The Digital Agenda for Sweden aims to be a coherent strategy to better utilise its existing resources, and to benefit from and contribute to the Digital Agenda for Europe. The meeting of the Digitisation Council discussed the objectives of the Digital Agenda and the key areas that the agenda should include.
Read more: SE: Digitisation Council discusses the strategies of the national Digital Agenda
Swedish Minister for Development Assistance Gunilla Carlsson has opened the door for discussion on how Information and Communication Technologies, or ICT, can be used in the service of freedom of speech.
[Gunilla Carlsson, Minister for Development Assistance]: “In order to be innovative in my political area I have to listen to them, learn from them and also to see how we can have good and great ideas.”
Since 2009 the Swedish government has supported various ICT- related projects regarding democracy. But this year it has a wider focus that includes freedom of expression and human rights.
TakeCare comprises an ePrescription module. Janus Window has been integrated in TakeCare and in five other patient electronic health record systems that are in use in Sweden's regions; it provides quality patient-specific drug information. The main advantage of Janus Window is that it automatically sends warnings to the prescribers.
Read more: Sweden: Availability of 'Janus Window' in electronic patient record system a success
Thanks to its updated version, users can now seek for health care centres throughout Sweden, ask for advice and obtain knowledge on health matters as well as use their local eServices to contact healthcare services.
1177.se has been in operation for over ten years and contains information about diseases, related tests and medicine. What is also new is that each county and region has its own webpage, with news and links to the eServices that concern it. Another online service that has been added is the 'Find and compare health care' service that enables users to search for and find information about care units across the country, such as their contact details and opening hours.
Read more: SE: New look, feel and services for the national eHealth portal
By the end of the year, patients in Östergötland County in central Sweden will become the first to allow patients access to their medical records online by the end of the year, Daniel Forslund, deputy director of the healthcare division of the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs, said on Monday.