"The ministry's Center for Data and Information Technology and the Digital Transformation Office (Pusdatin-DTO) have resumed testing and assisting the integration of SatuSehat for laboratory use cases that have been carried out with a number of Laboratory Information System managers (SIMLAB) on December 15–16, 2022, in Jakarta," chief operating officer (DTO) and lead of SatuSehat Daniel Oscar Baskoro informed in Jakarta on Wednesday.
It has been confirmed that, as part of the fifth phase of trials and assistance, 111 laboratories will be prepared to be integrated with SatuSehat in early 2023, he said.
“Some of them are laboratories with an extensive network in Indonesia. This is a good first step in efforts to expand the implementation and integration of SatuSehat at all healthcare facilities," Baskoro added.
He said that the integration of SIMLAB and SatuSehat presented its own challenges since the use cases in laboratories are different from those of community health centers (puskesmas), hospitals, and clinics.
"We have prepared a separate use case for laboratory integration with SatuSehat," Baskoro informed.
SatuSehat is a platform that integrates individual health data from health facilities in the form of electronic medical records (RME) to support health data interoperability through standardization and digitization.
As part of the integration trial, participants were provided assistance in sharing health data stored at each SIMLAB with each other in near real-time through the SatuSehat platform.
The platform can be utilized by health workers in the laboratory to obtain individual health information to support disease detection, Baskoro said.
One of the trial participants from the Parahita Diagnostic Center, Prevandito, said the participants gained a complete understanding of the principles and techniques of standardization and integration of data through SatuSehat.
It is hoped that the assistance can continue to be given to participants, he added.
"There are still many adjustments for our data system to comply with the standards set by the Ministry of Health. We hope the assistance will continue to be provided until our system can truly be connected to SatuSehat," he said.
In 2022, the Ministry of Health conducted a series of trials and provided assistance to a number of clinics, hospitals, and health centers in Java and Bali.
As a result, 9,422 health facilities are ready to be integrated with the SatuSehat platform in early 2023.
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Translator: Andi Firdaus, Resinta S
Editor: Azis Kurmala
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