Vienna, May 10, 2022: The Health Center for the Self-Employed is the first facility in Austria to offer electronic reporting of outpatient specialist appointments via ELGA. This digitalization measure saves insured persons time and increases patient safety.
Since the beginning of May, the Health Center for the Self-Employed has been the first facility in Austria to offer outpatient reporting of specialist appointments via ELGA. This saves patients valuable time and increases patient safety, as they no longer have to wait for paper reports, store them securely and bring them with them to other appointments, for example to obtain a second opinion or for a planned operation. Electronic reporting also simplifies communication between the various authorized healthcare providers, who can now access relevant patient health data directly via the ELGA portal. This makes diagnosis and treatment processes more comprehensible and avoids duplicate and multiple findings.
"In our health center, patients can find all important health services under one roof. In addition, our telemedical and digital services - such as the electronic medical reports - offer the self-employed even more flexibility," says Maria Lesterl, Managing Director of the Health Center for the Self-Employed. "The SVS has been focusing on the expansion of digital services for many years, because they are the future. This new opportunity to move from paper reports to digital reports is therefore fully in line with our comprehensive digitalization strategy," says Strategic Managing Director Tibor Klein, BSc MA, welcoming the new service.
The legal framework for ELGA outpatient clinic findings was created with the rollout in the outpatient sector at the beginning of February. Initially, it will be possible to report on outpatient ophthalmologist appointments. By the end of the year, the service will be successively expanded so that the other specialties offered in the clinic can also be made available via ELGA.
Health center for the self-employed
The health center offers comprehensive outpatient services that are specially tailored to the needs and requirements of the self-employed: Preventive medical check-ups, rapid specialist appointments in a wide range of disciplines, outpatient rehabilitation and therapy. Top medicine is complemented by attractive digital services. Everything under one roof in the shortest possible time - this is how the health center presents itself as the first point of contact for the self-employed in all health matters. Together with the Social Insurance for the Self-Employed (SVS), the health center is operated by the PremiQaMed Group in the form of a public-private partnership model (PPP). www.gesundheitszentrum-selbstaendige.at
Social insurance for the self-employed (SVS)
A healthy country needs healthy self-employed people - and someone who is committed to their social security: That is the SVS. A community of 1.3 million insured persons who are there for each other from birth to old age under the motto "Healthier together". As a health, accident and pension insurance company, the SVS covers all sectors and is organized as a nationwide, professional institution. Nine healthcare facilities with over 1,000 beds, 8,000 contract doctors, 3,000 dentists and a further 9,000 contractual partners, such as physiotherapists and speech therapists, are available to insured persons throughout Austria. The volume of expenditure amounts to 10.3 billion euros. Chairman is Peter Lehner, General Director is Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Hans Aubauer. www.svs.at
PremiQaMed Group
The PremiQaMed Group is a leading operator of private healthcare facilities in Austria and a wholly owned subsidiary of UNIQA Österreich Versicherungen AG. Around 2,000 employees work for the group of companies. The Group includes Privatklinik Döbling, Ambulatorium Döbling and the private clinics Confraternität and Goldenes Kreuz in Vienna, Privatklinik Wehrle-Diakonissen in Salzburg and Privatklinik Graz Ragnitz. As part of private-public partnership (PPP) models with SVS, the PremiQaMed Group operates Klinikum Malcherhof Baden, which specializes in rehabilitation medicine, and the health center for the self-employed in Vienna.
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