My patient’s health record

To register a patient (with their consent):

• Log in to the Brussels Health Network

• Click on the “Patients” tab

• Click on the “Add a patient” button

• Fill in the patient’s contact details

By registering the patient, you also create a therapeutic relationship with them.

If you do not see a specific patient in your list, either the patient is not registered on the Brussels Health Network, or you do not have a valid therapeutic relationship with them.

If you have completed the registration and your patient still does not appear, please contact the helpdesk.

1. Log in to the Brussels Health Network by clicking on the “Healthcare Professional Login” button
2. Authenticate yourself using itsme or your eID card
3. Click on the patient whose documents you wish to consult
4. Click on the “All Documents” tile

You can refine your search by filtering by document type, service, date, etc.

If a document is relevant to your medical follow-up, you can select and view it.

If you do not see any documents for one of your patients, it likely means that no documents concerning them have been shared on the Brussels Health Network since their consent was recorded. Some hospital institutions already publish older documents, while others do not yet.

Access management is carried out  at two levels at the request of your patient:

1. Globally, by defining therapeutic links between the patient and doctors or exclusions: “Access authorizations” tab in the menu
2. For each medical document, you can modulate the access rights specifically: “Access” column in the list of documents, click on “manage”.

You can also ask to delete the referencing of a health document that you have published by completing the form

All healthcare providers have the option to publish a journal note.

• Log in to the Brussels Health Network

• Click on the “Patients” tab

• Select the patient

• Click on the “Journal” tile

• Click on the “Add a journal note” button

At the request of GP’s, the Brussels Health Network has activated by default the patient’s access to his or her summary electronic health record (SUMEHR). The Brussels Health Network wants to make life easier for the majority of GPs who wish to allow their patients to read the content of their SUMEHR.

Each doctor is nonetheless free to proceed to technical settings in accordance with his or her wishes. Only information relevant to the patient’s care will be shared via SUMEHR on the healthcare networks. In most cases, you will record the content of this summary electronic health record with your patient in a fully transparent manner.

 Watch the video to find out how  to manage your settings in general and how to access to a specific document. Then connect to the Brussels Health Network web portal and adapt your settings.

If you want to allow all your patients to access their SUMEHRs immediately, no action is required on your part. SUMEHRs shared before 15 January 2019 are not accessible to the patient by default.

> All about the SumEHR

Pursuant to the 10th action point of the federal e-health plan, patients can now access and read the contents of their medical records electronically.

As producers of health data, hospitals can activate the option in their medical software to allow the patient to access the content of the data they publish.

The settings of hospital medical software (DPI) can be used to adapt  the access procedures (immediate, after a certain delay or no access) according to the different types of documents that are shared electronically on the health network.

Certain documents, particularly from hospitals, have a special status because they require the presence of an attending physician in order to reveal the content to the patient under optimal conditions.

These documents may have “releasable by the attending physician” status. Ask your doctor to release your documents as soon as they have told you the contents of your hospital report. He or she will have to do this manually for each document via his secure web portal. See the steps to follow in the second part of the video.

The medical management of each healthcare institution decides about its own rules of publication and patient access. We can therefore imagine that some patients may experience a disparate situation at the outset depending on the decisions of the different institutions where they were treated.