The Finnish national eHealth archive and the new research possibilities.
Medical research requires information. Now this information is collected from various sources and the quality of information is often poor because of different coding and collection methods. In Finland we are now building the national archive to store all the patient information from both public and private service providers. We have started to design a medical research based on this archive taking, however, care of the privacy needs in the same time.
Virtanen
Teemupekka
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Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, Finland. teemupekka.virtanen@stm.fi
D001109:Archives; D035843:Biomedical Research; D016208:Databases, Factual; D005387:Finland; D008490:Medical Informatics; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized