Estonian eHealth Foundation Promotes and Develops National E-Solutions Within the Healthcare System

The Estonian eHealth Foundation wanted to move healthcare data into the centralized Estonian health information system, while making minimal changes to the healthcare providers' information systems and preserve protection of highly sensitive personal data (including patient health records and demographic data). The challenge was to achieve more efficient information exchange within the Estonian healthcare sector. The Estonian eHealth Foundation implemented Oracle Database Vault to separate the duties of departmental and administrative activities and make it possible to consolidate servers providing doctors with nationwide access to health records via secure Web services.