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eHDSI Wave 5 Production Environment Testing (PET)
ESTONIA (EE) NCPeH
Outcomes Summary Report
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Document Title: EE NCPeH Outcomes Summary Report
Project Title: eHealth DSI
Document Authors: eHDSI Solution Provider
Doc. Version: State of Play as of 21st of February, 2023
Status and concerned services: Wave 5 Production Environment Testing for:
• ePrescription (B)
• Patient Summary (A)
Sensitivity: Restricted to eHMSEG, eHDSI Owner, eHDSI Solution Provider
Date: 10/02/2023
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Link to the source Confluence https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/fpfis/wikis/x/muXzN
page:
Table of Contents
1. Services under Preparation to GoLive (Production Environment Testing sessions) (Wave 5) ... 3
2. Coverage Completed during last Acceptance Test Event (Wave 5 Formal & Upgrade PPT) ...... 3
3. Summary of Outstanding findings .............................................................................................. 4
4. Outstanding findings ................................................................................................................... 4
5. Closed Findings, Observations, Production Testing Sessions ................................................... 10
Legend:
PPT - Pre-production Formal / Upgrade Testing
PET - Production Environment Testing
Last updated: Feb 21, 2023
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1. Services under Preparation to GoLive (Production Environment Testing
sessions) (Wave 5)
Partners in the Production Verification by the eDHSI SP. Planned Date of
ID Environment Testing Link to the Session page Findings / Observations GoLive for the
Session during the session for EE. services
Conformance:
• finding: f-29 (new)
2023-01-25 [EE (PS-A), NL (PS- Functional:
S-16 EE (PS-A) - NL (PS-B) B)] Production Environment • findings: f-4, f-6, f-8, f-17,
Testing f-18, f-22, f-30 (new)
• observations: o-2, o-3, o-
4, o-6, o-21, o-24
Conformance:
2023-01-12 [PL (eP-A), EE (eP- • finding: f-29 (new)
S-15 PL (eP-A) - EE (eP-B) B)] Production Environment Functional:
Testing • observation: o-27 (new)
2. Coverage Completed during last Acceptance Test Event (Wave 5 Formal &
Upgrade PPT)
Conformance Tests
Required Conformance
Service Available partners performed - WF with
tests with partners
partners
Conformance testing
PS-A (Conformance - min CY, CZ, EL, ES, FR, HR, HU, IE, LU, LV,
IE, CY, PT, LV, HU Passed
3 partners) MT, NL, PT
PS-B (Conformance - min 3 CY, CZ, EL, ES, HR, IE, IT, LU, LV, MT, PT,
LV, PT, SI, IE, HR Passed
partners) SI
eP-A (Conformance - min CY, CZ, EL, ES, FI, HR, HU, IE, LT, LV, PL,
CY, IE, PT, SE, PL, LT, HU Passed
3 partners) PT, SE
eP-B (Conformance - min CY, CZ, EL, ES, FI, HR, HU, IE, IT, LT, LV,
SE, LT, CY, IE, PL, PT Passed
3 partners) PL, PT, SE
Required evaluations
Service Available partners Evaluations submitted
submitted
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Conformance Tests
Required Conformance
Service Available partners performed - WF with
tests with partners
partners
Functional testing
PS-A (Functional - own PS
CY, CZ, EL, ES, FR, HR, HU, IE, LU, LV,
service evaluated by IE, PT, CY, LV, HU Yes
MT, NL, PT
partners)
PS-B (Functional - PS from CY, CZ, EL, ES, HR, IE, IT, LU, LV, MT, PT,
IE, PT, LV Yes
partners evaluated) SI
eP-A (Functional - own eP
CY, CZ, EL, ES, FI, HR, HU, IE, LT, LV, PL,
docs evaluated by SE, LT, CZ, FI Yes
PT, SE
partners)
eP-B (Functional - eP docs CY, CZ, EL, ES, FI, HR, HU, IE, IT, LT, LV,
LT, SE, CZ, HR, HU, CY Yes
from partners evaluated) PL, PT, SE
eP-A (Functional - eD docs CY, CZ, EL, ES, FI, HR, HU, IE, LT, LV, PL,
LT, SE, CZ, FI Yes
from partners evaluated) PT, SE
eP-B (Functional - own eD
CY, CZ, EL, ES, FI, HR, HU, IE, IT, LT, LV,
docs evaluated by SE (2), LT, CZ, HR, HU Yes
PL, PT, SE
partners)
3. Summary of Outstanding findings
Outstanding Impact Decision has been taken by Decision has Planned to be fixed by
findings been taken on
f-4 Medium eHN regarding go-live 2022-06-09 Original plan: 2020
Updated plan: 2024
f-6, f-17, f-18 Medium eHN regarding go-live 2022-06-09 -
f-8 Minor eHN regarding go-live 2022-06-09 -
f-10 Minor eHMSEG regarding continuing routine operations 2020-08-20 Original plan: 2023
f-22 Minor eHMSEG regarding continuing routine operations 2022-09-16 -
4. Outstanding findings
Service & Comments and/or Action Plan
ID Finding Comments by the eHDSI Solution Provider
Test Event by the NCPeH
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Service & Comments and/or Action Plan
ID Finding Comments by the eHDSI Solution Provider
Test Event by the NCPeH
16 Mar 2020
f-4 Agent causing the Agent is not coded in Estonia In the PS Functional Requirements, the agent causing the
PPT W3, PS-
allergic reaction allergic reaction is considered as 'basic', that's the reason
A, Functional According to ArtDecor its R 1..1,
not coded why when missing, it's considered a finding.
which in turn means that we are
15 Mar 2021 allowed to use nullFlavor="NI". Solution Provider on 23 Mar 2021: this situation can be
PPT W4, PS- Would it be better to remove considered as having a medium impact, given that in the
A, Functional the agent overall from Estonian original narrative part of the Section and in the Level 1 PDF
PS? the information about the agent causing the allergic
24 Sep 2021 reaction is provided (in Estonian). A Health Professional
29 Mar 2021
PET W3, PS- attending a patient with an allergy would need to use a
A, Functional Allergy data was initially planned translation tool or, when possible and feasible (using a
to be nationally available in language understood by both), ask the patient or relative
19 Nov 2021 2020, but due to covid about that information.
24 Nov 2021 developments this has been
07 Jul 2022 postponed to 2022.
PET W4, PS-
21 Feb 2023: The allergy related
A, Functional
data, including agent causing the
30 Mar 2022
allergic reaction, is not in
structured form nationally. So
PPT Wave 5,
far, the allergy related update of
PS-A,
the national data exchange
Functional
standards has not been started
again (even though it was
25 Jan 2023
originally postponed to 2022).
PET W5, PS-
The issue is still there, on
A, Functional
national level as well, however it
has been waiting behind lack of
resources. At the moment the
work has been planned to year
2024.
We are additionally currently
working on the final draft the EU
direct grants application and the
allergy data update in our
national standards and PS is one
activity described there as well.
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Service & Comments and/or Action Plan
ID Finding Comments by the eHDSI Solution Provider
Test Event by the NCPeH
16 Mar 2020
f-6 Medication All the prescriptions have Solution Provider on 23 Mar 2021: this situation can be
PPT W3, PS-
entries are different serial numbers. The considered as having a medium impact. Health
A, Functional
repeated three person who issued the professional can be confused especially when the number
times. The prescriptions simply issued of distinct medications is high (mentioned for other PS test
24 Aug 2021
situation happens repeated prescriptions, which data that contained more repetitions) and the start date is
PET W3, PS-
as well in the are all displayed separately. The not indicated.
A, Functional
narrative part and prescription numbers are visible
in the Level 1 PDF in the original untranslated
19 Nov 2021
section of PS
24 Nov 2021 The same
07 Jul 2022 medicinal product 29 Mar 2021
PET W4, PS- repeated several
Depending on the situation the
A, Functional times
doctors will still prescribe the
prescriptions as they have so far,
25 Jan 2023
so for the repeated prescriptions
PET W5, PS-
it is expected to see 3
A, Functional
prescriptions with the same
data, but different prescription
number. Statistically, about half
of the prescriptions prescribed in
Estonia are repeated
prescriptions.
16 Mar 2020
f-8 Onset date of No data in Estonia Date of onset of medication is considered a 'basic' element
PPT W3, PS-
medication not in the PS Functional Requirements.
A, Functional 06 May 2021
present
Solution Provider on 23 Mar 2021: this situation can be
We discussed the topic internally
24 Aug 2021 Duration of considered as having a minor impact, especially when
and eventually HWISC feels that
PET W3, PS- treatment not providing the date of onset of the health problem for which
there is no right way to present
A, Functional present the medication is prescribed.
the data (time, when the
prescription was issued isn't Only in some situations it would be more relevant: e.g.
19 Nov 2021
really correct and the time it was recent prescriptions causing an adverse reaction, to
24 Nov 2021
dispensed is also not correct). evaluate a lack of efficacy of a treatment.
07 Jul 2022
Since „The agreed data elements
PET W4, PS-
must be sent by each NCPeH,
A, Functional
even if there is no content
available (exceptional values are
30 Mar 2022
allowed)“ we should be fine,
PPT Wave 5,
since we are sending the
PS-A,
element itself and using UNK.
Functional
25 Jan 2023
PET W5, PS-
A, Functional
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Service & Comments and/or Action Plan
ID Finding Comments by the eHDSI Solution Provider
Test Event by the NCPeH
16 Mar 2020
f- Package size is Update July 2020: we will wait The way to represent the package size was not understood
PPT W3, eP-A
10 provided for the change proposal to fix by the receiver of the document (eP and eD).
& eP-B,
multiplying the this issue, since the additional
Functional This issue was discussed during the Joint Online meeting of
volume of the text element solution (which
the STF on June 10 and it was proposed to prepare a
units times the was accepted the last time) isn't
Change Proposal to introduce a new data element that
number of units in a proper solution.
would allow the complete description of complex
the package.
02 Apr 2021: Situation is the medications.
Additionally using same.
Solution Provider on 03 Aug 2020: minor impact.
the originalText
element to The eP documents from EE contain the detailed description
provide the units of the medicinal product in the case of complex
per package. medications such as Lantus. Lantus -as well as other
medicinal products- have a variety of presentations as
regards number of units in the package and volume per
unit. The description of the package is present in the
original narrative plus in the originalText sub-element of
the capacityQuantity element. Therefore, the dispenser will
find the information needed about the exact presentation
prescribed.
UPDATE on 04 Aug 2020: also, the Level 1 PDF contains the
detailed description of the package.
Solution Provider on 12 Oct 2021: The CP-eHealthDSI-063:
Improve Medication Information Representation
(https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/fpfis/wikis/x/UYm1Nw)
was submitted on 30 Sep 2021.
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Service & Comments and/or Action Plan
ID Finding Comments by the eHDSI Solution Provider
Test Event by the NCPeH
19 Nov 2021
f- No coded Since the medical devices value Solution Provider on 25 Jan 2022 : this finding considered
24 Nov 2021
17 information for set is much more granulated in as having medium impact on eHDSI.
07 Jul 2022
the Medical Estonia we do not provide
PET W4, PS- Translated information about medical devices could be
Device in the mappings and translations for
A, Functional very useful during an emergency situation. It is a reality
entry, information those, since the result might not
that such information might not be even readily available
in Estonian in the be accurate. This was agreed
30 Mar 2022 nationally during an emergency contact, therefore, the
narrative and in with Marta Terron Cuadrado
PPT Wave 5, attending physician would be careful when
the Level 1 PDF before.
PS-A, ordering/interpreting an imaging test with which an
Functional Since increasing the value sets is implant might interfere.
a task for eHDSI, then NCPeH
30 new SNOMED CT concepts are included in the value set
25 Jan 2023 can not provide an action plan
of eHDSIMedicalDevice for Wave 5: CP-eHealthDSI-049:
PET W5, PS- for this.
Extend eHDSIMedicalDevice Value Set. In total, there are
A, Functional
100 codes for medical devices in the value set.
In addition, the reviewing of concepts in this Value Set is
planning during the next STF Semantic WG meeting on 03
Feb 2022. MSs can provide their proposals for the SNOMED
GPS extensions until the end of February 2022.
Solution Provider on 13 May 2022: The information how to
proceed when concept cannot be mapped please see here:
Facilitation of coded information exchange: what to do
with data that cannot be mapped.
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Service & Comments and/or Action Plan
ID Finding Comments by the eHDSI Solution Provider
Test Event by the NCPeH
19 Nov 2021
f- No coded Since the surgical procedures Solution Provider on 25 Jan 2022 : this finding considered
24 Nov 2021
18 information for value set is much more as having medium impact on eHDSI.
07 Jul 2022
the Surgical granulated in Estonia we do not
PET W4, PS- Translated information about surgical procedures could be
procedures in the provide mappings and
A, Functional very useful during an emergency situation (e.g. knowing a
entry, information translations for those, since the
past surgery referring to the implantation of a medical
in Estonian in the result might not be accurate.
30 Mar 2022 device or to the transplantation of an organ). It is a reality
narrative and in This was agreed with Marta
PPT Wave 5, that such information might not be even readily available
the Level 1 PDF Terron Cuadrado before.
PS-A, nationally during an emergency contact, therefore, the
Functional Since increasing the value sets is attending physician would be careful when
a task for eHDSI, then NCPeH ordering/interpreting an imaging test with which an
25 Jan 2023 can not provide an action plan implant might interfere.
PET W5, PS- for this.
519 new SNOMED CT concepts for surgical procedures
A, Functional
were included in the value set of eHDSIProcedure for Wave
4: CP-eHealthDSI-053: Extend the value set for procedures.
In total, there are 621 codes for surgical procedures in the
value set.
Also the reviewing of concepts in this Value Set is planning
during the next STF Semantic WG meeting on 03 Feb 2022.
MSs can provide their proposals for the SNOMED GPS
extensions until the end of February 2022.
Solution Provider on 13 May 2022: The information how to
proceed when concept cannot be mapped please see here:
Facilitation of coded information exchange: what to do
with data that cannot be mapped.
30 Mar 2022
f- Allergy and Reaction type is not coded in Solution Provider on 29 Jul 2022 : this finding considerer as
PPT Wave 5,
22 Intolerance: Estonia having minor impact on eHDSI.
PS-A,
allergy reaction
Functional This information is currently not In requirement catalogue this attribute is marked as basic
type not coded
available in a coded from in and in many legacy systems it is captured, however
07 Jul 2022 Estonia. We are working towards clinically this attribute might not be well-defined or
PET Wave 4, having the allergy data in a understood. It is acknowledged that many clinicians might
PS-A, structured format both on a not be in a position to distinguish the mechanism of a
Functional national and cross-border level. particular reaction. More relevant information would be
allergen and/or clinical manifestation of allergy or
According to Art-Decor its R 1..1,
25 Jan 2023 intolerance which both are provided in the section of
which means that we are
PET W5, PS- Allergy and Intolerance in EE PS document.
allowed to use nullFlavor="NI".
A, Functional
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Service & Comments and/or Action Plan
ID Finding Comments by the eHDSI Solution Provider
Test Event by the NCPeH
12 Jan 2023
f- Provided audit on 09 Feb 2023: we are currently Solution provider on 10 Jan 2023:
PET Wave 5,
29 messages do not working on finding a solution for
eP-A & eP-B, This issue is probably related to the fact that evidence are
contain signature. the issue.
Conformance taken from the local disk, since the expected audit
messages are not present in the database. This is most
probably a database related issue (PostgreSQL) that needs
to be investigated and fixed on EE side. The Estonian team
already contacted us with question related to this issue.
Solution Provider on 10 Feb 2023: this issue is considered
as having minor impact.
5. Closed Findings, Observations, Production Testing Sessions
The closed findings, observations and Production Testing sessions can be found at the following
link: https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/fpfis/wikis/x/qOXzN
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Ref. Ares(2021)2833831 - 28/04/2021
ANNEX
Commission services' assessment of the action plan submitted by the competent authorities of Estonia in response to Report ref. DG(SANTE) 2020-7091 of
the audit carried out from 04 June 2020 to 16 October 2020 in order to assess the National Contact Point for eHealth's readiness for joining the Cross-Border
eHealth Information Service Network for the new services Patient Summary country A and Patient Summary country B
N° Recommendation Action Proposed by the competent authority Commission services' assessment of the
competent authority's response
1 To update the Data Protection Impact Assessment DPIA will be amended by HWSICs legal While the amended DPIA still does not
(DPIA) in order to cover risks to all patient’s department and the Minsitry of Social Affairs provide for an assessment of the risks to
rights and in particular, to ensure that the DPIA by the end of March 2021. Please see patient's rights, pursuing this
provides an assessment of the impact of the new document “LISA 7”. recommendation is unlikely to be productive
services on all of the patient’s rights as required by for two main reasons:
Article 37.1 and 37.7(c). - The requirement is not specific enough (the
Associated finding: No 1 finding being about the achievement of the
objectives of an impact assessment).
- The underlying finding seems to be a
common occurrence in other Member States.
Therefore, Unit F5 proposes that no further
requests for information or other follow-up
actions are made in relation to this
recommendation.
2 To ensure that PS-A service is based on consent, Estonia is still in the situation where the While the situation in Estonia is considered
as required by Interoperability and Identity functional requirements of the service are non-compliant with the current eHDSI
Management specifications. against our national legislation and GDPR. A requirements, the audit team acknowledges
Associated finding: No 2 change proposal is being prepared for the that the requirements are under review and
alignment of eHDSI Requirements with EU that they are likely to change soon.
legislation and the Agreement between Therefore, implementation of a consent
National Authorities or National management process at this point in time
Organisations responsible for national contact would not be productive.
points. This also states “Requirements related
to the explicit consent as the single legal Therefore, Unit F5 proposes that no further
bases to be applied by MSs on the Cross- requests for information or other follow-up
Border health personal data exchange should actions are made in relation to this
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Commission services' assessment of the action plan submitted by the competent authorities of Estonia in response to Report ref. DG(SANTE) 2020-7091 of
the audit carried out from 04 June 2020 to 16 October 2020 in order to assess the National Contact Point for eHealth's readiness for joining the Cross-Border
eHealth Information Service Network for the new services Patient Summary country A and Patient Summary country B
N° Recommendation Action Proposed by the competent authority Commission services' assessment of the
competent authority's response
be removed or updated in line with the legal recommendation.
provisions of the Agreement between
National Authorities or National
Organisations responsible for National
Contact Points for eHealth on the Criteria
required for the participation in Cross-Border
eHealth Information Services, the Directive
2011/24/EU and the GDPR.” Please see
document CP-Consent.docx
3 To ensure that the data controller can demonstrate Foreign patient can’t give his/her consent in This recommendation is linked to the
that the foreign patient has consented to the cross- country B, it has to be given prior the visit to previous one (No 2), and it will also become
border exchange of patient summary (in PS-B HCP via country A systems. This is explained redundant when the requirement on consent
service), as required by Article 7.1 of the GDPR, in the patient information notice, please see management has been reviewed and
interoperability specification and identity document “Patsiendi teavitamine PS-B amended.
management specification. EST_03.docx”
Associated finding: No 3 Therefore, Unit F5 proposes that no further
requests for information or other follow-up
actions are made in relation to this
recommendation.
4 To finalise the Patient Information Notices for PS- PINs will be finalised and published by the Satisfactory.
A and PS-B services as required by business end of March 2021 by HWSIC
requirement 04.03 of the Requirements Catalogue. Please see documents “Patsiendi teavitamine The PINs must be translated into official
Associated finding: No 4 PS-B EST_03.docx” and “Patsiendi languages of the Member States, which are
teavitamine PS-A EST_03.docx” currently providing PS-A service.
5 To develop measurable indicators for When it comes to monitoring integrity and Satisfactory.
confidentiality and integrity in PS-A and PS-B confidentiality, in some cases, we have
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Commission services' assessment of the action plan submitted by the competent authorities of Estonia in response to Report ref. DG(SANTE) 2020-7091 of
the audit carried out from 04 June 2020 to 16 October 2020 in order to assess the National Contact Point for eHealth's readiness for joining the Cross-Border
eHealth Information Service Network for the new services Patient Summary country A and Patient Summary country B
N° Recommendation Action Proposed by the competent authority Commission services' assessment of the
competent authority's response
services. The indicators should be suitable for quarterly checks on the assigned rights that The plan to further develop indicators is
setting measurable targets and reviewing the are given to users, also all activities are adequate. In the absence of specific
achievement of targets on a regular basis. logged and therefore it is possible to identify requirements, it is up to the NCP to decide
Associated finding: No 5 wrongdoings in the information systems. The the best way to develop indicators.
best way to monitor integrity and
confidentiality is with incidents.
Additional indicators checking the incidents
will be added to the service pass by mid April
2021.
6 To review and update the Information Security An additional risk assessment will be Satisfactory.
Risk Assessment in order to ensure that relevant conducted by the end of March 2021 by an
risks are covered, residual risks are at acceptable outer party. The plan to further develop the Risk
level and that the results are presented in a clear Please see documents attached TEHIK Assessment is adequate. Nevertheless,Unit
and intelligible way. riskianalüüsi aruanne.docx and Lisa 3. F5 would like to leave it on record that it is
Associated finding: No 6 Riskianalüüsi tabel.xlsx not in a position to determine whether this
new Risk Assessment is fit for purpose.
7 To verify and demonstrate that all Health Care IS-connector will be removed from the Satisfactory.
Provider Organisations comply with the project for the mentioned security reasons.
authentication requirements of the contract and to Amended architecture scheme will be The corrective action is satisfactory and fully
discontinue the use of IS-connector for available mid April 2021. addresses the recommendation.
authentication.
Associated findings: Nos 7 and 8
8 To ensure that all TLS connections are configured TLS connection configurations will be Satisfactory.
at least to the minimum security level required by rechecked against the eHDSI requirements
eHDSI requirements. and regular scans will be discussed and The proposed action is adequate in
Associated finding: No 9 documented by the end of March 2021. addressing the recommendation.
CEF scan is defined in HWISC cybersecurity
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Commission services' assessment of the action plan submitted by the competent authorities of Estonia in response to Report ref. DG(SANTE) 2020-7091 of
the audit carried out from 04 June 2020 to 16 October 2020 in order to assess the National Contact Point for eHealth's readiness for joining the Cross-Border
eHealth Information Service Network for the new services Patient Summary country A and Patient Summary country B
N° Recommendation Action Proposed by the competent authority Commission services' assessment of the
competent authority's response
environment
https://spot.tehik.ee/display/TEH/INFOTUR
BETEENUSED -> Turvanõrkuste
skaneerimine (access limited). In addition, the
information has been added to the service
pass, document teenuse_pass.pdf, paragraph
6.2.4 Turvanõrkuste skaneerimine. The
results of the vulnerability scan will show us
the protocols in use. From there on we will
continue our change management process (if
necessary), document the results in Jira and
proceed with the TLS connections alignment
with eHDSI requirements.
9 To ensure that cryptographic keys are not Generating the cryptographic keys is based Satisfactory.
generated with a weak generator. on HWISC cryptoconcept point 4.4. Since
Associated finding: No 10 they are generated by OpenSSL software we The planned action is adequate in addressing
assume that it is safe (until proven otherwise). the recommendation.
For checking the length of the keys we will
add additional controls to monitoring, so that
the keys will match the requirements in
cryptoconcept, which will be done by the end
of February 2021 by HWISc monitoring dep.
Please see documents Zabbix (monitoring
screenshot on the example of cross border
ePrescription) and script
external_checks_ssl_check.py
10 To ensure that all certificates are issued by Trust A new service provider (from the EU trusted Satisfactory.
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Commission services' assessment of the action plan submitted by the competent authorities of Estonia in response to Report ref. DG(SANTE) 2020-7091 of
the audit carried out from 04 June 2020 to 16 October 2020 in order to assess the National Contact Point for eHealth's readiness for joining the Cross-Border
eHealth Information Service Network for the new services Patient Summary country A and Patient Summary country B
N° Recommendation Action Proposed by the competent authority Commission services' assessment of the
competent authority's response
Service providers, which appear on the EU list) for the NCPeH portal will be added by
Trusted List of trust service providers and that the the end of March, which also includes a new The action is adequate in addressing the
validity of certificates does not exceed two years. certificate. recommendation.
Associated finding: No 11 We have sent a request to the head of HWISC
Information Systems Administration
Department in order to get a new certificate,
but it is still pending. New information will
be available in the beginning of April 2021
11 To formalise a procedure for handling findings The regularity of the scans will be described Satisfactory.
from vulnerability scans or penetration tests in in HWISCs internal system SPOT and by the
order to ensure that timely corrective action is end of February 2021. The action is adequate in addressing the
taken. CEF scan is defined in HWISC cybersecurity recommendation.
Associated finding: No 12 environment
https://spot.tehik.ee/display/TEH/INFOTUR
BETEENUSED -> Turvanõrkuste
skaneerimine (access limited). In addition, the
information has been added to the service
pass, document teenuse_pass.pdf, paragraph
6.2.4 Turvanõrkuste skaneerimine.
12 To ensure that health-care related data is not Comment from the auditors: The requirement Satisfactory.
included in (audit trail) logs. is using the term “healthcare-related data”,
Associated finding: No 13 which might be a bit open for interpretation. The explanation provided is sufficient to
What it definitely means, is that medical address the recommendation. For the file, if
information from patient summary should not this information had been provided during
be there. Some information about the health the audit, there would have been no need to
care provider might be necessary to provide issue a recommendation.
for non-repudiation and possibly other
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ANNEX
Commission services' assessment of the action plan submitted by the competent authorities of Estonia in response to Report ref. DG(SANTE) 2020-7091 of
the audit carried out from 04 June 2020 to 16 October 2020 in order to assess the National Contact Point for eHealth's readiness for joining the Cross-Border
eHealth Information Service Network for the new services Patient Summary country A and Patient Summary country B
N° Recommendation Action Proposed by the competent authority Commission services' assessment of the
competent authority's response
functionalities – including the abuse detection
system. So, in summary we could say that we
can live with storing health-care professional
data but definitely not data concerning the
medical details of a patient.
HWISC: we have only included the health
care professional data in ATNA logs, but not
the patients, so this finding should not be a
finding.
13 To ensure that configuration and change Changes required by vulnerability scan were Satisfactory.
management processes are in line with not captured in change management, but will
requirements and suitable for achieving the be resolved with the solution of a finding no The planned action adequately addresses the
objectives. 12. recommendation.
Associated findings: Nos 14 and 15 Events, incidents and problems will be
identified more thoroughly by mid April 2021
by HWISC quality management.
14 To improve the monitoring of service availability Monitoring and service availability will be Satisfactory.
and response time. improved after we have a new partner from
Associated finding: No 16 the procurement process (should happen in The planned action adequately addresses the
February 2021) by mid April 2021. recommendation.
15 To update the communication plan with necessary Communications plan will be updated by the Satisfactory.
details and timelines in order to be ready for end of March 2021 by HWISC
rolling out awareness and training activities before communication team, please see document The planned action satisfactorily addresses
and after going live, as appropriate. attached “CPTP-2.3.Teavitustegevused.pdf”, the recommendation.
Associated finding: No 17 patient summary information starting from
“Tegevused Eesti riik A ja B vaatest
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ANNEX
Commission services' assessment of the action plan submitted by the competent authorities of Estonia in response to Report ref. DG(SANTE) 2020-7091 of
the audit carried out from 04 June 2020 to 16 October 2020 in order to assess the National Contact Point for eHealth's readiness for joining the Cross-Border
eHealth Information Service Network for the new services Patient Summary country A and Patient Summary country B
N° Recommendation Action Proposed by the competent authority Commission services' assessment of the
competent authority's response
(patsiendi terviseandmete kokkuvõtte saatja
ja vastuvõtja riik)”
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Ref. Ares(2021)2833831 - 28/04/2021
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL FOR HEALTH AND FOOD SAFETY
Health and food audits and analysis
Director
Grange
SANTE.F5 JJ/mmoc
Subject: Verification of implementation of corrective actions
Audit of Estonia carried out from 4 June to 16 October 2020 in order to
assess the National Contact Point for eHealth's readiness for joining the
Cross-Border eHealth Information Service Network for the new services
Patient Summary country A and Patient Summary country B
Ref.: DG(SANTE) 2020-7091
Dear Ms Reinhold,
I am writing to inform you that the audit team has now verified the implementation of the
actions taken in response to the recommendations made following the above-mentioned audit.
I am pleased to inform you that the audit team has concluded that all recommendations
(except for Nos 1 to 3) have been satisfactorily addressed. The audit team has proposed no
further request for information or other follow-up actions in relation to recommendations Nos
1 to 3, for the reasons indicated in the attached table.
Yours sincerely,
(e-signed)
María Pilar Aguar Fernández
Director
Enclosure: Annex
Ms Katrin Reinhold
Director
Health and Welfare Information Systems Centre (HWISC)
Veerenni 13/Uus-Tatari 25
10134 Tallinn
Estonia
European Commission, Grange, Dunsany, Co. Meath C15 DA39, Ireland - Office: GRAN 01/113
Tel.: direct line (+353 46) 9061 788, internal n°: 70788, switchboard: (+353 46) 9061 700. Fax: (+353 46) 9061 705