The Slovak Parliament passed a legislative amendment on eGovernment on September 23. The bill was submitted by the Finance Ministry and leads to significant changes in three areas.
The first change to be introduced by the so-called electronic government bill concerns the conditions and methods of identification and authentication of individuals via computer. The draft bill has been aimed at making the legal norm more precise and to supplement it so that the rules of identification and authentication are applied exclusively to public administration, and thus prevent any contradictions in interpreting it, for example for use in internal communication between public administrative bodies, the ministry explained, as quoted by the TASR newswire.
Now seven years in preparation, doctors ask for help implementing the system.
A SICK man gets out his health insurance card and puts it into a terminal at a doctor’s office. His general practitioner prepares a diagnosis and then, without a referral slip to a specialist or a pharmacy prescription, the patient moves on to the specialist for another examination or to the pharmacy where he picks up his medications by putting the same card into another terminal. This is how the Slovak health care is supposed to work via the eHealth electronic system that is to begin in 2017.
This development stems from an amendment to the law on identity cards, which the Slovakian parliament passed in November 2011. This amendment is linked to the electronic identity (eID) card project which the Interior Ministry implements. This project aims to reduce bureaucracy, save citizens time, and provide faster and more efficient communication with the authorities. The new eID card will facilitate safer access to services, the use of qualified electronic signatures, and also the possibility of using the card to store other kinds of data.
The law obliges all state bodies to accept and respond to citizens’ requests and motions electronically. A citizen should also be able to receive official documents in his or her personal electronic mailbox, the SITA newswire reported.
For example, customers will be able to apply for and receive documents and statements from the Land Registry, Business Register or the Criminal Record at post offices in the future.
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