HEALTH SERVICES

In 1991, the Directorate was re-christened as the "Health Information Systems Unit" (HISU) to reflect its widening remit with respect to information systems. In this period the first Windows-based PCs were introduced on which the package DBase III Plus was introduced to facilitate the maintenance of the patient registers. In 1993 the Directorate was recognised as a Department for the first time under the name 'Department of Health Information' (DHI). The DHI was the driving force for the introduction of web-based services, with the first health website being launched in 1996.

Primary location: Valletta Italy