The Unique Digital Health File (EDUS) of the Costa Rican Social Security Fund (CCSS), has registered more than 100 million medical attentions.
The digital transformation project in Costa Rica has been in the making for a decade, since May 2012 the CCSS approved the EDUS implementation project and the following year it was declared a project of public and national interest.
One of the greatest advances occurred in 2015 when its implementation began in the second and third level of care, which achieved the automation of the care services network. Finally, in September 2018, EDUS completed its implementation process at the three levels of care.
In February 2022, the EDUS managed to exceed 100 million medical attentions, since its implementation through its system and the network of CCSS hospitals. In addition to the 106 million that correspond to medical care, EDUS registers so far more than 561 million medical prescriptions delivered and 39 million requests for laboratory tests.
“In addition to being successful, EDUS is a resource in the process of continuous improvement to keep up with the great extension of the service offered by the bank and will continue its development as a fundamental support for data registration, in order to optimize security, opportunity and quality of care, as well as for institutional decision-making”, explained the director of the EDUS project, Manuel Rodríguez Arce.
EDUS has been internationally recognized at the World Summit on the Information Society, when in 2021, it received the award in the category "Governments and stakeholders in the promotion of ICTs in the objective of good health and well-being".
“When we compare EDUS with other solutions of its kind worldwide, we are very proud of what has been achieved and that is why we have received international awards that show the great work we do in the Caja for the user and that it has become a world example of quality. ”, explained Eduardo Rodríguez Cubillo of the Integrated Health File System SIES.
