Croatian Company Atos to Work on eHZZO Project for 19 Months
June the 4th, 2022 - The Croatian company Atos has been chosen as the more favourable bidder for a new Croatian Health Insurance Institute (HZZO) project worth a lot of money. The company will spend nineteen months on the project.
As Poslovni Dnevnik/Marija Crnjak writes, the Croatian Health Insurance Institute (HZZO) has announced the start of the brand new eHZZO project, worth almost 115 million kuna, which aims to establish more efficient management and supervision within the healthcare system.
The construction of this brand new new system is being co-financed by the European Union (EU), and will enable easier communication with external users, as well as the high availability of data necessary for business process management and different forms of reporting.
"The Croatian Health Insurance Institute has one of the most important information systems in operation within the Republic of Croatia, so the eHZZO project will benefit all insurance policyholders through the better organisation and availability of the healthcare system," said Deputy Director of the Croatian Health Insurance Institute, Veronika Lausin.
The entire eHZZO project is worth a total of 114.7 million kuna, of which 85 percent is being financed with European Union money. The project will be worked on for the aforementioned period of nineteen months, and the strategic partner of the project, the Croatian company Atos, was selected as the most favourable bidder in the 2021 tender.
Three bidders, two consortia and one independent bidder appeared in the tender. The Croatian company Atos applied for the tender within a group consisting of a Czech company of the same name and a Macedonian enterprise called Nextsense, and their offer was the cheapest of all.
Ericsson Nikola Tesla and IN2 also competed together with CUSPIS. The third bidder was King ICT.
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Coronavirus Epidemic has Cost Croatia HRK 258 Millions So Far
ZAGREB, September 3, 2020 - The coronavirus epidemic, which has lasted in Croatia for slightly over six months, has cost the Croatian Health Insurance Institute (HZZO) HRK 258,200,823, the Jutarnji List daily reported on Thursday.
Most of the money spent was spent on testing, with as many as 175,346 tests having been peformed, which so far has cost HRK 200,154,907.
Medical treatment of COVID-19 patients has cost HRK 33.614 million, while the disease itself and isolation have cost HRK 24.431 million.
HZZO director Lucian Vukelic would not comment on how much more money Croatia could spend on the fight against the disease and he sees a widely applied vaccine as the only solution.
"The HZZO budget amounts to HRK 27.5 billion so the HRK 258 million spent on the coronavirus is not a big amount... but it has to be clear that COVID-19 and this epidemic is not something we had counted on, so every amount spent is important," he said.
The entire system and the economy are at risk and every drop in GDP is very problematic, he said.
"If people lose jobs, no contributions will be paid into the budget... the budget is not being filled, and money is being spent," Vukelic was quoted by the daily as saying.
(€1 = HRK 7.522517)
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