National Strategy for e-Health Care and Digitisation of the Health System 2030 (Bulgaria)

The National Strategy was designed by the Health Ministry as a sectoral strategic document in the policy of e-governance development in Bulgaria. The need for its adoption arose in connection with a successful project for the development and implementation of a National Health Information System. The main objective of the project is to create a unified health data space that will benefit people in their successful and efficient treatment; medical care providers in adequately diagnosing and treating patients; managing authorities by enabling them to make data-driven decisions. The underlying objective of the National Strategy is in line with the European Commission’s European Health Data Space initiative. The adoption of the Strategy will contribute to patient-friendly medical care; access to cross-border healthcare and real-time access to information; a reduction in the administrative burden and elimination of paper-based processes; an improved regulatory and competitive environment through the introduction of uniform, adequate, and proportionate rules and standards; enhanced financial performance through improved transparency and tools to close gaps in reporting and information flows; enhanced accountability and oversight; the re-use of health data for research and statistical purposes; cost efficiency.