Integrated Computerized Network General Practices

"Intego" stands for “integrated computerized network”. In 1990, the project started at the Department of General Practice of the KULeuven. The intention was to develop a large database on morbidity in primary care, to provide information on incidence and prevalence of diseases in Flanders, but also on diagnostic tests and treatments in general practice. The collection of data had to be done semi-automatically by which the data from the electronic medical records were copied and imported into a database. For this purpose a partnership was set up with the software firm Datasoft (later the company OmegaSoft Medical from the group Omega Pharma Company and then separated from this group under the name Corilus as part of Arseus), producer of medical software Medidoc. Intego has built a database that contains about 3 million diagnoses, 27 million laboratory results and 12 million prescriptions for medication. Our data are collected in general practices in Flanders.