Hospital Son Llàtzer

Doctor Rosa Taberner Ferrer Dermatologist

Central databank

The total healthcare network on the islands achieved a depth of integration, which is unique across Europe. Usually ambulatory exams in Spain are provided in so called Primary Health Centers (PHCs), where various medical specialists take care of the population. Via an online portal, doctors of PHCs have direct access to the electronic documents of their patients. The Baleares already use a master patient index, which allows physicians in any PHC to retrieve electronic records of any registered patient. In reality this means that an inhabitant of Menorca who unfortunately has an accident for example in Mallorca or Ibiza, easily releases all personal, relevant medical data in all PHCs and clinics at the push of a button.

One central databank for all patient images

Doctor Carmen Martinez

In the radiology department of MD Carmen Martinez, Cap d’Unitat de Radiologia conventional films and images never existed. “Here in Son Llàtzer, the radiologists work on integrated RIS/PACS workstations. The speech recognition system assures that a medical report can be dictated rapidly and finished without major involvement by a secretary.During a stroke every second counts. The University Hospital Son Dureta is the only medical center of the region with a special department for stroke patients. Thanks to the centralised image archive the “stroke unit” specialist can already prepare an exam for the suffering person while he/she is still in transit to Son Dureta.


Radiology Reports

The Dermatology Institute in Son Llàtzer established a teledermatology project with a selected Primary Health Center. For example, the PHC’s dermatologist photographs an eczema, converts the data into a DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communication in Medicine) compatible format, sends it digitally to the PACS and finally transfers the image to Dermatologist MD Rosa Teberner Ferrer at the Son Llàtzer Hospital. “From this image we can immediately decide if the patient needs to visit us or can be further examined by his private practitioner,” concludes Rosa Teberner Ferrer, from her first and very positive results of the study.

The main advantage she derives from this network is the digital image archive by GE Healthcare. Previously, when slides were still produced, she rarely had the possibility to compare images of older skin diseases during an exam. Today the dermatologist is able to not only compare different images with a few clicks on her screen, but is also able to consult a huge dermatology images archive. This tremendously improves her daily work routine.