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The Government of the Republic of Serbia

In the service of citizens

Introduction of electronic health documentation to improve quality of medical care

Belgrade, 24 July 2008

Serbian Minister of Health Tomica Milosavljevic said today that Serbia is on track to set up a state-of-the-art health information system, with a unique database at national level, which will improve the quality of medical care.

Opening a two-day workshop called "Integration of electronic health documentation”, Milosavljevic said that according to a strategy “Better life for all in the 3rd millennium”, which was adopted in 2003, Serbia could get closer to the introduction of this system in 2015.

The minister explained that electronic health documentation is a set of data on health and previous medical treatment of every individual patient from all health institutions. Such a picture, available at every moment and in every place where the patient may be can be of immeasurable value for improving of the health care and for saving lives, Milosavljevic stressed.

He explained that through a Ministry of Health project, financed by the European Union, the bases of this system have been set up in Serbia – the National centre of electronic health documentation has been established in the Institute for Public Health "Dr Milan Jovanovic-Batut" and four regional centres in the institutes for public health in Novi Sad, Belgrade, Kragujevac and Nis which are interconnected. According to him, health institutions from all four regions are hooked up to the National centre – community health centres, hospitals, clinical centres and pharmacies, which send collective data on a patient’s treatment. Head of health programmes of the European Agency for Reconstruction Matias Rajnike said that out of €110 million that the European Agency for Reconstruction invested in the Serbian health sector in the past several years, €5 million was invested in the information system.