Romanian patients will soon be able to consult their medical history and make appointments with a doctor directly from their phone or laptop, through the new Social Health Insurance Information Platform (PIAS), announced the Minister of Health, Alexandru Rogobete.
Patients will have online access to their medical history. PHOTO: Archive
“The new platform comes, in addition to the computerization adapted to 2025, with something new: it will interact with the patient. And this is a novelty. The platform will be accessible to the patient both on the mobile phone and on the laptop or other device, with a code and a password, and the patient will be able to see his medical history. Finally, that electronic patient record will be available.” said Rogobete to TVR Info.
The minister explained that patients will be able to see in the platform the medical visits performed, the costs of each investigation and the amounts settled by the National Health Insurance House (CNAS). They will also be able to make online appointments with the family doctor or at the outpatient clinic.
The platform is financed by PNRR, and the project has a total budget of 100 million euros, out of the 400 million allocated to the Ministry of Health for digitization. “In December we will have the first look. It will be tested in pilot systems so that we don’t affect the business“, said the minister.
The transfer of data from the old system to the new one will take about six months. In the future, all medical documents – prescriptions, referrals, medical letters – will be digitized.
“I’ll give you an example. You go to your family doctor and they prescribe you an antibiotic. You go to a pharmacy based on your CNP or health card or identity card. To begin with we will work on all three systems. Slowly, slowly we want to go to the area of the integrated identity card. The pharmacist will see the medical prescription in the platform and issue you the antibiotic, without any other document”, explained Alexandru Rogobete.
According to the minister, the main objective is to simplify patients’ access to medical services and eliminate bureaucracy from the system.
