Projects abroad  HANSA EAST

The HANSA (Healthcare Advanced Networked Systems Architecture) projects aimed to promote the new technology and its standardised approaches through demonstrations and dissemination activities. These projects demonstrated that employment of a middleware based open architecture yielded reduction of working effort needed for interworking of existing systems capable to share ands exchange data. Meanwhile this architecture has already been adopted as a European standard, i.e. CEN TC 251 ENV 12967-1 “Healthcare Information Systems Architecture (HISA – Standard).

The overall objectives of HANSA EAST project were to transfer these distributed software technologies for open health, healthcare, hospital, and insurance systems and adopted European standards to the CEE/NIS countries: to the Health IT Authorities, and to Health IT providers for business development in order to create a local software industry for the health sector. HANSA EAST consisted of three different countries, complemented by a Concerted Action directed at the other countries, i.e. Albania, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovak Republic and Slovenia.

The project was performed from 1997 to 1999.