MedCom: Danish health care network.

The Danish Ministry of Health founded MedCom back in 1994. MedCom is acting as an umbrella project organisation, gathering health providers, health care professionals and industry in coordinated, nationwide projects, all aiming to reach large-scale dissemination in few years. Almost all Danish health care organisations and IT-vendors are participating in the projects and today more than 2,500 health institutions are communicating around 2.

Quality assurance and certification of health IT-systems communicating data in primary and secondary health sector.

Each year more than 70% (25 mill) of all electronic health documents between secondary and primary health sector in Denmark are exchanged electronically using European EDI standards. Despite this widely use there have been several problems in showing the transferred data in correct and full context. These problems are solved in the 3 years MedCom certification and consolidation project.