In the context of the continuous improvement of the service to beneficiaries, the Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) informs beneficiaries that the following new functions have been added to the GIS IT system:
1. 1.
In detail, in the first phase, the chronic conditions for which Registries have been created are:
[*]Thalassaemia [*]Cancer [*]Hyperlipidemia
With this new function, PIs will be able to be directly informed about the beneficiaries - chronic patients they manage, who are included in the above Patient Registers, in order to provide them with the best possible care and to better monitor their health progress. In addition, Specialists can see whether a patient is included in the Chronic Disease Registries during the patients' visits to them.
Beneficiaries will have the possibility to be informed if they are included in a Registry through the Beneficiary Portal in the Medical Profile section.
The Agency will expand the number of Registries in order to define additional groups of chronic patients in the near future.
2. Information on Personal Physician Visits
Beneficiaries now have the possibility to be informed about the number of visits they have made to their Personal Physician (PI). In particular, in the "Personal Doctor" section of each beneficiary's account, on the "Home Page" of their account, the beneficiary can see the number of visits to their Personal Physician (PI) for the current year (see red box in the image below)
Note that the number refers to the total number of visits made during the current calendar year, regardless of whether they were made to the current or a previous PI. In addition, the number of visits to a PI corresponding to his/her age group beyond which the PI may request the beneficiary to pay an additional supplement under the General Health Scheme (Supplement, Maximum Supplement, Contribution I and Contribution II) Ordinance (No.1) of 2019. Under the General Health Scheme (Supplement, Maximum Supplement, Contribution I and Contribution II) Ordinance (No.1) of 2019, a number of visits to a PI per beneficiary's age group per year has been fixed, beyond which the PI has the option to charge the beneficiary an additional supplement of up to €15. For further details regarding the provisions of the Decree, please follow the following link
3. Beneficiary notification following a visit to their Personal Physician
With the new features, beneficiaries will now receive notification via their Beneficiary Portal account and also via email for each visit they make to their PI, if their email address is already registered in the Beneficiary File. Please note that, in case the email address is not registered, beneficiaries can fill it in through the Beneficiary Portal or through their Personal Physician.
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