Following amendments to the law, the promulgation of prescriptive legislation and certain other kinds of act will be passed to RCL in electronic form only. As a result, the electronic version of the legislation, which previously was merely complementary to the original paper version, will be validated as it bears a digital signature, the only form of authentication and confirmation of the date of the act.
Read more: PL: Legislation to be communicated electronically using the ePUAP platform
New analysis from Frost & Sullivan (www.healthcareIT.frost.com), Social and Economic Benefits of Healthcare IT in Poland, finds that Poland ranks below the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) average in terms of healthcare spending per capita. However, efforts to modernise the healthcare structure are set to galvanise the uptake of IT systems by the healthcare sector.
Read more: Government Initiatives to Encourage Adoption of Healthcare IT Solutions in Poland
The WCT project was presented by Michał Kosiedowski in his speech 'Wielkopolska Centre of Telemedicine: case study'. The WCT infrastructure is expected to link at least 26 hospitals from the Wielkopolska region (west-central Poland) with seven clinical departments located in Poznań (the capital of Wielkopolska region); this will allow the medical staff from clinical departments of the Poznań University of Medical Sciences to share knowledge and experiences with other professionals of the health care system in the region.
Read more: PL: Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Centre presented its telemedicine project
The government is planning to introduce an electronic health management system, which should make access to public health care easier. Starting from 2013 every patient will receive an e-health card, which will contain information about patient’s health, medical diagnosis and prescription.
A pharmacist will be able to decode the prescription from the card without a problem. (Currently pharmacists complain that doctors handwriting is indecipherable.)