My Global Medical File
My Global Medical File
The Global Medical Record (DMG) and the Shared Health Record are complementary but independent.
The Global Medical Record brings together all your medical data as well as your medical history. It is created and managed by your general practitioner, who therefore has a comprehensive view of your medical information and your state of health, both past and present.
All data shared on the Brussels Health Network is what is referred to as the Shared Health Record. This should not be confused with the Global Medical Record, which is managed solely by your general practitioner and is not shared.
The advantages of the Global Medical Record:
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Since the Global Medical Record centralizes all your medical information (vaccinations, hospitalizations, allergies and medication intolerances, X-rays, blood tests, etc.), it helps to:
Sharing certain valuable medical data from your Global Medical Record (DMG) allows these to be made accessible to other healthcare professionals, with your consent, of course. In other words, sharing your health data facilitates communication between providers and ensures continuity of care. Moreover, it can lead to significant savings and prevent, for example, undergoing the same medical examination twice unnecessarily.
Does your GP who manages your Global Medical File (GMF) work in a group practice?
From now on, the other authorised GPs in the same group practice also have the right to access your computerised medical information to ensure better continuity of care.
How does this work?
When you open your GMF, your GP has established evidence of a therapeutic relationship with you.
When/if your GP has opened a Global Medical File (GMF), he/she is obliged to create a therapeutic relationship with you through your identity card, for example. From now on, this therapeutic link, once established, will automatically (and only) be propagated to the other GPs in the same group practice.
In concrete terms, if you have to visit your regular GP and he is unavailable, you should know that the other doctors in the same practice can also consult your file. They have access to your digitised medical data and will ensure that they follow the care plan predefined by the doctor who holds your DMF.
What do you have to do?
You do not have to take any administrative steps. Everything is done automatically when the therapeutic relationship is created with your doctor who holds your DMF.
You can consult your therapeutic relationships by connecting to the Brussels Health Network.
Partners
The Brussels Health Network brings together all public and private Brussels hospitals as well as the French and Dutch speaking associations of health professionals in Brussels (FAMGB and BHAK). We are the ideal partner for any project related to e-health in the Brussels region.
