Poland in top ten in global ranking of digitization of administration
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In the UN global eParticipation ranking, Estonia, South Korea, and the United States are in the top three. Meanwhile, Poland moved up from 31st to 9th place. International organizations recognize the work that has been going on for many years and the effects of which are now increasingly visible. The e-participation indicator determines the level of citizens' access to public information and services through digital and telecommunications technologies. Poland is ahead of, among others, France or other highly developed countries. The driving force behind digitization, especially health protection, was, among others coronavirus pandemic.
"We see a significant jump in the services made available to citizens, we see the willingness of citizens to use e-government services. We know that some services, including in the area of health care, e.g. e-prescription or e-referrals significantly improve the accessibility and quality of people's lives. We can see that in the times of the pandemic, which was a very large accelerator, both for e-administration services and for work in the area of remote work or office work in general, there was a significant improvement and a significant jump in work in these areas," Konrad Taperek, an architect of business solutions at S&T Poland, said.
In the era of the coronavirus, solutions for health protection were a key effect of Poles' interest in e-services. According to official government data, almost 5 million Poles use the Internet Patient Account (IKP). In turn, about 25 million e-prescriptions were issued. Another impulse for the development of e-health services is to be e-referral. Almost 12 percent of IKP users set up an account only for this service. Only in the first month of the validity of electronic referrals, doctors issued nearly 2.5 million of them. On average, almost 150,000 these electronic documents are issued daily.
(Newseria) https://innowacje.newseria.pl/news/polska-w-pierwszej,p1304109781
