Lithuanian eHelath strategy
SUMMARY ON LITHUANIAN eHEALTH
Development of Lithuanian eHealth system involves a scope of political, organisational, behavioural and psychological efforts to achieve better quality healthcare using information technologies. Main Goal of Lithuanian National e-Health System is to ensure continuity of care by improved access to patient information and assured information exchange system between institutions.
Feasibility study in Lithuanian can be found at http://www.sam.lt/repository/dokumentai/el_sveikata/gs_esveikata_web_version.pdf
The eHealth system will be developed during several stages and on different levels - national, regional and local:
Stage 1: Creation of the national eHealth core with services ensuring the information exchange;
Stage 2: Setup of the national level of eHealth system and implement pilot functions, focused on primary healthcare level automation;
Stage 3: Implementation of remaining functions of the national level eHealth system
Stage 4&5: deployment of eHealth system functions in healthcare institutions (HCIs), automation of HCIs internal functions.
On March of 2007 was launched the Pilot implementation of stage 1&2 of the National eHealth system.
More information about eHealth in Lithuania is available at http://www.sam.lt/lt/main/sveikatos_apsauga/el_sveikata
Lithuania
The National Centre of Pathology, a component of the Ministry of Health, is planing to perform the role of the National Release Centre for SNOMED CT®.