Projects abroad  International Projects in Medical Informatics financed by World Bank

Health Information Standards Project (Bulgaria)

From 2000 to 2003 we were involved in an international health sector reform project called »International Consultant in Health Information Standards«, which was financed by the World Bank and the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Bulgaria. The purpose of the project was to provide health data standards and the appropriate mechanism for the adoption of suitable standards for data collection for Bulgaria.
The project consisted of several components:

• improvement of service standards of primary and outpatient healthcare and quality assurance,
• improvement of hospital healthcare,
• improvement of distribution of health financing,
• improvement of health facility infrastructure and project management.
  

Project for preparation of an economic and technically feasible concept for Chip Card based Health Insurance System in the Republic of Macedonia

Using our knowledge gained from the project of implementation of the Health Insurance Card into the Slovenian healthcare system we were involved in the project financed by the World Bank and the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Macedonia, which was performed from 1999 to 2000 and dealt with the preparation of an economic and technically feasible concept for Chip Card based Health Insurance System in the Republic of Macedonia.