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The total number of e-examinations, registered through the National Health Information System (NHIS) in electronic format have exceeded 3.5 million in less than 6 months. Data shows that from June 1, 2022, more than 100,000 electronic examinations, on average per day have been registered by more than 6,600 medical practices across the country, and the total number of doctors using the new functionality of the system exceeds 13,000. The “E-examination” module provides complete electronic documentation and storage of all carried out medical examinations. E-examinations have been issued in all 28 RHIFs, and the most active are the medical practices in Sofia, Varna, Sofia region and Pazardzhik.
The most frequent primary diagnosis (over 385,000) is a hypertensive heart without heart failure, NHIS data shows. Non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus has been reported as a primary diagnosis in more than 64,400 cases, hypertensive heart with heart failure accounts for over 63,800, and essential primary hypertension - over 62,000.
"Thanks to e-examinations, all patients and authorized health professionals have full traceability of diseases, diagnoses, prescribed therapies, laboratory tests, etc.," said the CEO of Information Services Ivaylo Filipov. According to him, the company has developed additional functionality for adding medical documents that are created outside the NHIS. "Through " E-examination "each doctor can track the complete history of a disease and that waives the obligation of patients to submit folders with printed test results, case histories and outpatient lists," added Filipov.
The “E-referral” module also shows impressive results. So far, over 1.1 million referrals for laboratory tests have been issued through the NHIS, and on average about 30,000 documents are being registered per day. In less than a month since the introduction ofnew functionalities of the system, some 600,000 e-referrals for specialists, over 60,000 documents for highly specialized activities, 27,000 e-referrals for expert medical assessment and 15,000 for hospitalization have been issued. They completely replace the paper equivalents used so far.
A total of 4.6 million are the electronic immunizations issued through the NHIS. They are registered daily into the system by nearly 5,000 doctors. More than 150,000 e-immunizations, included in the National mandatory Immunization schedule have been issued.
"After the completion of the digitalization in outpatient care, the efforts of Information Services are focused entirely on the introduction of electronic services in hospital care," said Ivaylo Filipov. According to him, in August the paper referrals for hospitalization and medical case histories of patients will be replaced by electronic equivalents.