Castilla-La Mancha chooses Steria for healthcard
- 8 February 2008
The Health Service of Castilla-La Mancha (SESCAM), Spain, has chosen Steria to implement its new healthcard system.
The new system has been developed to improve the quality of service to the 1.9m people living in the area and enable better management of health resources.
Using the Steria system, everybody living in Castilla-La Mancha will be assigned to one of the existing eight areas of health care in the region and will have their own individual patient record.
Steria say that with the new system, SESCAM, will be able to plan and optimise the list of the population with the health services they use and manage its human resources and material resources – SESCAM currently employs more than 20,000 doctors, nurses and other health professionals and has 196 health-care centres, a specialist diagnosis and treatment centre and 17 hospitals.
Patients are guaranteed secure access to information and ongoing confidentiality, as the system in development will be compliant with the Spanish Data Protection Act (LOPD) and other legislation regarding health cards.
Tomás Ruiz, who is responsible for the SESCAM Health Card, said: “The Castilla-La Mancha Health Service aims to provide a modern, advanced public health service that is noted for its innovation and the quality of the health care it provides for the public. With the new health card system, a service as complex as health care will be noted for its quality thanks to good organisation and administration of our resources.”
System specifications are currently being developed, and implementation work will begin later this year.
Steria is already well known in Spain, having developed, implemented and supported various health systems in Aragon, Asturias, Cantabria, Castilla y León, Extremadura, Galicia, La Rioja, Madrid, Murcia and Valencia, Ceuta and Melilla
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