What is this?
The Hoidonperusteet.fi service, launched in December 2021, is an online collection of guidelines for the grounds for urgent care. Hoidonperusteet.fi is an easy-to-use, accessible and secure service that also adapts to future health care needs.
The service enables a high-quality, nationally equal and research-based assessment on the need for urgent care. Content based on symptom cards and links to external information sources help health care professionals to assess the resident’s need for urgent care and the urgency based on the symptoms the resident is experiencing. The service does not include reasoning, as the final decision on the need for treatment and its urgency is always made by a health care professional. The service is intended to only be used by health care professionals.
The content of Hoidonperusteet.fi is based on the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health’s national grounds for urgent care of adults and children.
Who are involved in the cooperation?
The content of the service is maintained and developed in expert panels formed by DigiFinland Oy, which include representatives from wellbeing services counties, Helsinki University Hospital (HUS) and the City of Helsinki. If necessary, suitable specialists are also invited from outside the panel.
A nationwide implementation saves on the resources used by wellbeing services counties in terms of maintaining and developing the criteria. National expert panels bring together the key actors needed in content development, taking into consideration the views of multiple actors.
What we do
DigiFinland develops and maintains the Hoidonperusteet.fi service and coordinates the development of its content.
Where are we currently?
At the end of 2023, the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health’s funding for the development of Hoidonperusteet.fi ended and the service became part of the range of services sold to the DigiFinland regions. As a result, open access to the service will end in early 2024, and it can only be accessed by those regions that have signed an agreement on service usage. In the future, all service content will be behind a login.
In 2024, the service will be developed further. From March 2024, access to the service will require a login. At the same time, professionals will be able to log in to the service with a smart card and to create symptom-specific instructions at the wellbeing services county level. The search functionality will also be developed during the year and the production potential of regional content will be expanded. In December 2024, the creation of regional symptom cards will be possible and regional analytics will be developed.
Want to hear more?
Mira Vidén
specialist, the Hoidonperusteet.fi service
Hoidonperusteet.fi
mira.viden(at)digifinland.fi
Hoidonperusteet.fi service content in exceptional circumstances
Hoidonperusteet.fi pdf-files will be available to the service users during the interruption.