Patient safety begins with a complete medical history
AMSD develops the digital standards that give physicians instant access to a patient's history and keep preventable errors out of the consulting room: undeclared allergies, misplaced test results, overlapping treatments.
2019
First consultation
At the current clinic
On record
2021
Penicillin allergy
Noted on paper, at another clinic
Missing from the record
2024
Anticoagulant treatment
Prescribed by another physician
Missing from the record
Today
New consultation
The physician decides with what is in front of them
Manifesto
In Romania's private clinics, medical technology has advanced far faster than the way information about the patient travels. That information still lives in paper folders, on prescriptions that get lost and in test results left in another clinic's archive. Too many consultations therefore start from an incomplete history, and the physician is asked to decide without seeing the whole picture.
AMSD was founded to change this. We support the move from medical bureaucracy to a unified digital ecosystem in which the history travels with the patient, the physician is protected from errors born of missing information, and the patient is spared risks that nobody chose to take.
What we stand for
- The medical history travels with the patient; it does not stay in one clinic's archive.
- Physicians decide with all the data in front of them, not from what the patient happens to remember.
- Patients can see, keep and share their own record.
The risk of fragmentation
In private outpatient care, information about the same patient is split between clinics, laboratories and paper files. The cost shows up in three places.
Physicians lose clinical time to paperwork
Charts hunted down in the archive, results copied out by hand, phone calls to other clinics for a single document. Every minute spent this way is taken from the consultation and from the attention the patient is owed.
Medical decisions are made without the history
An undeclared allergy, a test result left at home, a treatment prescribed elsewhere. Every gap in the history raises the risk of a wrong diagnosis and exposes the physician to malpractice claims over information they had no way of seeing.
The patient becomes the courier of their own record
They carry papers from one clinic to the next, repeat investigations already done and rebuild years of treatment from memory. Their frustration is not a whim: it is the sign that the system expects the patient to guarantee continuity of care.
The legal and European framework
A patient's access to their own medical data is already a right in law, and the exchange of medical data has clear European deadlines. The AMSD standard starts from here.
The right of access to medical data
Romania's Patient Rights Law no. 46/2003 provides that patients have access to their personal medical data. The General Data Protection Regulation adds the right to receive a copy of the data concerning them.
The European Health Data Space
Regulation (EU) 2025/327, in force since 26 March 2025, gives patients fast and free access to their electronic health data and the ability to share it with health professionals. The exchange of patient summaries and electronic prescriptions is planned by March 2029, and that of medical images, laboratory results and hospital discharge reports by March 2031.
What the AMSD standard aims for
Standard in developmentWe are drafting the standard with these rights and deadlines in mind, so that clinics adopting it are ready in good time.
Sources: Law no. 46/2003, Regulation (EU) 2016/679, Regulation (EU) 2025/327, European Commission, European Health Data Space.
What we do
Three lines of action with a single aim: a continuous medical history for every patient.
Research and reports
First report in preparationWe study how inefficient administration affects medical practice: clinical time, continuity of care, patient safety. We publish the results together with the methodology.
Quality certification
Standard in developmentWe are drafting a standard of good practice for private clinics: what a complete record means, who has access to it and how continuity is kept between providers. Clinics that meet it will be eligible for certification.
Patient education
We promote sovereignty over one's own medical record. Patients already have a legal right of access to their data; we advocate for that right to be easy to exercise, digitally, wherever they choose to be treated.
AMSD physicians
The standard is written together with the people who will apply it in the consulting room.
Are you a physician? Join the association
We are looking for physicians in private outpatient care, in any specialty, who want to contribute to the standard and to the national report.
Become a memberResearch in progress
National Report on Clinical Continuity and Patient Safety in 2026
AMSD's first analysis of how medical information travels in private outpatient care in Romania: where the patient's history gets lost, how much clinical time paperwork consumes and what can be standardised.
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For physicians, nurses and clinic managers. Leave your email address and we will send you the study before it is published.
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One patient, one history, any number of clinics
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