STRATEGY FOR THE INFORMATION SOCIETY DEVELOPMENT 2020. matization of the health care system, in accordance with the project of health care system improvement and all related reform processes. The informatization of the different levels of the health care system started in 2004 with the informational support of reforms of primary health care, and continued with the informational support of secondary health care, statistical reporting, production and distribution control of drugs in Montenegro. The informatization of primary health care was focused on supporting implementation of new methods of financing the work in the beginning, later moving on to support of medical processes themselves. The informational health care system was implemented in the following institutions: • at the primary level (all community health centers, private dental offices under contract with the Fund, Emergency Department), • at the secondary level (all general hospitals), blood transfusion medical services (Blood Transfusion Institute of Montenegro), health insurance services (Health Insurance Fund), • health-statistics reporting system (public health) and microbiological diagnostics (Public Health Institute) • Pharmaceutics (ZU Pharmacies of Montenegro “Montefarm“), control of drug production and distribution in Montenegro (Drug and Medical Resources Agency). All users of the health insurence system in Montenegro have an electronic health record (EZK) in the form of a centralized electronic document available to the health care employees, and the institutions connected to the integral health care information system (IZIS). Each patient’s EZK contains data structured according to the specifications and contents of the electronic record. Records of around 80% of the health care serices in the existing IZIS (not including labs, radiology and similar services) are kept by way of the ICT. The Clinical Center of Montenegro (KCCG), which keeps its own internal records and procedures, is not connected to IZIS. Thereby, the overall percentage of the records in IZIS is reduced significantly. Special attention is paid to the system security and data protection, considering that medical and health data require particular care in the sense of general human rights, as well as the international and national legal norms and ethical principles of data protection and their use within the health care system.