Amendments to the concept and regulations for the use of the UMC IS have been published and have entered into force. They unite a number of disparate systems into a single resource.
It is expected that this will improve data exchange between the participants of the system, which today provides fragmented and not always complete information. This includes records of insured and non-insured persons, as well as persons registered with family physicians, receipts of health insurance premiums, paid premiums, prescriptions for reimbursed medicines and medical devices, and others.
The system will become more transparent
This will make the system more manageable and transparent in terms of distribution of insurance funds and accounting for services.
The MHI IS will concentrate all reporting on the volume of care provided by medical service providers, as well as on their use of financial resources allocated from the compulsory health insurance funds.
In addition, through the MHI IS it will be possible to obtain information available to other bodies. For example, data of the State Tax Service on employed persons, freelancers, as well as persons carrying out independent activities in the sphere of retail trade, purchase of agricultural products, patent holders.
In the information system of the National Social Insurance Fund it will be possible to obtain data on pensioners, persons receiving social benefits, the unemployed and their benefits.
The system will be integrated with the Border Police as well. According to the legislation, some payers of fixed amount health insurance contributions must prove their presence in Moldova for at least 183 days during the fiscal year.
Overall, this streamlined system will improve the development of health policies based on more reliable data, oriented to the real needs of the population, the developers hope.
