Receptum: Health Point for pharmacies

Atostek provided technology to Receptum for connecting new pharmacy Health Points to the Finnish Kanta services.

“Receptum chose Atostek’s ERA Arkisto service to get an instant solution for the Kanta integration. Thus, we don’t have to invest time and money in development and maintenance work. Furthermore, we get a modern browser-based user interface for entering patient records into the Kanta Patient Data Repository as well as browsing those records,” says Mr. Juha Antila, Receptum’s Managing Director.

“Majority of Finnish pharmacies use our MAXX Apteekki solution. Naturally, we want to provide a Health Point solution to these customers,” continues Mr. Antila.

Health Points create the need for pharmacies to integrate their systems with Finland’s national Patient Data Repository which is a part of Kanta services of Kela (Social Insurance Institution). Pharmacies have already been connected to Kanta services since 2012 due to the deployment of the Electronic Prescription. However, Health Point requires access to the Patient Data Repository where nurses must write log entries for the performed treatment.

Many Finnish pharmacies are extending their operations with low-threshold healthcare services. A nurse working at a Pharmacy Health Point may e.g. vaccinate patients, measure blood pressure, or perform minor treatment. A permission from the Regional State Administrative Agency is required along with a designated doctor. Currently there are about ten Health Points in operation and the number is expected to grow fast.

“Atostek’s cloud-based ERA Prescription has been in production use for a long time, and tens of thousands of prescriptions have been written through it,” says Mr. Mika Torhola, Atostek’s Managing Director.

“Our ERA service has expanded to also cover patient records as the first system-independent Kanta connection point in Finland. With it, any organization or healthcare information system can be connected to the Kanta services easily and quickly. The idea of the service is to share the costs of complex integration among numerous affiliates and to offer a shortcut to Kanta,” continues Mr. Torhola.

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