About MedCom

The ambition of MedCom is to provide the Danish healthcare sector with the best possible conditions for offering treatment and care for patients, thus ensuring that relevant information is available when it is needed across the sectors. MedComs achieves this through a number of projects and activities.

The main implementation of IT solutions across sectors is anchored in the regions, municipalities, general practitioners (GPs), and other specialists, such as the providers of health services and their IT vendors. The collaboration is often the result of health and financial agreements made between the state, regions, and the primary sector.

The role of MedCom is to provide digital solutions that connect all the healthcare providers, as information on patients and citizens is to be shared amongst them. This could, for instance, be the development and subsequent implementation of a new or updated technical communication standard, e.g. a discharge summary that is shared by the hospital with the patient’s GP, or a rehabilitation plan from the hospital to the municipality as a patient transitions from specialised hospital rehabilitation to municipal rehabilitation services. Additionally, MedCom supports local implementation and activities through coordination of national initiatives and projects towards joint cross-sectoral goals. All activities happen in close collaboration with regions, municipalities, the primary sector, and IT vendors.

Here you can see some statistics of the use of MedCom’s standards (PDF).