The percentage of households with internet connection has increased somewhat every year during the last five years.
Of the country's households 71 percent had internet connection at home and 66 percent had broadband connection, ratios that were respectively three percentage points and two percentage points higher than a year ago.
Read more: Seven in ten Estonian households have internet at home
According to doctors, the problem is that there are several various documents such as diagnosis, test results, etc. that they need to open and in some cases there are tens or even hundreds of such documents per patient.
EISA (Riigi Infosüsteemi Amet - RIA, in Estonian) was formerly known as the Estonian Informatics Centre (Riigi Infosüsteemide Arenduskeskus - RIA, in Estonian). It has 11 main functions, but the reorganisation affected primarily the two departments dealing with information security.
Read more: EE: A new structure to manage information security and state information systems
The dispute is over health certificates issued by general practitioners to the disabled, which are used to get various benefits. The family doctors have said they plan to stop issuing them on August 1, saying that the information already exists in the online health information system.
Read more: EE: Family Doctors, Minister Disagree over E-Health System
Die IT-Agentur für Freiheit, Sicherheit und Recht soll neuen Schwung in die Entwicklung von SIS II bringen. Die zentrale Datenbank von SIS II verbleibt im französischen Straßburg, mit einem Backup-System im österreichischen St. Johann. Der anvisierte Starttermin von SIS II wird aber voraussichtlich nicht mehr zu halten sein. Statt im ersten Quartal 2013 soll die Datenbank Anfang 2014 oder 2015 in den Wirkbetrieb gehen, wurde nun bekannt.
Read more: EE: Tallinn wird Hauptquartier der europäischen Agentur für große IT-Systeme