In October 2024, the government approved an amendment to the Act on eHealth (passed in 2021), to fundamentally modernize healthcare and make access to health information more efficient. The amendment includes important digitisation projects that will enable easier management of health data for citizens and medical personnel and will contribute to improving the functioning of the entire system. This motion now has to pass through the Chamber of Deputies and Senate (in both, the government coalition currently holds the majority) and be signed by the president to be effective.
The amendment will bring a whole range of new tools, including eŽádanka (eReferral), further development of the EZKarta application (see below), as well as the addition of data in the patient registers, such as information on the ability to drive motor vehicles or hold a firearms license (linked through the departments of the interior and transport). All of this will follow on from the already approved and currently tested functions of electronic healthcare.
New functions of the eHealth application
The electronic health application EZKarta newly includes vaccinations administered between 2010 and 2022 and reimbursed from statutory health insurance. This is an addition to records that have already been displayed in the application: all vaccinations since 2023 (both reimbursed and not reimbursed from statutory health insurance) and all COVID-19 vaccinations. Vaccinations paid out-of-pocket between 2010 and 2022 are not displayed.