Prescriptions, referrals, reports and all medical documentation should be transferred to a fully digital regime, with legal amendments that will make the electronic document equal and official, without the obligation to print on paper. With the announced amendments to the Law on Records in the Field of Healthcare, the patient will be able to go to the doctor only with a personal identification document, and the doctor will have access to the health file and health history in the system.
Paper documentation would be used only as a temporary and exceptional solution – in situations when there is an interruption of the system. At the same time, all public and private healthcare institutions would have to work with a system aligned with the national system, which closes the space for parallel and incompatible software solutions that hinder the exchange of data.
The key innovation that is being announced is an electronic health file for each patient, as a central source of health data: examinations, results, referrals, prescriptions and services that would be recorded in one system. The intention is to enable more efficient monitoring of patients’ conditions and more coordinated healthcare, without “losing” documents between different practices and institutions.
