e-Estonia Deep Dive Programme for Zilveren Kruis Achmea and Municipality of Amsterdam

Estonians are pathfinders, who have built an efficient, secure and transparent ecosystem that saves time and money. e-Estonia invites you to follow the digital journey. The initial part introduces and demonstrates the underlying mechanisms involved in digitizing a society, an overview of the main challenges and policies, an understanding of the infrastructure, e-solutions and services.

Each person in Estonia who has visited a doctor has his/her own online e-Health story that can be tracked. Around 1,3 million people have documents in the central database. HIS integrates data from Estonia’s different healthcare providers, creating a common record for each patient (since 2015, 99% of health data has been digitised, 97% of hospital discharge letters are sent to the central database). This gives the doctors easy access to the patient’s electronic records (test results, Xray images etc.). Patients have access to their own and to their underaged children`s records, and the records of persons who have given authorization to them for seeing their medical data. By logging into the patient portal (ID-card/m-ID), they can review past visits to the doctor, current prescriptions, and receive general health advice.

The goal of digital healthcare is to provide the best possible support for healthcare service provision. This assumes seamless integration between different systems, clever use of state-of the art technical solutions and well optimised processes and information exchange. In Estonia, digital knowledge sharing and wide use of the digital tools in the everyday clinical work has become the norm. Nortal is one of the most experienced partners for healthcare digitalization in Estonia providing the leading hospital information system and being one of the main development partners for the Estonian National Health Information System. The presentation will give an insight to national digital health tools and Nortal’s lessons digitizing the healthcare.

aHealth Founders is a launchpad for ambitious founders who are building the future of health. Health Founders is the first vertical health technology accelerator in the Baltics. We help exceptional founders develop breakthrough ideas into sustainable business models. The accelerator’s focus areas are:

• Digital Health
• Consumer Diagnostics
• Personalised Prevention
• Sensors & Wearables
• AI & Health Data Analytics
• Mental Health
• Workplace Wellness

They have developed novel polygenic risk score based genetic tests to estimate the risk of common cancers. The polygenic risk score sums up information over hundreds to thousands of genetic variants in the human genome. By combining the polygenic risk score with a person’s background (origin, age, and gender), we are able to calculate a person’s risk of developing cancer and provide medical advice on prevention and early detection.

Connected Health connects you with the Estonian health innovation ecosystem – we help you to find information or partners, so you can start taking advantage of the unique environment Estonia offers.

Helmes is a custom software development company with clients across the world. They focus on business-critical solutions that are created with world-class efficiency. Helmes has been developing e-health solutions for a decade, for example, digital prescription software, the e-school health solution, and a hospital info system.

The hospital information system consists of 20+ modules, from online booking to resource management and surgery planning systems. This mission-critical solution helps save lives in the largest hospital in Estonia, NEMC (North Estonian Medical Centre).

https://www.helmes.com/reference/custom-health-care-software/

The Estonian Biobank has established a population-based biobank of Estonia with a current cohort size of more than 200,000 individuals (genotyped with genome-wide arrays), reflecting the age, sex and geographical distribution of the adult Estonian population. Considering the fact that about 20% of Estonia’s adult population has joined the programme, it is indeed a database that is very important for the development of medical science both domestically and internationally.