National Health Information Center (NHIC) founded with the aim to build material and professional basis for assuring development of health informatics and health statistics, and provision of librarian services in range of medical sciences and health care in the Slovak Republic is a partner to analogical institutes in abroad, particular in the European Union.
Cooperation covers regular provision of requested data from Slovak health care to the European Commission, OECD, World Bank, WHO, UNICEF, and mediation of health data of other countries deposited in mentioned institutions. Data exchange wouldn't be efficient without analyzing definitions and harmonization of demanded indicators. NHIC engages professionals who participate in several international working groups and/or projects, and create methods for compatible statistical outputs.
In frame of librarian services, the Slovak Medical Library cooperates with WHO as a Documentation Center of World Health Organization.