaging), biosignals etc.



Education



High level of security

View of the DID page

Teams
Discussion
Forums

Document
management
Links
Courses

Patients 26.8.2002

Mail (3 new messages)

Time

Name

Social security number

8.00

Patrick Patient

12345679573

8.20

Donald Duck

89101128758

8.40

Clark Kent

98459734658

Maintenance
Magazines &
Periodicals

August 2002

News
Databases
Patients
Help

Personified, user oriented
Networked, user organization oriented

Information system,
task and position in the organization

Tutuks service

• Tutuks, a virtual visit to a maternity ward
• Utilised work done by MIC
• http://www.synnytystutuksi.fi/tutukspalvelu.
html

Challenges for the Future
•Family/citizen participation challenges professionals
•e-working environment (models, processes)
•eEducation and training
• “E-gap” between generations
•Usability of ICT-solutions
•Integration of ICT-solutions

New project
• Looking for partner organisations, next
Tempus Call or other suitable call

New project - Tree of problems
NO KNOWLEDGE
TRANSFER

NO NETWORKING

Lack of resources in
distance teaching in cultural maternity care

Unfamiliarity with new
teaching ways

Former education

Non-transferability of
tacit knowledge

Lack of ICT skills

Figure: Project - problem tree

Retiring
(growing)

Incapability to
respond future needs

Mobility (teachers
and students)

Lack of cooperation between
Euro-Asian HIEs

Need to study regardless
time and space

Tree of objectives
FLEXIBLE
NETWORKING

CULTURAL MATERNITY CARE
AND DISTANCE TEACHING

ENHANCING READINESS FOR
DISTANCE TEACHING IN CULTURAL
MATERNITY AND INFANT CARE

Definition of resources
needed

Testing of
ICT skills

Designing and evaluating
Networking and
Distance teaching model

Selection of Learning Evaluation of
Environment(s)
readiness

MAIN AIM

Reports, workshops
(Implementation)

Accepted
planns

EFFECT

Dissemination of
Project results

Evaluation of model
Implementation

OUTCOME

Thank you for your
attention

Contact info:
[email protected]


Slide 25

eHealth
Case- Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net (MIC)

Speaker:

Pirkko Kouri,
Pricipal Lecturer in Healthcare Technology,
PhD, PHN, RN

Guests:

Tempus delegation

Time:

21 Feb 2007

Ultimate goals of Finnish health care
- Cost-effectiveness
- Patient/client & population centeredness
- Just distribution of the services (equity)
= use based on need

*********************************************************
MSAH’s own information society policy
-

Wide use of information and communication technology
Utilisation of internet penetration

Development levels – definition and projectwork
e.g. Area of eHealth / eWelfare
Levels of development

Development work

EU / National

Laws, standards, terminology, classifications, forms, data definitions

Regional

Aggreements, data transmissions, databases, archives, cooperation

Local

Working culture, division of labour, cooperation

Individual

Personal needs, user interface, way of working, teamwork

Milestones - Finnish health care system

2002
2007

National Project on Safeguarding the Future of Health Care Services
National law EHR

eHealth, National Project on Safeguarding the Future
of Health Care Services – main goals
•Ensure access to treatment
•Enhance co-ordination and co-operation in specialized health care
•Enhance regional co-ordination in primary health care
•Emphasize preventive work, one’s own responsibility for one’s own health and the
significance of primary health care
• Implementation - divided into 40 sub-projects
•Preparing the ground for the nationwide electronic patient records, which will be
introduced in 2007 (law will be launched Spring 2007)

Evolution of e-processes
- strategy and plan
- education
- culture, values
- publicity in control

5. Adaptation
of work
processes

4. Integration

Use
of e-Health
and e-Social
processes

Integration
of IT solutions
in daily life

Planning and
development
3. Processes
of e-processes,
working models

2. Basic
development

1. Services/
Products

Intranet,
Internet
groundwork
purpose-built

Electronic
documents
and lists
Adapted from www.done360.com

The Regional Project Area
Maternity care – births are over 99% in hospitals

.

JYVÄSKYLÄ

Map of Finland









85.585 km2
>1.000 lakes
681.000 inhabitants
One university hospital
Four central hospitals (five 10/03)
53 health centres
App. 20 000 social and health
care workers

NORMAL MATERNITY CARE SERVICE CHAIN
IN FINLAND (REGULAR PREGNANCY)

FIRST CONTACT
MOTHER/CHILD UNIT

PHN = public
health nurse

PHN/ FIRST
EXAMINATION
8-10 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
10-12 W

LABORATORY

PRE-NATAL
ULTRASOUND

HEALTH CENTRE
BEFORE 12 W
BASIC
INFORMATION
FORM
maternity clinic

CERTIFICATE
M/C CLINIC
NIB (KELA)

PHN/
EXAMINATION
16-18 W

SPECIAL CARE MATERNITY CLINIC
12-14 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
22-24 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
26-28 W
NIB =
National
Insurance
Bureau

PHN/
EXAMINATION
30-32 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
32-34 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
34-36 W

PAGE
2

BIRTH TRAINING COURSE,
(CONSISTS OF 8-10 MEETINGS)

PAGE
2

PHN/ EXAMINATION
37 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
38-40 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
40-42 W

DELIVERY ROOM

POST NATAL WARD

PHN/ (baby) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN/ (mother) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN / Mother´s Medical health check

DOCTOR/ Mother´s
Medical health check8-9 W after delivery

CHILD CLINIC

FAMILY
PLANNING

Basis of the Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net
The Long History of the (Finnish) Maternity Care Services (since 1940´s)
Development of Information Society (1990´s)
Idea of Maternity Services on the Internet (1997)
Basis of
Development
Work
•Research
• Multidisciplinary
co-operation
• Piloting
• Feedback /
Evaluation

Results
• Working
models for
experts and
families
•Networking
• Data/info
contents
• Software
technology

E- Service

Participants
• Health care
professionals
• Families
• Colleges
• Software
technology
experts
• Multimedia
experts

Expert teams





Central team
Social and Health care experts´ team
Technology experts´ team
Education experts´ team (Savonia was co-ordinator
of the MIC project)

• Families

MIC
•is supplementary to today's mother-child clinic services

•helps the user in decision making
•provides information that has been approved by the special
editorial board

•enables the use of the services independently of time and
place (Internet connection needed)
•can be used in many countries (adjustments will be made
according to the culture)

The MIC: options
•Entrance

•News
•Discussion groups (with peers)
•Questions and answers (confidential)
•Search (information)
•Feedback
•Links to other useful Internet sites

Search/ information or data bank











Pregnancy
Delivery
Post- natal period
Infant
Parent's relationship
Parenthood
Personal hygiene, appearance
Nutrition and exercise
Drugs, alcohol and smoking
Services to the public

MIC has 135 articles, two videos, 2 animations, 2 interactive photos, 86
photos and 53 drawings checked and approved by editorial board.

MIC / contents
Example: Drawings

Qualified information / content management
• Information is reliable, and easy to understand
• The quantity of information is adequate
• The required information is easy to find
• The content creation and management are carried on as
part of current (clinical) work processes
• The technical solutions guarantee e.g. data integrity,
authentication, security and data availability

Evaluation - family
• Modern way of having services
• No queuing in phone
• Discussions groups for families (anonymously), where
professionals appear by their names
• Service in your own language
• Information/contents is versatile, extensive, based on
expertise / reliable

Evaluation – maternity care professionals
•Extra visits were not needed during pilot phase
•The Net Clinic could be used as a manual or in
familiarising the new worker
•Counselling and giving advice was harmonised
•Families got deeper information and advice based
on their needs more effectively
•Networking and co-operation was more efficient
•Written answers took some time to get used to

The Project of the Year 2000
•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be expanded
into new application fields like public administration and so called soft
values
•Net Clinic is based on wide and versatile co-operation and on
application of new Internet technology
•Net Clinic proves that it is possible to develop new innovations also
outside big so called growing centres
•Net Clinic proves that women can work successfully in management
or other key positions which have conventionally been classified as
men´s work
(The evaluation criteria of the The Finnish Project Management Association)

Diploma of the Excellent Work
•Given by the Provincial State Office of Eastern Finland 4.9.2001

•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be
expanded into new application fields like public administration in
national level and in future international level

O

O
O

o
x

O

O MIC has been used/is in use
• Kuopio
• Helsinki
• North-East of Finland (Kuusamo,
Taivalkoski, Posio and Salla)
• Rovaniemi and its neighbourhood
Rovaniemi rural commune and
Ranua)

An eMaternal Health Care Data System

STORK

The Stork is
• secured electronic health data system (EHS) made for
professional use
• all the information about pregnancy, delivery and puerperium
is collected in the same system (so called seamless chain
between primary health care and special care)
• mutual data contents to maternal units involved

Data security
• The application
• built on special security system used by the hospital
• Access rights depends on task or position
• those who are involved maternal service chain
• Preconditions for usage
• mother´s permission to collect and transfer her data
(each organisation needs its own permission)
• agreement between different organisations
• every user has personal user identifier, all usage is
logged and saved, even edited/deleted parts will be
recorded permanently

Storks gives information
• Pregnancy follow up, continuous documentation;
appointments with public health nurses, midwifes, doctors
• Graphics; growth of the uterus, hypertension, weight,
partogram
• Internal- and external examinations
• Medication during pregnancy, delivery, puerperium
• Diagnosis of the foetus; e.g ultrasound, lab tests
• Lifestyle of the family (nutrition, exercise, smoking, drugs
etc)
• Sick leaves of the mother
• Special area for the nurse documentation

Stork gives
• The new-born baby his/her social security number
• Basic information from earlier pregnancies
• Statistics e.g.
– for the Stakes (the National Research and Development Centre for
Welfare and Health
– the nursing research

• Forms and applications

The first page of the Stork

Forms

Name, birth date, age, weeks,

Notify: the lamp sign, B-gluc high (red color)
Lab, X-ray

Mother->,
Child ->

Social worker documentation
Both the public health nurse in primary care and
the midwife in special care fulfil this area. The written
data is available in real time (mother´s permission needed)

From Netinformation – Portal
to Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID)

My personal computer

Aims of the Work
• To elaborate the co-operation of different
organisations
• To develop a consistent way to manage information
in Social Work and Health Care organisations
• To develop the ”Dynamic Integrated Desktop” (DID)
for Social Work and Health Care professionals
• To offer further education of Social Work and Health
Care professionals
• To determine the reliable security standards

Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID )
-a consistent way to manage information in Health Care organisations

Partnership information

Single sign-on





Professional information


On line (on special fields)



Education
•course

Contacts
Office times
Information of services

Professional web services



PubMed, Cinahl
Laws and orders

enrolment, forms

Web services for public
Integration of IT software



Contact information



”You get what you need”



Problem solving information



EHR, RIS/PACS (digital imaging), biosignals etc.



Education



High level of security

View of the DID page

Teams
Discussion
Forums

Document
management
Links
Courses

Patients 26.8.2002

Mail (3 new messages)

Time

Name

Social security number

8.00

Patrick Patient

12345679573

8.20

Donald Duck

89101128758

8.40

Clark Kent

98459734658

Maintenance
Magazines &
Periodicals

August 2002

News
Databases
Patients
Help

Personified, user oriented
Networked, user organization oriented

Information system,
task and position in the organization

Tutuks service

• Tutuks, a virtual visit to a maternity ward
• Utilised work done by MIC
• http://www.synnytystutuksi.fi/tutukspalvelu.
html

Challenges for the Future
•Family/citizen participation challenges professionals
•e-working environment (models, processes)
•eEducation and training
• “E-gap” between generations
•Usability of ICT-solutions
•Integration of ICT-solutions

New project
• Looking for partner organisations, next
Tempus Call or other suitable call

New project - Tree of problems
NO KNOWLEDGE
TRANSFER

NO NETWORKING

Lack of resources in
distance teaching in cultural maternity care

Unfamiliarity with new
teaching ways

Former education

Non-transferability of
tacit knowledge

Lack of ICT skills

Figure: Project - problem tree

Retiring
(growing)

Incapability to
respond future needs

Mobility (teachers
and students)

Lack of cooperation between
Euro-Asian HIEs

Need to study regardless
time and space

Tree of objectives
FLEXIBLE
NETWORKING

CULTURAL MATERNITY CARE
AND DISTANCE TEACHING

ENHANCING READINESS FOR
DISTANCE TEACHING IN CULTURAL
MATERNITY AND INFANT CARE

Definition of resources
needed

Testing of
ICT skills

Designing and evaluating
Networking and
Distance teaching model

Selection of Learning Evaluation of
Environment(s)
readiness

MAIN AIM

Reports, workshops
(Implementation)

Accepted
planns

EFFECT

Dissemination of
Project results

Evaluation of model
Implementation

OUTCOME

Thank you for your
attention

Contact info:
[email protected]


Slide 26

eHealth
Case- Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net (MIC)

Speaker:

Pirkko Kouri,
Pricipal Lecturer in Healthcare Technology,
PhD, PHN, RN

Guests:

Tempus delegation

Time:

21 Feb 2007

Ultimate goals of Finnish health care
- Cost-effectiveness
- Patient/client & population centeredness
- Just distribution of the services (equity)
= use based on need

*********************************************************
MSAH’s own information society policy
-

Wide use of information and communication technology
Utilisation of internet penetration

Development levels – definition and projectwork
e.g. Area of eHealth / eWelfare
Levels of development

Development work

EU / National

Laws, standards, terminology, classifications, forms, data definitions

Regional

Aggreements, data transmissions, databases, archives, cooperation

Local

Working culture, division of labour, cooperation

Individual

Personal needs, user interface, way of working, teamwork

Milestones - Finnish health care system

2002
2007

National Project on Safeguarding the Future of Health Care Services
National law EHR

eHealth, National Project on Safeguarding the Future
of Health Care Services – main goals
•Ensure access to treatment
•Enhance co-ordination and co-operation in specialized health care
•Enhance regional co-ordination in primary health care
•Emphasize preventive work, one’s own responsibility for one’s own health and the
significance of primary health care
• Implementation - divided into 40 sub-projects
•Preparing the ground for the nationwide electronic patient records, which will be
introduced in 2007 (law will be launched Spring 2007)

Evolution of e-processes
- strategy and plan
- education
- culture, values
- publicity in control

5. Adaptation
of work
processes

4. Integration

Use
of e-Health
and e-Social
processes

Integration
of IT solutions
in daily life

Planning and
development
3. Processes
of e-processes,
working models

2. Basic
development

1. Services/
Products

Intranet,
Internet
groundwork
purpose-built

Electronic
documents
and lists
Adapted from www.done360.com

The Regional Project Area
Maternity care – births are over 99% in hospitals

.

JYVÄSKYLÄ

Map of Finland









85.585 km2
>1.000 lakes
681.000 inhabitants
One university hospital
Four central hospitals (five 10/03)
53 health centres
App. 20 000 social and health
care workers

NORMAL MATERNITY CARE SERVICE CHAIN
IN FINLAND (REGULAR PREGNANCY)

FIRST CONTACT
MOTHER/CHILD UNIT

PHN = public
health nurse

PHN/ FIRST
EXAMINATION
8-10 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
10-12 W

LABORATORY

PRE-NATAL
ULTRASOUND

HEALTH CENTRE
BEFORE 12 W
BASIC
INFORMATION
FORM
maternity clinic

CERTIFICATE
M/C CLINIC
NIB (KELA)

PHN/
EXAMINATION
16-18 W

SPECIAL CARE MATERNITY CLINIC
12-14 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
22-24 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
26-28 W
NIB =
National
Insurance
Bureau

PHN/
EXAMINATION
30-32 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
32-34 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
34-36 W

PAGE
2

BIRTH TRAINING COURSE,
(CONSISTS OF 8-10 MEETINGS)

PAGE
2

PHN/ EXAMINATION
37 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
38-40 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
40-42 W

DELIVERY ROOM

POST NATAL WARD

PHN/ (baby) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN/ (mother) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN / Mother´s Medical health check

DOCTOR/ Mother´s
Medical health check8-9 W after delivery

CHILD CLINIC

FAMILY
PLANNING

Basis of the Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net
The Long History of the (Finnish) Maternity Care Services (since 1940´s)
Development of Information Society (1990´s)
Idea of Maternity Services on the Internet (1997)
Basis of
Development
Work
•Research
• Multidisciplinary
co-operation
• Piloting
• Feedback /
Evaluation

Results
• Working
models for
experts and
families
•Networking
• Data/info
contents
• Software
technology

E- Service

Participants
• Health care
professionals
• Families
• Colleges
• Software
technology
experts
• Multimedia
experts

Expert teams





Central team
Social and Health care experts´ team
Technology experts´ team
Education experts´ team (Savonia was co-ordinator
of the MIC project)

• Families

MIC
•is supplementary to today's mother-child clinic services

•helps the user in decision making
•provides information that has been approved by the special
editorial board

•enables the use of the services independently of time and
place (Internet connection needed)
•can be used in many countries (adjustments will be made
according to the culture)

The MIC: options
•Entrance

•News
•Discussion groups (with peers)
•Questions and answers (confidential)
•Search (information)
•Feedback
•Links to other useful Internet sites

Search/ information or data bank











Pregnancy
Delivery
Post- natal period
Infant
Parent's relationship
Parenthood
Personal hygiene, appearance
Nutrition and exercise
Drugs, alcohol and smoking
Services to the public

MIC has 135 articles, two videos, 2 animations, 2 interactive photos, 86
photos and 53 drawings checked and approved by editorial board.

MIC / contents
Example: Drawings

Qualified information / content management
• Information is reliable, and easy to understand
• The quantity of information is adequate
• The required information is easy to find
• The content creation and management are carried on as
part of current (clinical) work processes
• The technical solutions guarantee e.g. data integrity,
authentication, security and data availability

Evaluation - family
• Modern way of having services
• No queuing in phone
• Discussions groups for families (anonymously), where
professionals appear by their names
• Service in your own language
• Information/contents is versatile, extensive, based on
expertise / reliable

Evaluation – maternity care professionals
•Extra visits were not needed during pilot phase
•The Net Clinic could be used as a manual or in
familiarising the new worker
•Counselling and giving advice was harmonised
•Families got deeper information and advice based
on their needs more effectively
•Networking and co-operation was more efficient
•Written answers took some time to get used to

The Project of the Year 2000
•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be expanded
into new application fields like public administration and so called soft
values
•Net Clinic is based on wide and versatile co-operation and on
application of new Internet technology
•Net Clinic proves that it is possible to develop new innovations also
outside big so called growing centres
•Net Clinic proves that women can work successfully in management
or other key positions which have conventionally been classified as
men´s work
(The evaluation criteria of the The Finnish Project Management Association)

Diploma of the Excellent Work
•Given by the Provincial State Office of Eastern Finland 4.9.2001

•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be
expanded into new application fields like public administration in
national level and in future international level

O

O
O

o
x

O

O MIC has been used/is in use
• Kuopio
• Helsinki
• North-East of Finland (Kuusamo,
Taivalkoski, Posio and Salla)
• Rovaniemi and its neighbourhood
Rovaniemi rural commune and
Ranua)

An eMaternal Health Care Data System

STORK

The Stork is
• secured electronic health data system (EHS) made for
professional use
• all the information about pregnancy, delivery and puerperium
is collected in the same system (so called seamless chain
between primary health care and special care)
• mutual data contents to maternal units involved

Data security
• The application
• built on special security system used by the hospital
• Access rights depends on task or position
• those who are involved maternal service chain
• Preconditions for usage
• mother´s permission to collect and transfer her data
(each organisation needs its own permission)
• agreement between different organisations
• every user has personal user identifier, all usage is
logged and saved, even edited/deleted parts will be
recorded permanently

Storks gives information
• Pregnancy follow up, continuous documentation;
appointments with public health nurses, midwifes, doctors
• Graphics; growth of the uterus, hypertension, weight,
partogram
• Internal- and external examinations
• Medication during pregnancy, delivery, puerperium
• Diagnosis of the foetus; e.g ultrasound, lab tests
• Lifestyle of the family (nutrition, exercise, smoking, drugs
etc)
• Sick leaves of the mother
• Special area for the nurse documentation

Stork gives
• The new-born baby his/her social security number
• Basic information from earlier pregnancies
• Statistics e.g.
– for the Stakes (the National Research and Development Centre for
Welfare and Health
– the nursing research

• Forms and applications

The first page of the Stork

Forms

Name, birth date, age, weeks,

Notify: the lamp sign, B-gluc high (red color)
Lab, X-ray

Mother->,
Child ->

Social worker documentation
Both the public health nurse in primary care and
the midwife in special care fulfil this area. The written
data is available in real time (mother´s permission needed)

From Netinformation – Portal
to Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID)

My personal computer

Aims of the Work
• To elaborate the co-operation of different
organisations
• To develop a consistent way to manage information
in Social Work and Health Care organisations
• To develop the ”Dynamic Integrated Desktop” (DID)
for Social Work and Health Care professionals
• To offer further education of Social Work and Health
Care professionals
• To determine the reliable security standards

Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID )
-a consistent way to manage information in Health Care organisations

Partnership information

Single sign-on





Professional information


On line (on special fields)



Education
•course

Contacts
Office times
Information of services

Professional web services



PubMed, Cinahl
Laws and orders

enrolment, forms

Web services for public
Integration of IT software



Contact information



”You get what you need”



Problem solving information



EHR, RIS/PACS (digital imaging), biosignals etc.



Education



High level of security

View of the DID page

Teams
Discussion
Forums

Document
management
Links
Courses

Patients 26.8.2002

Mail (3 new messages)

Time

Name

Social security number

8.00

Patrick Patient

12345679573

8.20

Donald Duck

89101128758

8.40

Clark Kent

98459734658

Maintenance
Magazines &
Periodicals

August 2002

News
Databases
Patients
Help

Personified, user oriented
Networked, user organization oriented

Information system,
task and position in the organization

Tutuks service

• Tutuks, a virtual visit to a maternity ward
• Utilised work done by MIC
• http://www.synnytystutuksi.fi/tutukspalvelu.
html

Challenges for the Future
•Family/citizen participation challenges professionals
•e-working environment (models, processes)
•eEducation and training
• “E-gap” between generations
•Usability of ICT-solutions
•Integration of ICT-solutions

New project
• Looking for partner organisations, next
Tempus Call or other suitable call

New project - Tree of problems
NO KNOWLEDGE
TRANSFER

NO NETWORKING

Lack of resources in
distance teaching in cultural maternity care

Unfamiliarity with new
teaching ways

Former education

Non-transferability of
tacit knowledge

Lack of ICT skills

Figure: Project - problem tree

Retiring
(growing)

Incapability to
respond future needs

Mobility (teachers
and students)

Lack of cooperation between
Euro-Asian HIEs

Need to study regardless
time and space

Tree of objectives
FLEXIBLE
NETWORKING

CULTURAL MATERNITY CARE
AND DISTANCE TEACHING

ENHANCING READINESS FOR
DISTANCE TEACHING IN CULTURAL
MATERNITY AND INFANT CARE

Definition of resources
needed

Testing of
ICT skills

Designing and evaluating
Networking and
Distance teaching model

Selection of Learning Evaluation of
Environment(s)
readiness

MAIN AIM

Reports, workshops
(Implementation)

Accepted
planns

EFFECT

Dissemination of
Project results

Evaluation of model
Implementation

OUTCOME

Thank you for your
attention

Contact info:
[email protected]


Slide 27

eHealth
Case- Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net (MIC)

Speaker:

Pirkko Kouri,
Pricipal Lecturer in Healthcare Technology,
PhD, PHN, RN

Guests:

Tempus delegation

Time:

21 Feb 2007

Ultimate goals of Finnish health care
- Cost-effectiveness
- Patient/client & population centeredness
- Just distribution of the services (equity)
= use based on need

*********************************************************
MSAH’s own information society policy
-

Wide use of information and communication technology
Utilisation of internet penetration

Development levels – definition and projectwork
e.g. Area of eHealth / eWelfare
Levels of development

Development work

EU / National

Laws, standards, terminology, classifications, forms, data definitions

Regional

Aggreements, data transmissions, databases, archives, cooperation

Local

Working culture, division of labour, cooperation

Individual

Personal needs, user interface, way of working, teamwork

Milestones - Finnish health care system

2002
2007

National Project on Safeguarding the Future of Health Care Services
National law EHR

eHealth, National Project on Safeguarding the Future
of Health Care Services – main goals
•Ensure access to treatment
•Enhance co-ordination and co-operation in specialized health care
•Enhance regional co-ordination in primary health care
•Emphasize preventive work, one’s own responsibility for one’s own health and the
significance of primary health care
• Implementation - divided into 40 sub-projects
•Preparing the ground for the nationwide electronic patient records, which will be
introduced in 2007 (law will be launched Spring 2007)

Evolution of e-processes
- strategy and plan
- education
- culture, values
- publicity in control

5. Adaptation
of work
processes

4. Integration

Use
of e-Health
and e-Social
processes

Integration
of IT solutions
in daily life

Planning and
development
3. Processes
of e-processes,
working models

2. Basic
development

1. Services/
Products

Intranet,
Internet
groundwork
purpose-built

Electronic
documents
and lists
Adapted from www.done360.com

The Regional Project Area
Maternity care – births are over 99% in hospitals

.

JYVÄSKYLÄ

Map of Finland









85.585 km2
>1.000 lakes
681.000 inhabitants
One university hospital
Four central hospitals (five 10/03)
53 health centres
App. 20 000 social and health
care workers

NORMAL MATERNITY CARE SERVICE CHAIN
IN FINLAND (REGULAR PREGNANCY)

FIRST CONTACT
MOTHER/CHILD UNIT

PHN = public
health nurse

PHN/ FIRST
EXAMINATION
8-10 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
10-12 W

LABORATORY

PRE-NATAL
ULTRASOUND

HEALTH CENTRE
BEFORE 12 W
BASIC
INFORMATION
FORM
maternity clinic

CERTIFICATE
M/C CLINIC
NIB (KELA)

PHN/
EXAMINATION
16-18 W

SPECIAL CARE MATERNITY CLINIC
12-14 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
22-24 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
26-28 W
NIB =
National
Insurance
Bureau

PHN/
EXAMINATION
30-32 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
32-34 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
34-36 W

PAGE
2

BIRTH TRAINING COURSE,
(CONSISTS OF 8-10 MEETINGS)

PAGE
2

PHN/ EXAMINATION
37 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
38-40 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
40-42 W

DELIVERY ROOM

POST NATAL WARD

PHN/ (baby) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN/ (mother) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN / Mother´s Medical health check

DOCTOR/ Mother´s
Medical health check8-9 W after delivery

CHILD CLINIC

FAMILY
PLANNING

Basis of the Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net
The Long History of the (Finnish) Maternity Care Services (since 1940´s)
Development of Information Society (1990´s)
Idea of Maternity Services on the Internet (1997)
Basis of
Development
Work
•Research
• Multidisciplinary
co-operation
• Piloting
• Feedback /
Evaluation

Results
• Working
models for
experts and
families
•Networking
• Data/info
contents
• Software
technology

E- Service

Participants
• Health care
professionals
• Families
• Colleges
• Software
technology
experts
• Multimedia
experts

Expert teams





Central team
Social and Health care experts´ team
Technology experts´ team
Education experts´ team (Savonia was co-ordinator
of the MIC project)

• Families

MIC
•is supplementary to today's mother-child clinic services

•helps the user in decision making
•provides information that has been approved by the special
editorial board

•enables the use of the services independently of time and
place (Internet connection needed)
•can be used in many countries (adjustments will be made
according to the culture)

The MIC: options
•Entrance

•News
•Discussion groups (with peers)
•Questions and answers (confidential)
•Search (information)
•Feedback
•Links to other useful Internet sites

Search/ information or data bank











Pregnancy
Delivery
Post- natal period
Infant
Parent's relationship
Parenthood
Personal hygiene, appearance
Nutrition and exercise
Drugs, alcohol and smoking
Services to the public

MIC has 135 articles, two videos, 2 animations, 2 interactive photos, 86
photos and 53 drawings checked and approved by editorial board.

MIC / contents
Example: Drawings

Qualified information / content management
• Information is reliable, and easy to understand
• The quantity of information is adequate
• The required information is easy to find
• The content creation and management are carried on as
part of current (clinical) work processes
• The technical solutions guarantee e.g. data integrity,
authentication, security and data availability

Evaluation - family
• Modern way of having services
• No queuing in phone
• Discussions groups for families (anonymously), where
professionals appear by their names
• Service in your own language
• Information/contents is versatile, extensive, based on
expertise / reliable

Evaluation – maternity care professionals
•Extra visits were not needed during pilot phase
•The Net Clinic could be used as a manual or in
familiarising the new worker
•Counselling and giving advice was harmonised
•Families got deeper information and advice based
on their needs more effectively
•Networking and co-operation was more efficient
•Written answers took some time to get used to

The Project of the Year 2000
•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be expanded
into new application fields like public administration and so called soft
values
•Net Clinic is based on wide and versatile co-operation and on
application of new Internet technology
•Net Clinic proves that it is possible to develop new innovations also
outside big so called growing centres
•Net Clinic proves that women can work successfully in management
or other key positions which have conventionally been classified as
men´s work
(The evaluation criteria of the The Finnish Project Management Association)

Diploma of the Excellent Work
•Given by the Provincial State Office of Eastern Finland 4.9.2001

•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be
expanded into new application fields like public administration in
national level and in future international level

O

O
O

o
x

O

O MIC has been used/is in use
• Kuopio
• Helsinki
• North-East of Finland (Kuusamo,
Taivalkoski, Posio and Salla)
• Rovaniemi and its neighbourhood
Rovaniemi rural commune and
Ranua)

An eMaternal Health Care Data System

STORK

The Stork is
• secured electronic health data system (EHS) made for
professional use
• all the information about pregnancy, delivery and puerperium
is collected in the same system (so called seamless chain
between primary health care and special care)
• mutual data contents to maternal units involved

Data security
• The application
• built on special security system used by the hospital
• Access rights depends on task or position
• those who are involved maternal service chain
• Preconditions for usage
• mother´s permission to collect and transfer her data
(each organisation needs its own permission)
• agreement between different organisations
• every user has personal user identifier, all usage is
logged and saved, even edited/deleted parts will be
recorded permanently

Storks gives information
• Pregnancy follow up, continuous documentation;
appointments with public health nurses, midwifes, doctors
• Graphics; growth of the uterus, hypertension, weight,
partogram
• Internal- and external examinations
• Medication during pregnancy, delivery, puerperium
• Diagnosis of the foetus; e.g ultrasound, lab tests
• Lifestyle of the family (nutrition, exercise, smoking, drugs
etc)
• Sick leaves of the mother
• Special area for the nurse documentation

Stork gives
• The new-born baby his/her social security number
• Basic information from earlier pregnancies
• Statistics e.g.
– for the Stakes (the National Research and Development Centre for
Welfare and Health
– the nursing research

• Forms and applications

The first page of the Stork

Forms

Name, birth date, age, weeks,

Notify: the lamp sign, B-gluc high (red color)
Lab, X-ray

Mother->,
Child ->

Social worker documentation
Both the public health nurse in primary care and
the midwife in special care fulfil this area. The written
data is available in real time (mother´s permission needed)

From Netinformation – Portal
to Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID)

My personal computer

Aims of the Work
• To elaborate the co-operation of different
organisations
• To develop a consistent way to manage information
in Social Work and Health Care organisations
• To develop the ”Dynamic Integrated Desktop” (DID)
for Social Work and Health Care professionals
• To offer further education of Social Work and Health
Care professionals
• To determine the reliable security standards

Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID )
-a consistent way to manage information in Health Care organisations

Partnership information

Single sign-on





Professional information


On line (on special fields)



Education
•course

Contacts
Office times
Information of services

Professional web services



PubMed, Cinahl
Laws and orders

enrolment, forms

Web services for public
Integration of IT software



Contact information



”You get what you need”



Problem solving information



EHR, RIS/PACS (digital imaging), biosignals etc.



Education



High level of security

View of the DID page

Teams
Discussion
Forums

Document
management
Links
Courses

Patients 26.8.2002

Mail (3 new messages)

Time

Name

Social security number

8.00

Patrick Patient

12345679573

8.20

Donald Duck

89101128758

8.40

Clark Kent

98459734658

Maintenance
Magazines &
Periodicals

August 2002

News
Databases
Patients
Help

Personified, user oriented
Networked, user organization oriented

Information system,
task and position in the organization

Tutuks service

• Tutuks, a virtual visit to a maternity ward
• Utilised work done by MIC
• http://www.synnytystutuksi.fi/tutukspalvelu.
html

Challenges for the Future
•Family/citizen participation challenges professionals
•e-working environment (models, processes)
•eEducation and training
• “E-gap” between generations
•Usability of ICT-solutions
•Integration of ICT-solutions

New project
• Looking for partner organisations, next
Tempus Call or other suitable call

New project - Tree of problems
NO KNOWLEDGE
TRANSFER

NO NETWORKING

Lack of resources in
distance teaching in cultural maternity care

Unfamiliarity with new
teaching ways

Former education

Non-transferability of
tacit knowledge

Lack of ICT skills

Figure: Project - problem tree

Retiring
(growing)

Incapability to
respond future needs

Mobility (teachers
and students)

Lack of cooperation between
Euro-Asian HIEs

Need to study regardless
time and space

Tree of objectives
FLEXIBLE
NETWORKING

CULTURAL MATERNITY CARE
AND DISTANCE TEACHING

ENHANCING READINESS FOR
DISTANCE TEACHING IN CULTURAL
MATERNITY AND INFANT CARE

Definition of resources
needed

Testing of
ICT skills

Designing and evaluating
Networking and
Distance teaching model

Selection of Learning Evaluation of
Environment(s)
readiness

MAIN AIM

Reports, workshops
(Implementation)

Accepted
planns

EFFECT

Dissemination of
Project results

Evaluation of model
Implementation

OUTCOME

Thank you for your
attention

Contact info:
[email protected]


Slide 28

eHealth
Case- Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net (MIC)

Speaker:

Pirkko Kouri,
Pricipal Lecturer in Healthcare Technology,
PhD, PHN, RN

Guests:

Tempus delegation

Time:

21 Feb 2007

Ultimate goals of Finnish health care
- Cost-effectiveness
- Patient/client & population centeredness
- Just distribution of the services (equity)
= use based on need

*********************************************************
MSAH’s own information society policy
-

Wide use of information and communication technology
Utilisation of internet penetration

Development levels – definition and projectwork
e.g. Area of eHealth / eWelfare
Levels of development

Development work

EU / National

Laws, standards, terminology, classifications, forms, data definitions

Regional

Aggreements, data transmissions, databases, archives, cooperation

Local

Working culture, division of labour, cooperation

Individual

Personal needs, user interface, way of working, teamwork

Milestones - Finnish health care system

2002
2007

National Project on Safeguarding the Future of Health Care Services
National law EHR

eHealth, National Project on Safeguarding the Future
of Health Care Services – main goals
•Ensure access to treatment
•Enhance co-ordination and co-operation in specialized health care
•Enhance regional co-ordination in primary health care
•Emphasize preventive work, one’s own responsibility for one’s own health and the
significance of primary health care
• Implementation - divided into 40 sub-projects
•Preparing the ground for the nationwide electronic patient records, which will be
introduced in 2007 (law will be launched Spring 2007)

Evolution of e-processes
- strategy and plan
- education
- culture, values
- publicity in control

5. Adaptation
of work
processes

4. Integration

Use
of e-Health
and e-Social
processes

Integration
of IT solutions
in daily life

Planning and
development
3. Processes
of e-processes,
working models

2. Basic
development

1. Services/
Products

Intranet,
Internet
groundwork
purpose-built

Electronic
documents
and lists
Adapted from www.done360.com

The Regional Project Area
Maternity care – births are over 99% in hospitals

.

JYVÄSKYLÄ

Map of Finland









85.585 km2
>1.000 lakes
681.000 inhabitants
One university hospital
Four central hospitals (five 10/03)
53 health centres
App. 20 000 social and health
care workers

NORMAL MATERNITY CARE SERVICE CHAIN
IN FINLAND (REGULAR PREGNANCY)

FIRST CONTACT
MOTHER/CHILD UNIT

PHN = public
health nurse

PHN/ FIRST
EXAMINATION
8-10 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
10-12 W

LABORATORY

PRE-NATAL
ULTRASOUND

HEALTH CENTRE
BEFORE 12 W
BASIC
INFORMATION
FORM
maternity clinic

CERTIFICATE
M/C CLINIC
NIB (KELA)

PHN/
EXAMINATION
16-18 W

SPECIAL CARE MATERNITY CLINIC
12-14 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
22-24 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
26-28 W
NIB =
National
Insurance
Bureau

PHN/
EXAMINATION
30-32 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
32-34 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
34-36 W

PAGE
2

BIRTH TRAINING COURSE,
(CONSISTS OF 8-10 MEETINGS)

PAGE
2

PHN/ EXAMINATION
37 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
38-40 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
40-42 W

DELIVERY ROOM

POST NATAL WARD

PHN/ (baby) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN/ (mother) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN / Mother´s Medical health check

DOCTOR/ Mother´s
Medical health check8-9 W after delivery

CHILD CLINIC

FAMILY
PLANNING

Basis of the Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net
The Long History of the (Finnish) Maternity Care Services (since 1940´s)
Development of Information Society (1990´s)
Idea of Maternity Services on the Internet (1997)
Basis of
Development
Work
•Research
• Multidisciplinary
co-operation
• Piloting
• Feedback /
Evaluation

Results
• Working
models for
experts and
families
•Networking
• Data/info
contents
• Software
technology

E- Service

Participants
• Health care
professionals
• Families
• Colleges
• Software
technology
experts
• Multimedia
experts

Expert teams





Central team
Social and Health care experts´ team
Technology experts´ team
Education experts´ team (Savonia was co-ordinator
of the MIC project)

• Families

MIC
•is supplementary to today's mother-child clinic services

•helps the user in decision making
•provides information that has been approved by the special
editorial board

•enables the use of the services independently of time and
place (Internet connection needed)
•can be used in many countries (adjustments will be made
according to the culture)

The MIC: options
•Entrance

•News
•Discussion groups (with peers)
•Questions and answers (confidential)
•Search (information)
•Feedback
•Links to other useful Internet sites

Search/ information or data bank











Pregnancy
Delivery
Post- natal period
Infant
Parent's relationship
Parenthood
Personal hygiene, appearance
Nutrition and exercise
Drugs, alcohol and smoking
Services to the public

MIC has 135 articles, two videos, 2 animations, 2 interactive photos, 86
photos and 53 drawings checked and approved by editorial board.

MIC / contents
Example: Drawings

Qualified information / content management
• Information is reliable, and easy to understand
• The quantity of information is adequate
• The required information is easy to find
• The content creation and management are carried on as
part of current (clinical) work processes
• The technical solutions guarantee e.g. data integrity,
authentication, security and data availability

Evaluation - family
• Modern way of having services
• No queuing in phone
• Discussions groups for families (anonymously), where
professionals appear by their names
• Service in your own language
• Information/contents is versatile, extensive, based on
expertise / reliable

Evaluation – maternity care professionals
•Extra visits were not needed during pilot phase
•The Net Clinic could be used as a manual or in
familiarising the new worker
•Counselling and giving advice was harmonised
•Families got deeper information and advice based
on their needs more effectively
•Networking and co-operation was more efficient
•Written answers took some time to get used to

The Project of the Year 2000
•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be expanded
into new application fields like public administration and so called soft
values
•Net Clinic is based on wide and versatile co-operation and on
application of new Internet technology
•Net Clinic proves that it is possible to develop new innovations also
outside big so called growing centres
•Net Clinic proves that women can work successfully in management
or other key positions which have conventionally been classified as
men´s work
(The evaluation criteria of the The Finnish Project Management Association)

Diploma of the Excellent Work
•Given by the Provincial State Office of Eastern Finland 4.9.2001

•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be
expanded into new application fields like public administration in
national level and in future international level

O

O
O

o
x

O

O MIC has been used/is in use
• Kuopio
• Helsinki
• North-East of Finland (Kuusamo,
Taivalkoski, Posio and Salla)
• Rovaniemi and its neighbourhood
Rovaniemi rural commune and
Ranua)

An eMaternal Health Care Data System

STORK

The Stork is
• secured electronic health data system (EHS) made for
professional use
• all the information about pregnancy, delivery and puerperium
is collected in the same system (so called seamless chain
between primary health care and special care)
• mutual data contents to maternal units involved

Data security
• The application
• built on special security system used by the hospital
• Access rights depends on task or position
• those who are involved maternal service chain
• Preconditions for usage
• mother´s permission to collect and transfer her data
(each organisation needs its own permission)
• agreement between different organisations
• every user has personal user identifier, all usage is
logged and saved, even edited/deleted parts will be
recorded permanently

Storks gives information
• Pregnancy follow up, continuous documentation;
appointments with public health nurses, midwifes, doctors
• Graphics; growth of the uterus, hypertension, weight,
partogram
• Internal- and external examinations
• Medication during pregnancy, delivery, puerperium
• Diagnosis of the foetus; e.g ultrasound, lab tests
• Lifestyle of the family (nutrition, exercise, smoking, drugs
etc)
• Sick leaves of the mother
• Special area for the nurse documentation

Stork gives
• The new-born baby his/her social security number
• Basic information from earlier pregnancies
• Statistics e.g.
– for the Stakes (the National Research and Development Centre for
Welfare and Health
– the nursing research

• Forms and applications

The first page of the Stork

Forms

Name, birth date, age, weeks,

Notify: the lamp sign, B-gluc high (red color)
Lab, X-ray

Mother->,
Child ->

Social worker documentation
Both the public health nurse in primary care and
the midwife in special care fulfil this area. The written
data is available in real time (mother´s permission needed)

From Netinformation – Portal
to Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID)

My personal computer

Aims of the Work
• To elaborate the co-operation of different
organisations
• To develop a consistent way to manage information
in Social Work and Health Care organisations
• To develop the ”Dynamic Integrated Desktop” (DID)
for Social Work and Health Care professionals
• To offer further education of Social Work and Health
Care professionals
• To determine the reliable security standards

Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID )
-a consistent way to manage information in Health Care organisations

Partnership information

Single sign-on





Professional information


On line (on special fields)



Education
•course

Contacts
Office times
Information of services

Professional web services



PubMed, Cinahl
Laws and orders

enrolment, forms

Web services for public
Integration of IT software



Contact information



”You get what you need”



Problem solving information



EHR, RIS/PACS (digital imaging), biosignals etc.



Education



High level of security

View of the DID page

Teams
Discussion
Forums

Document
management
Links
Courses

Patients 26.8.2002

Mail (3 new messages)

Time

Name

Social security number

8.00

Patrick Patient

12345679573

8.20

Donald Duck

89101128758

8.40

Clark Kent

98459734658

Maintenance
Magazines &
Periodicals

August 2002

News
Databases
Patients
Help

Personified, user oriented
Networked, user organization oriented

Information system,
task and position in the organization

Tutuks service

• Tutuks, a virtual visit to a maternity ward
• Utilised work done by MIC
• http://www.synnytystutuksi.fi/tutukspalvelu.
html

Challenges for the Future
•Family/citizen participation challenges professionals
•e-working environment (models, processes)
•eEducation and training
• “E-gap” between generations
•Usability of ICT-solutions
•Integration of ICT-solutions

New project
• Looking for partner organisations, next
Tempus Call or other suitable call

New project - Tree of problems
NO KNOWLEDGE
TRANSFER

NO NETWORKING

Lack of resources in
distance teaching in cultural maternity care

Unfamiliarity with new
teaching ways

Former education

Non-transferability of
tacit knowledge

Lack of ICT skills

Figure: Project - problem tree

Retiring
(growing)

Incapability to
respond future needs

Mobility (teachers
and students)

Lack of cooperation between
Euro-Asian HIEs

Need to study regardless
time and space

Tree of objectives
FLEXIBLE
NETWORKING

CULTURAL MATERNITY CARE
AND DISTANCE TEACHING

ENHANCING READINESS FOR
DISTANCE TEACHING IN CULTURAL
MATERNITY AND INFANT CARE

Definition of resources
needed

Testing of
ICT skills

Designing and evaluating
Networking and
Distance teaching model

Selection of Learning Evaluation of
Environment(s)
readiness

MAIN AIM

Reports, workshops
(Implementation)

Accepted
planns

EFFECT

Dissemination of
Project results

Evaluation of model
Implementation

OUTCOME

Thank you for your
attention

Contact info:
[email protected]


Slide 29

eHealth
Case- Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net (MIC)

Speaker:

Pirkko Kouri,
Pricipal Lecturer in Healthcare Technology,
PhD, PHN, RN

Guests:

Tempus delegation

Time:

21 Feb 2007

Ultimate goals of Finnish health care
- Cost-effectiveness
- Patient/client & population centeredness
- Just distribution of the services (equity)
= use based on need

*********************************************************
MSAH’s own information society policy
-

Wide use of information and communication technology
Utilisation of internet penetration

Development levels – definition and projectwork
e.g. Area of eHealth / eWelfare
Levels of development

Development work

EU / National

Laws, standards, terminology, classifications, forms, data definitions

Regional

Aggreements, data transmissions, databases, archives, cooperation

Local

Working culture, division of labour, cooperation

Individual

Personal needs, user interface, way of working, teamwork

Milestones - Finnish health care system

2002
2007

National Project on Safeguarding the Future of Health Care Services
National law EHR

eHealth, National Project on Safeguarding the Future
of Health Care Services – main goals
•Ensure access to treatment
•Enhance co-ordination and co-operation in specialized health care
•Enhance regional co-ordination in primary health care
•Emphasize preventive work, one’s own responsibility for one’s own health and the
significance of primary health care
• Implementation - divided into 40 sub-projects
•Preparing the ground for the nationwide electronic patient records, which will be
introduced in 2007 (law will be launched Spring 2007)

Evolution of e-processes
- strategy and plan
- education
- culture, values
- publicity in control

5. Adaptation
of work
processes

4. Integration

Use
of e-Health
and e-Social
processes

Integration
of IT solutions
in daily life

Planning and
development
3. Processes
of e-processes,
working models

2. Basic
development

1. Services/
Products

Intranet,
Internet
groundwork
purpose-built

Electronic
documents
and lists
Adapted from www.done360.com

The Regional Project Area
Maternity care – births are over 99% in hospitals

.

JYVÄSKYLÄ

Map of Finland









85.585 km2
>1.000 lakes
681.000 inhabitants
One university hospital
Four central hospitals (five 10/03)
53 health centres
App. 20 000 social and health
care workers

NORMAL MATERNITY CARE SERVICE CHAIN
IN FINLAND (REGULAR PREGNANCY)

FIRST CONTACT
MOTHER/CHILD UNIT

PHN = public
health nurse

PHN/ FIRST
EXAMINATION
8-10 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
10-12 W

LABORATORY

PRE-NATAL
ULTRASOUND

HEALTH CENTRE
BEFORE 12 W
BASIC
INFORMATION
FORM
maternity clinic

CERTIFICATE
M/C CLINIC
NIB (KELA)

PHN/
EXAMINATION
16-18 W

SPECIAL CARE MATERNITY CLINIC
12-14 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
22-24 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
26-28 W
NIB =
National
Insurance
Bureau

PHN/
EXAMINATION
30-32 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
32-34 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
34-36 W

PAGE
2

BIRTH TRAINING COURSE,
(CONSISTS OF 8-10 MEETINGS)

PAGE
2

PHN/ EXAMINATION
37 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
38-40 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
40-42 W

DELIVERY ROOM

POST NATAL WARD

PHN/ (baby) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN/ (mother) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN / Mother´s Medical health check

DOCTOR/ Mother´s
Medical health check8-9 W after delivery

CHILD CLINIC

FAMILY
PLANNING

Basis of the Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net
The Long History of the (Finnish) Maternity Care Services (since 1940´s)
Development of Information Society (1990´s)
Idea of Maternity Services on the Internet (1997)
Basis of
Development
Work
•Research
• Multidisciplinary
co-operation
• Piloting
• Feedback /
Evaluation

Results
• Working
models for
experts and
families
•Networking
• Data/info
contents
• Software
technology

E- Service

Participants
• Health care
professionals
• Families
• Colleges
• Software
technology
experts
• Multimedia
experts

Expert teams





Central team
Social and Health care experts´ team
Technology experts´ team
Education experts´ team (Savonia was co-ordinator
of the MIC project)

• Families

MIC
•is supplementary to today's mother-child clinic services

•helps the user in decision making
•provides information that has been approved by the special
editorial board

•enables the use of the services independently of time and
place (Internet connection needed)
•can be used in many countries (adjustments will be made
according to the culture)

The MIC: options
•Entrance

•News
•Discussion groups (with peers)
•Questions and answers (confidential)
•Search (information)
•Feedback
•Links to other useful Internet sites

Search/ information or data bank











Pregnancy
Delivery
Post- natal period
Infant
Parent's relationship
Parenthood
Personal hygiene, appearance
Nutrition and exercise
Drugs, alcohol and smoking
Services to the public

MIC has 135 articles, two videos, 2 animations, 2 interactive photos, 86
photos and 53 drawings checked and approved by editorial board.

MIC / contents
Example: Drawings

Qualified information / content management
• Information is reliable, and easy to understand
• The quantity of information is adequate
• The required information is easy to find
• The content creation and management are carried on as
part of current (clinical) work processes
• The technical solutions guarantee e.g. data integrity,
authentication, security and data availability

Evaluation - family
• Modern way of having services
• No queuing in phone
• Discussions groups for families (anonymously), where
professionals appear by their names
• Service in your own language
• Information/contents is versatile, extensive, based on
expertise / reliable

Evaluation – maternity care professionals
•Extra visits were not needed during pilot phase
•The Net Clinic could be used as a manual or in
familiarising the new worker
•Counselling and giving advice was harmonised
•Families got deeper information and advice based
on their needs more effectively
•Networking and co-operation was more efficient
•Written answers took some time to get used to

The Project of the Year 2000
•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be expanded
into new application fields like public administration and so called soft
values
•Net Clinic is based on wide and versatile co-operation and on
application of new Internet technology
•Net Clinic proves that it is possible to develop new innovations also
outside big so called growing centres
•Net Clinic proves that women can work successfully in management
or other key positions which have conventionally been classified as
men´s work
(The evaluation criteria of the The Finnish Project Management Association)

Diploma of the Excellent Work
•Given by the Provincial State Office of Eastern Finland 4.9.2001

•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be
expanded into new application fields like public administration in
national level and in future international level

O

O
O

o
x

O

O MIC has been used/is in use
• Kuopio
• Helsinki
• North-East of Finland (Kuusamo,
Taivalkoski, Posio and Salla)
• Rovaniemi and its neighbourhood
Rovaniemi rural commune and
Ranua)

An eMaternal Health Care Data System

STORK

The Stork is
• secured electronic health data system (EHS) made for
professional use
• all the information about pregnancy, delivery and puerperium
is collected in the same system (so called seamless chain
between primary health care and special care)
• mutual data contents to maternal units involved

Data security
• The application
• built on special security system used by the hospital
• Access rights depends on task or position
• those who are involved maternal service chain
• Preconditions for usage
• mother´s permission to collect and transfer her data
(each organisation needs its own permission)
• agreement between different organisations
• every user has personal user identifier, all usage is
logged and saved, even edited/deleted parts will be
recorded permanently

Storks gives information
• Pregnancy follow up, continuous documentation;
appointments with public health nurses, midwifes, doctors
• Graphics; growth of the uterus, hypertension, weight,
partogram
• Internal- and external examinations
• Medication during pregnancy, delivery, puerperium
• Diagnosis of the foetus; e.g ultrasound, lab tests
• Lifestyle of the family (nutrition, exercise, smoking, drugs
etc)
• Sick leaves of the mother
• Special area for the nurse documentation

Stork gives
• The new-born baby his/her social security number
• Basic information from earlier pregnancies
• Statistics e.g.
– for the Stakes (the National Research and Development Centre for
Welfare and Health
– the nursing research

• Forms and applications

The first page of the Stork

Forms

Name, birth date, age, weeks,

Notify: the lamp sign, B-gluc high (red color)
Lab, X-ray

Mother->,
Child ->

Social worker documentation
Both the public health nurse in primary care and
the midwife in special care fulfil this area. The written
data is available in real time (mother´s permission needed)

From Netinformation – Portal
to Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID)

My personal computer

Aims of the Work
• To elaborate the co-operation of different
organisations
• To develop a consistent way to manage information
in Social Work and Health Care organisations
• To develop the ”Dynamic Integrated Desktop” (DID)
for Social Work and Health Care professionals
• To offer further education of Social Work and Health
Care professionals
• To determine the reliable security standards

Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID )
-a consistent way to manage information in Health Care organisations

Partnership information

Single sign-on





Professional information


On line (on special fields)



Education
•course

Contacts
Office times
Information of services

Professional web services



PubMed, Cinahl
Laws and orders

enrolment, forms

Web services for public
Integration of IT software



Contact information



”You get what you need”



Problem solving information



EHR, RIS/PACS (digital imaging), biosignals etc.



Education



High level of security

View of the DID page

Teams
Discussion
Forums

Document
management
Links
Courses

Patients 26.8.2002

Mail (3 new messages)

Time

Name

Social security number

8.00

Patrick Patient

12345679573

8.20

Donald Duck

89101128758

8.40

Clark Kent

98459734658

Maintenance
Magazines &
Periodicals

August 2002

News
Databases
Patients
Help

Personified, user oriented
Networked, user organization oriented

Information system,
task and position in the organization

Tutuks service

• Tutuks, a virtual visit to a maternity ward
• Utilised work done by MIC
• http://www.synnytystutuksi.fi/tutukspalvelu.
html

Challenges for the Future
•Family/citizen participation challenges professionals
•e-working environment (models, processes)
•eEducation and training
• “E-gap” between generations
•Usability of ICT-solutions
•Integration of ICT-solutions

New project
• Looking for partner organisations, next
Tempus Call or other suitable call

New project - Tree of problems
NO KNOWLEDGE
TRANSFER

NO NETWORKING

Lack of resources in
distance teaching in cultural maternity care

Unfamiliarity with new
teaching ways

Former education

Non-transferability of
tacit knowledge

Lack of ICT skills

Figure: Project - problem tree

Retiring
(growing)

Incapability to
respond future needs

Mobility (teachers
and students)

Lack of cooperation between
Euro-Asian HIEs

Need to study regardless
time and space

Tree of objectives
FLEXIBLE
NETWORKING

CULTURAL MATERNITY CARE
AND DISTANCE TEACHING

ENHANCING READINESS FOR
DISTANCE TEACHING IN CULTURAL
MATERNITY AND INFANT CARE

Definition of resources
needed

Testing of
ICT skills

Designing and evaluating
Networking and
Distance teaching model

Selection of Learning Evaluation of
Environment(s)
readiness

MAIN AIM

Reports, workshops
(Implementation)

Accepted
planns

EFFECT

Dissemination of
Project results

Evaluation of model
Implementation

OUTCOME

Thank you for your
attention

Contact info:
[email protected]


Slide 30

eHealth
Case- Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net (MIC)

Speaker:

Pirkko Kouri,
Pricipal Lecturer in Healthcare Technology,
PhD, PHN, RN

Guests:

Tempus delegation

Time:

21 Feb 2007

Ultimate goals of Finnish health care
- Cost-effectiveness
- Patient/client & population centeredness
- Just distribution of the services (equity)
= use based on need

*********************************************************
MSAH’s own information society policy
-

Wide use of information and communication technology
Utilisation of internet penetration

Development levels – definition and projectwork
e.g. Area of eHealth / eWelfare
Levels of development

Development work

EU / National

Laws, standards, terminology, classifications, forms, data definitions

Regional

Aggreements, data transmissions, databases, archives, cooperation

Local

Working culture, division of labour, cooperation

Individual

Personal needs, user interface, way of working, teamwork

Milestones - Finnish health care system

2002
2007

National Project on Safeguarding the Future of Health Care Services
National law EHR

eHealth, National Project on Safeguarding the Future
of Health Care Services – main goals
•Ensure access to treatment
•Enhance co-ordination and co-operation in specialized health care
•Enhance regional co-ordination in primary health care
•Emphasize preventive work, one’s own responsibility for one’s own health and the
significance of primary health care
• Implementation - divided into 40 sub-projects
•Preparing the ground for the nationwide electronic patient records, which will be
introduced in 2007 (law will be launched Spring 2007)

Evolution of e-processes
- strategy and plan
- education
- culture, values
- publicity in control

5. Adaptation
of work
processes

4. Integration

Use
of e-Health
and e-Social
processes

Integration
of IT solutions
in daily life

Planning and
development
3. Processes
of e-processes,
working models

2. Basic
development

1. Services/
Products

Intranet,
Internet
groundwork
purpose-built

Electronic
documents
and lists
Adapted from www.done360.com

The Regional Project Area
Maternity care – births are over 99% in hospitals

.

JYVÄSKYLÄ

Map of Finland









85.585 km2
>1.000 lakes
681.000 inhabitants
One university hospital
Four central hospitals (five 10/03)
53 health centres
App. 20 000 social and health
care workers

NORMAL MATERNITY CARE SERVICE CHAIN
IN FINLAND (REGULAR PREGNANCY)

FIRST CONTACT
MOTHER/CHILD UNIT

PHN = public
health nurse

PHN/ FIRST
EXAMINATION
8-10 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
10-12 W

LABORATORY

PRE-NATAL
ULTRASOUND

HEALTH CENTRE
BEFORE 12 W
BASIC
INFORMATION
FORM
maternity clinic

CERTIFICATE
M/C CLINIC
NIB (KELA)

PHN/
EXAMINATION
16-18 W

SPECIAL CARE MATERNITY CLINIC
12-14 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
22-24 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
26-28 W
NIB =
National
Insurance
Bureau

PHN/
EXAMINATION
30-32 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
32-34 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
34-36 W

PAGE
2

BIRTH TRAINING COURSE,
(CONSISTS OF 8-10 MEETINGS)

PAGE
2

PHN/ EXAMINATION
37 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
38-40 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
40-42 W

DELIVERY ROOM

POST NATAL WARD

PHN/ (baby) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN/ (mother) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN / Mother´s Medical health check

DOCTOR/ Mother´s
Medical health check8-9 W after delivery

CHILD CLINIC

FAMILY
PLANNING

Basis of the Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net
The Long History of the (Finnish) Maternity Care Services (since 1940´s)
Development of Information Society (1990´s)
Idea of Maternity Services on the Internet (1997)
Basis of
Development
Work
•Research
• Multidisciplinary
co-operation
• Piloting
• Feedback /
Evaluation

Results
• Working
models for
experts and
families
•Networking
• Data/info
contents
• Software
technology

E- Service

Participants
• Health care
professionals
• Families
• Colleges
• Software
technology
experts
• Multimedia
experts

Expert teams





Central team
Social and Health care experts´ team
Technology experts´ team
Education experts´ team (Savonia was co-ordinator
of the MIC project)

• Families

MIC
•is supplementary to today's mother-child clinic services

•helps the user in decision making
•provides information that has been approved by the special
editorial board

•enables the use of the services independently of time and
place (Internet connection needed)
•can be used in many countries (adjustments will be made
according to the culture)

The MIC: options
•Entrance

•News
•Discussion groups (with peers)
•Questions and answers (confidential)
•Search (information)
•Feedback
•Links to other useful Internet sites

Search/ information or data bank











Pregnancy
Delivery
Post- natal period
Infant
Parent's relationship
Parenthood
Personal hygiene, appearance
Nutrition and exercise
Drugs, alcohol and smoking
Services to the public

MIC has 135 articles, two videos, 2 animations, 2 interactive photos, 86
photos and 53 drawings checked and approved by editorial board.

MIC / contents
Example: Drawings

Qualified information / content management
• Information is reliable, and easy to understand
• The quantity of information is adequate
• The required information is easy to find
• The content creation and management are carried on as
part of current (clinical) work processes
• The technical solutions guarantee e.g. data integrity,
authentication, security and data availability

Evaluation - family
• Modern way of having services
• No queuing in phone
• Discussions groups for families (anonymously), where
professionals appear by their names
• Service in your own language
• Information/contents is versatile, extensive, based on
expertise / reliable

Evaluation – maternity care professionals
•Extra visits were not needed during pilot phase
•The Net Clinic could be used as a manual or in
familiarising the new worker
•Counselling and giving advice was harmonised
•Families got deeper information and advice based
on their needs more effectively
•Networking and co-operation was more efficient
•Written answers took some time to get used to

The Project of the Year 2000
•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be expanded
into new application fields like public administration and so called soft
values
•Net Clinic is based on wide and versatile co-operation and on
application of new Internet technology
•Net Clinic proves that it is possible to develop new innovations also
outside big so called growing centres
•Net Clinic proves that women can work successfully in management
or other key positions which have conventionally been classified as
men´s work
(The evaluation criteria of the The Finnish Project Management Association)

Diploma of the Excellent Work
•Given by the Provincial State Office of Eastern Finland 4.9.2001

•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be
expanded into new application fields like public administration in
national level and in future international level

O

O
O

o
x

O

O MIC has been used/is in use
• Kuopio
• Helsinki
• North-East of Finland (Kuusamo,
Taivalkoski, Posio and Salla)
• Rovaniemi and its neighbourhood
Rovaniemi rural commune and
Ranua)

An eMaternal Health Care Data System

STORK

The Stork is
• secured electronic health data system (EHS) made for
professional use
• all the information about pregnancy, delivery and puerperium
is collected in the same system (so called seamless chain
between primary health care and special care)
• mutual data contents to maternal units involved

Data security
• The application
• built on special security system used by the hospital
• Access rights depends on task or position
• those who are involved maternal service chain
• Preconditions for usage
• mother´s permission to collect and transfer her data
(each organisation needs its own permission)
• agreement between different organisations
• every user has personal user identifier, all usage is
logged and saved, even edited/deleted parts will be
recorded permanently

Storks gives information
• Pregnancy follow up, continuous documentation;
appointments with public health nurses, midwifes, doctors
• Graphics; growth of the uterus, hypertension, weight,
partogram
• Internal- and external examinations
• Medication during pregnancy, delivery, puerperium
• Diagnosis of the foetus; e.g ultrasound, lab tests
• Lifestyle of the family (nutrition, exercise, smoking, drugs
etc)
• Sick leaves of the mother
• Special area for the nurse documentation

Stork gives
• The new-born baby his/her social security number
• Basic information from earlier pregnancies
• Statistics e.g.
– for the Stakes (the National Research and Development Centre for
Welfare and Health
– the nursing research

• Forms and applications

The first page of the Stork

Forms

Name, birth date, age, weeks,

Notify: the lamp sign, B-gluc high (red color)
Lab, X-ray

Mother->,
Child ->

Social worker documentation
Both the public health nurse in primary care and
the midwife in special care fulfil this area. The written
data is available in real time (mother´s permission needed)

From Netinformation – Portal
to Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID)

My personal computer

Aims of the Work
• To elaborate the co-operation of different
organisations
• To develop a consistent way to manage information
in Social Work and Health Care organisations
• To develop the ”Dynamic Integrated Desktop” (DID)
for Social Work and Health Care professionals
• To offer further education of Social Work and Health
Care professionals
• To determine the reliable security standards

Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID )
-a consistent way to manage information in Health Care organisations

Partnership information

Single sign-on





Professional information


On line (on special fields)



Education
•course

Contacts
Office times
Information of services

Professional web services



PubMed, Cinahl
Laws and orders

enrolment, forms

Web services for public
Integration of IT software



Contact information



”You get what you need”



Problem solving information



EHR, RIS/PACS (digital imaging), biosignals etc.



Education



High level of security

View of the DID page

Teams
Discussion
Forums

Document
management
Links
Courses

Patients 26.8.2002

Mail (3 new messages)

Time

Name

Social security number

8.00

Patrick Patient

12345679573

8.20

Donald Duck

89101128758

8.40

Clark Kent

98459734658

Maintenance
Magazines &
Periodicals

August 2002

News
Databases
Patients
Help

Personified, user oriented
Networked, user organization oriented

Information system,
task and position in the organization

Tutuks service

• Tutuks, a virtual visit to a maternity ward
• Utilised work done by MIC
• http://www.synnytystutuksi.fi/tutukspalvelu.
html

Challenges for the Future
•Family/citizen participation challenges professionals
•e-working environment (models, processes)
•eEducation and training
• “E-gap” between generations
•Usability of ICT-solutions
•Integration of ICT-solutions

New project
• Looking for partner organisations, next
Tempus Call or other suitable call

New project - Tree of problems
NO KNOWLEDGE
TRANSFER

NO NETWORKING

Lack of resources in
distance teaching in cultural maternity care

Unfamiliarity with new
teaching ways

Former education

Non-transferability of
tacit knowledge

Lack of ICT skills

Figure: Project - problem tree

Retiring
(growing)

Incapability to
respond future needs

Mobility (teachers
and students)

Lack of cooperation between
Euro-Asian HIEs

Need to study regardless
time and space

Tree of objectives
FLEXIBLE
NETWORKING

CULTURAL MATERNITY CARE
AND DISTANCE TEACHING

ENHANCING READINESS FOR
DISTANCE TEACHING IN CULTURAL
MATERNITY AND INFANT CARE

Definition of resources
needed

Testing of
ICT skills

Designing and evaluating
Networking and
Distance teaching model

Selection of Learning Evaluation of
Environment(s)
readiness

MAIN AIM

Reports, workshops
(Implementation)

Accepted
planns

EFFECT

Dissemination of
Project results

Evaluation of model
Implementation

OUTCOME

Thank you for your
attention

Contact info:
[email protected]


Slide 31

eHealth
Case- Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net (MIC)

Speaker:

Pirkko Kouri,
Pricipal Lecturer in Healthcare Technology,
PhD, PHN, RN

Guests:

Tempus delegation

Time:

21 Feb 2007

Ultimate goals of Finnish health care
- Cost-effectiveness
- Patient/client & population centeredness
- Just distribution of the services (equity)
= use based on need

*********************************************************
MSAH’s own information society policy
-

Wide use of information and communication technology
Utilisation of internet penetration

Development levels – definition and projectwork
e.g. Area of eHealth / eWelfare
Levels of development

Development work

EU / National

Laws, standards, terminology, classifications, forms, data definitions

Regional

Aggreements, data transmissions, databases, archives, cooperation

Local

Working culture, division of labour, cooperation

Individual

Personal needs, user interface, way of working, teamwork

Milestones - Finnish health care system

2002
2007

National Project on Safeguarding the Future of Health Care Services
National law EHR

eHealth, National Project on Safeguarding the Future
of Health Care Services – main goals
•Ensure access to treatment
•Enhance co-ordination and co-operation in specialized health care
•Enhance regional co-ordination in primary health care
•Emphasize preventive work, one’s own responsibility for one’s own health and the
significance of primary health care
• Implementation - divided into 40 sub-projects
•Preparing the ground for the nationwide electronic patient records, which will be
introduced in 2007 (law will be launched Spring 2007)

Evolution of e-processes
- strategy and plan
- education
- culture, values
- publicity in control

5. Adaptation
of work
processes

4. Integration

Use
of e-Health
and e-Social
processes

Integration
of IT solutions
in daily life

Planning and
development
3. Processes
of e-processes,
working models

2. Basic
development

1. Services/
Products

Intranet,
Internet
groundwork
purpose-built

Electronic
documents
and lists
Adapted from www.done360.com

The Regional Project Area
Maternity care – births are over 99% in hospitals

.

JYVÄSKYLÄ

Map of Finland









85.585 km2
>1.000 lakes
681.000 inhabitants
One university hospital
Four central hospitals (five 10/03)
53 health centres
App. 20 000 social and health
care workers

NORMAL MATERNITY CARE SERVICE CHAIN
IN FINLAND (REGULAR PREGNANCY)

FIRST CONTACT
MOTHER/CHILD UNIT

PHN = public
health nurse

PHN/ FIRST
EXAMINATION
8-10 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
10-12 W

LABORATORY

PRE-NATAL
ULTRASOUND

HEALTH CENTRE
BEFORE 12 W
BASIC
INFORMATION
FORM
maternity clinic

CERTIFICATE
M/C CLINIC
NIB (KELA)

PHN/
EXAMINATION
16-18 W

SPECIAL CARE MATERNITY CLINIC
12-14 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
22-24 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
26-28 W
NIB =
National
Insurance
Bureau

PHN/
EXAMINATION
30-32 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
32-34 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
34-36 W

PAGE
2

BIRTH TRAINING COURSE,
(CONSISTS OF 8-10 MEETINGS)

PAGE
2

PHN/ EXAMINATION
37 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
38-40 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
40-42 W

DELIVERY ROOM

POST NATAL WARD

PHN/ (baby) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN/ (mother) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN / Mother´s Medical health check

DOCTOR/ Mother´s
Medical health check8-9 W after delivery

CHILD CLINIC

FAMILY
PLANNING

Basis of the Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net
The Long History of the (Finnish) Maternity Care Services (since 1940´s)
Development of Information Society (1990´s)
Idea of Maternity Services on the Internet (1997)
Basis of
Development
Work
•Research
• Multidisciplinary
co-operation
• Piloting
• Feedback /
Evaluation

Results
• Working
models for
experts and
families
•Networking
• Data/info
contents
• Software
technology

E- Service

Participants
• Health care
professionals
• Families
• Colleges
• Software
technology
experts
• Multimedia
experts

Expert teams





Central team
Social and Health care experts´ team
Technology experts´ team
Education experts´ team (Savonia was co-ordinator
of the MIC project)

• Families

MIC
•is supplementary to today's mother-child clinic services

•helps the user in decision making
•provides information that has been approved by the special
editorial board

•enables the use of the services independently of time and
place (Internet connection needed)
•can be used in many countries (adjustments will be made
according to the culture)

The MIC: options
•Entrance

•News
•Discussion groups (with peers)
•Questions and answers (confidential)
•Search (information)
•Feedback
•Links to other useful Internet sites

Search/ information or data bank











Pregnancy
Delivery
Post- natal period
Infant
Parent's relationship
Parenthood
Personal hygiene, appearance
Nutrition and exercise
Drugs, alcohol and smoking
Services to the public

MIC has 135 articles, two videos, 2 animations, 2 interactive photos, 86
photos and 53 drawings checked and approved by editorial board.

MIC / contents
Example: Drawings

Qualified information / content management
• Information is reliable, and easy to understand
• The quantity of information is adequate
• The required information is easy to find
• The content creation and management are carried on as
part of current (clinical) work processes
• The technical solutions guarantee e.g. data integrity,
authentication, security and data availability

Evaluation - family
• Modern way of having services
• No queuing in phone
• Discussions groups for families (anonymously), where
professionals appear by their names
• Service in your own language
• Information/contents is versatile, extensive, based on
expertise / reliable

Evaluation – maternity care professionals
•Extra visits were not needed during pilot phase
•The Net Clinic could be used as a manual or in
familiarising the new worker
•Counselling and giving advice was harmonised
•Families got deeper information and advice based
on their needs more effectively
•Networking and co-operation was more efficient
•Written answers took some time to get used to

The Project of the Year 2000
•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be expanded
into new application fields like public administration and so called soft
values
•Net Clinic is based on wide and versatile co-operation and on
application of new Internet technology
•Net Clinic proves that it is possible to develop new innovations also
outside big so called growing centres
•Net Clinic proves that women can work successfully in management
or other key positions which have conventionally been classified as
men´s work
(The evaluation criteria of the The Finnish Project Management Association)

Diploma of the Excellent Work
•Given by the Provincial State Office of Eastern Finland 4.9.2001

•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be
expanded into new application fields like public administration in
national level and in future international level

O

O
O

o
x

O

O MIC has been used/is in use
• Kuopio
• Helsinki
• North-East of Finland (Kuusamo,
Taivalkoski, Posio and Salla)
• Rovaniemi and its neighbourhood
Rovaniemi rural commune and
Ranua)

An eMaternal Health Care Data System

STORK

The Stork is
• secured electronic health data system (EHS) made for
professional use
• all the information about pregnancy, delivery and puerperium
is collected in the same system (so called seamless chain
between primary health care and special care)
• mutual data contents to maternal units involved

Data security
• The application
• built on special security system used by the hospital
• Access rights depends on task or position
• those who are involved maternal service chain
• Preconditions for usage
• mother´s permission to collect and transfer her data
(each organisation needs its own permission)
• agreement between different organisations
• every user has personal user identifier, all usage is
logged and saved, even edited/deleted parts will be
recorded permanently

Storks gives information
• Pregnancy follow up, continuous documentation;
appointments with public health nurses, midwifes, doctors
• Graphics; growth of the uterus, hypertension, weight,
partogram
• Internal- and external examinations
• Medication during pregnancy, delivery, puerperium
• Diagnosis of the foetus; e.g ultrasound, lab tests
• Lifestyle of the family (nutrition, exercise, smoking, drugs
etc)
• Sick leaves of the mother
• Special area for the nurse documentation

Stork gives
• The new-born baby his/her social security number
• Basic information from earlier pregnancies
• Statistics e.g.
– for the Stakes (the National Research and Development Centre for
Welfare and Health
– the nursing research

• Forms and applications

The first page of the Stork

Forms

Name, birth date, age, weeks,

Notify: the lamp sign, B-gluc high (red color)
Lab, X-ray

Mother->,
Child ->

Social worker documentation
Both the public health nurse in primary care and
the midwife in special care fulfil this area. The written
data is available in real time (mother´s permission needed)

From Netinformation – Portal
to Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID)

My personal computer

Aims of the Work
• To elaborate the co-operation of different
organisations
• To develop a consistent way to manage information
in Social Work and Health Care organisations
• To develop the ”Dynamic Integrated Desktop” (DID)
for Social Work and Health Care professionals
• To offer further education of Social Work and Health
Care professionals
• To determine the reliable security standards

Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID )
-a consistent way to manage information in Health Care organisations

Partnership information

Single sign-on





Professional information


On line (on special fields)



Education
•course

Contacts
Office times
Information of services

Professional web services



PubMed, Cinahl
Laws and orders

enrolment, forms

Web services for public
Integration of IT software



Contact information



”You get what you need”



Problem solving information



EHR, RIS/PACS (digital imaging), biosignals etc.



Education



High level of security

View of the DID page

Teams
Discussion
Forums

Document
management
Links
Courses

Patients 26.8.2002

Mail (3 new messages)

Time

Name

Social security number

8.00

Patrick Patient

12345679573

8.20

Donald Duck

89101128758

8.40

Clark Kent

98459734658

Maintenance
Magazines &
Periodicals

August 2002

News
Databases
Patients
Help

Personified, user oriented
Networked, user organization oriented

Information system,
task and position in the organization

Tutuks service

• Tutuks, a virtual visit to a maternity ward
• Utilised work done by MIC
• http://www.synnytystutuksi.fi/tutukspalvelu.
html

Challenges for the Future
•Family/citizen participation challenges professionals
•e-working environment (models, processes)
•eEducation and training
• “E-gap” between generations
•Usability of ICT-solutions
•Integration of ICT-solutions

New project
• Looking for partner organisations, next
Tempus Call or other suitable call

New project - Tree of problems
NO KNOWLEDGE
TRANSFER

NO NETWORKING

Lack of resources in
distance teaching in cultural maternity care

Unfamiliarity with new
teaching ways

Former education

Non-transferability of
tacit knowledge

Lack of ICT skills

Figure: Project - problem tree

Retiring
(growing)

Incapability to
respond future needs

Mobility (teachers
and students)

Lack of cooperation between
Euro-Asian HIEs

Need to study regardless
time and space

Tree of objectives
FLEXIBLE
NETWORKING

CULTURAL MATERNITY CARE
AND DISTANCE TEACHING

ENHANCING READINESS FOR
DISTANCE TEACHING IN CULTURAL
MATERNITY AND INFANT CARE

Definition of resources
needed

Testing of
ICT skills

Designing and evaluating
Networking and
Distance teaching model

Selection of Learning Evaluation of
Environment(s)
readiness

MAIN AIM

Reports, workshops
(Implementation)

Accepted
planns

EFFECT

Dissemination of
Project results

Evaluation of model
Implementation

OUTCOME

Thank you for your
attention

Contact info:
[email protected]


Slide 32

eHealth
Case- Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net (MIC)

Speaker:

Pirkko Kouri,
Pricipal Lecturer in Healthcare Technology,
PhD, PHN, RN

Guests:

Tempus delegation

Time:

21 Feb 2007

Ultimate goals of Finnish health care
- Cost-effectiveness
- Patient/client & population centeredness
- Just distribution of the services (equity)
= use based on need

*********************************************************
MSAH’s own information society policy
-

Wide use of information and communication technology
Utilisation of internet penetration

Development levels – definition and projectwork
e.g. Area of eHealth / eWelfare
Levels of development

Development work

EU / National

Laws, standards, terminology, classifications, forms, data definitions

Regional

Aggreements, data transmissions, databases, archives, cooperation

Local

Working culture, division of labour, cooperation

Individual

Personal needs, user interface, way of working, teamwork

Milestones - Finnish health care system

2002
2007

National Project on Safeguarding the Future of Health Care Services
National law EHR

eHealth, National Project on Safeguarding the Future
of Health Care Services – main goals
•Ensure access to treatment
•Enhance co-ordination and co-operation in specialized health care
•Enhance regional co-ordination in primary health care
•Emphasize preventive work, one’s own responsibility for one’s own health and the
significance of primary health care
• Implementation - divided into 40 sub-projects
•Preparing the ground for the nationwide electronic patient records, which will be
introduced in 2007 (law will be launched Spring 2007)

Evolution of e-processes
- strategy and plan
- education
- culture, values
- publicity in control

5. Adaptation
of work
processes

4. Integration

Use
of e-Health
and e-Social
processes

Integration
of IT solutions
in daily life

Planning and
development
3. Processes
of e-processes,
working models

2. Basic
development

1. Services/
Products

Intranet,
Internet
groundwork
purpose-built

Electronic
documents
and lists
Adapted from www.done360.com

The Regional Project Area
Maternity care – births are over 99% in hospitals

.

JYVÄSKYLÄ

Map of Finland









85.585 km2
>1.000 lakes
681.000 inhabitants
One university hospital
Four central hospitals (five 10/03)
53 health centres
App. 20 000 social and health
care workers

NORMAL MATERNITY CARE SERVICE CHAIN
IN FINLAND (REGULAR PREGNANCY)

FIRST CONTACT
MOTHER/CHILD UNIT

PHN = public
health nurse

PHN/ FIRST
EXAMINATION
8-10 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
10-12 W

LABORATORY

PRE-NATAL
ULTRASOUND

HEALTH CENTRE
BEFORE 12 W
BASIC
INFORMATION
FORM
maternity clinic

CERTIFICATE
M/C CLINIC
NIB (KELA)

PHN/
EXAMINATION
16-18 W

SPECIAL CARE MATERNITY CLINIC
12-14 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
22-24 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
26-28 W
NIB =
National
Insurance
Bureau

PHN/
EXAMINATION
30-32 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
32-34 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
34-36 W

PAGE
2

BIRTH TRAINING COURSE,
(CONSISTS OF 8-10 MEETINGS)

PAGE
2

PHN/ EXAMINATION
37 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
38-40 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
40-42 W

DELIVERY ROOM

POST NATAL WARD

PHN/ (baby) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN/ (mother) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN / Mother´s Medical health check

DOCTOR/ Mother´s
Medical health check8-9 W after delivery

CHILD CLINIC

FAMILY
PLANNING

Basis of the Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net
The Long History of the (Finnish) Maternity Care Services (since 1940´s)
Development of Information Society (1990´s)
Idea of Maternity Services on the Internet (1997)
Basis of
Development
Work
•Research
• Multidisciplinary
co-operation
• Piloting
• Feedback /
Evaluation

Results
• Working
models for
experts and
families
•Networking
• Data/info
contents
• Software
technology

E- Service

Participants
• Health care
professionals
• Families
• Colleges
• Software
technology
experts
• Multimedia
experts

Expert teams





Central team
Social and Health care experts´ team
Technology experts´ team
Education experts´ team (Savonia was co-ordinator
of the MIC project)

• Families

MIC
•is supplementary to today's mother-child clinic services

•helps the user in decision making
•provides information that has been approved by the special
editorial board

•enables the use of the services independently of time and
place (Internet connection needed)
•can be used in many countries (adjustments will be made
according to the culture)

The MIC: options
•Entrance

•News
•Discussion groups (with peers)
•Questions and answers (confidential)
•Search (information)
•Feedback
•Links to other useful Internet sites

Search/ information or data bank











Pregnancy
Delivery
Post- natal period
Infant
Parent's relationship
Parenthood
Personal hygiene, appearance
Nutrition and exercise
Drugs, alcohol and smoking
Services to the public

MIC has 135 articles, two videos, 2 animations, 2 interactive photos, 86
photos and 53 drawings checked and approved by editorial board.

MIC / contents
Example: Drawings

Qualified information / content management
• Information is reliable, and easy to understand
• The quantity of information is adequate
• The required information is easy to find
• The content creation and management are carried on as
part of current (clinical) work processes
• The technical solutions guarantee e.g. data integrity,
authentication, security and data availability

Evaluation - family
• Modern way of having services
• No queuing in phone
• Discussions groups for families (anonymously), where
professionals appear by their names
• Service in your own language
• Information/contents is versatile, extensive, based on
expertise / reliable

Evaluation – maternity care professionals
•Extra visits were not needed during pilot phase
•The Net Clinic could be used as a manual or in
familiarising the new worker
•Counselling and giving advice was harmonised
•Families got deeper information and advice based
on their needs more effectively
•Networking and co-operation was more efficient
•Written answers took some time to get used to

The Project of the Year 2000
•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be expanded
into new application fields like public administration and so called soft
values
•Net Clinic is based on wide and versatile co-operation and on
application of new Internet technology
•Net Clinic proves that it is possible to develop new innovations also
outside big so called growing centres
•Net Clinic proves that women can work successfully in management
or other key positions which have conventionally been classified as
men´s work
(The evaluation criteria of the The Finnish Project Management Association)

Diploma of the Excellent Work
•Given by the Provincial State Office of Eastern Finland 4.9.2001

•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be
expanded into new application fields like public administration in
national level and in future international level

O

O
O

o
x

O

O MIC has been used/is in use
• Kuopio
• Helsinki
• North-East of Finland (Kuusamo,
Taivalkoski, Posio and Salla)
• Rovaniemi and its neighbourhood
Rovaniemi rural commune and
Ranua)

An eMaternal Health Care Data System

STORK

The Stork is
• secured electronic health data system (EHS) made for
professional use
• all the information about pregnancy, delivery and puerperium
is collected in the same system (so called seamless chain
between primary health care and special care)
• mutual data contents to maternal units involved

Data security
• The application
• built on special security system used by the hospital
• Access rights depends on task or position
• those who are involved maternal service chain
• Preconditions for usage
• mother´s permission to collect and transfer her data
(each organisation needs its own permission)
• agreement between different organisations
• every user has personal user identifier, all usage is
logged and saved, even edited/deleted parts will be
recorded permanently

Storks gives information
• Pregnancy follow up, continuous documentation;
appointments with public health nurses, midwifes, doctors
• Graphics; growth of the uterus, hypertension, weight,
partogram
• Internal- and external examinations
• Medication during pregnancy, delivery, puerperium
• Diagnosis of the foetus; e.g ultrasound, lab tests
• Lifestyle of the family (nutrition, exercise, smoking, drugs
etc)
• Sick leaves of the mother
• Special area for the nurse documentation

Stork gives
• The new-born baby his/her social security number
• Basic information from earlier pregnancies
• Statistics e.g.
– for the Stakes (the National Research and Development Centre for
Welfare and Health
– the nursing research

• Forms and applications

The first page of the Stork

Forms

Name, birth date, age, weeks,

Notify: the lamp sign, B-gluc high (red color)
Lab, X-ray

Mother->,
Child ->

Social worker documentation
Both the public health nurse in primary care and
the midwife in special care fulfil this area. The written
data is available in real time (mother´s permission needed)

From Netinformation – Portal
to Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID)

My personal computer

Aims of the Work
• To elaborate the co-operation of different
organisations
• To develop a consistent way to manage information
in Social Work and Health Care organisations
• To develop the ”Dynamic Integrated Desktop” (DID)
for Social Work and Health Care professionals
• To offer further education of Social Work and Health
Care professionals
• To determine the reliable security standards

Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID )
-a consistent way to manage information in Health Care organisations

Partnership information

Single sign-on





Professional information


On line (on special fields)



Education
•course

Contacts
Office times
Information of services

Professional web services



PubMed, Cinahl
Laws and orders

enrolment, forms

Web services for public
Integration of IT software



Contact information



”You get what you need”



Problem solving information



EHR, RIS/PACS (digital imaging), biosignals etc.



Education



High level of security

View of the DID page

Teams
Discussion
Forums

Document
management
Links
Courses

Patients 26.8.2002

Mail (3 new messages)

Time

Name

Social security number

8.00

Patrick Patient

12345679573

8.20

Donald Duck

89101128758

8.40

Clark Kent

98459734658

Maintenance
Magazines &
Periodicals

August 2002

News
Databases
Patients
Help

Personified, user oriented
Networked, user organization oriented

Information system,
task and position in the organization

Tutuks service

• Tutuks, a virtual visit to a maternity ward
• Utilised work done by MIC
• http://www.synnytystutuksi.fi/tutukspalvelu.
html

Challenges for the Future
•Family/citizen participation challenges professionals
•e-working environment (models, processes)
•eEducation and training
• “E-gap” between generations
•Usability of ICT-solutions
•Integration of ICT-solutions

New project
• Looking for partner organisations, next
Tempus Call or other suitable call

New project - Tree of problems
NO KNOWLEDGE
TRANSFER

NO NETWORKING

Lack of resources in
distance teaching in cultural maternity care

Unfamiliarity with new
teaching ways

Former education

Non-transferability of
tacit knowledge

Lack of ICT skills

Figure: Project - problem tree

Retiring
(growing)

Incapability to
respond future needs

Mobility (teachers
and students)

Lack of cooperation between
Euro-Asian HIEs

Need to study regardless
time and space

Tree of objectives
FLEXIBLE
NETWORKING

CULTURAL MATERNITY CARE
AND DISTANCE TEACHING

ENHANCING READINESS FOR
DISTANCE TEACHING IN CULTURAL
MATERNITY AND INFANT CARE

Definition of resources
needed

Testing of
ICT skills

Designing and evaluating
Networking and
Distance teaching model

Selection of Learning Evaluation of
Environment(s)
readiness

MAIN AIM

Reports, workshops
(Implementation)

Accepted
planns

EFFECT

Dissemination of
Project results

Evaluation of model
Implementation

OUTCOME

Thank you for your
attention

Contact info:
[email protected]


Slide 33

eHealth
Case- Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net (MIC)

Speaker:

Pirkko Kouri,
Pricipal Lecturer in Healthcare Technology,
PhD, PHN, RN

Guests:

Tempus delegation

Time:

21 Feb 2007

Ultimate goals of Finnish health care
- Cost-effectiveness
- Patient/client & population centeredness
- Just distribution of the services (equity)
= use based on need

*********************************************************
MSAH’s own information society policy
-

Wide use of information and communication technology
Utilisation of internet penetration

Development levels – definition and projectwork
e.g. Area of eHealth / eWelfare
Levels of development

Development work

EU / National

Laws, standards, terminology, classifications, forms, data definitions

Regional

Aggreements, data transmissions, databases, archives, cooperation

Local

Working culture, division of labour, cooperation

Individual

Personal needs, user interface, way of working, teamwork

Milestones - Finnish health care system

2002
2007

National Project on Safeguarding the Future of Health Care Services
National law EHR

eHealth, National Project on Safeguarding the Future
of Health Care Services – main goals
•Ensure access to treatment
•Enhance co-ordination and co-operation in specialized health care
•Enhance regional co-ordination in primary health care
•Emphasize preventive work, one’s own responsibility for one’s own health and the
significance of primary health care
• Implementation - divided into 40 sub-projects
•Preparing the ground for the nationwide electronic patient records, which will be
introduced in 2007 (law will be launched Spring 2007)

Evolution of e-processes
- strategy and plan
- education
- culture, values
- publicity in control

5. Adaptation
of work
processes

4. Integration

Use
of e-Health
and e-Social
processes

Integration
of IT solutions
in daily life

Planning and
development
3. Processes
of e-processes,
working models

2. Basic
development

1. Services/
Products

Intranet,
Internet
groundwork
purpose-built

Electronic
documents
and lists
Adapted from www.done360.com

The Regional Project Area
Maternity care – births are over 99% in hospitals

.

JYVÄSKYLÄ

Map of Finland









85.585 km2
>1.000 lakes
681.000 inhabitants
One university hospital
Four central hospitals (five 10/03)
53 health centres
App. 20 000 social and health
care workers

NORMAL MATERNITY CARE SERVICE CHAIN
IN FINLAND (REGULAR PREGNANCY)

FIRST CONTACT
MOTHER/CHILD UNIT

PHN = public
health nurse

PHN/ FIRST
EXAMINATION
8-10 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
10-12 W

LABORATORY

PRE-NATAL
ULTRASOUND

HEALTH CENTRE
BEFORE 12 W
BASIC
INFORMATION
FORM
maternity clinic

CERTIFICATE
M/C CLINIC
NIB (KELA)

PHN/
EXAMINATION
16-18 W

SPECIAL CARE MATERNITY CLINIC
12-14 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
22-24 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
26-28 W
NIB =
National
Insurance
Bureau

PHN/
EXAMINATION
30-32 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
32-34 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
34-36 W

PAGE
2

BIRTH TRAINING COURSE,
(CONSISTS OF 8-10 MEETINGS)

PAGE
2

PHN/ EXAMINATION
37 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
38-40 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
40-42 W

DELIVERY ROOM

POST NATAL WARD

PHN/ (baby) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN/ (mother) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN / Mother´s Medical health check

DOCTOR/ Mother´s
Medical health check8-9 W after delivery

CHILD CLINIC

FAMILY
PLANNING

Basis of the Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net
The Long History of the (Finnish) Maternity Care Services (since 1940´s)
Development of Information Society (1990´s)
Idea of Maternity Services on the Internet (1997)
Basis of
Development
Work
•Research
• Multidisciplinary
co-operation
• Piloting
• Feedback /
Evaluation

Results
• Working
models for
experts and
families
•Networking
• Data/info
contents
• Software
technology

E- Service

Participants
• Health care
professionals
• Families
• Colleges
• Software
technology
experts
• Multimedia
experts

Expert teams





Central team
Social and Health care experts´ team
Technology experts´ team
Education experts´ team (Savonia was co-ordinator
of the MIC project)

• Families

MIC
•is supplementary to today's mother-child clinic services

•helps the user in decision making
•provides information that has been approved by the special
editorial board

•enables the use of the services independently of time and
place (Internet connection needed)
•can be used in many countries (adjustments will be made
according to the culture)

The MIC: options
•Entrance

•News
•Discussion groups (with peers)
•Questions and answers (confidential)
•Search (information)
•Feedback
•Links to other useful Internet sites

Search/ information or data bank











Pregnancy
Delivery
Post- natal period
Infant
Parent's relationship
Parenthood
Personal hygiene, appearance
Nutrition and exercise
Drugs, alcohol and smoking
Services to the public

MIC has 135 articles, two videos, 2 animations, 2 interactive photos, 86
photos and 53 drawings checked and approved by editorial board.

MIC / contents
Example: Drawings

Qualified information / content management
• Information is reliable, and easy to understand
• The quantity of information is adequate
• The required information is easy to find
• The content creation and management are carried on as
part of current (clinical) work processes
• The technical solutions guarantee e.g. data integrity,
authentication, security and data availability

Evaluation - family
• Modern way of having services
• No queuing in phone
• Discussions groups for families (anonymously), where
professionals appear by their names
• Service in your own language
• Information/contents is versatile, extensive, based on
expertise / reliable

Evaluation – maternity care professionals
•Extra visits were not needed during pilot phase
•The Net Clinic could be used as a manual or in
familiarising the new worker
•Counselling and giving advice was harmonised
•Families got deeper information and advice based
on their needs more effectively
•Networking and co-operation was more efficient
•Written answers took some time to get used to

The Project of the Year 2000
•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be expanded
into new application fields like public administration and so called soft
values
•Net Clinic is based on wide and versatile co-operation and on
application of new Internet technology
•Net Clinic proves that it is possible to develop new innovations also
outside big so called growing centres
•Net Clinic proves that women can work successfully in management
or other key positions which have conventionally been classified as
men´s work
(The evaluation criteria of the The Finnish Project Management Association)

Diploma of the Excellent Work
•Given by the Provincial State Office of Eastern Finland 4.9.2001

•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be
expanded into new application fields like public administration in
national level and in future international level

O

O
O

o
x

O

O MIC has been used/is in use
• Kuopio
• Helsinki
• North-East of Finland (Kuusamo,
Taivalkoski, Posio and Salla)
• Rovaniemi and its neighbourhood
Rovaniemi rural commune and
Ranua)

An eMaternal Health Care Data System

STORK

The Stork is
• secured electronic health data system (EHS) made for
professional use
• all the information about pregnancy, delivery and puerperium
is collected in the same system (so called seamless chain
between primary health care and special care)
• mutual data contents to maternal units involved

Data security
• The application
• built on special security system used by the hospital
• Access rights depends on task or position
• those who are involved maternal service chain
• Preconditions for usage
• mother´s permission to collect and transfer her data
(each organisation needs its own permission)
• agreement between different organisations
• every user has personal user identifier, all usage is
logged and saved, even edited/deleted parts will be
recorded permanently

Storks gives information
• Pregnancy follow up, continuous documentation;
appointments with public health nurses, midwifes, doctors
• Graphics; growth of the uterus, hypertension, weight,
partogram
• Internal- and external examinations
• Medication during pregnancy, delivery, puerperium
• Diagnosis of the foetus; e.g ultrasound, lab tests
• Lifestyle of the family (nutrition, exercise, smoking, drugs
etc)
• Sick leaves of the mother
• Special area for the nurse documentation

Stork gives
• The new-born baby his/her social security number
• Basic information from earlier pregnancies
• Statistics e.g.
– for the Stakes (the National Research and Development Centre for
Welfare and Health
– the nursing research

• Forms and applications

The first page of the Stork

Forms

Name, birth date, age, weeks,

Notify: the lamp sign, B-gluc high (red color)
Lab, X-ray

Mother->,
Child ->

Social worker documentation
Both the public health nurse in primary care and
the midwife in special care fulfil this area. The written
data is available in real time (mother´s permission needed)

From Netinformation – Portal
to Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID)

My personal computer

Aims of the Work
• To elaborate the co-operation of different
organisations
• To develop a consistent way to manage information
in Social Work and Health Care organisations
• To develop the ”Dynamic Integrated Desktop” (DID)
for Social Work and Health Care professionals
• To offer further education of Social Work and Health
Care professionals
• To determine the reliable security standards

Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID )
-a consistent way to manage information in Health Care organisations

Partnership information

Single sign-on





Professional information


On line (on special fields)



Education
•course

Contacts
Office times
Information of services

Professional web services



PubMed, Cinahl
Laws and orders

enrolment, forms

Web services for public
Integration of IT software



Contact information



”You get what you need”



Problem solving information



EHR, RIS/PACS (digital imaging), biosignals etc.



Education



High level of security

View of the DID page

Teams
Discussion
Forums

Document
management
Links
Courses

Patients 26.8.2002

Mail (3 new messages)

Time

Name

Social security number

8.00

Patrick Patient

12345679573

8.20

Donald Duck

89101128758

8.40

Clark Kent

98459734658

Maintenance
Magazines &
Periodicals

August 2002

News
Databases
Patients
Help

Personified, user oriented
Networked, user organization oriented

Information system,
task and position in the organization

Tutuks service

• Tutuks, a virtual visit to a maternity ward
• Utilised work done by MIC
• http://www.synnytystutuksi.fi/tutukspalvelu.
html

Challenges for the Future
•Family/citizen participation challenges professionals
•e-working environment (models, processes)
•eEducation and training
• “E-gap” between generations
•Usability of ICT-solutions
•Integration of ICT-solutions

New project
• Looking for partner organisations, next
Tempus Call or other suitable call

New project - Tree of problems
NO KNOWLEDGE
TRANSFER

NO NETWORKING

Lack of resources in
distance teaching in cultural maternity care

Unfamiliarity with new
teaching ways

Former education

Non-transferability of
tacit knowledge

Lack of ICT skills

Figure: Project - problem tree

Retiring
(growing)

Incapability to
respond future needs

Mobility (teachers
and students)

Lack of cooperation between
Euro-Asian HIEs

Need to study regardless
time and space

Tree of objectives
FLEXIBLE
NETWORKING

CULTURAL MATERNITY CARE
AND DISTANCE TEACHING

ENHANCING READINESS FOR
DISTANCE TEACHING IN CULTURAL
MATERNITY AND INFANT CARE

Definition of resources
needed

Testing of
ICT skills

Designing and evaluating
Networking and
Distance teaching model

Selection of Learning Evaluation of
Environment(s)
readiness

MAIN AIM

Reports, workshops
(Implementation)

Accepted
planns

EFFECT

Dissemination of
Project results

Evaluation of model
Implementation

OUTCOME

Thank you for your
attention

Contact info:
[email protected]


Slide 34

eHealth
Case- Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net (MIC)

Speaker:

Pirkko Kouri,
Pricipal Lecturer in Healthcare Technology,
PhD, PHN, RN

Guests:

Tempus delegation

Time:

21 Feb 2007

Ultimate goals of Finnish health care
- Cost-effectiveness
- Patient/client & population centeredness
- Just distribution of the services (equity)
= use based on need

*********************************************************
MSAH’s own information society policy
-

Wide use of information and communication technology
Utilisation of internet penetration

Development levels – definition and projectwork
e.g. Area of eHealth / eWelfare
Levels of development

Development work

EU / National

Laws, standards, terminology, classifications, forms, data definitions

Regional

Aggreements, data transmissions, databases, archives, cooperation

Local

Working culture, division of labour, cooperation

Individual

Personal needs, user interface, way of working, teamwork

Milestones - Finnish health care system

2002
2007

National Project on Safeguarding the Future of Health Care Services
National law EHR

eHealth, National Project on Safeguarding the Future
of Health Care Services – main goals
•Ensure access to treatment
•Enhance co-ordination and co-operation in specialized health care
•Enhance regional co-ordination in primary health care
•Emphasize preventive work, one’s own responsibility for one’s own health and the
significance of primary health care
• Implementation - divided into 40 sub-projects
•Preparing the ground for the nationwide electronic patient records, which will be
introduced in 2007 (law will be launched Spring 2007)

Evolution of e-processes
- strategy and plan
- education
- culture, values
- publicity in control

5. Adaptation
of work
processes

4. Integration

Use
of e-Health
and e-Social
processes

Integration
of IT solutions
in daily life

Planning and
development
3. Processes
of e-processes,
working models

2. Basic
development

1. Services/
Products

Intranet,
Internet
groundwork
purpose-built

Electronic
documents
and lists
Adapted from www.done360.com

The Regional Project Area
Maternity care – births are over 99% in hospitals

.

JYVÄSKYLÄ

Map of Finland









85.585 km2
>1.000 lakes
681.000 inhabitants
One university hospital
Four central hospitals (five 10/03)
53 health centres
App. 20 000 social and health
care workers

NORMAL MATERNITY CARE SERVICE CHAIN
IN FINLAND (REGULAR PREGNANCY)

FIRST CONTACT
MOTHER/CHILD UNIT

PHN = public
health nurse

PHN/ FIRST
EXAMINATION
8-10 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
10-12 W

LABORATORY

PRE-NATAL
ULTRASOUND

HEALTH CENTRE
BEFORE 12 W
BASIC
INFORMATION
FORM
maternity clinic

CERTIFICATE
M/C CLINIC
NIB (KELA)

PHN/
EXAMINATION
16-18 W

SPECIAL CARE MATERNITY CLINIC
12-14 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
22-24 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
26-28 W
NIB =
National
Insurance
Bureau

PHN/
EXAMINATION
30-32 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
32-34 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
34-36 W

PAGE
2

BIRTH TRAINING COURSE,
(CONSISTS OF 8-10 MEETINGS)

PAGE
2

PHN/ EXAMINATION
37 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
38-40 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
40-42 W

DELIVERY ROOM

POST NATAL WARD

PHN/ (baby) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN/ (mother) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN / Mother´s Medical health check

DOCTOR/ Mother´s
Medical health check8-9 W after delivery

CHILD CLINIC

FAMILY
PLANNING

Basis of the Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net
The Long History of the (Finnish) Maternity Care Services (since 1940´s)
Development of Information Society (1990´s)
Idea of Maternity Services on the Internet (1997)
Basis of
Development
Work
•Research
• Multidisciplinary
co-operation
• Piloting
• Feedback /
Evaluation

Results
• Working
models for
experts and
families
•Networking
• Data/info
contents
• Software
technology

E- Service

Participants
• Health care
professionals
• Families
• Colleges
• Software
technology
experts
• Multimedia
experts

Expert teams





Central team
Social and Health care experts´ team
Technology experts´ team
Education experts´ team (Savonia was co-ordinator
of the MIC project)

• Families

MIC
•is supplementary to today's mother-child clinic services

•helps the user in decision making
•provides information that has been approved by the special
editorial board

•enables the use of the services independently of time and
place (Internet connection needed)
•can be used in many countries (adjustments will be made
according to the culture)

The MIC: options
•Entrance

•News
•Discussion groups (with peers)
•Questions and answers (confidential)
•Search (information)
•Feedback
•Links to other useful Internet sites

Search/ information or data bank











Pregnancy
Delivery
Post- natal period
Infant
Parent's relationship
Parenthood
Personal hygiene, appearance
Nutrition and exercise
Drugs, alcohol and smoking
Services to the public

MIC has 135 articles, two videos, 2 animations, 2 interactive photos, 86
photos and 53 drawings checked and approved by editorial board.

MIC / contents
Example: Drawings

Qualified information / content management
• Information is reliable, and easy to understand
• The quantity of information is adequate
• The required information is easy to find
• The content creation and management are carried on as
part of current (clinical) work processes
• The technical solutions guarantee e.g. data integrity,
authentication, security and data availability

Evaluation - family
• Modern way of having services
• No queuing in phone
• Discussions groups for families (anonymously), where
professionals appear by their names
• Service in your own language
• Information/contents is versatile, extensive, based on
expertise / reliable

Evaluation – maternity care professionals
•Extra visits were not needed during pilot phase
•The Net Clinic could be used as a manual or in
familiarising the new worker
•Counselling and giving advice was harmonised
•Families got deeper information and advice based
on their needs more effectively
•Networking and co-operation was more efficient
•Written answers took some time to get used to

The Project of the Year 2000
•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be expanded
into new application fields like public administration and so called soft
values
•Net Clinic is based on wide and versatile co-operation and on
application of new Internet technology
•Net Clinic proves that it is possible to develop new innovations also
outside big so called growing centres
•Net Clinic proves that women can work successfully in management
or other key positions which have conventionally been classified as
men´s work
(The evaluation criteria of the The Finnish Project Management Association)

Diploma of the Excellent Work
•Given by the Provincial State Office of Eastern Finland 4.9.2001

•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be
expanded into new application fields like public administration in
national level and in future international level

O

O
O

o
x

O

O MIC has been used/is in use
• Kuopio
• Helsinki
• North-East of Finland (Kuusamo,
Taivalkoski, Posio and Salla)
• Rovaniemi and its neighbourhood
Rovaniemi rural commune and
Ranua)

An eMaternal Health Care Data System

STORK

The Stork is
• secured electronic health data system (EHS) made for
professional use
• all the information about pregnancy, delivery and puerperium
is collected in the same system (so called seamless chain
between primary health care and special care)
• mutual data contents to maternal units involved

Data security
• The application
• built on special security system used by the hospital
• Access rights depends on task or position
• those who are involved maternal service chain
• Preconditions for usage
• mother´s permission to collect and transfer her data
(each organisation needs its own permission)
• agreement between different organisations
• every user has personal user identifier, all usage is
logged and saved, even edited/deleted parts will be
recorded permanently

Storks gives information
• Pregnancy follow up, continuous documentation;
appointments with public health nurses, midwifes, doctors
• Graphics; growth of the uterus, hypertension, weight,
partogram
• Internal- and external examinations
• Medication during pregnancy, delivery, puerperium
• Diagnosis of the foetus; e.g ultrasound, lab tests
• Lifestyle of the family (nutrition, exercise, smoking, drugs
etc)
• Sick leaves of the mother
• Special area for the nurse documentation

Stork gives
• The new-born baby his/her social security number
• Basic information from earlier pregnancies
• Statistics e.g.
– for the Stakes (the National Research and Development Centre for
Welfare and Health
– the nursing research

• Forms and applications

The first page of the Stork

Forms

Name, birth date, age, weeks,

Notify: the lamp sign, B-gluc high (red color)
Lab, X-ray

Mother->,
Child ->

Social worker documentation
Both the public health nurse in primary care and
the midwife in special care fulfil this area. The written
data is available in real time (mother´s permission needed)

From Netinformation – Portal
to Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID)

My personal computer

Aims of the Work
• To elaborate the co-operation of different
organisations
• To develop a consistent way to manage information
in Social Work and Health Care organisations
• To develop the ”Dynamic Integrated Desktop” (DID)
for Social Work and Health Care professionals
• To offer further education of Social Work and Health
Care professionals
• To determine the reliable security standards

Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID )
-a consistent way to manage information in Health Care organisations

Partnership information

Single sign-on





Professional information


On line (on special fields)



Education
•course

Contacts
Office times
Information of services

Professional web services



PubMed, Cinahl
Laws and orders

enrolment, forms

Web services for public
Integration of IT software



Contact information



”You get what you need”



Problem solving information



EHR, RIS/PACS (digital imaging), biosignals etc.



Education



High level of security

View of the DID page

Teams
Discussion
Forums

Document
management
Links
Courses

Patients 26.8.2002

Mail (3 new messages)

Time

Name

Social security number

8.00

Patrick Patient

12345679573

8.20

Donald Duck

89101128758

8.40

Clark Kent

98459734658

Maintenance
Magazines &
Periodicals

August 2002

News
Databases
Patients
Help

Personified, user oriented
Networked, user organization oriented

Information system,
task and position in the organization

Tutuks service

• Tutuks, a virtual visit to a maternity ward
• Utilised work done by MIC
• http://www.synnytystutuksi.fi/tutukspalvelu.
html

Challenges for the Future
•Family/citizen participation challenges professionals
•e-working environment (models, processes)
•eEducation and training
• “E-gap” between generations
•Usability of ICT-solutions
•Integration of ICT-solutions

New project
• Looking for partner organisations, next
Tempus Call or other suitable call

New project - Tree of problems
NO KNOWLEDGE
TRANSFER

NO NETWORKING

Lack of resources in
distance teaching in cultural maternity care

Unfamiliarity with new
teaching ways

Former education

Non-transferability of
tacit knowledge

Lack of ICT skills

Figure: Project - problem tree

Retiring
(growing)

Incapability to
respond future needs

Mobility (teachers
and students)

Lack of cooperation between
Euro-Asian HIEs

Need to study regardless
time and space

Tree of objectives
FLEXIBLE
NETWORKING

CULTURAL MATERNITY CARE
AND DISTANCE TEACHING

ENHANCING READINESS FOR
DISTANCE TEACHING IN CULTURAL
MATERNITY AND INFANT CARE

Definition of resources
needed

Testing of
ICT skills

Designing and evaluating
Networking and
Distance teaching model

Selection of Learning Evaluation of
Environment(s)
readiness

MAIN AIM

Reports, workshops
(Implementation)

Accepted
planns

EFFECT

Dissemination of
Project results

Evaluation of model
Implementation

OUTCOME

Thank you for your
attention

Contact info:
[email protected]


Slide 35

eHealth
Case- Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net (MIC)

Speaker:

Pirkko Kouri,
Pricipal Lecturer in Healthcare Technology,
PhD, PHN, RN

Guests:

Tempus delegation

Time:

21 Feb 2007

Ultimate goals of Finnish health care
- Cost-effectiveness
- Patient/client & population centeredness
- Just distribution of the services (equity)
= use based on need

*********************************************************
MSAH’s own information society policy
-

Wide use of information and communication technology
Utilisation of internet penetration

Development levels – definition and projectwork
e.g. Area of eHealth / eWelfare
Levels of development

Development work

EU / National

Laws, standards, terminology, classifications, forms, data definitions

Regional

Aggreements, data transmissions, databases, archives, cooperation

Local

Working culture, division of labour, cooperation

Individual

Personal needs, user interface, way of working, teamwork

Milestones - Finnish health care system

2002
2007

National Project on Safeguarding the Future of Health Care Services
National law EHR

eHealth, National Project on Safeguarding the Future
of Health Care Services – main goals
•Ensure access to treatment
•Enhance co-ordination and co-operation in specialized health care
•Enhance regional co-ordination in primary health care
•Emphasize preventive work, one’s own responsibility for one’s own health and the
significance of primary health care
• Implementation - divided into 40 sub-projects
•Preparing the ground for the nationwide electronic patient records, which will be
introduced in 2007 (law will be launched Spring 2007)

Evolution of e-processes
- strategy and plan
- education
- culture, values
- publicity in control

5. Adaptation
of work
processes

4. Integration

Use
of e-Health
and e-Social
processes

Integration
of IT solutions
in daily life

Planning and
development
3. Processes
of e-processes,
working models

2. Basic
development

1. Services/
Products

Intranet,
Internet
groundwork
purpose-built

Electronic
documents
and lists
Adapted from www.done360.com

The Regional Project Area
Maternity care – births are over 99% in hospitals

.

JYVÄSKYLÄ

Map of Finland









85.585 km2
>1.000 lakes
681.000 inhabitants
One university hospital
Four central hospitals (five 10/03)
53 health centres
App. 20 000 social and health
care workers

NORMAL MATERNITY CARE SERVICE CHAIN
IN FINLAND (REGULAR PREGNANCY)

FIRST CONTACT
MOTHER/CHILD UNIT

PHN = public
health nurse

PHN/ FIRST
EXAMINATION
8-10 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
10-12 W

LABORATORY

PRE-NATAL
ULTRASOUND

HEALTH CENTRE
BEFORE 12 W
BASIC
INFORMATION
FORM
maternity clinic

CERTIFICATE
M/C CLINIC
NIB (KELA)

PHN/
EXAMINATION
16-18 W

SPECIAL CARE MATERNITY CLINIC
12-14 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
22-24 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
26-28 W
NIB =
National
Insurance
Bureau

PHN/
EXAMINATION
30-32 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
32-34 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
34-36 W

PAGE
2

BIRTH TRAINING COURSE,
(CONSISTS OF 8-10 MEETINGS)

PAGE
2

PHN/ EXAMINATION
37 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
38-40 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
40-42 W

DELIVERY ROOM

POST NATAL WARD

PHN/ (baby) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN/ (mother) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN / Mother´s Medical health check

DOCTOR/ Mother´s
Medical health check8-9 W after delivery

CHILD CLINIC

FAMILY
PLANNING

Basis of the Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net
The Long History of the (Finnish) Maternity Care Services (since 1940´s)
Development of Information Society (1990´s)
Idea of Maternity Services on the Internet (1997)
Basis of
Development
Work
•Research
• Multidisciplinary
co-operation
• Piloting
• Feedback /
Evaluation

Results
• Working
models for
experts and
families
•Networking
• Data/info
contents
• Software
technology

E- Service

Participants
• Health care
professionals
• Families
• Colleges
• Software
technology
experts
• Multimedia
experts

Expert teams





Central team
Social and Health care experts´ team
Technology experts´ team
Education experts´ team (Savonia was co-ordinator
of the MIC project)

• Families

MIC
•is supplementary to today's mother-child clinic services

•helps the user in decision making
•provides information that has been approved by the special
editorial board

•enables the use of the services independently of time and
place (Internet connection needed)
•can be used in many countries (adjustments will be made
according to the culture)

The MIC: options
•Entrance

•News
•Discussion groups (with peers)
•Questions and answers (confidential)
•Search (information)
•Feedback
•Links to other useful Internet sites

Search/ information or data bank











Pregnancy
Delivery
Post- natal period
Infant
Parent's relationship
Parenthood
Personal hygiene, appearance
Nutrition and exercise
Drugs, alcohol and smoking
Services to the public

MIC has 135 articles, two videos, 2 animations, 2 interactive photos, 86
photos and 53 drawings checked and approved by editorial board.

MIC / contents
Example: Drawings

Qualified information / content management
• Information is reliable, and easy to understand
• The quantity of information is adequate
• The required information is easy to find
• The content creation and management are carried on as
part of current (clinical) work processes
• The technical solutions guarantee e.g. data integrity,
authentication, security and data availability

Evaluation - family
• Modern way of having services
• No queuing in phone
• Discussions groups for families (anonymously), where
professionals appear by their names
• Service in your own language
• Information/contents is versatile, extensive, based on
expertise / reliable

Evaluation – maternity care professionals
•Extra visits were not needed during pilot phase
•The Net Clinic could be used as a manual or in
familiarising the new worker
•Counselling and giving advice was harmonised
•Families got deeper information and advice based
on their needs more effectively
•Networking and co-operation was more efficient
•Written answers took some time to get used to

The Project of the Year 2000
•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be expanded
into new application fields like public administration and so called soft
values
•Net Clinic is based on wide and versatile co-operation and on
application of new Internet technology
•Net Clinic proves that it is possible to develop new innovations also
outside big so called growing centres
•Net Clinic proves that women can work successfully in management
or other key positions which have conventionally been classified as
men´s work
(The evaluation criteria of the The Finnish Project Management Association)

Diploma of the Excellent Work
•Given by the Provincial State Office of Eastern Finland 4.9.2001

•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be
expanded into new application fields like public administration in
national level and in future international level

O

O
O

o
x

O

O MIC has been used/is in use
• Kuopio
• Helsinki
• North-East of Finland (Kuusamo,
Taivalkoski, Posio and Salla)
• Rovaniemi and its neighbourhood
Rovaniemi rural commune and
Ranua)

An eMaternal Health Care Data System

STORK

The Stork is
• secured electronic health data system (EHS) made for
professional use
• all the information about pregnancy, delivery and puerperium
is collected in the same system (so called seamless chain
between primary health care and special care)
• mutual data contents to maternal units involved

Data security
• The application
• built on special security system used by the hospital
• Access rights depends on task or position
• those who are involved maternal service chain
• Preconditions for usage
• mother´s permission to collect and transfer her data
(each organisation needs its own permission)
• agreement between different organisations
• every user has personal user identifier, all usage is
logged and saved, even edited/deleted parts will be
recorded permanently

Storks gives information
• Pregnancy follow up, continuous documentation;
appointments with public health nurses, midwifes, doctors
• Graphics; growth of the uterus, hypertension, weight,
partogram
• Internal- and external examinations
• Medication during pregnancy, delivery, puerperium
• Diagnosis of the foetus; e.g ultrasound, lab tests
• Lifestyle of the family (nutrition, exercise, smoking, drugs
etc)
• Sick leaves of the mother
• Special area for the nurse documentation

Stork gives
• The new-born baby his/her social security number
• Basic information from earlier pregnancies
• Statistics e.g.
– for the Stakes (the National Research and Development Centre for
Welfare and Health
– the nursing research

• Forms and applications

The first page of the Stork

Forms

Name, birth date, age, weeks,

Notify: the lamp sign, B-gluc high (red color)
Lab, X-ray

Mother->,
Child ->

Social worker documentation
Both the public health nurse in primary care and
the midwife in special care fulfil this area. The written
data is available in real time (mother´s permission needed)

From Netinformation – Portal
to Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID)

My personal computer

Aims of the Work
• To elaborate the co-operation of different
organisations
• To develop a consistent way to manage information
in Social Work and Health Care organisations
• To develop the ”Dynamic Integrated Desktop” (DID)
for Social Work and Health Care professionals
• To offer further education of Social Work and Health
Care professionals
• To determine the reliable security standards

Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID )
-a consistent way to manage information in Health Care organisations

Partnership information

Single sign-on





Professional information


On line (on special fields)



Education
•course

Contacts
Office times
Information of services

Professional web services



PubMed, Cinahl
Laws and orders

enrolment, forms

Web services for public
Integration of IT software



Contact information



”You get what you need”



Problem solving information



EHR, RIS/PACS (digital imaging), biosignals etc.



Education



High level of security

View of the DID page

Teams
Discussion
Forums

Document
management
Links
Courses

Patients 26.8.2002

Mail (3 new messages)

Time

Name

Social security number

8.00

Patrick Patient

12345679573

8.20

Donald Duck

89101128758

8.40

Clark Kent

98459734658

Maintenance
Magazines &
Periodicals

August 2002

News
Databases
Patients
Help

Personified, user oriented
Networked, user organization oriented

Information system,
task and position in the organization

Tutuks service

• Tutuks, a virtual visit to a maternity ward
• Utilised work done by MIC
• http://www.synnytystutuksi.fi/tutukspalvelu.
html

Challenges for the Future
•Family/citizen participation challenges professionals
•e-working environment (models, processes)
•eEducation and training
• “E-gap” between generations
•Usability of ICT-solutions
•Integration of ICT-solutions

New project
• Looking for partner organisations, next
Tempus Call or other suitable call

New project - Tree of problems
NO KNOWLEDGE
TRANSFER

NO NETWORKING

Lack of resources in
distance teaching in cultural maternity care

Unfamiliarity with new
teaching ways

Former education

Non-transferability of
tacit knowledge

Lack of ICT skills

Figure: Project - problem tree

Retiring
(growing)

Incapability to
respond future needs

Mobility (teachers
and students)

Lack of cooperation between
Euro-Asian HIEs

Need to study regardless
time and space

Tree of objectives
FLEXIBLE
NETWORKING

CULTURAL MATERNITY CARE
AND DISTANCE TEACHING

ENHANCING READINESS FOR
DISTANCE TEACHING IN CULTURAL
MATERNITY AND INFANT CARE

Definition of resources
needed

Testing of
ICT skills

Designing and evaluating
Networking and
Distance teaching model

Selection of Learning Evaluation of
Environment(s)
readiness

MAIN AIM

Reports, workshops
(Implementation)

Accepted
planns

EFFECT

Dissemination of
Project results

Evaluation of model
Implementation

OUTCOME

Thank you for your
attention

Contact info:
[email protected]


Slide 36

eHealth
Case- Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net (MIC)

Speaker:

Pirkko Kouri,
Pricipal Lecturer in Healthcare Technology,
PhD, PHN, RN

Guests:

Tempus delegation

Time:

21 Feb 2007

Ultimate goals of Finnish health care
- Cost-effectiveness
- Patient/client & population centeredness
- Just distribution of the services (equity)
= use based on need

*********************************************************
MSAH’s own information society policy
-

Wide use of information and communication technology
Utilisation of internet penetration

Development levels – definition and projectwork
e.g. Area of eHealth / eWelfare
Levels of development

Development work

EU / National

Laws, standards, terminology, classifications, forms, data definitions

Regional

Aggreements, data transmissions, databases, archives, cooperation

Local

Working culture, division of labour, cooperation

Individual

Personal needs, user interface, way of working, teamwork

Milestones - Finnish health care system

2002
2007

National Project on Safeguarding the Future of Health Care Services
National law EHR

eHealth, National Project on Safeguarding the Future
of Health Care Services – main goals
•Ensure access to treatment
•Enhance co-ordination and co-operation in specialized health care
•Enhance regional co-ordination in primary health care
•Emphasize preventive work, one’s own responsibility for one’s own health and the
significance of primary health care
• Implementation - divided into 40 sub-projects
•Preparing the ground for the nationwide electronic patient records, which will be
introduced in 2007 (law will be launched Spring 2007)

Evolution of e-processes
- strategy and plan
- education
- culture, values
- publicity in control

5. Adaptation
of work
processes

4. Integration

Use
of e-Health
and e-Social
processes

Integration
of IT solutions
in daily life

Planning and
development
3. Processes
of e-processes,
working models

2. Basic
development

1. Services/
Products

Intranet,
Internet
groundwork
purpose-built

Electronic
documents
and lists
Adapted from www.done360.com

The Regional Project Area
Maternity care – births are over 99% in hospitals

.

JYVÄSKYLÄ

Map of Finland









85.585 km2
>1.000 lakes
681.000 inhabitants
One university hospital
Four central hospitals (five 10/03)
53 health centres
App. 20 000 social and health
care workers

NORMAL MATERNITY CARE SERVICE CHAIN
IN FINLAND (REGULAR PREGNANCY)

FIRST CONTACT
MOTHER/CHILD UNIT

PHN = public
health nurse

PHN/ FIRST
EXAMINATION
8-10 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
10-12 W

LABORATORY

PRE-NATAL
ULTRASOUND

HEALTH CENTRE
BEFORE 12 W
BASIC
INFORMATION
FORM
maternity clinic

CERTIFICATE
M/C CLINIC
NIB (KELA)

PHN/
EXAMINATION
16-18 W

SPECIAL CARE MATERNITY CLINIC
12-14 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
22-24 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
26-28 W
NIB =
National
Insurance
Bureau

PHN/
EXAMINATION
30-32 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
32-34 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
34-36 W

PAGE
2

BIRTH TRAINING COURSE,
(CONSISTS OF 8-10 MEETINGS)

PAGE
2

PHN/ EXAMINATION
37 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
38-40 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
40-42 W

DELIVERY ROOM

POST NATAL WARD

PHN/ (baby) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN/ (mother) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN / Mother´s Medical health check

DOCTOR/ Mother´s
Medical health check8-9 W after delivery

CHILD CLINIC

FAMILY
PLANNING

Basis of the Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net
The Long History of the (Finnish) Maternity Care Services (since 1940´s)
Development of Information Society (1990´s)
Idea of Maternity Services on the Internet (1997)
Basis of
Development
Work
•Research
• Multidisciplinary
co-operation
• Piloting
• Feedback /
Evaluation

Results
• Working
models for
experts and
families
•Networking
• Data/info
contents
• Software
technology

E- Service

Participants
• Health care
professionals
• Families
• Colleges
• Software
technology
experts
• Multimedia
experts

Expert teams





Central team
Social and Health care experts´ team
Technology experts´ team
Education experts´ team (Savonia was co-ordinator
of the MIC project)

• Families

MIC
•is supplementary to today's mother-child clinic services

•helps the user in decision making
•provides information that has been approved by the special
editorial board

•enables the use of the services independently of time and
place (Internet connection needed)
•can be used in many countries (adjustments will be made
according to the culture)

The MIC: options
•Entrance

•News
•Discussion groups (with peers)
•Questions and answers (confidential)
•Search (information)
•Feedback
•Links to other useful Internet sites

Search/ information or data bank











Pregnancy
Delivery
Post- natal period
Infant
Parent's relationship
Parenthood
Personal hygiene, appearance
Nutrition and exercise
Drugs, alcohol and smoking
Services to the public

MIC has 135 articles, two videos, 2 animations, 2 interactive photos, 86
photos and 53 drawings checked and approved by editorial board.

MIC / contents
Example: Drawings

Qualified information / content management
• Information is reliable, and easy to understand
• The quantity of information is adequate
• The required information is easy to find
• The content creation and management are carried on as
part of current (clinical) work processes
• The technical solutions guarantee e.g. data integrity,
authentication, security and data availability

Evaluation - family
• Modern way of having services
• No queuing in phone
• Discussions groups for families (anonymously), where
professionals appear by their names
• Service in your own language
• Information/contents is versatile, extensive, based on
expertise / reliable

Evaluation – maternity care professionals
•Extra visits were not needed during pilot phase
•The Net Clinic could be used as a manual or in
familiarising the new worker
•Counselling and giving advice was harmonised
•Families got deeper information and advice based
on their needs more effectively
•Networking and co-operation was more efficient
•Written answers took some time to get used to

The Project of the Year 2000
•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be expanded
into new application fields like public administration and so called soft
values
•Net Clinic is based on wide and versatile co-operation and on
application of new Internet technology
•Net Clinic proves that it is possible to develop new innovations also
outside big so called growing centres
•Net Clinic proves that women can work successfully in management
or other key positions which have conventionally been classified as
men´s work
(The evaluation criteria of the The Finnish Project Management Association)

Diploma of the Excellent Work
•Given by the Provincial State Office of Eastern Finland 4.9.2001

•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be
expanded into new application fields like public administration in
national level and in future international level

O

O
O

o
x

O

O MIC has been used/is in use
• Kuopio
• Helsinki
• North-East of Finland (Kuusamo,
Taivalkoski, Posio and Salla)
• Rovaniemi and its neighbourhood
Rovaniemi rural commune and
Ranua)

An eMaternal Health Care Data System

STORK

The Stork is
• secured electronic health data system (EHS) made for
professional use
• all the information about pregnancy, delivery and puerperium
is collected in the same system (so called seamless chain
between primary health care and special care)
• mutual data contents to maternal units involved

Data security
• The application
• built on special security system used by the hospital
• Access rights depends on task or position
• those who are involved maternal service chain
• Preconditions for usage
• mother´s permission to collect and transfer her data
(each organisation needs its own permission)
• agreement between different organisations
• every user has personal user identifier, all usage is
logged and saved, even edited/deleted parts will be
recorded permanently

Storks gives information
• Pregnancy follow up, continuous documentation;
appointments with public health nurses, midwifes, doctors
• Graphics; growth of the uterus, hypertension, weight,
partogram
• Internal- and external examinations
• Medication during pregnancy, delivery, puerperium
• Diagnosis of the foetus; e.g ultrasound, lab tests
• Lifestyle of the family (nutrition, exercise, smoking, drugs
etc)
• Sick leaves of the mother
• Special area for the nurse documentation

Stork gives
• The new-born baby his/her social security number
• Basic information from earlier pregnancies
• Statistics e.g.
– for the Stakes (the National Research and Development Centre for
Welfare and Health
– the nursing research

• Forms and applications

The first page of the Stork

Forms

Name, birth date, age, weeks,

Notify: the lamp sign, B-gluc high (red color)
Lab, X-ray

Mother->,
Child ->

Social worker documentation
Both the public health nurse in primary care and
the midwife in special care fulfil this area. The written
data is available in real time (mother´s permission needed)

From Netinformation – Portal
to Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID)

My personal computer

Aims of the Work
• To elaborate the co-operation of different
organisations
• To develop a consistent way to manage information
in Social Work and Health Care organisations
• To develop the ”Dynamic Integrated Desktop” (DID)
for Social Work and Health Care professionals
• To offer further education of Social Work and Health
Care professionals
• To determine the reliable security standards

Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID )
-a consistent way to manage information in Health Care organisations

Partnership information

Single sign-on





Professional information


On line (on special fields)



Education
•course

Contacts
Office times
Information of services

Professional web services



PubMed, Cinahl
Laws and orders

enrolment, forms

Web services for public
Integration of IT software



Contact information



”You get what you need”



Problem solving information



EHR, RIS/PACS (digital imaging), biosignals etc.



Education



High level of security

View of the DID page

Teams
Discussion
Forums

Document
management
Links
Courses

Patients 26.8.2002

Mail (3 new messages)

Time

Name

Social security number

8.00

Patrick Patient

12345679573

8.20

Donald Duck

89101128758

8.40

Clark Kent

98459734658

Maintenance
Magazines &
Periodicals

August 2002

News
Databases
Patients
Help

Personified, user oriented
Networked, user organization oriented

Information system,
task and position in the organization

Tutuks service

• Tutuks, a virtual visit to a maternity ward
• Utilised work done by MIC
• http://www.synnytystutuksi.fi/tutukspalvelu.
html

Challenges for the Future
•Family/citizen participation challenges professionals
•e-working environment (models, processes)
•eEducation and training
• “E-gap” between generations
•Usability of ICT-solutions
•Integration of ICT-solutions

New project
• Looking for partner organisations, next
Tempus Call or other suitable call

New project - Tree of problems
NO KNOWLEDGE
TRANSFER

NO NETWORKING

Lack of resources in
distance teaching in cultural maternity care

Unfamiliarity with new
teaching ways

Former education

Non-transferability of
tacit knowledge

Lack of ICT skills

Figure: Project - problem tree

Retiring
(growing)

Incapability to
respond future needs

Mobility (teachers
and students)

Lack of cooperation between
Euro-Asian HIEs

Need to study regardless
time and space

Tree of objectives
FLEXIBLE
NETWORKING

CULTURAL MATERNITY CARE
AND DISTANCE TEACHING

ENHANCING READINESS FOR
DISTANCE TEACHING IN CULTURAL
MATERNITY AND INFANT CARE

Definition of resources
needed

Testing of
ICT skills

Designing and evaluating
Networking and
Distance teaching model

Selection of Learning Evaluation of
Environment(s)
readiness

MAIN AIM

Reports, workshops
(Implementation)

Accepted
planns

EFFECT

Dissemination of
Project results

Evaluation of model
Implementation

OUTCOME

Thank you for your
attention

Contact info:
[email protected]


Slide 37

eHealth
Case- Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net (MIC)

Speaker:

Pirkko Kouri,
Pricipal Lecturer in Healthcare Technology,
PhD, PHN, RN

Guests:

Tempus delegation

Time:

21 Feb 2007

Ultimate goals of Finnish health care
- Cost-effectiveness
- Patient/client & population centeredness
- Just distribution of the services (equity)
= use based on need

*********************************************************
MSAH’s own information society policy
-

Wide use of information and communication technology
Utilisation of internet penetration

Development levels – definition and projectwork
e.g. Area of eHealth / eWelfare
Levels of development

Development work

EU / National

Laws, standards, terminology, classifications, forms, data definitions

Regional

Aggreements, data transmissions, databases, archives, cooperation

Local

Working culture, division of labour, cooperation

Individual

Personal needs, user interface, way of working, teamwork

Milestones - Finnish health care system

2002
2007

National Project on Safeguarding the Future of Health Care Services
National law EHR

eHealth, National Project on Safeguarding the Future
of Health Care Services – main goals
•Ensure access to treatment
•Enhance co-ordination and co-operation in specialized health care
•Enhance regional co-ordination in primary health care
•Emphasize preventive work, one’s own responsibility for one’s own health and the
significance of primary health care
• Implementation - divided into 40 sub-projects
•Preparing the ground for the nationwide electronic patient records, which will be
introduced in 2007 (law will be launched Spring 2007)

Evolution of e-processes
- strategy and plan
- education
- culture, values
- publicity in control

5. Adaptation
of work
processes

4. Integration

Use
of e-Health
and e-Social
processes

Integration
of IT solutions
in daily life

Planning and
development
3. Processes
of e-processes,
working models

2. Basic
development

1. Services/
Products

Intranet,
Internet
groundwork
purpose-built

Electronic
documents
and lists
Adapted from www.done360.com

The Regional Project Area
Maternity care – births are over 99% in hospitals

.

JYVÄSKYLÄ

Map of Finland









85.585 km2
>1.000 lakes
681.000 inhabitants
One university hospital
Four central hospitals (five 10/03)
53 health centres
App. 20 000 social and health
care workers

NORMAL MATERNITY CARE SERVICE CHAIN
IN FINLAND (REGULAR PREGNANCY)

FIRST CONTACT
MOTHER/CHILD UNIT

PHN = public
health nurse

PHN/ FIRST
EXAMINATION
8-10 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
10-12 W

LABORATORY

PRE-NATAL
ULTRASOUND

HEALTH CENTRE
BEFORE 12 W
BASIC
INFORMATION
FORM
maternity clinic

CERTIFICATE
M/C CLINIC
NIB (KELA)

PHN/
EXAMINATION
16-18 W

SPECIAL CARE MATERNITY CLINIC
12-14 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
22-24 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
26-28 W
NIB =
National
Insurance
Bureau

PHN/
EXAMINATION
30-32 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
32-34 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
34-36 W

PAGE
2

BIRTH TRAINING COURSE,
(CONSISTS OF 8-10 MEETINGS)

PAGE
2

PHN/ EXAMINATION
37 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
38-40 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
40-42 W

DELIVERY ROOM

POST NATAL WARD

PHN/ (baby) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN/ (mother) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN / Mother´s Medical health check

DOCTOR/ Mother´s
Medical health check8-9 W after delivery

CHILD CLINIC

FAMILY
PLANNING

Basis of the Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net
The Long History of the (Finnish) Maternity Care Services (since 1940´s)
Development of Information Society (1990´s)
Idea of Maternity Services on the Internet (1997)
Basis of
Development
Work
•Research
• Multidisciplinary
co-operation
• Piloting
• Feedback /
Evaluation

Results
• Working
models for
experts and
families
•Networking
• Data/info
contents
• Software
technology

E- Service

Participants
• Health care
professionals
• Families
• Colleges
• Software
technology
experts
• Multimedia
experts

Expert teams





Central team
Social and Health care experts´ team
Technology experts´ team
Education experts´ team (Savonia was co-ordinator
of the MIC project)

• Families

MIC
•is supplementary to today's mother-child clinic services

•helps the user in decision making
•provides information that has been approved by the special
editorial board

•enables the use of the services independently of time and
place (Internet connection needed)
•can be used in many countries (adjustments will be made
according to the culture)

The MIC: options
•Entrance

•News
•Discussion groups (with peers)
•Questions and answers (confidential)
•Search (information)
•Feedback
•Links to other useful Internet sites

Search/ information or data bank











Pregnancy
Delivery
Post- natal period
Infant
Parent's relationship
Parenthood
Personal hygiene, appearance
Nutrition and exercise
Drugs, alcohol and smoking
Services to the public

MIC has 135 articles, two videos, 2 animations, 2 interactive photos, 86
photos and 53 drawings checked and approved by editorial board.

MIC / contents
Example: Drawings

Qualified information / content management
• Information is reliable, and easy to understand
• The quantity of information is adequate
• The required information is easy to find
• The content creation and management are carried on as
part of current (clinical) work processes
• The technical solutions guarantee e.g. data integrity,
authentication, security and data availability

Evaluation - family
• Modern way of having services
• No queuing in phone
• Discussions groups for families (anonymously), where
professionals appear by their names
• Service in your own language
• Information/contents is versatile, extensive, based on
expertise / reliable

Evaluation – maternity care professionals
•Extra visits were not needed during pilot phase
•The Net Clinic could be used as a manual or in
familiarising the new worker
•Counselling and giving advice was harmonised
•Families got deeper information and advice based
on their needs more effectively
•Networking and co-operation was more efficient
•Written answers took some time to get used to

The Project of the Year 2000
•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be expanded
into new application fields like public administration and so called soft
values
•Net Clinic is based on wide and versatile co-operation and on
application of new Internet technology
•Net Clinic proves that it is possible to develop new innovations also
outside big so called growing centres
•Net Clinic proves that women can work successfully in management
or other key positions which have conventionally been classified as
men´s work
(The evaluation criteria of the The Finnish Project Management Association)

Diploma of the Excellent Work
•Given by the Provincial State Office of Eastern Finland 4.9.2001

•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be
expanded into new application fields like public administration in
national level and in future international level

O

O
O

o
x

O

O MIC has been used/is in use
• Kuopio
• Helsinki
• North-East of Finland (Kuusamo,
Taivalkoski, Posio and Salla)
• Rovaniemi and its neighbourhood
Rovaniemi rural commune and
Ranua)

An eMaternal Health Care Data System

STORK

The Stork is
• secured electronic health data system (EHS) made for
professional use
• all the information about pregnancy, delivery and puerperium
is collected in the same system (so called seamless chain
between primary health care and special care)
• mutual data contents to maternal units involved

Data security
• The application
• built on special security system used by the hospital
• Access rights depends on task or position
• those who are involved maternal service chain
• Preconditions for usage
• mother´s permission to collect and transfer her data
(each organisation needs its own permission)
• agreement between different organisations
• every user has personal user identifier, all usage is
logged and saved, even edited/deleted parts will be
recorded permanently

Storks gives information
• Pregnancy follow up, continuous documentation;
appointments with public health nurses, midwifes, doctors
• Graphics; growth of the uterus, hypertension, weight,
partogram
• Internal- and external examinations
• Medication during pregnancy, delivery, puerperium
• Diagnosis of the foetus; e.g ultrasound, lab tests
• Lifestyle of the family (nutrition, exercise, smoking, drugs
etc)
• Sick leaves of the mother
• Special area for the nurse documentation

Stork gives
• The new-born baby his/her social security number
• Basic information from earlier pregnancies
• Statistics e.g.
– for the Stakes (the National Research and Development Centre for
Welfare and Health
– the nursing research

• Forms and applications

The first page of the Stork

Forms

Name, birth date, age, weeks,

Notify: the lamp sign, B-gluc high (red color)
Lab, X-ray

Mother->,
Child ->

Social worker documentation
Both the public health nurse in primary care and
the midwife in special care fulfil this area. The written
data is available in real time (mother´s permission needed)

From Netinformation – Portal
to Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID)

My personal computer

Aims of the Work
• To elaborate the co-operation of different
organisations
• To develop a consistent way to manage information
in Social Work and Health Care organisations
• To develop the ”Dynamic Integrated Desktop” (DID)
for Social Work and Health Care professionals
• To offer further education of Social Work and Health
Care professionals
• To determine the reliable security standards

Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID )
-a consistent way to manage information in Health Care organisations

Partnership information

Single sign-on





Professional information


On line (on special fields)



Education
•course

Contacts
Office times
Information of services

Professional web services



PubMed, Cinahl
Laws and orders

enrolment, forms

Web services for public
Integration of IT software



Contact information



”You get what you need”



Problem solving information



EHR, RIS/PACS (digital imaging), biosignals etc.



Education



High level of security

View of the DID page

Teams
Discussion
Forums

Document
management
Links
Courses

Patients 26.8.2002

Mail (3 new messages)

Time

Name

Social security number

8.00

Patrick Patient

12345679573

8.20

Donald Duck

89101128758

8.40

Clark Kent

98459734658

Maintenance
Magazines &
Periodicals

August 2002

News
Databases
Patients
Help

Personified, user oriented
Networked, user organization oriented

Information system,
task and position in the organization

Tutuks service

• Tutuks, a virtual visit to a maternity ward
• Utilised work done by MIC
• http://www.synnytystutuksi.fi/tutukspalvelu.
html

Challenges for the Future
•Family/citizen participation challenges professionals
•e-working environment (models, processes)
•eEducation and training
• “E-gap” between generations
•Usability of ICT-solutions
•Integration of ICT-solutions

New project
• Looking for partner organisations, next
Tempus Call or other suitable call

New project - Tree of problems
NO KNOWLEDGE
TRANSFER

NO NETWORKING

Lack of resources in
distance teaching in cultural maternity care

Unfamiliarity with new
teaching ways

Former education

Non-transferability of
tacit knowledge

Lack of ICT skills

Figure: Project - problem tree

Retiring
(growing)

Incapability to
respond future needs

Mobility (teachers
and students)

Lack of cooperation between
Euro-Asian HIEs

Need to study regardless
time and space

Tree of objectives
FLEXIBLE
NETWORKING

CULTURAL MATERNITY CARE
AND DISTANCE TEACHING

ENHANCING READINESS FOR
DISTANCE TEACHING IN CULTURAL
MATERNITY AND INFANT CARE

Definition of resources
needed

Testing of
ICT skills

Designing and evaluating
Networking and
Distance teaching model

Selection of Learning Evaluation of
Environment(s)
readiness

MAIN AIM

Reports, workshops
(Implementation)

Accepted
planns

EFFECT

Dissemination of
Project results

Evaluation of model
Implementation

OUTCOME

Thank you for your
attention

Contact info:
[email protected]


Slide 38

eHealth
Case- Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net (MIC)

Speaker:

Pirkko Kouri,
Pricipal Lecturer in Healthcare Technology,
PhD, PHN, RN

Guests:

Tempus delegation

Time:

21 Feb 2007

Ultimate goals of Finnish health care
- Cost-effectiveness
- Patient/client & population centeredness
- Just distribution of the services (equity)
= use based on need

*********************************************************
MSAH’s own information society policy
-

Wide use of information and communication technology
Utilisation of internet penetration

Development levels – definition and projectwork
e.g. Area of eHealth / eWelfare
Levels of development

Development work

EU / National

Laws, standards, terminology, classifications, forms, data definitions

Regional

Aggreements, data transmissions, databases, archives, cooperation

Local

Working culture, division of labour, cooperation

Individual

Personal needs, user interface, way of working, teamwork

Milestones - Finnish health care system

2002
2007

National Project on Safeguarding the Future of Health Care Services
National law EHR

eHealth, National Project on Safeguarding the Future
of Health Care Services – main goals
•Ensure access to treatment
•Enhance co-ordination and co-operation in specialized health care
•Enhance regional co-ordination in primary health care
•Emphasize preventive work, one’s own responsibility for one’s own health and the
significance of primary health care
• Implementation - divided into 40 sub-projects
•Preparing the ground for the nationwide electronic patient records, which will be
introduced in 2007 (law will be launched Spring 2007)

Evolution of e-processes
- strategy and plan
- education
- culture, values
- publicity in control

5. Adaptation
of work
processes

4. Integration

Use
of e-Health
and e-Social
processes

Integration
of IT solutions
in daily life

Planning and
development
3. Processes
of e-processes,
working models

2. Basic
development

1. Services/
Products

Intranet,
Internet
groundwork
purpose-built

Electronic
documents
and lists
Adapted from www.done360.com

The Regional Project Area
Maternity care – births are over 99% in hospitals

.

JYVÄSKYLÄ

Map of Finland









85.585 km2
>1.000 lakes
681.000 inhabitants
One university hospital
Four central hospitals (five 10/03)
53 health centres
App. 20 000 social and health
care workers

NORMAL MATERNITY CARE SERVICE CHAIN
IN FINLAND (REGULAR PREGNANCY)

FIRST CONTACT
MOTHER/CHILD UNIT

PHN = public
health nurse

PHN/ FIRST
EXAMINATION
8-10 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
10-12 W

LABORATORY

PRE-NATAL
ULTRASOUND

HEALTH CENTRE
BEFORE 12 W
BASIC
INFORMATION
FORM
maternity clinic

CERTIFICATE
M/C CLINIC
NIB (KELA)

PHN/
EXAMINATION
16-18 W

SPECIAL CARE MATERNITY CLINIC
12-14 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
22-24 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
26-28 W
NIB =
National
Insurance
Bureau

PHN/
EXAMINATION
30-32 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
32-34 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
34-36 W

PAGE
2

BIRTH TRAINING COURSE,
(CONSISTS OF 8-10 MEETINGS)

PAGE
2

PHN/ EXAMINATION
37 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
38-40 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
40-42 W

DELIVERY ROOM

POST NATAL WARD

PHN/ (baby) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN/ (mother) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN / Mother´s Medical health check

DOCTOR/ Mother´s
Medical health check8-9 W after delivery

CHILD CLINIC

FAMILY
PLANNING

Basis of the Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net
The Long History of the (Finnish) Maternity Care Services (since 1940´s)
Development of Information Society (1990´s)
Idea of Maternity Services on the Internet (1997)
Basis of
Development
Work
•Research
• Multidisciplinary
co-operation
• Piloting
• Feedback /
Evaluation

Results
• Working
models for
experts and
families
•Networking
• Data/info
contents
• Software
technology

E- Service

Participants
• Health care
professionals
• Families
• Colleges
• Software
technology
experts
• Multimedia
experts

Expert teams





Central team
Social and Health care experts´ team
Technology experts´ team
Education experts´ team (Savonia was co-ordinator
of the MIC project)

• Families

MIC
•is supplementary to today's mother-child clinic services

•helps the user in decision making
•provides information that has been approved by the special
editorial board

•enables the use of the services independently of time and
place (Internet connection needed)
•can be used in many countries (adjustments will be made
according to the culture)

The MIC: options
•Entrance

•News
•Discussion groups (with peers)
•Questions and answers (confidential)
•Search (information)
•Feedback
•Links to other useful Internet sites

Search/ information or data bank











Pregnancy
Delivery
Post- natal period
Infant
Parent's relationship
Parenthood
Personal hygiene, appearance
Nutrition and exercise
Drugs, alcohol and smoking
Services to the public

MIC has 135 articles, two videos, 2 animations, 2 interactive photos, 86
photos and 53 drawings checked and approved by editorial board.

MIC / contents
Example: Drawings

Qualified information / content management
• Information is reliable, and easy to understand
• The quantity of information is adequate
• The required information is easy to find
• The content creation and management are carried on as
part of current (clinical) work processes
• The technical solutions guarantee e.g. data integrity,
authentication, security and data availability

Evaluation - family
• Modern way of having services
• No queuing in phone
• Discussions groups for families (anonymously), where
professionals appear by their names
• Service in your own language
• Information/contents is versatile, extensive, based on
expertise / reliable

Evaluation – maternity care professionals
•Extra visits were not needed during pilot phase
•The Net Clinic could be used as a manual or in
familiarising the new worker
•Counselling and giving advice was harmonised
•Families got deeper information and advice based
on their needs more effectively
•Networking and co-operation was more efficient
•Written answers took some time to get used to

The Project of the Year 2000
•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be expanded
into new application fields like public administration and so called soft
values
•Net Clinic is based on wide and versatile co-operation and on
application of new Internet technology
•Net Clinic proves that it is possible to develop new innovations also
outside big so called growing centres
•Net Clinic proves that women can work successfully in management
or other key positions which have conventionally been classified as
men´s work
(The evaluation criteria of the The Finnish Project Management Association)

Diploma of the Excellent Work
•Given by the Provincial State Office of Eastern Finland 4.9.2001

•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be
expanded into new application fields like public administration in
national level and in future international level

O

O
O

o
x

O

O MIC has been used/is in use
• Kuopio
• Helsinki
• North-East of Finland (Kuusamo,
Taivalkoski, Posio and Salla)
• Rovaniemi and its neighbourhood
Rovaniemi rural commune and
Ranua)

An eMaternal Health Care Data System

STORK

The Stork is
• secured electronic health data system (EHS) made for
professional use
• all the information about pregnancy, delivery and puerperium
is collected in the same system (so called seamless chain
between primary health care and special care)
• mutual data contents to maternal units involved

Data security
• The application
• built on special security system used by the hospital
• Access rights depends on task or position
• those who are involved maternal service chain
• Preconditions for usage
• mother´s permission to collect and transfer her data
(each organisation needs its own permission)
• agreement between different organisations
• every user has personal user identifier, all usage is
logged and saved, even edited/deleted parts will be
recorded permanently

Storks gives information
• Pregnancy follow up, continuous documentation;
appointments with public health nurses, midwifes, doctors
• Graphics; growth of the uterus, hypertension, weight,
partogram
• Internal- and external examinations
• Medication during pregnancy, delivery, puerperium
• Diagnosis of the foetus; e.g ultrasound, lab tests
• Lifestyle of the family (nutrition, exercise, smoking, drugs
etc)
• Sick leaves of the mother
• Special area for the nurse documentation

Stork gives
• The new-born baby his/her social security number
• Basic information from earlier pregnancies
• Statistics e.g.
– for the Stakes (the National Research and Development Centre for
Welfare and Health
– the nursing research

• Forms and applications

The first page of the Stork

Forms

Name, birth date, age, weeks,

Notify: the lamp sign, B-gluc high (red color)
Lab, X-ray

Mother->,
Child ->

Social worker documentation
Both the public health nurse in primary care and
the midwife in special care fulfil this area. The written
data is available in real time (mother´s permission needed)

From Netinformation – Portal
to Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID)

My personal computer

Aims of the Work
• To elaborate the co-operation of different
organisations
• To develop a consistent way to manage information
in Social Work and Health Care organisations
• To develop the ”Dynamic Integrated Desktop” (DID)
for Social Work and Health Care professionals
• To offer further education of Social Work and Health
Care professionals
• To determine the reliable security standards

Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID )
-a consistent way to manage information in Health Care organisations

Partnership information

Single sign-on





Professional information


On line (on special fields)



Education
•course

Contacts
Office times
Information of services

Professional web services



PubMed, Cinahl
Laws and orders

enrolment, forms

Web services for public
Integration of IT software



Contact information



”You get what you need”



Problem solving information



EHR, RIS/PACS (digital imaging), biosignals etc.



Education



High level of security

View of the DID page

Teams
Discussion
Forums

Document
management
Links
Courses

Patients 26.8.2002

Mail (3 new messages)

Time

Name

Social security number

8.00

Patrick Patient

12345679573

8.20

Donald Duck

89101128758

8.40

Clark Kent

98459734658

Maintenance
Magazines &
Periodicals

August 2002

News
Databases
Patients
Help

Personified, user oriented
Networked, user organization oriented

Information system,
task and position in the organization

Tutuks service

• Tutuks, a virtual visit to a maternity ward
• Utilised work done by MIC
• http://www.synnytystutuksi.fi/tutukspalvelu.
html

Challenges for the Future
•Family/citizen participation challenges professionals
•e-working environment (models, processes)
•eEducation and training
• “E-gap” between generations
•Usability of ICT-solutions
•Integration of ICT-solutions

New project
• Looking for partner organisations, next
Tempus Call or other suitable call

New project - Tree of problems
NO KNOWLEDGE
TRANSFER

NO NETWORKING

Lack of resources in
distance teaching in cultural maternity care

Unfamiliarity with new
teaching ways

Former education

Non-transferability of
tacit knowledge

Lack of ICT skills

Figure: Project - problem tree

Retiring
(growing)

Incapability to
respond future needs

Mobility (teachers
and students)

Lack of cooperation between
Euro-Asian HIEs

Need to study regardless
time and space

Tree of objectives
FLEXIBLE
NETWORKING

CULTURAL MATERNITY CARE
AND DISTANCE TEACHING

ENHANCING READINESS FOR
DISTANCE TEACHING IN CULTURAL
MATERNITY AND INFANT CARE

Definition of resources
needed

Testing of
ICT skills

Designing and evaluating
Networking and
Distance teaching model

Selection of Learning Evaluation of
Environment(s)
readiness

MAIN AIM

Reports, workshops
(Implementation)

Accepted
planns

EFFECT

Dissemination of
Project results

Evaluation of model
Implementation

OUTCOME

Thank you for your
attention

Contact info:
[email protected]


Slide 39

eHealth
Case- Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net (MIC)

Speaker:

Pirkko Kouri,
Pricipal Lecturer in Healthcare Technology,
PhD, PHN, RN

Guests:

Tempus delegation

Time:

21 Feb 2007

Ultimate goals of Finnish health care
- Cost-effectiveness
- Patient/client & population centeredness
- Just distribution of the services (equity)
= use based on need

*********************************************************
MSAH’s own information society policy
-

Wide use of information and communication technology
Utilisation of internet penetration

Development levels – definition and projectwork
e.g. Area of eHealth / eWelfare
Levels of development

Development work

EU / National

Laws, standards, terminology, classifications, forms, data definitions

Regional

Aggreements, data transmissions, databases, archives, cooperation

Local

Working culture, division of labour, cooperation

Individual

Personal needs, user interface, way of working, teamwork

Milestones - Finnish health care system

2002
2007

National Project on Safeguarding the Future of Health Care Services
National law EHR

eHealth, National Project on Safeguarding the Future
of Health Care Services – main goals
•Ensure access to treatment
•Enhance co-ordination and co-operation in specialized health care
•Enhance regional co-ordination in primary health care
•Emphasize preventive work, one’s own responsibility for one’s own health and the
significance of primary health care
• Implementation - divided into 40 sub-projects
•Preparing the ground for the nationwide electronic patient records, which will be
introduced in 2007 (law will be launched Spring 2007)

Evolution of e-processes
- strategy and plan
- education
- culture, values
- publicity in control

5. Adaptation
of work
processes

4. Integration

Use
of e-Health
and e-Social
processes

Integration
of IT solutions
in daily life

Planning and
development
3. Processes
of e-processes,
working models

2. Basic
development

1. Services/
Products

Intranet,
Internet
groundwork
purpose-built

Electronic
documents
and lists
Adapted from www.done360.com

The Regional Project Area
Maternity care – births are over 99% in hospitals

.

JYVÄSKYLÄ

Map of Finland









85.585 km2
>1.000 lakes
681.000 inhabitants
One university hospital
Four central hospitals (five 10/03)
53 health centres
App. 20 000 social and health
care workers

NORMAL MATERNITY CARE SERVICE CHAIN
IN FINLAND (REGULAR PREGNANCY)

FIRST CONTACT
MOTHER/CHILD UNIT

PHN = public
health nurse

PHN/ FIRST
EXAMINATION
8-10 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
10-12 W

LABORATORY

PRE-NATAL
ULTRASOUND

HEALTH CENTRE
BEFORE 12 W
BASIC
INFORMATION
FORM
maternity clinic

CERTIFICATE
M/C CLINIC
NIB (KELA)

PHN/
EXAMINATION
16-18 W

SPECIAL CARE MATERNITY CLINIC
12-14 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
22-24 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
26-28 W
NIB =
National
Insurance
Bureau

PHN/
EXAMINATION
30-32 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
32-34 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
34-36 W

PAGE
2

BIRTH TRAINING COURSE,
(CONSISTS OF 8-10 MEETINGS)

PAGE
2

PHN/ EXAMINATION
37 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
38-40 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
40-42 W

DELIVERY ROOM

POST NATAL WARD

PHN/ (baby) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN/ (mother) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN / Mother´s Medical health check

DOCTOR/ Mother´s
Medical health check8-9 W after delivery

CHILD CLINIC

FAMILY
PLANNING

Basis of the Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net
The Long History of the (Finnish) Maternity Care Services (since 1940´s)
Development of Information Society (1990´s)
Idea of Maternity Services on the Internet (1997)
Basis of
Development
Work
•Research
• Multidisciplinary
co-operation
• Piloting
• Feedback /
Evaluation

Results
• Working
models for
experts and
families
•Networking
• Data/info
contents
• Software
technology

E- Service

Participants
• Health care
professionals
• Families
• Colleges
• Software
technology
experts
• Multimedia
experts

Expert teams





Central team
Social and Health care experts´ team
Technology experts´ team
Education experts´ team (Savonia was co-ordinator
of the MIC project)

• Families

MIC
•is supplementary to today's mother-child clinic services

•helps the user in decision making
•provides information that has been approved by the special
editorial board

•enables the use of the services independently of time and
place (Internet connection needed)
•can be used in many countries (adjustments will be made
according to the culture)

The MIC: options
•Entrance

•News
•Discussion groups (with peers)
•Questions and answers (confidential)
•Search (information)
•Feedback
•Links to other useful Internet sites

Search/ information or data bank











Pregnancy
Delivery
Post- natal period
Infant
Parent's relationship
Parenthood
Personal hygiene, appearance
Nutrition and exercise
Drugs, alcohol and smoking
Services to the public

MIC has 135 articles, two videos, 2 animations, 2 interactive photos, 86
photos and 53 drawings checked and approved by editorial board.

MIC / contents
Example: Drawings

Qualified information / content management
• Information is reliable, and easy to understand
• The quantity of information is adequate
• The required information is easy to find
• The content creation and management are carried on as
part of current (clinical) work processes
• The technical solutions guarantee e.g. data integrity,
authentication, security and data availability

Evaluation - family
• Modern way of having services
• No queuing in phone
• Discussions groups for families (anonymously), where
professionals appear by their names
• Service in your own language
• Information/contents is versatile, extensive, based on
expertise / reliable

Evaluation – maternity care professionals
•Extra visits were not needed during pilot phase
•The Net Clinic could be used as a manual or in
familiarising the new worker
•Counselling and giving advice was harmonised
•Families got deeper information and advice based
on their needs more effectively
•Networking and co-operation was more efficient
•Written answers took some time to get used to

The Project of the Year 2000
•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be expanded
into new application fields like public administration and so called soft
values
•Net Clinic is based on wide and versatile co-operation and on
application of new Internet technology
•Net Clinic proves that it is possible to develop new innovations also
outside big so called growing centres
•Net Clinic proves that women can work successfully in management
or other key positions which have conventionally been classified as
men´s work
(The evaluation criteria of the The Finnish Project Management Association)

Diploma of the Excellent Work
•Given by the Provincial State Office of Eastern Finland 4.9.2001

•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be
expanded into new application fields like public administration in
national level and in future international level

O

O
O

o
x

O

O MIC has been used/is in use
• Kuopio
• Helsinki
• North-East of Finland (Kuusamo,
Taivalkoski, Posio and Salla)
• Rovaniemi and its neighbourhood
Rovaniemi rural commune and
Ranua)

An eMaternal Health Care Data System

STORK

The Stork is
• secured electronic health data system (EHS) made for
professional use
• all the information about pregnancy, delivery and puerperium
is collected in the same system (so called seamless chain
between primary health care and special care)
• mutual data contents to maternal units involved

Data security
• The application
• built on special security system used by the hospital
• Access rights depends on task or position
• those who are involved maternal service chain
• Preconditions for usage
• mother´s permission to collect and transfer her data
(each organisation needs its own permission)
• agreement between different organisations
• every user has personal user identifier, all usage is
logged and saved, even edited/deleted parts will be
recorded permanently

Storks gives information
• Pregnancy follow up, continuous documentation;
appointments with public health nurses, midwifes, doctors
• Graphics; growth of the uterus, hypertension, weight,
partogram
• Internal- and external examinations
• Medication during pregnancy, delivery, puerperium
• Diagnosis of the foetus; e.g ultrasound, lab tests
• Lifestyle of the family (nutrition, exercise, smoking, drugs
etc)
• Sick leaves of the mother
• Special area for the nurse documentation

Stork gives
• The new-born baby his/her social security number
• Basic information from earlier pregnancies
• Statistics e.g.
– for the Stakes (the National Research and Development Centre for
Welfare and Health
– the nursing research

• Forms and applications

The first page of the Stork

Forms

Name, birth date, age, weeks,

Notify: the lamp sign, B-gluc high (red color)
Lab, X-ray

Mother->,
Child ->

Social worker documentation
Both the public health nurse in primary care and
the midwife in special care fulfil this area. The written
data is available in real time (mother´s permission needed)

From Netinformation – Portal
to Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID)

My personal computer

Aims of the Work
• To elaborate the co-operation of different
organisations
• To develop a consistent way to manage information
in Social Work and Health Care organisations
• To develop the ”Dynamic Integrated Desktop” (DID)
for Social Work and Health Care professionals
• To offer further education of Social Work and Health
Care professionals
• To determine the reliable security standards

Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID )
-a consistent way to manage information in Health Care organisations

Partnership information

Single sign-on





Professional information


On line (on special fields)



Education
•course

Contacts
Office times
Information of services

Professional web services



PubMed, Cinahl
Laws and orders

enrolment, forms

Web services for public
Integration of IT software



Contact information



”You get what you need”



Problem solving information



EHR, RIS/PACS (digital imaging), biosignals etc.



Education



High level of security

View of the DID page

Teams
Discussion
Forums

Document
management
Links
Courses

Patients 26.8.2002

Mail (3 new messages)

Time

Name

Social security number

8.00

Patrick Patient

12345679573

8.20

Donald Duck

89101128758

8.40

Clark Kent

98459734658

Maintenance
Magazines &
Periodicals

August 2002

News
Databases
Patients
Help

Personified, user oriented
Networked, user organization oriented

Information system,
task and position in the organization

Tutuks service

• Tutuks, a virtual visit to a maternity ward
• Utilised work done by MIC
• http://www.synnytystutuksi.fi/tutukspalvelu.
html

Challenges for the Future
•Family/citizen participation challenges professionals
•e-working environment (models, processes)
•eEducation and training
• “E-gap” between generations
•Usability of ICT-solutions
•Integration of ICT-solutions

New project
• Looking for partner organisations, next
Tempus Call or other suitable call

New project - Tree of problems
NO KNOWLEDGE
TRANSFER

NO NETWORKING

Lack of resources in
distance teaching in cultural maternity care

Unfamiliarity with new
teaching ways

Former education

Non-transferability of
tacit knowledge

Lack of ICT skills

Figure: Project - problem tree

Retiring
(growing)

Incapability to
respond future needs

Mobility (teachers
and students)

Lack of cooperation between
Euro-Asian HIEs

Need to study regardless
time and space

Tree of objectives
FLEXIBLE
NETWORKING

CULTURAL MATERNITY CARE
AND DISTANCE TEACHING

ENHANCING READINESS FOR
DISTANCE TEACHING IN CULTURAL
MATERNITY AND INFANT CARE

Definition of resources
needed

Testing of
ICT skills

Designing and evaluating
Networking and
Distance teaching model

Selection of Learning Evaluation of
Environment(s)
readiness

MAIN AIM

Reports, workshops
(Implementation)

Accepted
planns

EFFECT

Dissemination of
Project results

Evaluation of model
Implementation

OUTCOME

Thank you for your
attention

Contact info:
[email protected]


Slide 40

eHealth
Case- Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net (MIC)

Speaker:

Pirkko Kouri,
Pricipal Lecturer in Healthcare Technology,
PhD, PHN, RN

Guests:

Tempus delegation

Time:

21 Feb 2007

Ultimate goals of Finnish health care
- Cost-effectiveness
- Patient/client & population centeredness
- Just distribution of the services (equity)
= use based on need

*********************************************************
MSAH’s own information society policy
-

Wide use of information and communication technology
Utilisation of internet penetration

Development levels – definition and projectwork
e.g. Area of eHealth / eWelfare
Levels of development

Development work

EU / National

Laws, standards, terminology, classifications, forms, data definitions

Regional

Aggreements, data transmissions, databases, archives, cooperation

Local

Working culture, division of labour, cooperation

Individual

Personal needs, user interface, way of working, teamwork

Milestones - Finnish health care system

2002
2007

National Project on Safeguarding the Future of Health Care Services
National law EHR

eHealth, National Project on Safeguarding the Future
of Health Care Services – main goals
•Ensure access to treatment
•Enhance co-ordination and co-operation in specialized health care
•Enhance regional co-ordination in primary health care
•Emphasize preventive work, one’s own responsibility for one’s own health and the
significance of primary health care
• Implementation - divided into 40 sub-projects
•Preparing the ground for the nationwide electronic patient records, which will be
introduced in 2007 (law will be launched Spring 2007)

Evolution of e-processes
- strategy and plan
- education
- culture, values
- publicity in control

5. Adaptation
of work
processes

4. Integration

Use
of e-Health
and e-Social
processes

Integration
of IT solutions
in daily life

Planning and
development
3. Processes
of e-processes,
working models

2. Basic
development

1. Services/
Products

Intranet,
Internet
groundwork
purpose-built

Electronic
documents
and lists
Adapted from www.done360.com

The Regional Project Area
Maternity care – births are over 99% in hospitals

.

JYVÄSKYLÄ

Map of Finland









85.585 km2
>1.000 lakes
681.000 inhabitants
One university hospital
Four central hospitals (five 10/03)
53 health centres
App. 20 000 social and health
care workers

NORMAL MATERNITY CARE SERVICE CHAIN
IN FINLAND (REGULAR PREGNANCY)

FIRST CONTACT
MOTHER/CHILD UNIT

PHN = public
health nurse

PHN/ FIRST
EXAMINATION
8-10 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
10-12 W

LABORATORY

PRE-NATAL
ULTRASOUND

HEALTH CENTRE
BEFORE 12 W
BASIC
INFORMATION
FORM
maternity clinic

CERTIFICATE
M/C CLINIC
NIB (KELA)

PHN/
EXAMINATION
16-18 W

SPECIAL CARE MATERNITY CLINIC
12-14 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
22-24 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
26-28 W
NIB =
National
Insurance
Bureau

PHN/
EXAMINATION
30-32 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
32-34 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
34-36 W

PAGE
2

BIRTH TRAINING COURSE,
(CONSISTS OF 8-10 MEETINGS)

PAGE
2

PHN/ EXAMINATION
37 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
38-40 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
40-42 W

DELIVERY ROOM

POST NATAL WARD

PHN/ (baby) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN/ (mother) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN / Mother´s Medical health check

DOCTOR/ Mother´s
Medical health check8-9 W after delivery

CHILD CLINIC

FAMILY
PLANNING

Basis of the Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net
The Long History of the (Finnish) Maternity Care Services (since 1940´s)
Development of Information Society (1990´s)
Idea of Maternity Services on the Internet (1997)
Basis of
Development
Work
•Research
• Multidisciplinary
co-operation
• Piloting
• Feedback /
Evaluation

Results
• Working
models for
experts and
families
•Networking
• Data/info
contents
• Software
technology

E- Service

Participants
• Health care
professionals
• Families
• Colleges
• Software
technology
experts
• Multimedia
experts

Expert teams





Central team
Social and Health care experts´ team
Technology experts´ team
Education experts´ team (Savonia was co-ordinator
of the MIC project)

• Families

MIC
•is supplementary to today's mother-child clinic services

•helps the user in decision making
•provides information that has been approved by the special
editorial board

•enables the use of the services independently of time and
place (Internet connection needed)
•can be used in many countries (adjustments will be made
according to the culture)

The MIC: options
•Entrance

•News
•Discussion groups (with peers)
•Questions and answers (confidential)
•Search (information)
•Feedback
•Links to other useful Internet sites

Search/ information or data bank











Pregnancy
Delivery
Post- natal period
Infant
Parent's relationship
Parenthood
Personal hygiene, appearance
Nutrition and exercise
Drugs, alcohol and smoking
Services to the public

MIC has 135 articles, two videos, 2 animations, 2 interactive photos, 86
photos and 53 drawings checked and approved by editorial board.

MIC / contents
Example: Drawings

Qualified information / content management
• Information is reliable, and easy to understand
• The quantity of information is adequate
• The required information is easy to find
• The content creation and management are carried on as
part of current (clinical) work processes
• The technical solutions guarantee e.g. data integrity,
authentication, security and data availability

Evaluation - family
• Modern way of having services
• No queuing in phone
• Discussions groups for families (anonymously), where
professionals appear by their names
• Service in your own language
• Information/contents is versatile, extensive, based on
expertise / reliable

Evaluation – maternity care professionals
•Extra visits were not needed during pilot phase
•The Net Clinic could be used as a manual or in
familiarising the new worker
•Counselling and giving advice was harmonised
•Families got deeper information and advice based
on their needs more effectively
•Networking and co-operation was more efficient
•Written answers took some time to get used to

The Project of the Year 2000
•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be expanded
into new application fields like public administration and so called soft
values
•Net Clinic is based on wide and versatile co-operation and on
application of new Internet technology
•Net Clinic proves that it is possible to develop new innovations also
outside big so called growing centres
•Net Clinic proves that women can work successfully in management
or other key positions which have conventionally been classified as
men´s work
(The evaluation criteria of the The Finnish Project Management Association)

Diploma of the Excellent Work
•Given by the Provincial State Office of Eastern Finland 4.9.2001

•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be
expanded into new application fields like public administration in
national level and in future international level

O

O
O

o
x

O

O MIC has been used/is in use
• Kuopio
• Helsinki
• North-East of Finland (Kuusamo,
Taivalkoski, Posio and Salla)
• Rovaniemi and its neighbourhood
Rovaniemi rural commune and
Ranua)

An eMaternal Health Care Data System

STORK

The Stork is
• secured electronic health data system (EHS) made for
professional use
• all the information about pregnancy, delivery and puerperium
is collected in the same system (so called seamless chain
between primary health care and special care)
• mutual data contents to maternal units involved

Data security
• The application
• built on special security system used by the hospital
• Access rights depends on task or position
• those who are involved maternal service chain
• Preconditions for usage
• mother´s permission to collect and transfer her data
(each organisation needs its own permission)
• agreement between different organisations
• every user has personal user identifier, all usage is
logged and saved, even edited/deleted parts will be
recorded permanently

Storks gives information
• Pregnancy follow up, continuous documentation;
appointments with public health nurses, midwifes, doctors
• Graphics; growth of the uterus, hypertension, weight,
partogram
• Internal- and external examinations
• Medication during pregnancy, delivery, puerperium
• Diagnosis of the foetus; e.g ultrasound, lab tests
• Lifestyle of the family (nutrition, exercise, smoking, drugs
etc)
• Sick leaves of the mother
• Special area for the nurse documentation

Stork gives
• The new-born baby his/her social security number
• Basic information from earlier pregnancies
• Statistics e.g.
– for the Stakes (the National Research and Development Centre for
Welfare and Health
– the nursing research

• Forms and applications

The first page of the Stork

Forms

Name, birth date, age, weeks,

Notify: the lamp sign, B-gluc high (red color)
Lab, X-ray

Mother->,
Child ->

Social worker documentation
Both the public health nurse in primary care and
the midwife in special care fulfil this area. The written
data is available in real time (mother´s permission needed)

From Netinformation – Portal
to Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID)

My personal computer

Aims of the Work
• To elaborate the co-operation of different
organisations
• To develop a consistent way to manage information
in Social Work and Health Care organisations
• To develop the ”Dynamic Integrated Desktop” (DID)
for Social Work and Health Care professionals
• To offer further education of Social Work and Health
Care professionals
• To determine the reliable security standards

Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID )
-a consistent way to manage information in Health Care organisations

Partnership information

Single sign-on





Professional information


On line (on special fields)



Education
•course

Contacts
Office times
Information of services

Professional web services



PubMed, Cinahl
Laws and orders

enrolment, forms

Web services for public
Integration of IT software



Contact information



”You get what you need”



Problem solving information



EHR, RIS/PACS (digital imaging), biosignals etc.



Education



High level of security

View of the DID page

Teams
Discussion
Forums

Document
management
Links
Courses

Patients 26.8.2002

Mail (3 new messages)

Time

Name

Social security number

8.00

Patrick Patient

12345679573

8.20

Donald Duck

89101128758

8.40

Clark Kent

98459734658

Maintenance
Magazines &
Periodicals

August 2002

News
Databases
Patients
Help

Personified, user oriented
Networked, user organization oriented

Information system,
task and position in the organization

Tutuks service

• Tutuks, a virtual visit to a maternity ward
• Utilised work done by MIC
• http://www.synnytystutuksi.fi/tutukspalvelu.
html

Challenges for the Future
•Family/citizen participation challenges professionals
•e-working environment (models, processes)
•eEducation and training
• “E-gap” between generations
•Usability of ICT-solutions
•Integration of ICT-solutions

New project
• Looking for partner organisations, next
Tempus Call or other suitable call

New project - Tree of problems
NO KNOWLEDGE
TRANSFER

NO NETWORKING

Lack of resources in
distance teaching in cultural maternity care

Unfamiliarity with new
teaching ways

Former education

Non-transferability of
tacit knowledge

Lack of ICT skills

Figure: Project - problem tree

Retiring
(growing)

Incapability to
respond future needs

Mobility (teachers
and students)

Lack of cooperation between
Euro-Asian HIEs

Need to study regardless
time and space

Tree of objectives
FLEXIBLE
NETWORKING

CULTURAL MATERNITY CARE
AND DISTANCE TEACHING

ENHANCING READINESS FOR
DISTANCE TEACHING IN CULTURAL
MATERNITY AND INFANT CARE

Definition of resources
needed

Testing of
ICT skills

Designing and evaluating
Networking and
Distance teaching model

Selection of Learning Evaluation of
Environment(s)
readiness

MAIN AIM

Reports, workshops
(Implementation)

Accepted
planns

EFFECT

Dissemination of
Project results

Evaluation of model
Implementation

OUTCOME

Thank you for your
attention

Contact info:
[email protected]


Slide 41

eHealth
Case- Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net (MIC)

Speaker:

Pirkko Kouri,
Pricipal Lecturer in Healthcare Technology,
PhD, PHN, RN

Guests:

Tempus delegation

Time:

21 Feb 2007

Ultimate goals of Finnish health care
- Cost-effectiveness
- Patient/client & population centeredness
- Just distribution of the services (equity)
= use based on need

*********************************************************
MSAH’s own information society policy
-

Wide use of information and communication technology
Utilisation of internet penetration

Development levels – definition and projectwork
e.g. Area of eHealth / eWelfare
Levels of development

Development work

EU / National

Laws, standards, terminology, classifications, forms, data definitions

Regional

Aggreements, data transmissions, databases, archives, cooperation

Local

Working culture, division of labour, cooperation

Individual

Personal needs, user interface, way of working, teamwork

Milestones - Finnish health care system

2002
2007

National Project on Safeguarding the Future of Health Care Services
National law EHR

eHealth, National Project on Safeguarding the Future
of Health Care Services – main goals
•Ensure access to treatment
•Enhance co-ordination and co-operation in specialized health care
•Enhance regional co-ordination in primary health care
•Emphasize preventive work, one’s own responsibility for one’s own health and the
significance of primary health care
• Implementation - divided into 40 sub-projects
•Preparing the ground for the nationwide electronic patient records, which will be
introduced in 2007 (law will be launched Spring 2007)

Evolution of e-processes
- strategy and plan
- education
- culture, values
- publicity in control

5. Adaptation
of work
processes

4. Integration

Use
of e-Health
and e-Social
processes

Integration
of IT solutions
in daily life

Planning and
development
3. Processes
of e-processes,
working models

2. Basic
development

1. Services/
Products

Intranet,
Internet
groundwork
purpose-built

Electronic
documents
and lists
Adapted from www.done360.com

The Regional Project Area
Maternity care – births are over 99% in hospitals

.

JYVÄSKYLÄ

Map of Finland









85.585 km2
>1.000 lakes
681.000 inhabitants
One university hospital
Four central hospitals (five 10/03)
53 health centres
App. 20 000 social and health
care workers

NORMAL MATERNITY CARE SERVICE CHAIN
IN FINLAND (REGULAR PREGNANCY)

FIRST CONTACT
MOTHER/CHILD UNIT

PHN = public
health nurse

PHN/ FIRST
EXAMINATION
8-10 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
10-12 W

LABORATORY

PRE-NATAL
ULTRASOUND

HEALTH CENTRE
BEFORE 12 W
BASIC
INFORMATION
FORM
maternity clinic

CERTIFICATE
M/C CLINIC
NIB (KELA)

PHN/
EXAMINATION
16-18 W

SPECIAL CARE MATERNITY CLINIC
12-14 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
22-24 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
26-28 W
NIB =
National
Insurance
Bureau

PHN/
EXAMINATION
30-32 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
32-34 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
34-36 W

PAGE
2

BIRTH TRAINING COURSE,
(CONSISTS OF 8-10 MEETINGS)

PAGE
2

PHN/ EXAMINATION
37 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
38-40 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
40-42 W

DELIVERY ROOM

POST NATAL WARD

PHN/ (baby) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN/ (mother) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN / Mother´s Medical health check

DOCTOR/ Mother´s
Medical health check8-9 W after delivery

CHILD CLINIC

FAMILY
PLANNING

Basis of the Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net
The Long History of the (Finnish) Maternity Care Services (since 1940´s)
Development of Information Society (1990´s)
Idea of Maternity Services on the Internet (1997)
Basis of
Development
Work
•Research
• Multidisciplinary
co-operation
• Piloting
• Feedback /
Evaluation

Results
• Working
models for
experts and
families
•Networking
• Data/info
contents
• Software
technology

E- Service

Participants
• Health care
professionals
• Families
• Colleges
• Software
technology
experts
• Multimedia
experts

Expert teams





Central team
Social and Health care experts´ team
Technology experts´ team
Education experts´ team (Savonia was co-ordinator
of the MIC project)

• Families

MIC
•is supplementary to today's mother-child clinic services

•helps the user in decision making
•provides information that has been approved by the special
editorial board

•enables the use of the services independently of time and
place (Internet connection needed)
•can be used in many countries (adjustments will be made
according to the culture)

The MIC: options
•Entrance

•News
•Discussion groups (with peers)
•Questions and answers (confidential)
•Search (information)
•Feedback
•Links to other useful Internet sites

Search/ information or data bank











Pregnancy
Delivery
Post- natal period
Infant
Parent's relationship
Parenthood
Personal hygiene, appearance
Nutrition and exercise
Drugs, alcohol and smoking
Services to the public

MIC has 135 articles, two videos, 2 animations, 2 interactive photos, 86
photos and 53 drawings checked and approved by editorial board.

MIC / contents
Example: Drawings

Qualified information / content management
• Information is reliable, and easy to understand
• The quantity of information is adequate
• The required information is easy to find
• The content creation and management are carried on as
part of current (clinical) work processes
• The technical solutions guarantee e.g. data integrity,
authentication, security and data availability

Evaluation - family
• Modern way of having services
• No queuing in phone
• Discussions groups for families (anonymously), where
professionals appear by their names
• Service in your own language
• Information/contents is versatile, extensive, based on
expertise / reliable

Evaluation – maternity care professionals
•Extra visits were not needed during pilot phase
•The Net Clinic could be used as a manual or in
familiarising the new worker
•Counselling and giving advice was harmonised
•Families got deeper information and advice based
on their needs more effectively
•Networking and co-operation was more efficient
•Written answers took some time to get used to

The Project of the Year 2000
•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be expanded
into new application fields like public administration and so called soft
values
•Net Clinic is based on wide and versatile co-operation and on
application of new Internet technology
•Net Clinic proves that it is possible to develop new innovations also
outside big so called growing centres
•Net Clinic proves that women can work successfully in management
or other key positions which have conventionally been classified as
men´s work
(The evaluation criteria of the The Finnish Project Management Association)

Diploma of the Excellent Work
•Given by the Provincial State Office of Eastern Finland 4.9.2001

•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be
expanded into new application fields like public administration in
national level and in future international level

O

O
O

o
x

O

O MIC has been used/is in use
• Kuopio
• Helsinki
• North-East of Finland (Kuusamo,
Taivalkoski, Posio and Salla)
• Rovaniemi and its neighbourhood
Rovaniemi rural commune and
Ranua)

An eMaternal Health Care Data System

STORK

The Stork is
• secured electronic health data system (EHS) made for
professional use
• all the information about pregnancy, delivery and puerperium
is collected in the same system (so called seamless chain
between primary health care and special care)
• mutual data contents to maternal units involved

Data security
• The application
• built on special security system used by the hospital
• Access rights depends on task or position
• those who are involved maternal service chain
• Preconditions for usage
• mother´s permission to collect and transfer her data
(each organisation needs its own permission)
• agreement between different organisations
• every user has personal user identifier, all usage is
logged and saved, even edited/deleted parts will be
recorded permanently

Storks gives information
• Pregnancy follow up, continuous documentation;
appointments with public health nurses, midwifes, doctors
• Graphics; growth of the uterus, hypertension, weight,
partogram
• Internal- and external examinations
• Medication during pregnancy, delivery, puerperium
• Diagnosis of the foetus; e.g ultrasound, lab tests
• Lifestyle of the family (nutrition, exercise, smoking, drugs
etc)
• Sick leaves of the mother
• Special area for the nurse documentation

Stork gives
• The new-born baby his/her social security number
• Basic information from earlier pregnancies
• Statistics e.g.
– for the Stakes (the National Research and Development Centre for
Welfare and Health
– the nursing research

• Forms and applications

The first page of the Stork

Forms

Name, birth date, age, weeks,

Notify: the lamp sign, B-gluc high (red color)
Lab, X-ray

Mother->,
Child ->

Social worker documentation
Both the public health nurse in primary care and
the midwife in special care fulfil this area. The written
data is available in real time (mother´s permission needed)

From Netinformation – Portal
to Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID)

My personal computer

Aims of the Work
• To elaborate the co-operation of different
organisations
• To develop a consistent way to manage information
in Social Work and Health Care organisations
• To develop the ”Dynamic Integrated Desktop” (DID)
for Social Work and Health Care professionals
• To offer further education of Social Work and Health
Care professionals
• To determine the reliable security standards

Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID )
-a consistent way to manage information in Health Care organisations

Partnership information

Single sign-on





Professional information


On line (on special fields)



Education
•course

Contacts
Office times
Information of services

Professional web services



PubMed, Cinahl
Laws and orders

enrolment, forms

Web services for public
Integration of IT software



Contact information



”You get what you need”



Problem solving information



EHR, RIS/PACS (digital imaging), biosignals etc.



Education



High level of security

View of the DID page

Teams
Discussion
Forums

Document
management
Links
Courses

Patients 26.8.2002

Mail (3 new messages)

Time

Name

Social security number

8.00

Patrick Patient

12345679573

8.20

Donald Duck

89101128758

8.40

Clark Kent

98459734658

Maintenance
Magazines &
Periodicals

August 2002

News
Databases
Patients
Help

Personified, user oriented
Networked, user organization oriented

Information system,
task and position in the organization

Tutuks service

• Tutuks, a virtual visit to a maternity ward
• Utilised work done by MIC
• http://www.synnytystutuksi.fi/tutukspalvelu.
html

Challenges for the Future
•Family/citizen participation challenges professionals
•e-working environment (models, processes)
•eEducation and training
• “E-gap” between generations
•Usability of ICT-solutions
•Integration of ICT-solutions

New project
• Looking for partner organisations, next
Tempus Call or other suitable call

New project - Tree of problems
NO KNOWLEDGE
TRANSFER

NO NETWORKING

Lack of resources in
distance teaching in cultural maternity care

Unfamiliarity with new
teaching ways

Former education

Non-transferability of
tacit knowledge

Lack of ICT skills

Figure: Project - problem tree

Retiring
(growing)

Incapability to
respond future needs

Mobility (teachers
and students)

Lack of cooperation between
Euro-Asian HIEs

Need to study regardless
time and space

Tree of objectives
FLEXIBLE
NETWORKING

CULTURAL MATERNITY CARE
AND DISTANCE TEACHING

ENHANCING READINESS FOR
DISTANCE TEACHING IN CULTURAL
MATERNITY AND INFANT CARE

Definition of resources
needed

Testing of
ICT skills

Designing and evaluating
Networking and
Distance teaching model

Selection of Learning Evaluation of
Environment(s)
readiness

MAIN AIM

Reports, workshops
(Implementation)

Accepted
planns

EFFECT

Dissemination of
Project results

Evaluation of model
Implementation

OUTCOME

Thank you for your
attention

Contact info:
[email protected]


Slide 42

eHealth
Case- Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net (MIC)

Speaker:

Pirkko Kouri,
Pricipal Lecturer in Healthcare Technology,
PhD, PHN, RN

Guests:

Tempus delegation

Time:

21 Feb 2007

Ultimate goals of Finnish health care
- Cost-effectiveness
- Patient/client & population centeredness
- Just distribution of the services (equity)
= use based on need

*********************************************************
MSAH’s own information society policy
-

Wide use of information and communication technology
Utilisation of internet penetration

Development levels – definition and projectwork
e.g. Area of eHealth / eWelfare
Levels of development

Development work

EU / National

Laws, standards, terminology, classifications, forms, data definitions

Regional

Aggreements, data transmissions, databases, archives, cooperation

Local

Working culture, division of labour, cooperation

Individual

Personal needs, user interface, way of working, teamwork

Milestones - Finnish health care system

2002
2007

National Project on Safeguarding the Future of Health Care Services
National law EHR

eHealth, National Project on Safeguarding the Future
of Health Care Services – main goals
•Ensure access to treatment
•Enhance co-ordination and co-operation in specialized health care
•Enhance regional co-ordination in primary health care
•Emphasize preventive work, one’s own responsibility for one’s own health and the
significance of primary health care
• Implementation - divided into 40 sub-projects
•Preparing the ground for the nationwide electronic patient records, which will be
introduced in 2007 (law will be launched Spring 2007)

Evolution of e-processes
- strategy and plan
- education
- culture, values
- publicity in control

5. Adaptation
of work
processes

4. Integration

Use
of e-Health
and e-Social
processes

Integration
of IT solutions
in daily life

Planning and
development
3. Processes
of e-processes,
working models

2. Basic
development

1. Services/
Products

Intranet,
Internet
groundwork
purpose-built

Electronic
documents
and lists
Adapted from www.done360.com

The Regional Project Area
Maternity care – births are over 99% in hospitals

.

JYVÄSKYLÄ

Map of Finland









85.585 km2
>1.000 lakes
681.000 inhabitants
One university hospital
Four central hospitals (five 10/03)
53 health centres
App. 20 000 social and health
care workers

NORMAL MATERNITY CARE SERVICE CHAIN
IN FINLAND (REGULAR PREGNANCY)

FIRST CONTACT
MOTHER/CHILD UNIT

PHN = public
health nurse

PHN/ FIRST
EXAMINATION
8-10 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
10-12 W

LABORATORY

PRE-NATAL
ULTRASOUND

HEALTH CENTRE
BEFORE 12 W
BASIC
INFORMATION
FORM
maternity clinic

CERTIFICATE
M/C CLINIC
NIB (KELA)

PHN/
EXAMINATION
16-18 W

SPECIAL CARE MATERNITY CLINIC
12-14 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
22-24 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
26-28 W
NIB =
National
Insurance
Bureau

PHN/
EXAMINATION
30-32 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
32-34 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
34-36 W

PAGE
2

BIRTH TRAINING COURSE,
(CONSISTS OF 8-10 MEETINGS)

PAGE
2

PHN/ EXAMINATION
37 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
38-40 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
40-42 W

DELIVERY ROOM

POST NATAL WARD

PHN/ (baby) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN/ (mother) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN / Mother´s Medical health check

DOCTOR/ Mother´s
Medical health check8-9 W after delivery

CHILD CLINIC

FAMILY
PLANNING

Basis of the Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net
The Long History of the (Finnish) Maternity Care Services (since 1940´s)
Development of Information Society (1990´s)
Idea of Maternity Services on the Internet (1997)
Basis of
Development
Work
•Research
• Multidisciplinary
co-operation
• Piloting
• Feedback /
Evaluation

Results
• Working
models for
experts and
families
•Networking
• Data/info
contents
• Software
technology

E- Service

Participants
• Health care
professionals
• Families
• Colleges
• Software
technology
experts
• Multimedia
experts

Expert teams





Central team
Social and Health care experts´ team
Technology experts´ team
Education experts´ team (Savonia was co-ordinator
of the MIC project)

• Families

MIC
•is supplementary to today's mother-child clinic services

•helps the user in decision making
•provides information that has been approved by the special
editorial board

•enables the use of the services independently of time and
place (Internet connection needed)
•can be used in many countries (adjustments will be made
according to the culture)

The MIC: options
•Entrance

•News
•Discussion groups (with peers)
•Questions and answers (confidential)
•Search (information)
•Feedback
•Links to other useful Internet sites

Search/ information or data bank











Pregnancy
Delivery
Post- natal period
Infant
Parent's relationship
Parenthood
Personal hygiene, appearance
Nutrition and exercise
Drugs, alcohol and smoking
Services to the public

MIC has 135 articles, two videos, 2 animations, 2 interactive photos, 86
photos and 53 drawings checked and approved by editorial board.

MIC / contents
Example: Drawings

Qualified information / content management
• Information is reliable, and easy to understand
• The quantity of information is adequate
• The required information is easy to find
• The content creation and management are carried on as
part of current (clinical) work processes
• The technical solutions guarantee e.g. data integrity,
authentication, security and data availability

Evaluation - family
• Modern way of having services
• No queuing in phone
• Discussions groups for families (anonymously), where
professionals appear by their names
• Service in your own language
• Information/contents is versatile, extensive, based on
expertise / reliable

Evaluation – maternity care professionals
•Extra visits were not needed during pilot phase
•The Net Clinic could be used as a manual or in
familiarising the new worker
•Counselling and giving advice was harmonised
•Families got deeper information and advice based
on their needs more effectively
•Networking and co-operation was more efficient
•Written answers took some time to get used to

The Project of the Year 2000
•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be expanded
into new application fields like public administration and so called soft
values
•Net Clinic is based on wide and versatile co-operation and on
application of new Internet technology
•Net Clinic proves that it is possible to develop new innovations also
outside big so called growing centres
•Net Clinic proves that women can work successfully in management
or other key positions which have conventionally been classified as
men´s work
(The evaluation criteria of the The Finnish Project Management Association)

Diploma of the Excellent Work
•Given by the Provincial State Office of Eastern Finland 4.9.2001

•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be
expanded into new application fields like public administration in
national level and in future international level

O

O
O

o
x

O

O MIC has been used/is in use
• Kuopio
• Helsinki
• North-East of Finland (Kuusamo,
Taivalkoski, Posio and Salla)
• Rovaniemi and its neighbourhood
Rovaniemi rural commune and
Ranua)

An eMaternal Health Care Data System

STORK

The Stork is
• secured electronic health data system (EHS) made for
professional use
• all the information about pregnancy, delivery and puerperium
is collected in the same system (so called seamless chain
between primary health care and special care)
• mutual data contents to maternal units involved

Data security
• The application
• built on special security system used by the hospital
• Access rights depends on task or position
• those who are involved maternal service chain
• Preconditions for usage
• mother´s permission to collect and transfer her data
(each organisation needs its own permission)
• agreement between different organisations
• every user has personal user identifier, all usage is
logged and saved, even edited/deleted parts will be
recorded permanently

Storks gives information
• Pregnancy follow up, continuous documentation;
appointments with public health nurses, midwifes, doctors
• Graphics; growth of the uterus, hypertension, weight,
partogram
• Internal- and external examinations
• Medication during pregnancy, delivery, puerperium
• Diagnosis of the foetus; e.g ultrasound, lab tests
• Lifestyle of the family (nutrition, exercise, smoking, drugs
etc)
• Sick leaves of the mother
• Special area for the nurse documentation

Stork gives
• The new-born baby his/her social security number
• Basic information from earlier pregnancies
• Statistics e.g.
– for the Stakes (the National Research and Development Centre for
Welfare and Health
– the nursing research

• Forms and applications

The first page of the Stork

Forms

Name, birth date, age, weeks,

Notify: the lamp sign, B-gluc high (red color)
Lab, X-ray

Mother->,
Child ->

Social worker documentation
Both the public health nurse in primary care and
the midwife in special care fulfil this area. The written
data is available in real time (mother´s permission needed)

From Netinformation – Portal
to Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID)

My personal computer

Aims of the Work
• To elaborate the co-operation of different
organisations
• To develop a consistent way to manage information
in Social Work and Health Care organisations
• To develop the ”Dynamic Integrated Desktop” (DID)
for Social Work and Health Care professionals
• To offer further education of Social Work and Health
Care professionals
• To determine the reliable security standards

Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID )
-a consistent way to manage information in Health Care organisations

Partnership information

Single sign-on





Professional information


On line (on special fields)



Education
•course

Contacts
Office times
Information of services

Professional web services



PubMed, Cinahl
Laws and orders

enrolment, forms

Web services for public
Integration of IT software



Contact information



”You get what you need”



Problem solving information



EHR, RIS/PACS (digital imaging), biosignals etc.



Education



High level of security

View of the DID page

Teams
Discussion
Forums

Document
management
Links
Courses

Patients 26.8.2002

Mail (3 new messages)

Time

Name

Social security number

8.00

Patrick Patient

12345679573

8.20

Donald Duck

89101128758

8.40

Clark Kent

98459734658

Maintenance
Magazines &
Periodicals

August 2002

News
Databases
Patients
Help

Personified, user oriented
Networked, user organization oriented

Information system,
task and position in the organization

Tutuks service

• Tutuks, a virtual visit to a maternity ward
• Utilised work done by MIC
• http://www.synnytystutuksi.fi/tutukspalvelu.
html

Challenges for the Future
•Family/citizen participation challenges professionals
•e-working environment (models, processes)
•eEducation and training
• “E-gap” between generations
•Usability of ICT-solutions
•Integration of ICT-solutions

New project
• Looking for partner organisations, next
Tempus Call or other suitable call

New project - Tree of problems
NO KNOWLEDGE
TRANSFER

NO NETWORKING

Lack of resources in
distance teaching in cultural maternity care

Unfamiliarity with new
teaching ways

Former education

Non-transferability of
tacit knowledge

Lack of ICT skills

Figure: Project - problem tree

Retiring
(growing)

Incapability to
respond future needs

Mobility (teachers
and students)

Lack of cooperation between
Euro-Asian HIEs

Need to study regardless
time and space

Tree of objectives
FLEXIBLE
NETWORKING

CULTURAL MATERNITY CARE
AND DISTANCE TEACHING

ENHANCING READINESS FOR
DISTANCE TEACHING IN CULTURAL
MATERNITY AND INFANT CARE

Definition of resources
needed

Testing of
ICT skills

Designing and evaluating
Networking and
Distance teaching model

Selection of Learning Evaluation of
Environment(s)
readiness

MAIN AIM

Reports, workshops
(Implementation)

Accepted
planns

EFFECT

Dissemination of
Project results

Evaluation of model
Implementation

OUTCOME

Thank you for your
attention

Contact info:
[email protected]


Slide 43

eHealth
Case- Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net (MIC)

Speaker:

Pirkko Kouri,
Pricipal Lecturer in Healthcare Technology,
PhD, PHN, RN

Guests:

Tempus delegation

Time:

21 Feb 2007

Ultimate goals of Finnish health care
- Cost-effectiveness
- Patient/client & population centeredness
- Just distribution of the services (equity)
= use based on need

*********************************************************
MSAH’s own information society policy
-

Wide use of information and communication technology
Utilisation of internet penetration

Development levels – definition and projectwork
e.g. Area of eHealth / eWelfare
Levels of development

Development work

EU / National

Laws, standards, terminology, classifications, forms, data definitions

Regional

Aggreements, data transmissions, databases, archives, cooperation

Local

Working culture, division of labour, cooperation

Individual

Personal needs, user interface, way of working, teamwork

Milestones - Finnish health care system

2002
2007

National Project on Safeguarding the Future of Health Care Services
National law EHR

eHealth, National Project on Safeguarding the Future
of Health Care Services – main goals
•Ensure access to treatment
•Enhance co-ordination and co-operation in specialized health care
•Enhance regional co-ordination in primary health care
•Emphasize preventive work, one’s own responsibility for one’s own health and the
significance of primary health care
• Implementation - divided into 40 sub-projects
•Preparing the ground for the nationwide electronic patient records, which will be
introduced in 2007 (law will be launched Spring 2007)

Evolution of e-processes
- strategy and plan
- education
- culture, values
- publicity in control

5. Adaptation
of work
processes

4. Integration

Use
of e-Health
and e-Social
processes

Integration
of IT solutions
in daily life

Planning and
development
3. Processes
of e-processes,
working models

2. Basic
development

1. Services/
Products

Intranet,
Internet
groundwork
purpose-built

Electronic
documents
and lists
Adapted from www.done360.com

The Regional Project Area
Maternity care – births are over 99% in hospitals

.

JYVÄSKYLÄ

Map of Finland









85.585 km2
>1.000 lakes
681.000 inhabitants
One university hospital
Four central hospitals (five 10/03)
53 health centres
App. 20 000 social and health
care workers

NORMAL MATERNITY CARE SERVICE CHAIN
IN FINLAND (REGULAR PREGNANCY)

FIRST CONTACT
MOTHER/CHILD UNIT

PHN = public
health nurse

PHN/ FIRST
EXAMINATION
8-10 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
10-12 W

LABORATORY

PRE-NATAL
ULTRASOUND

HEALTH CENTRE
BEFORE 12 W
BASIC
INFORMATION
FORM
maternity clinic

CERTIFICATE
M/C CLINIC
NIB (KELA)

PHN/
EXAMINATION
16-18 W

SPECIAL CARE MATERNITY CLINIC
12-14 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
22-24 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
26-28 W
NIB =
National
Insurance
Bureau

PHN/
EXAMINATION
30-32 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
32-34 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
34-36 W

PAGE
2

BIRTH TRAINING COURSE,
(CONSISTS OF 8-10 MEETINGS)

PAGE
2

PHN/ EXAMINATION
37 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
38-40 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
40-42 W

DELIVERY ROOM

POST NATAL WARD

PHN/ (baby) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN/ (mother) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN / Mother´s Medical health check

DOCTOR/ Mother´s
Medical health check8-9 W after delivery

CHILD CLINIC

FAMILY
PLANNING

Basis of the Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net
The Long History of the (Finnish) Maternity Care Services (since 1940´s)
Development of Information Society (1990´s)
Idea of Maternity Services on the Internet (1997)
Basis of
Development
Work
•Research
• Multidisciplinary
co-operation
• Piloting
• Feedback /
Evaluation

Results
• Working
models for
experts and
families
•Networking
• Data/info
contents
• Software
technology

E- Service

Participants
• Health care
professionals
• Families
• Colleges
• Software
technology
experts
• Multimedia
experts

Expert teams





Central team
Social and Health care experts´ team
Technology experts´ team
Education experts´ team (Savonia was co-ordinator
of the MIC project)

• Families

MIC
•is supplementary to today's mother-child clinic services

•helps the user in decision making
•provides information that has been approved by the special
editorial board

•enables the use of the services independently of time and
place (Internet connection needed)
•can be used in many countries (adjustments will be made
according to the culture)

The MIC: options
•Entrance

•News
•Discussion groups (with peers)
•Questions and answers (confidential)
•Search (information)
•Feedback
•Links to other useful Internet sites

Search/ information or data bank











Pregnancy
Delivery
Post- natal period
Infant
Parent's relationship
Parenthood
Personal hygiene, appearance
Nutrition and exercise
Drugs, alcohol and smoking
Services to the public

MIC has 135 articles, two videos, 2 animations, 2 interactive photos, 86
photos and 53 drawings checked and approved by editorial board.

MIC / contents
Example: Drawings

Qualified information / content management
• Information is reliable, and easy to understand
• The quantity of information is adequate
• The required information is easy to find
• The content creation and management are carried on as
part of current (clinical) work processes
• The technical solutions guarantee e.g. data integrity,
authentication, security and data availability

Evaluation - family
• Modern way of having services
• No queuing in phone
• Discussions groups for families (anonymously), where
professionals appear by their names
• Service in your own language
• Information/contents is versatile, extensive, based on
expertise / reliable

Evaluation – maternity care professionals
•Extra visits were not needed during pilot phase
•The Net Clinic could be used as a manual or in
familiarising the new worker
•Counselling and giving advice was harmonised
•Families got deeper information and advice based
on their needs more effectively
•Networking and co-operation was more efficient
•Written answers took some time to get used to

The Project of the Year 2000
•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be expanded
into new application fields like public administration and so called soft
values
•Net Clinic is based on wide and versatile co-operation and on
application of new Internet technology
•Net Clinic proves that it is possible to develop new innovations also
outside big so called growing centres
•Net Clinic proves that women can work successfully in management
or other key positions which have conventionally been classified as
men´s work
(The evaluation criteria of the The Finnish Project Management Association)

Diploma of the Excellent Work
•Given by the Provincial State Office of Eastern Finland 4.9.2001

•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be
expanded into new application fields like public administration in
national level and in future international level

O

O
O

o
x

O

O MIC has been used/is in use
• Kuopio
• Helsinki
• North-East of Finland (Kuusamo,
Taivalkoski, Posio and Salla)
• Rovaniemi and its neighbourhood
Rovaniemi rural commune and
Ranua)

An eMaternal Health Care Data System

STORK

The Stork is
• secured electronic health data system (EHS) made for
professional use
• all the information about pregnancy, delivery and puerperium
is collected in the same system (so called seamless chain
between primary health care and special care)
• mutual data contents to maternal units involved

Data security
• The application
• built on special security system used by the hospital
• Access rights depends on task or position
• those who are involved maternal service chain
• Preconditions for usage
• mother´s permission to collect and transfer her data
(each organisation needs its own permission)
• agreement between different organisations
• every user has personal user identifier, all usage is
logged and saved, even edited/deleted parts will be
recorded permanently

Storks gives information
• Pregnancy follow up, continuous documentation;
appointments with public health nurses, midwifes, doctors
• Graphics; growth of the uterus, hypertension, weight,
partogram
• Internal- and external examinations
• Medication during pregnancy, delivery, puerperium
• Diagnosis of the foetus; e.g ultrasound, lab tests
• Lifestyle of the family (nutrition, exercise, smoking, drugs
etc)
• Sick leaves of the mother
• Special area for the nurse documentation

Stork gives
• The new-born baby his/her social security number
• Basic information from earlier pregnancies
• Statistics e.g.
– for the Stakes (the National Research and Development Centre for
Welfare and Health
– the nursing research

• Forms and applications

The first page of the Stork

Forms

Name, birth date, age, weeks,

Notify: the lamp sign, B-gluc high (red color)
Lab, X-ray

Mother->,
Child ->

Social worker documentation
Both the public health nurse in primary care and
the midwife in special care fulfil this area. The written
data is available in real time (mother´s permission needed)

From Netinformation – Portal
to Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID)

My personal computer

Aims of the Work
• To elaborate the co-operation of different
organisations
• To develop a consistent way to manage information
in Social Work and Health Care organisations
• To develop the ”Dynamic Integrated Desktop” (DID)
for Social Work and Health Care professionals
• To offer further education of Social Work and Health
Care professionals
• To determine the reliable security standards

Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID )
-a consistent way to manage information in Health Care organisations

Partnership information

Single sign-on





Professional information


On line (on special fields)



Education
•course

Contacts
Office times
Information of services

Professional web services



PubMed, Cinahl
Laws and orders

enrolment, forms

Web services for public
Integration of IT software



Contact information



”You get what you need”



Problem solving information



EHR, RIS/PACS (digital imaging), biosignals etc.



Education



High level of security

View of the DID page

Teams
Discussion
Forums

Document
management
Links
Courses

Patients 26.8.2002

Mail (3 new messages)

Time

Name

Social security number

8.00

Patrick Patient

12345679573

8.20

Donald Duck

89101128758

8.40

Clark Kent

98459734658

Maintenance
Magazines &
Periodicals

August 2002

News
Databases
Patients
Help

Personified, user oriented
Networked, user organization oriented

Information system,
task and position in the organization

Tutuks service

• Tutuks, a virtual visit to a maternity ward
• Utilised work done by MIC
• http://www.synnytystutuksi.fi/tutukspalvelu.
html

Challenges for the Future
•Family/citizen participation challenges professionals
•e-working environment (models, processes)
•eEducation and training
• “E-gap” between generations
•Usability of ICT-solutions
•Integration of ICT-solutions

New project
• Looking for partner organisations, next
Tempus Call or other suitable call

New project - Tree of problems
NO KNOWLEDGE
TRANSFER

NO NETWORKING

Lack of resources in
distance teaching in cultural maternity care

Unfamiliarity with new
teaching ways

Former education

Non-transferability of
tacit knowledge

Lack of ICT skills

Figure: Project - problem tree

Retiring
(growing)

Incapability to
respond future needs

Mobility (teachers
and students)

Lack of cooperation between
Euro-Asian HIEs

Need to study regardless
time and space

Tree of objectives
FLEXIBLE
NETWORKING

CULTURAL MATERNITY CARE
AND DISTANCE TEACHING

ENHANCING READINESS FOR
DISTANCE TEACHING IN CULTURAL
MATERNITY AND INFANT CARE

Definition of resources
needed

Testing of
ICT skills

Designing and evaluating
Networking and
Distance teaching model

Selection of Learning Evaluation of
Environment(s)
readiness

MAIN AIM

Reports, workshops
(Implementation)

Accepted
planns

EFFECT

Dissemination of
Project results

Evaluation of model
Implementation

OUTCOME

Thank you for your
attention

Contact info:
[email protected]


Slide 44

eHealth
Case- Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net (MIC)

Speaker:

Pirkko Kouri,
Pricipal Lecturer in Healthcare Technology,
PhD, PHN, RN

Guests:

Tempus delegation

Time:

21 Feb 2007

Ultimate goals of Finnish health care
- Cost-effectiveness
- Patient/client & population centeredness
- Just distribution of the services (equity)
= use based on need

*********************************************************
MSAH’s own information society policy
-

Wide use of information and communication technology
Utilisation of internet penetration

Development levels – definition and projectwork
e.g. Area of eHealth / eWelfare
Levels of development

Development work

EU / National

Laws, standards, terminology, classifications, forms, data definitions

Regional

Aggreements, data transmissions, databases, archives, cooperation

Local

Working culture, division of labour, cooperation

Individual

Personal needs, user interface, way of working, teamwork

Milestones - Finnish health care system

2002
2007

National Project on Safeguarding the Future of Health Care Services
National law EHR

eHealth, National Project on Safeguarding the Future
of Health Care Services – main goals
•Ensure access to treatment
•Enhance co-ordination and co-operation in specialized health care
•Enhance regional co-ordination in primary health care
•Emphasize preventive work, one’s own responsibility for one’s own health and the
significance of primary health care
• Implementation - divided into 40 sub-projects
•Preparing the ground for the nationwide electronic patient records, which will be
introduced in 2007 (law will be launched Spring 2007)

Evolution of e-processes
- strategy and plan
- education
- culture, values
- publicity in control

5. Adaptation
of work
processes

4. Integration

Use
of e-Health
and e-Social
processes

Integration
of IT solutions
in daily life

Planning and
development
3. Processes
of e-processes,
working models

2. Basic
development

1. Services/
Products

Intranet,
Internet
groundwork
purpose-built

Electronic
documents
and lists
Adapted from www.done360.com

The Regional Project Area
Maternity care – births are over 99% in hospitals

.

JYVÄSKYLÄ

Map of Finland









85.585 km2
>1.000 lakes
681.000 inhabitants
One university hospital
Four central hospitals (five 10/03)
53 health centres
App. 20 000 social and health
care workers

NORMAL MATERNITY CARE SERVICE CHAIN
IN FINLAND (REGULAR PREGNANCY)

FIRST CONTACT
MOTHER/CHILD UNIT

PHN = public
health nurse

PHN/ FIRST
EXAMINATION
8-10 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
10-12 W

LABORATORY

PRE-NATAL
ULTRASOUND

HEALTH CENTRE
BEFORE 12 W
BASIC
INFORMATION
FORM
maternity clinic

CERTIFICATE
M/C CLINIC
NIB (KELA)

PHN/
EXAMINATION
16-18 W

SPECIAL CARE MATERNITY CLINIC
12-14 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
22-24 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
26-28 W
NIB =
National
Insurance
Bureau

PHN/
EXAMINATION
30-32 W

PHN/
EXAMINATION
32-34 W

DOCTOR´S
EXAMINATION
34-36 W

PAGE
2

BIRTH TRAINING COURSE,
(CONSISTS OF 8-10 MEETINGS)

PAGE
2

PHN/ EXAMINATION
37 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
38-40 W
PHN/ EXAMINATION
40-42 W

DELIVERY ROOM

POST NATAL WARD

PHN/ (baby) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN/ (mother) HOME VISIT
immediately after discharge

PHN / Mother´s Medical health check

DOCTOR/ Mother´s
Medical health check8-9 W after delivery

CHILD CLINIC

FAMILY
PLANNING

Basis of the Maternity and Infant Clinic on the Net
The Long History of the (Finnish) Maternity Care Services (since 1940´s)
Development of Information Society (1990´s)
Idea of Maternity Services on the Internet (1997)
Basis of
Development
Work
•Research
• Multidisciplinary
co-operation
• Piloting
• Feedback /
Evaluation

Results
• Working
models for
experts and
families
•Networking
• Data/info
contents
• Software
technology

E- Service

Participants
• Health care
professionals
• Families
• Colleges
• Software
technology
experts
• Multimedia
experts

Expert teams





Central team
Social and Health care experts´ team
Technology experts´ team
Education experts´ team (Savonia was co-ordinator
of the MIC project)

• Families

MIC
•is supplementary to today's mother-child clinic services

•helps the user in decision making
•provides information that has been approved by the special
editorial board

•enables the use of the services independently of time and
place (Internet connection needed)
•can be used in many countries (adjustments will be made
according to the culture)

The MIC: options
•Entrance

•News
•Discussion groups (with peers)
•Questions and answers (confidential)
•Search (information)
•Feedback
•Links to other useful Internet sites

Search/ information or data bank











Pregnancy
Delivery
Post- natal period
Infant
Parent's relationship
Parenthood
Personal hygiene, appearance
Nutrition and exercise
Drugs, alcohol and smoking
Services to the public

MIC has 135 articles, two videos, 2 animations, 2 interactive photos, 86
photos and 53 drawings checked and approved by editorial board.

MIC / contents
Example: Drawings

Qualified information / content management
• Information is reliable, and easy to understand
• The quantity of information is adequate
• The required information is easy to find
• The content creation and management are carried on as
part of current (clinical) work processes
• The technical solutions guarantee e.g. data integrity,
authentication, security and data availability

Evaluation - family
• Modern way of having services
• No queuing in phone
• Discussions groups for families (anonymously), where
professionals appear by their names
• Service in your own language
• Information/contents is versatile, extensive, based on
expertise / reliable

Evaluation – maternity care professionals
•Extra visits were not needed during pilot phase
•The Net Clinic could be used as a manual or in
familiarising the new worker
•Counselling and giving advice was harmonised
•Families got deeper information and advice based
on their needs more effectively
•Networking and co-operation was more efficient
•Written answers took some time to get used to

The Project of the Year 2000
•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be expanded
into new application fields like public administration and so called soft
values
•Net Clinic is based on wide and versatile co-operation and on
application of new Internet technology
•Net Clinic proves that it is possible to develop new innovations also
outside big so called growing centres
•Net Clinic proves that women can work successfully in management
or other key positions which have conventionally been classified as
men´s work
(The evaluation criteria of the The Finnish Project Management Association)

Diploma of the Excellent Work
•Given by the Provincial State Office of Eastern Finland 4.9.2001

•Net Clinic is a good example of how project work can be
expanded into new application fields like public administration in
national level and in future international level

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• Kuopio
• Helsinki
• North-East of Finland (Kuusamo,
Taivalkoski, Posio and Salla)
• Rovaniemi and its neighbourhood
Rovaniemi rural commune and
Ranua)

An eMaternal Health Care Data System

STORK

The Stork is
• secured electronic health data system (EHS) made for
professional use
• all the information about pregnancy, delivery and puerperium
is collected in the same system (so called seamless chain
between primary health care and special care)
• mutual data contents to maternal units involved

Data security
• The application
• built on special security system used by the hospital
• Access rights depends on task or position
• those who are involved maternal service chain
• Preconditions for usage
• mother´s permission to collect and transfer her data
(each organisation needs its own permission)
• agreement between different organisations
• every user has personal user identifier, all usage is
logged and saved, even edited/deleted parts will be
recorded permanently

Storks gives information
• Pregnancy follow up, continuous documentation;
appointments with public health nurses, midwifes, doctors
• Graphics; growth of the uterus, hypertension, weight,
partogram
• Internal- and external examinations
• Medication during pregnancy, delivery, puerperium
• Diagnosis of the foetus; e.g ultrasound, lab tests
• Lifestyle of the family (nutrition, exercise, smoking, drugs
etc)
• Sick leaves of the mother
• Special area for the nurse documentation

Stork gives
• The new-born baby his/her social security number
• Basic information from earlier pregnancies
• Statistics e.g.
– for the Stakes (the National Research and Development Centre for
Welfare and Health
– the nursing research

• Forms and applications

The first page of the Stork

Forms

Name, birth date, age, weeks,

Notify: the lamp sign, B-gluc high (red color)
Lab, X-ray

Mother->,
Child ->

Social worker documentation
Both the public health nurse in primary care and
the midwife in special care fulfil this area. The written
data is available in real time (mother´s permission needed)

From Netinformation – Portal
to Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID)

My personal computer

Aims of the Work
• To elaborate the co-operation of different
organisations
• To develop a consistent way to manage information
in Social Work and Health Care organisations
• To develop the ”Dynamic Integrated Desktop” (DID)
for Social Work and Health Care professionals
• To offer further education of Social Work and Health
Care professionals
• To determine the reliable security standards

Dynamic Integrated Desktop (DID )
-a consistent way to manage information in Health Care organisations

Partnership information

Single sign-on





Professional information


On line (on special fields)



Education
•course

Contacts
Office times
Information of services

Professional web services



PubMed, Cinahl
Laws and orders

enrolment, forms

Web services for public
Integration of IT software



Contact information



”You get what you need”



Problem solving information



EHR, RIS/PACS (digital imaging), biosignals etc.



Education



High level of security

View of the DID page

Teams
Discussion
Forums

Document
management
Links
Courses

Patients 26.8.2002

Mail (3 new messages)

Time

Name

Social security number

8.00

Patrick Patient

12345679573

8.20

Donald Duck

89101128758

8.40

Clark Kent

98459734658

Maintenance
Magazines &
Periodicals

August 2002

News
Databases
Patients
Help

Personified, user oriented
Networked, user organization oriented

Information system,
task and position in the organization

Tutuks service

• Tutuks, a virtual visit to a maternity ward
• Utilised work done by MIC
• http://www.synnytystutuksi.fi/tutukspalvelu.
html

Challenges for the Future
•Family/citizen participation challenges professionals
•e-working environment (models, processes)
•eEducation and training
• “E-gap” between generations
•Usability of ICT-solutions
•Integration of ICT-solutions

New project
• Looking for partner organisations, next
Tempus Call or other suitable call

New project - Tree of problems
NO KNOWLEDGE
TRANSFER

NO NETWORKING

Lack of resources in
distance teaching in cultural maternity care

Unfamiliarity with new
teaching ways

Former education

Non-transferability of
tacit knowledge

Lack of ICT skills

Figure: Project - problem tree

Retiring
(growing)

Incapability to
respond future needs

Mobility (teachers
and students)

Lack of cooperation between
Euro-Asian HIEs

Need to study regardless
time and space

Tree of objectives
FLEXIBLE
NETWORKING

CULTURAL MATERNITY CARE
AND DISTANCE TEACHING

ENHANCING READINESS FOR
DISTANCE TEACHING IN CULTURAL
MATERNITY AND INFANT CARE

Definition of resources
needed

Testing of
ICT skills

Designing and evaluating
Networking and
Distance teaching model

Selection of Learning Evaluation of
Environment(s)
readiness

MAIN AIM

Reports, workshops
(Implementation)

Accepted
planns

EFFECT

Dissemination of
Project results

Evaluation of model
Implementation

OUTCOME

Thank you for your
attention

Contact info:
[email protected]