Electronic Health Registers
Efficient, fast and accurate data registration and creation of accurate databases in the Health sector

Purpose
The purpose was to create accurate databases and registers of: drugs, health care institutions, domestic drug producers; wholesale drug distributors, pharmacies and doctors in the Republic of Macedonia. At the same time improve the registration process and increase the possibilities for controlling expenditures and planning within the health sector.

Application functionalities
The application is secure, web based and modular. It is consisted of six separate modules: 1.Registers; 2. Registration; 3. Import of data from the Chamber of Doctors; 4. Issuing of identification numbers; 5.Data analyses and reporting; and 6. Public Web site. The software is hosted on a central server within the Ministry of Health.

Users
- Ministry of Health of the Republic of Macedonia
- Health Insurance Fund (HIF)
- Pharmacies
- Wholesale drug distributors
- Domestic drug producers
- Chamber of Doctors

Specific Benefits
- Previously inconsistent data bases in the Ministry of Health and the Health Insurance Fund have been harmonized;
- Improve the accuracy of the data in the data bases;
- Increased transparency regarding expenditures;
- Time savings for the employees within the Ministry of Health;
- Provides possibilities for the Ministry to better plan and allocate resources for medication needed in the country;
- It is a necessary platform for development of any other electronic application in the Health Sector.

Status
The application was launched in July, 2006 and is included in all strategic projects and future activities of the Ministry and provides basis for development of other e-health applications within the health sector. Through this application accurate data bases within the health sector have been created.

DRUG SUPPLY TO BE MONITORED BY NEW SYSTEM July 28, 2006

The USAID e-Gov Project together with the Ministry of Health launched the new IT system designed to monitor the distribution and consumption of prescription drugs. The system is designed to support the Ministry of Health's initiate to introduce new stringent rules concerning the way positive list drugs are made available.

"With the system we will receive reports that outline any irregularities in the way presscriptions are issued and how drugs are prescribed," said Minister Dimov "Equally important will be reports that will help the Ministry to better plan and allocate resources for medication needed in the country."

"This new application will allow the Ministry of Health to not only improve its management of prescription drugs, ensuring that all those who need medical treatment receive it, it will also eliminate the ability to abuse the public health fund system and reduces the ability to sell illegally unregistered drugs." said Mr. Dick Goldman, USAID Mission Director.

Under the new system every doctor, dentist, pharmacy, health care institution and prescription drug will have their own unique identification number. The newly established registries will be publicly available through the Ministry of Health's website http://registri.zdravstvo.gov.mk.

Among other details, the new electronic system will monitor when drugs are legally released for sale as well as the number of prescriptions issued by individual doctors/specialists. The system also allows online applications to register new drugs as well as receive licenses to import drugs reducing the administrative burden of the Ministry of Health.

Monitoring of prescription of drugs - Tender May, 2006

INFORMATION ON ENDER

The USAID e-Gov Project signed Contract for development of Dgugs Monitoring software application to support the Ministry of Health to monitor the consumption of drugs in the Republic of Macedonia. The Contract was signed with software developer SEMOS, as leading partner of the consortia SEMOS- ULTRA DOO- CODEX Computers.

Deevelopment of the software was finished succesfully on time, as well as the training of the key users of the system. Promotional event was held on 28 August, 2006 at Daut Pasha Amam, Skopje. It is expected the system to be launched by the end of August, 2006.

TENDER - Monitoring of Prescription of Drugs

The e-Gov project and the Ministry of Health are designing and creating a software application that will introduce a system for electronic processing of drug prescription data within the health sector of the Republic of Macedonia.

The e-Gov project is hereby inviting bids regarding the development of the software for the application. The software shall follow the specifications in the System Description.

The tender documents consist of the Invitation to Submit Bids and a System Description. Interested companies may obtain a copy of the Invitation to Submit Bids by clicking here.

All necessary information about technical description of the software is presented in the System Description that can be downloaded by clicking here.

You can download Registration Information Form, Reference List Form and draft Contract here.

Bids shall be submitted to e-Gov project at the following e-mail address
tender@e-gov.org.mk no later than Friday 14th April 2006, 15:00 local time.

Any questions regarding the e-Health software should be sent by e-mail to
info@e-gov.org.mk by Monday 3 April 2006, 15:00 local time.