The Danish National Health Informatics Strategy

The central vision for the future information systems in the Danish health care sector is one of a generally accepted, common information model enabling comprehensive digital reuse of shared clinical data. A generic 'Basic-EHR-structure' has been developed for this purpose by the National Board of Health from a through analysis of the production of clinical information. The strategy contributes to the achievement of the national political goals for the health care sector and describes four important steps to be made by the health care IT systems in order to reach full interoperability and digital reusability of clinical information. Some important initiatives of the strategy are a national terminology server, coordinated implementation of EHRs, and the Public Health Information Portal.