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Although electronic patient records should mean better treatment, physicians are reluctant to adapt to the system and its low reliability may even put patients in danger, Postimees wrote.

One of the fundamental ideas behind the nationwide electronic database of health records launched in 2009 was to protect the patient, minimizing the chance of repetitive tests done by different clinics or prescription of same medicines by a different doctor. However, three years after its implementation, the system does not function as intended.

Read more: EE: Daily: E-Health System Still Largely Dysfunctional

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Estonian entrepreneurs will soon have a new resource to build services off of. Collections of data gathered by the Estonian government will be made available in a machine-processable format, enabling citizens and companies to create services on public sector data. The government's goals are to make the data free, high quality, and easily accessible-- hopefully providing higher quality services available to the public, more transparency in decision-making, and new investments and jobs.

It's a respectable initiative that all fits into the e-Estonia trend pushed to put Estonia on the forefront of how citizens interact with their government through online services. Estonia already offers e-tax board, e-police, e-school, e-health, e-business, and other similar services you can put an "e-" in front of.

Read more: Estonia To Make Public Sector Data Open To Entrepreneurs

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Since the launch of the national eID card ten years ago (28 January 2002), around 1.6 million cards have been issued, and citizens have well integrated their use into their daily lives.

The Estonian Police and Border Guard Board's service centre director Ms Tatjana Portnova said that people have been showing increasing interest in the use of the eID card: "Over the last years, the number of people who use the card on a daily basis has multiplied (...)" She added that "Hotline callers often ask for advice on the use of the eID document, especially before the elections and for the filing of tax returns, and this is currently the case for instance with the ongoing census."

Read more: EE: eID card a ten-year success

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More and more foreign companies are discovering Estonia as a provider of share services functions, writes Äripäev.

So far foreign companies have transferred to Estonia mainly production jobs because of cheaper prices, but now also whitecollar jobs are moving to Estonia, with one IT company going to to move its backoffice operations to Estonia later this year.

Read more: Foreign companies move their backoffices to Estonia

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A revamped version of the Estonian eGovernment portal Eesti.ee was released at the end of November 2011. Users have been invited to express their comments on how the portal could be further improved.

Comments can be sent directly through the portal's Write and Ask form or by emailing This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

The portal's content quality manager, Mr Aarne Seppel from the Estonian Information System's Authority, said: "The portal update process began two years ago when we surveyed a group of users in order to identify their needs. A great job has been done so far but one last step remains to be taken - we want to configure the portal's final version based on its users' feedback. With this release, we are now ready for a new consultation period where we will be considering people's feedback and give the portal a final touch."

Read more: New version of eGovernment portal Eesti.ee goes live

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