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Funding for social insurance premiums comes from both employer and employee contributions, with exemptions for those on low incomes. The MoH contracts with family physicians for preventative and primary care, who are paid according to the number of patients under their care. Patients are required to make co-payments at varying levels for primary, secondary, and tertiary care services (World Health Organization, n.d.).
Public vs private
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The national PHR
History
e-Nabız, the Turkish Türk Personal Health Record, was put into service in Türkiye in 2015 and was awarded "The Best Health Application" in WSA (World Summit Award) in 2016. The platform, which is an application of the Turkish Türk Ministry of Health, was developed by Tiga Healthcare, the same that has contracts with the Turkish Türk Ministry of Health for the Pharmaceutical Track & Trace System and E-prescription (as per image below).
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In 2018, 11 million citizens used e-Nabız. In 2022, the platform counted 68 million active users. This accounts for 80.0% of the population.
Data is flowing from the 28,608 system-integrated health facilities and other 39 e-Nabız-integrated public institutions (ministries, etc).
registering radiological images in the system prevented patients from needing to request them again. This led to a significant cost savings of 27.5%, equivalent to 750 million Turkish Türk Lira, in the domain of radiological images.
In a research paper titled ‘A Digital Opportunity for Patients to Manage Their Health: Türkiye National Personal Health Record System (The e-Nabız)’, Birinci (2023) includes a table (Table 5) displaying e-Nabız usage rates among Turkish Türk citizens in 2021. The table is shown below:
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