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In April 2009, Sundhed.dk was relaunched on a new technical platform, and an internal development department took over most of the service development, while external consultants were brought in only for standalone services—reversing the previous approach. One of the first initiatives at that time was to make medical records from public hospitals accessible to patients, allowing them to view parts of their records, such as treatments, diagnoses, and notes made by healthcare personnel (Jensen and Thorseng, 2017; Sundhed.dk, 2023).
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Features Features
Sundhed.dk operates on has a federated architecture. It draws from 120 local systems without storing or duplicationduplicating.
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Patients can log in after identity verification. Their medical records include data from general practitioners (GPs), hospital electronic health record (EHR) systems (Petersen, 2019), and certain private health professionals (Hartlev, 2014). Features include (Sundhed.dk, 2023):
Accessing their health journal, which includes with medical data records from healthcare providers. This data encompasses medical records from public hospitals, descriptions of X-ray examinations and scans, Records include imaging reports, test results, referrals, discharge letters, medications and vaccinations.
Seeing past appointments with GPs, specialists, and public hospitals.
Requesting repeat prescriptions
Registering or deregistering as an organ donor, create creating a treatment will, check checking the status of screening procedures, and grant granting relatives power of attorney to view their health data.
Marking certain information as private, so that these are hidden to hide from healthcare professionals . However, health information would still be accessible by healthcare professionals in the hospital's electronic patient record system where the patient is treatedusing Sundhed.dk. A hospital’s employees can still see the data in their hospital’s local EHR.
Healthcare professionals can access their patients' health data through Sundhed.dk. It also provides clinical information and guidelines that may not be available in their local EHR. For example, GPs can access hospital EHRs, waiting lists, and contact details for other healthcare professionals (Petersen, 2019).
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