The Indonesian Health Ministry launched a single platform to integrate the operational system of health service applications in Indonesia called SatuSehat, which means “One Health,” here on Tuesday.
Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin stated that the platform is one of the transformations in health information technology that aims to simplify the service applications currently used at various health care facilities.
Currently, a total of 32 service applications have been integrated in the platform, he noted.
Sadikin’s side targets that by December 2023, all health service applications in Indonesia will be integrated into the platform that was developed with an investment value of Rp40 billion (US$2.58 million).
“Both (the applications used by) hospitals, health centers, as well as laboratories and pharmacies,” he stated.
The minister noted that so far, hospitals equipped with quite good digital information system find it easy to integrate their data into the SatuSehat platform.
“Thus, perhaps, we will provide a simpler alternative (platform) for the hospitals that do not have a good information system,” he stated.
Chief of the Digital Transformation Office of the ministry, Setiaji, stated that the platform served as a bridge for the exchange of health data, including patient medical records. The data exchange is accommodated in the PeduliLindungi application.
“We ready the platform, so that different hospitals using diverse applications can exchange data with each other through the platform,” he explained.
The SatuSehat platform is projected to integrate service data from around 60 thousand health care facilities.
“This year (in 2022), we target to integrate (the data from) eight thousand health facilities, including private and government hospitals,” Setiaji, who concurrently served as the minister’s Expert Staff for Health Technology, remarked.
As quoted from a release on the ministry’s official website, SatuSehat is the official name of the Indonesia Health Service (IHS) platform — which had undergone beta testing since April 2022 — that was obtained by conducting a naming competition for the public.
In addition to integrating the health service applications, the platform aims to establish a health industry ecosystem involving health care facilities, health-tech providers, health equipment manufacturers, pharmacies, practitioners, and academics.
Currently, 16 health service facilities have been integrated into the platform.
Source: Antara News