Challenges of implementation of intelligent information systems in transforming the healthcare system in the Republic of Serbia

Medical informatics finds wide use on all the levels of healthcare. Intelligent medical systems are successfully applied at all 5 degrees of preserving health: the promotion of health, specific medical prevention, early diagnosis and therapy, sequel prevention and rehabilitation. In conditions of intensive changes and development, when the Serbian healthcare system is in the process of radical reorganization, especially in the present year of 2012, new challenges and needs are created for the implementation of newer, more modern intelligent systems on all the levels of health care. The present work is dealing with the analysis of benefits and challenges which are the result of applied and planned information systems in our country.