65 developed within the framework of e-health project Phase 1. Within the framework of e-health project Phase 2 it is planned to develop already existing e-health IS, as well as to develop industry statistics and data analysis IS. The aim of the e-health solution implementation is to promote a person-oriented health care development, improve the health sector efficiency and quality and to promote the rational management and monitoring of the sector, because the availability of patient’s health data in ehealth IS reduces the time necessary for doctors to obtain information on patients from other medical institutions, medical decisions are made based on more timely and complete information, availability of information on medical tests allows avoiding duplication of information, gathering process of health care statistical information has been promoted and information availability for health sector planning and administration has been improved. Required Actions Taking into account ICT and e-health development trends, public demand for a higher level of service, as well as demographic projections, it is necessary to continue the development of already existing e-health solutions and the creation of new solutions, as well as to achieve a wide range usage of e-health services. E-health should support personalised, patient-oriented health care services; by using ICT it is necessary to develop such e-health solutions and services that enable and facilitate the patients’ active participation in their health care, improve care of patients with a chronic diseases, increase the autonomy, mobility and safety of population in all Latvian regions, improve health services quality and efficiency, as well as health sector management. The implementation of common medical personnel identification and data exchange solution among the EU Member States should be facilitated for the provision of successful healthcare within the EU framework, including healthcare of Latvian inhabitants in other EU Member States and healthcare of inhabitants other EU Member States in Latvia. To ensure the effective creation and exploitation of the above mentioned processes, considerable attention must be paid to e-health solutions interoperability and standardisation, i.a, using the standards created within the framework of EU projects and good practice obtained during implementation of these standards, open and usergenerated data for improving the quality of health care, and telemedicine services development. In addition to that, ICT solutions should be developed to ensure exchange of statistical data, which is under the competence of the Ministry of Health, with geospatial information systems according to the EU Directive 2007/2/EC establishing an Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community (INSPIRE Directive) requirements. In order to provide wide usage of e-health solutions and to promote the development of applications for health sector, they should be easy to use and safe. Therefore, judicial regulation of processing of personal data accumulated in e-health IS, should be developed to ensure the protection of natural persons’ data. Both patients and health care professionals should be educated on e-health opportunities and benefits and should be involved in the development of ehealth solutions. The experience gained during EU Structural funds’ planning period 2007-2013 has shown that support for medical facilities in order for them to use solutions offered by e-health and rearrange their internal processes have been inadequate. Due to this, it is necessary to envisage appropriate measures in this area for the next EU Structural funds’ planning period. information_society_development_guidelines_2014_2020.docx; Information Society Development Guidelines 2014-2020