E-Health concept in Romania

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E-Health concept in Romania

• Sofia, 7th of June 2005

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Main goals

• Citizen (for prevention) and patient (for
  therapy) centered solutions with the goal to
  control and optimize expenditure in the health
  care
• Patient unique identification based on
  Electronic Health Records - EHR
• IT integrated system based on European standards,
  which can provide the interoperability of
  specific systems between different levels of
  organization for medical and financing decision.

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Strategic aims

1. Fully integrated IT system, including decision
   support
2. Integrative platform for health related
   information, medical services suppliers and
   medical processes
3. The new IT system must take into account the
   already existing and developing projects and
   infrastructure, to protect already made
   investments and strategic parteners
4. The IT project will initially be developed as a
   pilot project and then extended for the entire
   country in less then 4 years, so the technical
   solutions wont fall into obsolence.

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Commitment

• The integrated IT System will be strongly
  promoted and supported at all levels, both
  political and financial, taking into account the
  concrete details of current transition period

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Flexibility

• Based on EU standards in system design,
  communications, personal data privacy and
  security, the IT strategy will allow the
  developement of independent projects and will
  ensure the interoperability of the systems and
  the integrated character of the whole system

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Domains

• The Ministry of Health network
• Public health insurance and private health
  insurance
• Health services providers,
• Medical educational system, medical research
  system

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Timetable 2006

• urgently implementing the Electronic Record of
  Pacients (ERP) at both regional and local level,
  together with specific applications for medical
  and administrative decision support
• E-health academy pilot project supported by
  World Health Organization

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Timetable 2007

• Electronic insurance card within a PHARE
  project, the card will hold identification,
  medical and financial information about the
  patient and information about the insurance house
  
• 8 counties integrated solution (patient cost
  control, medical decision support, e-health
  academy, e-learning)

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Timetable 2010

• Integrated solution throughout the entire health
  system (ERP, card, e-health academy, e-learning)