Croatia made the greatest leap forward as said at the presentation of Euro Health Consumer Index – EHCI, in the European parliament in Brussels. Since the former report, Croatia jumped by six positions and took the 17th position, in a group with Germany and United Kingdom.

EHCI became a measure of health care standard in Europe. The issue for 2012 made a comparison among 34 national health care systems in Europe based on 42 indicators in the following five areas of key importance for health care consumers: Patients’ rights and information providing, Waiting time to treatment, Results, Prevention/Set of Services provided and Pharmacy.

The major contributions to the above success were the points in the category Patients' rights and information providing, which were due to the successfully implemented Central Health Care Information System (CEZIH), delivered by Ericsson Nikola Tesla.

According to the report by the Swedish Organization for Analysis and Information on Health Care (HCP), which publishes the results since 2005, the top ranked countries are the Netherlands, Denmark and Island. Find more information and report with explanations on: www.healthpowerhouse.com/ehci2012.

Communications Ericsson Nikola Tesla