The data about our diseases, medical tests, physicians and our past, present and future clinics where we receive medical treatment will be collected, processed and made available in this place. It is the Medical Data Processing Centre (Medyczne Centrum Przetwarzania Danych) under construction at the Borowska Street. It will be the biggest in Poland and one of the most modern such centres in the world. The construction is coming to an end and the Centre will be launched in June this year. The investment’s cost amounts to PLN 230 million and the European Union provides 85% of funds.
E-documents instead of paper forms
This Centre is constructed due to planned by the legislator obligation to replace paper medical documents with e-documents. All medical centres, hospitals and even the smallest out-patient clinics and medical consulting centres will have to implement the new obligation. It was to take place in August; however, the date has been postponed. The final date of the implementation of the obligation remains unknown.
Data will be safe
Wojciech Homola, the Vice-President of the Data Techno Park company constructing MDPC calms us down saying that there is no risk that electronic data will be stolen from the centre and transferred to unauthorised individuals. “Severs are secured, closed in the “bunker”. Nobody will be able to break into the place and steal the data by radio waves means, because servers are protected by the Faraday cage and walls of the building are fireproof”, he explains.
Moreover, MDPC has independent power supply eradicating the risk of data loss due to sudden power failure in the whole city. Moreover, MDPC has its own power generator fed with fuel, with the capacity to produce power sufficient for providing light to a medium-size housing estate. In addition, power is supplied to the building not with the intermediary of cables, but with bus bars which are resistant to destruction.
Who will benefit from the new Centre?
Data Techno Park representatives stress, that creating the Medical Data Processing Centre will be beneficial for both the health treatment units and patients. Hospitals and small clinics will not have to invest millions of PLN to purchase and maintain their own secured server rooms with large capacities. They will be allowed to store all information, e.g. the electronic medical register, results of medical tests, X-ray photographs, MRI records etc. in the Medical Data Processing Centre. “Thanks to this solution, information about patients, their medical tests results and disease history will be recorded on the servers in MDPC. Patients will not have to take a file with papers every time they go to visit the physician. The physician, at any moment, in every location in the world will be able to find all the necessary information through the internet”, Wojciech Homola explains.
MDPC will host a powerful server room, with 42 servers on a single rack and planned 512 server racks.
Eliza Głowicka
