Toomas Hendrik Ilves, chairman of the EU eHealth Task Force to “redesign health in Europe for 2020”, notes that successfully ensuring health-care access for all EU citizens depends on information-technology application and data use.
In Cyprus, patient medical records are generally paper-based and highly fragmented, which increases the risk of duplicate investigations and of patients being prescribed unsuitable medication. The new health-care system, combined with the changes in data management in compliance with the EU General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR), indicates promising positive changes. ….more