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Armenia

Exploring Medical Assistance Program (AM0043)

Overview

At-a-Glance

Action Plan: Armenia Action Plan 2018-2020

Action Plan Cycle: 2018

Status: Active

Institutions

Lead Institution: Ministry of Healthcare

Support Institution(s): Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs of the Republic of Armenia and other state agencies Healthcare and social sector NGOs

Policy Areas

E-Government, Health, Marginalized Communities, Public Service Delivery, Records Management

IRM Review

IRM Report: Pending IRM Review

Starred: Pending IRM Review

Early Results: Pending IRM Review

Design i

Verifiable: Pending IRM Review

Relevant to OGP Values: Not Relevant

Potential Impact: Pending IRM Review

Implementation i

Completion: Pending IRM Review

Description

9. Possibility of on-line listing of state guaranteed free of charge medical assistance and services for citizens living in under privileged conditions
Commitment Start and End Date Commitment Start: February 2019
Commitment End: August 2020
Lead implementing agency Ministry of Healthcare
Person responsible from implementing agency Tsaghkanush Sargsyan
Title, Department Advisor to the Minister of Healthcare of the Republic of Armenia
Email: ts.sargsyan@moh.amPhone (+374 60) 80-80-03 / 1130
Other actors involved Other state actors involved Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs of the Republic of Armenia and other state agencies
Civil society, private sector Healthcare and social sector NGOs
Issue subject to regulation At the moment, the citizen has to go from one medical institution to another, stand in queues, make a call, at best, to find out in which medical institution he or she can be listed and receive medical assistance and servicing that are free of charge for those living under-privileged conditions, as guaranteed by the state. And very often the medical institution can provide incorrect information.
Main objective Regulation of queues occurring in medical institutions through delivering online the limitations of financing, electronic referrals and registration, as well as reducing inconvenience related with patients’ time and financial costs, especially for marzes’ residents.

Brief Description of Commitment At the moment, to raise the public awareness of works actually done, existing places and listings in medical organisations carrying out medical assistance and servicing that are free of charge and under privileged conditions, guaranteed by the state, and to make it transparent, the website https://www.armed.am/govlimits/ has been created, in which the above-mentioned data in three colours — red (consumed), yellow (listed) and green (available), and financial thresholds are shown. The source of showing the thresholds is the data entered in the system for each medical organisation within the scope of state funding. The source of data will be more clarified and simplified for the citizen (these services are grouped as their aim is the threshold and financing for the medical organisation).
A possibility of on-line listing will also be created. The doctor providing referral will enter the number of the referral in the system and, in addition to the information entered regarding the issue; additional necessary documents will be attached by him/her as well. The patient will be listed from his or her page of the existing system, selecting the medical organisation, and attaching the referral. The doctor providing the referral will also be able to carry out on-line listing instead of the patient. Listing will be carried out in the selected medical organisation based on the application, and the patient will be informed about that. To avoid falsifications, the system will perform verification of the number of the referral during listing.
The citizen will receive information about the day of receipt of medical assistance at the given medical organisation and will have the opportunity to assess the given function from his or her page.
OGP challenge addressed by the commitment Enhancing public confidence, ensuring transparency of availability and improvement of the quality of public services, decrease of corruption risks.
Relevance to OGP values Transparency: on-line provision of information about the financial thresholds will ensure transparency of works done in medical organisations carrying out medical assistance and servicing that are free of charge and under privileged conditions, guaranteed by the state.
Participation and innovation: the possibility of on-line listing and feedback will ensure the participation of citizens in the healthcare sector will raise the level of responsibility of medical organisations and will improve the quality of service provided.

Ambition The commitment will ensure oversight over and transparency of services provided within the scope of the state funding in medical organisations.

Promotes efforts for implementation of SDG Goals or Targets 3.8 : Achieve universal health coverage, including financial risk protection, access to quality essential health-care services and access to safe, effective, quality and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all

Verifiable and measurable criteria for performance of commitment Start: End:
Ongoing Actions
Development of a task force for the listing system February 2019 April 2019
Improvement of the tables of limits in the system and block of information on provision of electronic referrals and creation of a listing block on the https://armed.am website of the http://www.ehealth.am software April 2019 August 2019
Pilot trial of the created system at several medical organisations. August 2019 September 2019
Correction of drawbacks identified during the pilot, revision of legal documents October 2019 November 2019
Introduction of feedback, and public awareness November 2019 August 2020

Armenia's Commitments

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  2. Government Grant Transparency

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  3. Beneficial Ownership Register

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  4. Modernization of Community Website

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  5. State Water Cadastre

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  6. Land Cadastre

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  7. Integrated Social Services

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  8. Unified Information System for Management of Education

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  10. Platform for Submitting Petitions

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  11. Public Service Dashboard

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  12. State Travel Transparency

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  13. Accountability for Grants of the Government

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  14. Transparency of the State Budget

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  15. "Open Data" in Official Declaration:

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  16. Portal for Community Decisions.

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  17. Accountability Licensing

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  18. Accessibility of Integrated Social Services

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  21. Ensuring Transparency in Mining

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  24. Online Broadcasting of the State Procurement Appeals Board Sessions

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  25. Community Microsurvey Introduction in 10 Communities

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  26. Ensuring Open, Transparent, Participatory and Accountable Process of State Policies and Legislative Reforms

    AM0022, 2014, E-Government

  27. Public Awareness on the Lawmaking Activity of State Governance Bodies

    AM0023, 2014, E-Government

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  29. Knowledge and Capacity Building of Public Servants in the Freedom of Information and Anticorruption Field

    AM0025, 2014, Capacity Building

  30. Ensuring Transparency of Local Self Government Bodies of Large Communities

    AM0026, 2014, E-Government

  31. Reviewing the Regulatory Normative Legal Acts (Regulatory Guillotine Project)

    AM0001, 2012, Legislation & Regulation

  32. Improving Internal Audit System for the Public Sector

    AM0002, 2012, Audits and Controls

  33. Improving Procurement Procedures

    AM0003, 2012, Capacity Building

  34. Improving Budget Planning and Reporting Systems Through Full Utilization of Program Budgeting

    AM0004, 2012, Audits and Controls

  35. Promoting Transparency and Objectiveness in Tax Administration

    AM0005, 2012, Conflicts of Interest

  36. Fight Against Corruption

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  37. Introduction of a Unified Payment System (Portal)

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  38. State Car Inspection Improvements

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    AM0009, 2012, Citizenship and Immigration

  40. Implementation of Mail-Armenia System

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