Abstract: The purpose of the paper is to comprehensively characterize the implementation and the current use of electronic health records (EHRs) in Poland. The paper presents the conception of the management of patient information in Polish health care system. In this paper author presents the assumptions of the strategies of implementing IT systems in the health protection sector in Poland. It contains a review of IT systems dedicated for health care centers. The author described a system of electronic medical records, taking into account governmental plans for implementing the Health Insurance Card and Polish.ID systems, as well as the Electronic Verification of Beneficiary Entitlements (EVBE) system being implemented by Polish government. The project of the EVBE system is a newest part of Polish health care system. The paper presents also an example of electronic European Health Insurance Card system to management of patient information in Polish health care system supported by the EVBE. European Health Insurance Card was created as a response to the necessity of verification of a patient in the European Union and in the countries of the Schengen area. The aim of the article is to describe the difference between the public electronic patient record system in Poland and the private IT systems dedicated for health care centres. The author described a system of electronic medical report, taking into account governmental plans for implementing the Health Insurance Card and pl.ID systems, as well as e- Prescription system being implemented by the Centre for Health Information Systems.

Keywords: IT systems in health care, electronic health insurance card, health informatics, electronic medical records.

ACM Classification Keywords: K6: management of computing and information systems

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THE MANAGEMENT OF PATIENT INFORMATION IN POLISH HEALTH CARE SYSTEM

Anna Sołtysik-Piorunkiewicz?

http://www.foibg.com/ijita/vol21/ijita21-02-p08.pdf