Projects abroad  Technical Assistance to Health Information Standards (Slovakia)

The Slovak government has received a World Bank loan to carry out a project of healthcare sector modernisation in order to improve access to quality healthcare for citizens and to ensure the financial and operative stability of the healthcare system. The entire project consists of six components. We are working on a project of technical support of health information standards in the third component, which deals with information systems that support health management.
The Health Information Standards Project will support the formulation of all health information standards for all relevant healthcare agencies at the national level:

• The development of an HMIS strategy, including the development of necessary supporting legislation (regarding mandatory exchange of information, confidentiality, privacy, etc.), and the essential integration tools; a special attention will be given not only to supporting legislation but also to pragmatic and effective methodology how to successfully execute the transition to new standards and potentially modify the roles of participating organizations in Slovakian healthcare industry.
• The development of standards, regulations and other mechanisms to support the integration of health information at all levels, so that common definitions and data structures are used and necessary information can be exchanged;

Supporting the effective use of health IT in other parts of healthcare sector to ensure that high quality, consistent and timely information is provided, both to support effective care and treatment, and to inform management and decision-making processes at all levels.