Health Screens

Medixine Health Screens gather clinical information from patient management systems, analyze the information centrally using a screening algorithm and perform an electronic transaction to act on the findings of the screening. Medixine Growth Screen is an excellent example of a Health Screen.

Medixine Growth Screen

Medixine Growth Screen offers state-of the-art growth screening and consultation services to nurses working at well baby clinics and schools, to primary health care physicians, and municipal and central hospital pediatricians. These services are offered location independently and near real-time and they are supported by sophisticated auxology (growth analysis) software capable of detecting even minor abnormalities in growth. Primary health care workers will get a prompt reply from pediatric endocrinologists (using Virtual Growth Center) who are familiar with growth disorders, via a network.
The system ensures a constant high quality of assessment of growth, eliminates unnecessary examinations and speeds up diagnostic processes.

The first project, run during 2008 in the city of Espoo, is covering 60.000 children and adolescents. Nurses enter the growth and weight measurements  into the Espoo City patient management system and are then automatically transferred to the Growth Screen.  The pilot is conducted in cooperation between social and health services of Espoo city, the Helsinki University Hospital for children and Professor Leo Dunkel, providing the scientific background and growth algorithms for the project.

Benefits

• Early detection of growth problems; essential for treatment ‘on-time’
• Uniform quality of care and comprehensive screening of all children in a district
• Only real potential growth disorders are investigated further
• The automation facilitates nurses’ and consultants’ work
• Significant health cost savings expected through automation and early detection and treatment of growth disorders