Pavle Marnikoviq1
1Primary health care in Montenegro
The organization of the provision of health services in Montenegro is similar to that in most European countries. Health services are provided at the primary, secondary and tertiary level.
The health system is based on the principle of compulsory health care, all Montenegrin citizens are covered by health insurance (about 620 000 insured and about 14 000 refugees, asylum seekers and other categories). Organizing the home of health by the unit for administrative and technical issues, selected doctors: adult doctors, pediatricians and gynecologists; support centers: centers for pulmonary disease, centers for diagnostics, centers for mental health, centers for children with special needs, prevention centers, day care centers and educational centers.
The team of selected physicians consists of a nurse, a biochemist, a laboratory, and a non-medical worker. As for the primary level of health care, secondary and general hospitals are the secondary level, while the tertiary level includes the clinical center of Montenegro.
Montenegro has implemented an integrated primary health care information system at a state-of-the-art technology level, with a fully open platform to connect with higher levels of health care, insurance organizations and the pharmaceutical sector.
These systems are fully integrated with each other, which provides electronic billing, interconnection and high quality database.
Keywords: electronic billing, integrated system, primary, secondary and tertiary level.