eGovernment in Austria
January 2015
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January 2014
Since January 2014, the federal authorities
no longer accept paper invoices
or invoices that
are sent by email or in PDF format. The contractors of the Federal Government have to
provide their invoices for goods and services in an electronic format, a service which is
expected to bring benefits in efficiency and cost. The only exception here is the cash
payment system. The legal basis for this change is provided by the 2012 ICT Consolidation
Act (IKTKonG).
Since the beginning of 2014 the
electronic health record
(
Elektronische Gesundheitsakte /
ELGA
) is in operation. During 2014 and the following years its functions will be expanded
gradually. The electronic health record ELGA is an information system that allows patients
and all health service providers a location and time-independent access to health data. The
online access for patients to the system is safely and easily possible with the Mobile Phone
Signature and the chip card-based form of the citizen card. Hospitals, doctors in private
practice, pharmacies or other health care facilities will be integrated into ELGA step by step
in the upcoming two years. With this system in place the patients in Austria will be for the
first time really in possession of all their medical records and will have a transparent
overview of who is accessing their medical data.
September 2013
The Austrian Legal Information System (
Rechtsinformationssystem des Bundes
; RIS) wins
the IALL 2013 Website Award. The 2013 winner provides comprehensive access not only to
national laws, but also to European community law, and the judicature of high courts,
commissions and tribunals.
August 2013
A new service called '
Auskunft e-card Daten
' (information on e-card data) was introduced in
summer 2013. This service provides all owners of an eHealth card the opportunity to
control his/her data that are retrievable with the e-card and also date and place of using
his/her e-card.
April 2013
In April 2013, the ‘ELAK im Bund’ (electronic file system) was launched for judicial
administration, thanks to the successful cooperation between the Constitutional Court of
Austria and the Federal Computing Centre (
Bundesrechenzentrum – BRZ
).
The Austrian National Library has put online about 100 000 historic prints which can be
accessed via '
Austria Books Online
'. It covers the whole period from the 16th century up to
the second half of the 19th century. The project is financed by public-private partnership.
By 2016 half a million more digitalised books will be online. In addition, through the project
to digitalise historic prints, 600 000 copyright-free works have been digitalised and put
online.
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