Under the direction of the OTH (National Chief Medical Officer’s Office), we participated in the design and development of the Epidemiological Surveillance System, which established a secure electronic connection between the ÁNTSZ and professional data providers, significantly reducing the impact of health risks and at the same time reducing the internal administrative burden on the office. The system facilitated data transfer and processing between the Authority and various actors in the sector (healthcare providers, doctors, laboratories, BNGs, inpatient and outpatient care institutions, vaccine distributors), as well as well-founded, centralised decision-making.
The Central Master Data Management System (MDM) solution enabled the Office to maintain and manage a uniform master data register between its own internal specialist systems, while also promoting coordinated cooperation between government actors in the sector by developing standard message formats and opening up internal registers and professional databases.
Challenge
The biggest challenge during implementation was coordinating the processes of the numerous stakeholders involved and developing communication interfaces (with particular regard to the laboratory interface).
Solution
The Java-based Epidemiological Surveillance System, built on Oracle data storage technology and featuring a web-based user interface, effectively supports the work of data providers, official data processors and decision-makers. Users access the system’s functions through the following key subsystems:
- The main task of the Infectious Disease Reporting subsystem is to receive data from external healthcare providers (BNGs, doctors, laboratories), evaluate the incoming data and forward it to the TESSy (The European Surveillance System) system after appropriate transformation.
- In the Nosocomial subsystem, inpatient care institutions and, in some surveillance cases, outpatient care institutions report on their own data, and in the case of hospital epidemics, laboratories provide access to the results of tests carried out for diagnostic and epidemiological purposes.
- The task of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and HIV/AIDS surveillance is basically to receive data from external healthcare providers (BNGs, doctors, laboratories), evaluate the incoming data and forward it with appropriate transformation to the TESSy (The European Surveillance System) system.
- The Vaccination and Vaccine Logistics subsystem enables the tracking of vaccine stock movements (issuance and receipt), the accounting of influenza vaccines, and the management of adverse events following vaccination.
- The microbiological subsystem enables the receipt and anonymised storage of laboratory findings and makes the data available in a structured form to the other subsystems of the Epidemiological Surveillance System.
The development of the Central Master Data Management System (MDM) solution has enabled the uniform, centralised storage and maintenance of the following data sets, as well as the publication of some of them:
- partner data: company data, budgetary agency data, sole trader data, data on persons with healthcare qualifications,
- health master data,
- geographical master data,
- population data.
- company data,
- data on budgetary institutions,
- data on sole traders,
- data on persons with health care qualifications,
Quantified results
- Thousands of users nationwide belonging to various healthcare providers.
13 interfaces for receiving and sending data
