FLOW is a Belgian

Belgium

Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...

 national health care

Health care

Health care is the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in humans. Health care is delivered by practitioners in medicine, chiropractic, dentistry, nursing, pharmacy, allied health, and other care providers...

 network, meant for health care providers and patient

Patient

A patient is any recipient of healthcare services. The patient is most often ill or injured and in need of treatment by a physician, advanced practice registered nurse, veterinarian, or other health care provider....

s. It is an acronym which stands for Facilities (services and related infrastructure), Legal implementation (the telex files), Organisations (locoregional teams) and Wisdom (coordination and supervision center). The system is built around the principle of a shared health patient record.

See also

• Belgian Health Telematics Commission
  Belgian Health Telematics Commission
  The Belgian Health Telematics Commission is a Belgian government committee working on standards for exchanging and sharing of health information, between health care participants. The committee provides advice on eHealth to the Belgian government...
  
   (BHTC)
• BeHealth
  BeHealth
  BeHealth is a Belgian eHealth digital platform which provides digital access to all health information and applications through one portal site, on behalf of both healthcare providers and patients. BeHealth has been created on 23 December 2004...
  
  
• KMEHR
  Kmehr
  KMEHR or Kind Messages for Electronic Healthcare Record is a proposed Belgian medical data standard, in order to enable the exchange of structured clinical information...
  
  
• SumEHR
  Sumehr
  SumEHR or Summarised Electronic Health Record is a KMEHR message, used for the exchange of medical information. It summarizes the minimal set of data that a physician needs in order to understand the medical status of the patient in a few minutes and to ensure the continuity of care...
  
  

Source

• FLOW
• Note de Politique Generale (3 Dec. 2004)