Health care delivery systems and organizations today are faced with many complex requirements for efficient and cost effective service delivery, while at the same time ensuring highest quality, secure and patient-centred healthcare provisioning. Ericsson’s health care solutions aim to assist health care institutions and care provisioning environments in the process of improving efficiency, timeliness, effectiveness, safety and service quality in general. Ericsson’s health care portfolio consist of a plethora of services and products that range from standalone systems targeting specific health care services like electronic health care records and patient registries up to comprehensive and integrated health care information system. By introducing Ericsson’s solutions based on state-of-the-art information and communication technology (ICT) in health care delivery environments a number of benefits can be achieved:

• Health care business processes and information workflow control
• Highly reliable and secure health care business transactions management
• Cost, cash flow and health care resources controlling and management
• Highly efficient collection and sharing of clinical information with respect to the security and authorization policies
• Automated information processing resulting in substantial errors reduction
• Communication platform for enhanced patient and clinician communication
• Health care terminology and vocabulary management
• Availability of health care and administrative information independent of time of access and terminal in use
• Security, privacy and data confidentiality services provisioning
• Medical data management in support of evidence-based medicine, scientific and statistical research purposes
• Integration capabilities based on open health care standards and business processes modeling

Healthcare Networking Information System solution is comprised of common components for patient information administration and handling (Medical Record Database - MRD and Patient Database - PD), heath resources management (Health Entity Database - HED) and reliable and secure messaging services (Integration Component - IC) integrated business logic components and health care portal.