RSU Signs Memorandum on Healthcare Digitisation

The Ministry of Health has committed to working in cooperation with the health care industry on new digital solutions to improve the quality, accessibility, and useability of healthcare services. The aim is to make treatment and care more accessible to patients and facilitate the work of doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals.

The Memorandum provides for collaboration and engagement in building a patient- and user-centred, open, digital health ecosystem by developing organisational governance, access to finance and investment framework, technological infrastructure and services, as well as upgrading digital skills. ‘A digitised health sector will not only benefit patients, and current and future doctors and nurses, but also scientists. Currently, data in the health sector is fragmented and its use is limited not only in medicine, but also in public research. This reduces Latvian researchers’ opportunities within the European Research Area. It is in the public interest to make the use of health data as extensive and open as possible,’ said Toms Baumanis, Vice-Rector for Administration and Development, who represented Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU)at the Digital Health Day.

Among the signatories of the Memorandum are professional organisations in the healthcare sector, leading organisations of healthcare institutions and patients, as well as IT organisations: the Ministry of Health, the National Health Service, RSU, the Healthcare Employers’ Association, the Latvian Alliance for Rare Diseases, the Latvian Medical Association, the Latvian Junior Doctors Association, the Latvian Rural Family Doctors Association, the Latvian Association of Large Hospitals, the American Chamber of Commerce in Latvia, Digital Health Society, the Latvian start-up association Startin.LV, the Latvian Information and Communication Technology Association, and the Latvian Information Technology Cluster.