E-occupational medicine will become a fact. The Ministry of Health is introducing digital documentation as part of the KPO

• The proposed regulation will enable the keeping of occupational medicine documentation in electronic form.
• The amendment will allow for the replacement of the stamps and signatures of the entity and the person conducting the examination in the template of the preventive examination card with appropriate markings containing the name, surname and the number of the license to practice the profession
• The part concerning the examined person's declaration of understanding the questions asked will also be deleted from the preventive examination card.

The Ministry of Health has prepared a draft regulation amending the principles of maintaining and storing medical documentation in the occupational medicine service, as well as the templates of the documents used. This initiative aims to "maintain documentation in electronic form, in connection with activities related to the digitization of occupational medicine document templates" and is in line with the activities in the field of healthcare digitization, implemented as part of the investment D1.1.2 of the National Plan for Reconstruction and Increasing Resilience, and is also a response to the deregulation postulate.

The planned changes focus on the preventive examination card. According to the new regulations, the stamps of the entity conducting the examination and the stamps and signatures of the person conducting the examination and the doctor will be replaced with appropriate markings that will include the first name/names, last name and the number of the license to practice the profession. The part concerning the declaration of the examined person on understanding the questions will be deleted from the preventive examination card.

The Regulation also provides for a transitional provision enabling the use of existing preventive examination card forms for a period of no longer than 2 months from the entry into force of the new provisions, until stocks are exhausted.

These changes – according to the regulatory impact assessment – ​​concern approximately 5 million preventive examinations performed annually for the purposes specified in the Labour Code.

The regulation is to enter into force 14 days after its announcement. It is currently in the public consultation phase.

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