Ten years have passed since the design of the Slovenian health insurance card system, which has been used daily in the entire Slovenian health sector for the last eight years. Eventually, however, a growing number of business and technical reasons arose for the gradual renovation of the system. Therefore, in 2006, on the basis of a study of feasible solutions, the Health Insurance Institute of Slovenia prepared a concept for renovation and began modernising several system components, including the new cards as the key security elements of the system. In September 2008, the first new professional cards were issued; in November 2008, the release of the new health insurance cards began.