The mission of eHealth is to promote the role of healthcare through use of information and communication technologies, to help to enhance healthcare and in this way also quality of life. Slovakia is already on the way to fulfill this goal. It has identified the key applications such as electronic healthcare card, electronic prescription, medication, National Health Portal and e-Allocation. It has built information and security infrastructure and optimized data base to electronic healthcare needs. The attention is currently on cross-sectional topic of patient and healthcare professionals’ identification and promotion of legislation changes in healthcare system.

Arrangements for nation-wide dissemination of National Healthcare Information System to environment of its future users, participants of healthcare provision and funding, are currently under way. The key moments are to provide distinct identification of a patient as well as healthcare profession and to implement dissemination of the system with minimal risk. The extent and complexity of the system is way above activities implemented so far in the environment of Slovak healthcare. Domain knowledge, experience, ability to predict and act quickly will be the important success factors.

In the past Atos has faced these challenges when implementing similar projects abroad. In the presentation we will provide information how we successfully handled akin projects in Austria, France and Scotland.