The factual data Doktorinfo Kft. works with comes from GPs, ambulatory care units, and medical specialists. Data is collected in collaboration with medical software providers. Real-time data submission systems, developed in partnership with GP-software providers, guarantee validity of data. The hospitals and clinics engaged in ambulatory care monthly submit their prescription, recommendation, and ambulatory reports in a structured manner . These closed-circuit IT systems assure that the data generated by the doctors and clinics are not contaminated and can be used undistorted and safe from outside tampering.

The number of submitting partners is increasing all the time, and the current sample size of our database provides appropriate reliability on a national scale. Our reports and analyses provide our clients with reliable findings.

Data Types

All data collected by the company is objective, standardised and may readily be reproduced.

Data collected by Doktorinfo Kft. is limited to prescription, recommendation, and ambulatory reports, and does not include patients’ personal data in any retrievable form.

Prescription data from GPs and the recommendation data they handle is stored in the HTTR GP database, and the HTTR SP database stores prescription, recommendation, and ambulatory data from specialists.

Prescription data

Any therapeutic information present on the medical prescription is considered prescription data. This includes the complete list of the prescribed product’s characteristics, the condition calling for the prescription, as well as – in the form of indecipherable codes - the tags that allow the long-term tracking of both doctor and patient.

Recommendation data

As a tracking measure for the types of treatment recommended by specialists, (as of January) 2009, GP prescriptions also include information about the initiator of the recommended treatment. This data makes patterns of referral and the liaison between doctors emerge.

There is a separate report for the recommendations from the partner institutions providing ambulatory care.

Ambulatory data

The institutions providing ambulatory and inpatient care do not only supply us with prescription and recommendation data, but with other information pertaining to ambulatory care. This is what helps us present the procedures and practices that accompany medication treatment, the patient paths and journeys inside hospital wards and the number of patients undergoing a particular diagnostic test.