Interregional Cooperation
for a trans-European Electronic Health Cards Strategy

INCO-HEALTH Partners

Health Insurance Institute of Slovenia - ZZZS
Miklosiceva 24
1507 – Ljubljana
Slovenia

www.zzzs.si

Contact:
Marjan Suselj
marjan.suselj@zzzs.si

The Health Insurance Institute of Slovenia is a public institute, statutory exclusive provider of the compulsory health insurance in Slovenia. It was founded in 1993 by the Republic of Slovenia. Its staff counts 900. Its operations cover the entire national territory, a population of close to 2 million. The Institute performs its functions through a network of ten regional units and 46 branch offices.
Under the strategy of continual modernisation of information and Organization systems in the Slovene health care system, the Institute introduced a national health insurance card system. Since October 2000, this system serves the entire population and all health care service
providers. In the first phase, the system covers administrative functions, yet enhancement of functionality is in progress.
The card system was designed and implemented observing the relevant international standards and recommendations and is thus open to the extension of its application across the national borders, in the perspective of the envisaged EU health insurance card.