Three hospitals in Estonia – Tartu University Hospital, North Estonia Medical Center and Ida-Viru Central Hospital – have announced a new pilot which will see the introduction of digital mental health screenings and assessments for patients.
The pilot is hoped to help “standardise and expedite care for individuals with mental illness”, transferring admission screenings previously conducted using paper and PDF files to Proem’s digital version of the Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview (M.I.N.I.).
Richard Jalakas, IT project manager at Tartu University Hospital, said that using the new digital platform will “bring consistency” to mental health assessments, with the automatic scoring functionality helping to “decrease a lot of errors”, and reports being generated “so fast and easy compared to the paper and PDF versions”.
The US-based company behind the pilot, Proem, offers a range of behavioural health solutions designed to help screen, assess, diagnose and monitor patients with mental health complaints. Following the completion of the digital assessment, results can be sent back as a report to an EHR, where providers can review them to support decision-making around treatment.
John Letter, Proem’s CEO, said that his team “looks forward to continuing to support Estonia” to help “strengthen the delivery of mental health care”.
Elsewhere in digital transformation, Jordan-based Presight, combining big data, analytics and AI to create positive impacts across sectors and industries, has been awarded a multi-million dollar contract by Jordan’s Ministry of Digital Economy and Entrepreneurship, with focus to “set the pace of digital transformation in the country’s healthcare sector”.
And in data-driven transformation, the Catharina Hospital in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, has highlighted the importance of data collaboration and “learning together” through the ICUdata project, taking the lead on organising the delivery of data across healthcare organisations utilising the HiX EPR.
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