A new information system that will connect the clinical environment
with preclinical training of students at MU-Varna was presented by the Assistant
Rector of the University Eng. Deyan Grancharov during the 10th Jubilee edition of the National e-Health Conference "Innovative Model for
Sustainable and Modern Healthcare", which was held yesterday (19/02/2015) in
Sofia.
The s
ystem for virtual access to the resources of the
hospital information system has already been
implemented at
University Hospital St. Marina in Varna,
and it
will start operating
from the
beginning of the winter semester of 2014/2015 academic year. Its
main task is to connect the
clinical environment with
the
preclinical training of students.The h
ospital
Information system has the capacity to store large medical
imaging data
, accumulated
over a period of
20 years. From now on
they will no longer
be used only
for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes,
but also for training of students, for statistical purposes, scientific
research and others
. Thus thanks to this system, the
lecturers of
MU-Varna will have quick
access
to the
information
in order
to
further illustrate the subject
matter during a lecture or an
exercise by demonstrating
diagnostic
imaging of
specific
cases
and other clinical results of real patients to the students
. Thus, the
students of
MU-Varna will be in
contact with
real clinical environment even during their
preclinical
training.
During the forum the Director of the Department of Foreign Languages, communications and sports at MU-Varna Assoc. Prof. Ivan Merzhdanov presented the platform for complementary e-Learning Blackboard, introduced at the University from the winter semester of 2014/2015. He explained the connection between the two systems.
How does the system actually work? Virtual Windows desktops that have access to medical imaging data have been installed at University Hospital St. Marina - Varna. Thus when a remote user (a lecturer at MU - Varna) is initialized to the system, regardless of the device they use - PC, tablet, SmartPhone, iOS, iPhone, they can open and download the imaging data. The access to other clinical results of the patients is also possible. It is important to point out that the imaging data are generated in the hospital structure and the services and the data are transferred to the new system without interrupting the normal operation of the hospital. At the same time all components of the hospital information system and the resources are reserved, and thus the risk of interrupting any service is reduced to a minimum. The personal data of patients are fully protected, inaccessible and invisible to students when the information resource is being used for the training process.
The 10th Jubilee edition of the National e-Health Conference was held under the auspices of the Parliamentary Committee on Healthcare of the 43rd National Assembly of the Republic of Bulgaria and with the support of the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of transport, information technology and communications, the National Health Insurance Fund and the Bulgarian Red Cross .
