Following enforcement proceedings by the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS), the European Commission has demonstrated compliance with Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 in relation to its use of Microsoft 365 as examined by the EDPS.

Collective dismissal Reported to the Directorate of Labor in November

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The AI tool Skríban converts a doctor’s speech into a clinical note, allowing doctors to spend more time with each patient. Testing of Skríban is now underway at HSN in Akureyri.

The Health Institute of East Iceland is participating in the campaign Sleep well, which raises awareness of the use of sleeping pills by older people. The goal of the campaign is to reduce the harm caused by sleeping pills and to raise awareness of safer long-term solutions to insomnia.

The Directorate of Health hereby announces a change to the administrative procedures for issuing specialist licences in midwifery.

Yesterday, the District Court of Reykjavík ruled in the case of the Directorate of Health against the Data Protection Authority due to a decision on security weaknesses on the website Heilsuvera. The District Court confirmed the Data Protection Authority’s assessment that there had been a serious weakness and that the lack of security gave rise to a fine. On the other hand, the amount of the fine was reduced from ISK 12,000,000 to ISK 8,000,000.

The Healthcare Institution of North Iceland will take over the operation of the nursing home Sæborg in Skagaströnd from May 1st 2025.

Akureyri Hospital (SAk) has implemented a new digital medication prescribing system for cancer treatments, known as the Cato system, which significantly improves the safety and efficiency of treatment for patients receiving chemotherapy. The system was first adopted at Landspítali (the National University Hospital of Iceland) at the end of 2022 and has now been introduced at SAk.

On 1 January 2025, a regulation on changes in the amounts of payments from the Maternity Leave Fund and the amounts of maternity allowance went into effect.