Customers: Government of Armenia Yerevan; State and social structures Contractors: Ericsson Nikola Tesla Project date: 2014/01
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In January, 2014 it became known that the Government of the Republic of Armenia and Project management center of external financing at the Ministry of Finance of Armenia selected Ericsson Nikola Tesla - Croatian "subsidiary" of Ericsson - for implementation of the integrated information system of health care across the nation.
Within a pilot project it is going to upgrade a health care system due to implementation of modern information and communication technologies. Implementation of the Unified information system of health care includes deployment of the Central Information System for hospitals (CHIS) and the Central single medical system (CHUS).
"The project on informatization of health care will allow to provide society with high-quality, safe, available and cost-efficient medical services and to raise the overall level of satisfaction with medical care in the country", - Artur Guliang, the director of Office of implementation of infrastructures of electronic control (EKENG Ltd) says.
On implementation of a pilot project 95 weeks are allotted. 6 medical subjects – hospitals and insurance companies will take part in it. For data storage it is going to use infrastructure of private "cloud".
"The unified information system of health care is one of the most important infrastructure solutions ensuring integrity and safety of medical information and its effective use at the national level. On an extent of more than 15 years of ICT are effectively used for for collecting of medical data, storage and exchange by them in the different countries of the world. There is a set of examples of how electronic health care systems provide equal access to medical services and promote povyshenit qualities of life", - Robert Puskaric, the president of Ericsson in the region Northern Europe and Central Asia says.
Ericsson works in the field of medicine more than 10 years during which the company developed and implemented a single national information system of health care including in Croatia.