Additional Requirements : Duty Service out of working hours

• Duty service:
  • Introduction:
    • During nights, week-end and holidays, the normal doctor is not available.  If necessary a duty service can be called, coming from a wider zone.  He knows nothing about the patient and his mission is temporary.  Nevertheless he should become a temporary member of the Care Team of the patient.
    • As for GPs, wireless mobile computers are here very desirable.
  • Access to information:
    • With the agreement of the patient who did call, he should have access to the patient record.  Up to date information should be available, an up to date problem list and the current care plan.
  • New information:
    • The new contact generate some new information, observations, maybe a new problem, maybe a modification of the current Care Plan.
    • The new information should be made available immediately for the Care Team, on a regional servers.
      Moreover a notification must be send, at least to the referent doctor, and sometimes to others.  In case of a request for admission, a notification is to be send to the emergency entrance of the hospital.
    • Moreover a statistical classification could be required for management purpose and for the justification of the funding of the duty service.