Explore Estonia’s digital health landscape
Ehealth inspiration from Estonia. Register before 24.02.2025!
Artikkel: Redaksjonen, EHiN
Dato: 28.01.2025
Join EHiN on a tour to the most digitalised country in Europe, Estonia, March 24-25. Register before 24.02.2025!
Together with Enterprise Estonia and the Estonian Embassy in Oslo is EHiN organising a trip to Tallinn to understand more of the digitalization processes in Estonia.
Estonia is widely recognized as a global leader in digital innovation, particularly in the field of eHealth. The country has implemented a comprehensive digital health system that integrates various healthcare services and patient data into a unified platform. Here are some key aspects of Estonia’s eHealth system.
- Electronic Health Record (EHR) System: Estonia has a nationwide EHR system called the Estonian Health Information System (EHIS). This system allows healthcare providers to access patient records electronically, ensuring that patient information is up-to-date and easily accessible across different healthcare facilities.
- e-Prescriptions: Estonia has fully digitalized its prescription system.
- Patient Portal: The Patient Portal (Digilugu) allows Estonian citizens to access their own health records, view test results, and see their medical history.
- Digital ID and Security: Estonia’s eHealth system is built on the foundation of its robust digital ID infrastructure.
- Telemedicine: Estonia has embraced telemedicine, allowing patients to consult with healthcare providers remotely.
- Data Exchange: The X-Road platform is a key component of Estonia’s digital infrastructure, enabling secure data exchange between different healthcare providers and institutions. This ensures that patient data is shared efficiently and securely across the healthcare system.
- Health Statistics and Research: The centralized health data system also supports public health monitoring and research. Aggregated data can be used for epidemiological studies, health policy planning, and other research purposes, while maintaining individual privacy.
- Interoperability: Estonia’s eHealth system is designed to be interoperable with other digital services and systems, both within the country and internationally. This facilitates cross-border healthcare and data exchange within the European Union.
- Government Support: The Estonian government has been a strong proponent of digital transformation in healthcare, providing the necessary legal framework, funding, and support to ensure the successful implementation and continuous improvement of the eHealth system.
Inspirational trip to Estonia, March 24-25.
To get a better view of the Estonian system and innovation environment of this Baltic country, we organise a lean trip to Tallinn. The dates are Monday 24 and Tuesday 25 of March. The target group is representatives from local government, national government, hospitals, companies and scale ups looking for cooperation. The program will be published later, but based on previous trips the days will have content like e-Estonia best practice e-Health: Smart Innovation Trends and Technologies
Why Estonia?
Estonia is considered a pioneer in digital healthcare and already offers an outstanding digital infrastructure that allows doctors, patients and healthcare professionals to efficiently and securely access health data.
Key highlights and opportunities in Estonia’s digital health landscape
- The digital universe e-Estonia: origin, conception, Enterprise Estonia
- Synergies in the Connected Health Cluster of Estonia
- From citizen-centered to personalized
- Healthcare: the power of genomics
- e-Estonia Best Practice e-Health: Smart Innovation Trends and Technologies
- Digital healthcare in hospitals: trends and visions, Sustainable Development and Quality,
- E-Medicine Centre (eMedLab) – digitalisation of health care (e-health)"
- UX-driven eHealth concepts based on storytelling
Practical information
This study tour is facilitated by Enterprise Estonia. The trip is free for health related personnel, both hospitals, municipalities, govenement, researchers, industry and start ups.
Hotel recommendation
For easier logistics, we recommend staying at Nordic Forum Hotel in Tallinn or a nearby hotel.
Participants pay for their flight, hotel and the stay which is not included in the official program.
For more information: Ryte.Venckuviene@eis.ee or nard@ehin.no.
Bigger groups can contact Ryte.Venckuviene@eis.ee or Monika@ehin.no.
Register before 24.02.2025!