Donor and the health insurance card

The health insurance card is a new electronic identification document of insured persons and facilitates smoother communication between the health insurance information system and the Slovene health care service provider information systems. The card stores the insured person's identification details as well as the information on the selected personal physician. Another procedure also to be hosted on the card, will be the card holder's personal decision about being voluntary donor of organs and tissues for transplant purposes. This data item will, supported by the enhancement of technological infrastructure, improve the control of the donorship information. In Slovenia, registering, recording and application of the organ and tissue donorship data is carried out, on a pilot basis, in the region of Posavje.