The myHealth@CY application will serve as a modern digital tool designed to enhance citizens’ autonomy and support their daily needs by providing direct and secure access to their personal health data, Deputy Minister of Research, Innovation and Digital Policy Dr Nikodemos Damianou said.

In his address at the contract-signing ceremony for the project “Creation, implementation and maintenance of a national mobile health services application for Cypriot citizens (myHealth@CY)”, the Deputy Minister stated that the initiative represents a comprehensive and updated digital solution aimed at strengthening citizens’ independence by giving them immediate, safe control over their health information, along with essential health-related functions.

“For the healthcare system, it is a tool that improves organisation and facilitates direct communication with the citizen–patient, using real-time data to enable, among other things, more effective management of health crises and better monitoring of the quality of services provided,” he said.

In the project’s first phase, he continued, myHealth@CY will include and integrate the Electronic Cross-Border Health Services recently announced, which concern access to the summary medical record and electronic prescriptions across European Union (EU) countries. This is expected to be completed by summer 2026.

He highlighted the importance of using common mechanisms such as CYlogin, which streamline the citizen’s overall experience and support personalisation across all service channels.

The Deputy Minister noted that connecting the application with the Health Insurance Organisation’s systems—specifically the General Healthcare System (GeSY)—to enable access to all existing health information and functionalities will be the project’s next phase, “which I hope can proceed in parallel.”

The final goal, he added, is for the platform to gradually include all patient health data—an Integrated Electronic Health Record—beyond what is currently available through GeSY. The method for achieving this is in its final design stage. The aim is to create, under the umbrella of the National eHealth Authority (EAHY) and in cooperation with the Health Insurance Organisation (HIO/OAY) and the State Health Services Organisation (OKYPY), a modern, secure and reliable health infrastructure—a Health Cloud—to support health data management and the delivery of advanced digital services.

He said the signing of the contract between the National eHealth Authority and Cyta, in collaboration with the Health Insurance Organisation, marking the start of the myHealth@CY application’s development, is not merely a technical or administrative step. Despite progress—specifically a 10% increase in access to electronic health data in 2024—Cyprus remains below the EU average, according to the Digital Decade 2025 Report.