Penetration of the ICT technology to the health care primary sector — Ljubljana PILOT

ICT technology on primary care sector can significantly improve the level of health care and consequently reduce its costs. Some initial results are shown in this paper obtained from the pilot study in the region of Ljubljana, Community Health Centre (CHC). ECG body sensors have been made available to several volunteers with potential disturbances in the heart rhythm in order to reach evidence based diagnosis and further treatment. Initial results from the screened volunteers show that arrhythmias can be excluded or confirmed and specified by this sensor without need to refer patients immediately to the secondary care level. This could have an important impact on the length of waiting queues and on the time needed for the competition of diagnostic process, which implies time and money savings. The ECG body sensor did not disturb patients and can be applied also to the disabled people at home. It enables patients centered medical care with early diagnoses, which will substantially influence the future health treatment.