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Now You Can Buy Prescription Drugs with an E-Prescription in All Baltic Countries

Starting today, residents of Estonia can purchase prescription drugs in Lithuanian pharmacies using their e-prescription, and vice versa. This means that the cross-border e-prescription service now covers Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, allowing patients to conveniently obtain their medications from pharmacies in any of these countries.

Estonians and Latvians' ePrescriptions now move across borders

Starting today, citizens of Estonia and Latvia can use cross-border ePrescription and health data summary services in each other's countries. This step marks a significant development in the healthcare cooperation between the two countries, making Latvia the 11th country with which Estonia practices such data exchange.

Estonians Can Now Purchase Prescription Medications in Greece

Starting this week, citizens of Estonia and Greece have the ability to use cross-border ePrescription and Patient Summary services, marking a significant step in the digitalization of healthcare services and supporting the mobility of citizens across Europe.

New Health Portal Brings People's Health Information Together

Today marks the start of a campaign titled "Curiosity is Healthy," a collaboration between the Health Insurance Fund and the Centre for Health and Welfare Information Systems (TEHIK), aiming to introduce the new health portal to the public and to increase awareness of its features and benefits.

The new Health Portal has replaced Digilugu

The Estonian Health Insurance Fund and the Health and Welfare Information Systems Centre (TEHIK) have launched the new Health Portal at www.terviseportaal.ee, replacing the current Patient Portal www.digilugu.ee.

Digilugu closed in parallel with the launch of the Health Portal. When a person goes to www.digilugu.ee out of habit, they will automatically be redirected to the Health Portal page.

Error in Medisoft Perearst3 Software

The faulty software used by family doctors has resulted in erroneous documents in the health information system.

Cross-border health data exchange now available with Spain

Starting from 3rd of August 2023 ePrescription and Patient Summary data exchange is open with Spain. Until now the cross-border ePrescription service has already been available with Finland, Poland, Croatia and Portugal.

INNA, a tool for the evaluation of medicinal product names, is now available

The e-services section on the State Agency of Medicines website now includes INNA, a tool for the evaluation of medicinal product names, which helps assess the suitability of invented names of medicinal products applied for in Estonia. The web application developed by TEHIK aims to reduce the time spent on evaluating medicinal product names and increase the quality of decisions and services.

Polish people can now buy their prescription drugs from Estonian pharmacies

If until now, Estonian pharmacies could issue ePrescription drugs prescribed in Finland, Portugal and Croatia, Poland has now also been added to the list. Thanks to cross-border data exchange, ePrescription drugs prescribed by Estonian doctors can also be purchased in all the countries listed above.