02 April 2010

CHISINAU, MOLDOVA – Health officials familiarize with EU-funded Primary Health Care Information System, implemented by UNICON.

On 2 March high officials from the Ministry of Health (MoH), National Company of Health Insurance and Health Department of Chisinau City Hall visited the Territorial Medical Association (AMT) “Centru” in Chisinau in order to see for themselves both the functionality and progress of the EU-funded Health Information System for Primary Health Care – Medex 2.0 piloted in AMT Centru. This advanced system was developed by the EU-funded project “EU Support to the Health Reform: Strengthening of Health Care in Moldova” and has functionalities concerning patient flow, medical data, statistical data, and other aspects of Primary Health Care.

During the last months the project and AMT Centru have upgraded the old Health Information System. The last step was the successful data migration from Medex 1.0 to Medex 2.0, which is in experimental utilisation starting with 22 February 2010. According to the Memorandum of Collaboration signed between the project, MoH and MTA Centru, the staff of MTA Centru actively participates in the development through identification of requirements toward the functionality of the system, testing and piloting. After successful piloting in AMT Centru, the new version of Medex (“Medex 2”) can be further replicated in other MTAs, in Regional Centres and could be used country–wide in the future provided the IT infrastructure is appropriate. The IT component is one of the 4 components of project, which has a duration of 2 years till August 2010 and a budget of €1.2 million.