title: Barriers for dissemination of a national health care data network. A list of recommendations for better dissemination.
abstract: Establishment of a Danish Nation-wide Health Care Data Network for exchange of health care related information using standardised EDIFACT messages is agreed between the Danish Government, the Hospital Owners and the GPs organisations. The aim is, within year 2000 in the MedCom project, to reach a level of 66% of all messages between the secondary and primary health sector must be send electronically using EDIFACT. There are many barriers for reaching this goal, and to reveal this barriers an investigation was done, and a list of recommendations are set up. The investigation was based upon literature, interviews and most important a questionnaire among 200 GPs and specialists all over the country. After 6 months where the recommendations have been handled there is seen an increase in communicated messages on 40%, and from January 1999 more than 1.1 mill messages are exchanged each month.
authors.affiliation: 1. Danish Centre for HealthTelematics, Odense.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Johansen
authors.forename: L K
authors.initials: LK
authors.lastname: Thiel
mesh_terms: D003144:Communication Barriers; D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D003197:Computer Literacy; D003628:Database Management Systems; D003718:Denmark; D006801:Humans; D007255:Information Services; D009313:National Health Programs; D019114:Remote Consultation