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Main article: Finland
Digitalization
2019: Recipes in electronic form only
By mid-2019, digital technologies in the Finnish health care system had achieved a high degree of development. For example, all recipes in the country are electronic, and paper is allowed only in exceptional cases, for example, when power is cut.
Finland became one of the first countries in Europe to systematically introduce electronic prescriptions in 2010. Recent data show that Finnish doctors issue about 30 million digital prescriptions annually. By 2022, digital prescriptions will be complemented by a national drug list that will be open to all patients. It will list all drugs taken by the patient, which will simplify the control of prescriptions.
2016: Start of development of Finland's Unified Healthcare IT System
Main article: Finland's Unified Healthcare IT System
2013: Launch of the National Patient Data Warehouse and My Kanta Portal
In 2013, the National Patient Data Repository was commissioned. It collects medical documents of all hospitals and outpatient clinics, and this data is available to both medical professionals and the patients themselves. In 2018, it was supplemented by a data warehouse for social services.
Thanks to the storage of digital data, Finnish citizens have the opportunity to transfer medical certificates necessary for obtaining a driver's license directly from one department to another. Another new service using patient data storage is the image processing structure. Patients access individual digital data through the My Kanta portal, which has become very popular in Finland. By 2019, about 50% of all citizens aged 18 to 65 have gained access to personal medical data on the portal, and even 37% of elderly citizens check their medical data online. These numbers are much higher than in other European countries[1]
Transplantology
2023: Post-mortem organ donation cases per 1 million people - 26.2
Different national (and sometimes regional) systems exist in EU member states to allow people to consent to organ donation after death. Within the framework of the "voluntary consent" system (opt-in, presumption of disagreement), consent must be given explicitly during life. The system of "refusal" (opt-out, presumption of consent) supports the principle of "presumed consent" (silence is tantamount to consent), a citizen is considered consenting to donation if he has not expressed official disagreement during his lifetime or if a specific request for the non-placement of organs for donation is not made before death. There are also mixed systems. Some countries have established donor and/or non-donor registries to which citizens can contribute. In practice, there are differences in functioning as the family of the deceased still plays an important role in decision-making. Regardless of the system, there are general ethical principles, including a ban on financial benefits from bodies and protection of the rights of both donors and recipients, enshrined in international agreements.
In Europe, the main source of organs suitable for use transplantations is donations from donors with a recorded number - death brain the number of such donations significantly exceeds the number of organ revenues from donors who have had a complete cardiac arrest, or from living donors.[2]
According to a 2017 European Commission study on the implementation and impact of the EU action plan for organ donation and transplantation in EU Member States, post-mortem donation serves as a source of receipt of organs for transplantation such as the kidneys, liver, heart, lungs, pancreas and small intestine.[3]
Disease statistics
HIV/AIDS
Depression
2019: Chronic depression affects 8.8% of the population aged 15 + years
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Maternity leave
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Chronicle
2020: Duration of guaranteed paid sick leave 6 months or more
2018: 18.3% of women smoke tobacco
Notes
- ↑ [1]Digital Finland: Towards an ecosystem of health and wellbeing apps
- ↑ The Eurotransplant Annual Report 2023
- ↑ Organ donation and transplantation. Facts, figures and European Union action
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