The purpose of this project is the digitization of the Patient File Historical Archive and the Standardization – Correlation of the Physical Archiving Protocol with the Electronic Patient Registry. This project involves the digitization of 157,000,000 pages and Imaging Examination Tests of various sizes up to A3, 20,000,000 pages of non-standard sizes (A3+, cards, etc.), and 20,000,000 ECG/EEG films/prints, as well as the identification, categorization, and characterization of the digitized documents.

As a result of digitization, the patient’s file (either electronic or physical) will be retrievable in a very short time.

As a result of the standardization-correlation of the Physical Archiving Protocol with the Electronic Patient Registry, the quality of patient service will be achievable in a very short time.

The ultimate goal of this project is to provide digital, online services to every end user, granting access to information related to the Medical History generated during the hospitalization of patients in the Public Hospitals of the country. The final users of these services are considered to be citizens who have been hospitalized in the country’s Public Hospitals, as well as authorized staff from healthcare units, within the scope of providing medical and nursing services to inpatients and outpatients.

The digitized material will be accessible through the application/document management repository, aiming at the transfer of all digitized material and metadata to a central repository (which is not part of the current project) of digitized clinical documents, to be installed on the Cloud Health platform of ΗΔΙΚΑ. Through interoperability and the metadata of the National Electronic Health Record (ΕΠΔΗΥ), this repository will be able to support the National Digital Patient Health Record (NDPHR), allowing the review of citizens’ data and documents through the Individual Electronic Health Record (ΑΗΦΥ) application. This will provide healthcare professionals and patients/citizens with comprehensive access to their health data related to Secondary/Tertiary healthcare services.

At the same time, the implementation of the project will upgrade the provided healthcare services and reduce healthcare costs due to immediate access to historical data and the prevention of repetitive tests already conducted in other healthcare units.