ORQUEST

• Mrs. Ina Veronika Wagner
  

  Uppsala University
  Laegerhyddvaegen, 18 S-752 37 Uppsala Sweden	tel: 46 18 18 77 02 fax: 46 18 51 66 00 veronika.wagner@cmd.uu.se
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1. Chairside support to the dental team. This includes a proactive multimedia-based, interactive electronic dental patient record system, helping the dentist to avoid actions which reduce quality (e.g. diagnosis from radiographs of poor quality), assuring that all data required for evaluation are registered, and saving staff time, because the dentist can dictate input data directly to the system. It further includes teleconferencing and teleoperating facilities for expert assisted diagnosis and treatment of oral mucosal lesions and interpretation of oral radiographs as well as for enhanced collaboration between dentists and dental technicians.
2. Patient information. Cost-effectiveness of oral health care delivery is highly dependent on the patient willingness to cooperate. This requires that patients understand their oral health situation, are motived to achieve the goals of a treatment plan, and fully participate in the maintenance of their oral health. The ORQUEST-system provides innovative IT&T-tools for enhancing patients' involvement in the "treatment contract".
3. Retrospective evaluation of the care delivered. The ORQUEST-system enables both clinical evaluation and aggregated quality assurance surveys at local, regional, and national levels. Most important, it enables EU wide exchange of information, especially evaluative information, on quality assurance and development in oral health care.