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Medexpress message summary - 02/11/2022
Published Nov. 2, 2022 10:17
"Poland is one of the leaders in implementing the e-health system in Europe," writes the Ministry of Health on Twitter. The number of e-referrals issued in Poland increased by one third during the year. In turn, 97 percent. prescriptions are already issued in electronic form. According to the Ministry of Health, from January 1 to September 30 this year, 43.2 million e-referrals were issued in Poland. In the same period last year, there were 32.3 million of them, 5 million a year earlier, and 18,000 in 2019. E-referrals for vaccination against Covid-19 were not taken into account in the analysis.
Patients in more than half of Polish hospitals do not have access to a Wi-Fi network, according to a study conducted by Biostat at the request of Fortinet. In just one fifth of hospitals, Internet access is provided everywhere. More than half of the branches that do not provide Internet access do not plan to change this. It turns out that only 5 percent. in hospitals where Wi-Fi is available, patients can use it without any restrictions in any room. In every third facility, access is guaranteed only in selected places in the building. In turn, in a quarter of hospitals Wi-Fi is available without limits or the need to provide a password, but only in separate rooms. The most popular security for access to a wireless network, present in 45 percent. branches, there is a publicly available password.
Hospital for them. dr. Antoni Jurasz in Bydgoszcz, Poland is the second in Poland to start a program of conductive and mixed hearing loss treatment using an innovative active bone implant. It is one of the most modern medical solutions in the treatment of hearing disorders. Treatment of hearing disorders with this type of implant is fully reimbursed by the National Health Fund.
Polish doctors have already performed the first cataract surgery at the Kiabakari ophthalmology hospital in Tanzania. About two hundred treatments are already planned. Ophthalmologists for Africa have been helping patients from that continent for ten years, and the mission they are currently carrying out is the thirtieth in a row. However, it is unique and groundbreaking because it is the first mission to feature operations. Most of the patients of the Polish hospital have advanced cataracts there in both eyes. So they are blind people who cannot function independently on a daily basis.
