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The new electronic health insurance card - support with the treatment and an easy account
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In 2006 or 2007 the new health insurance card should be used all over the country. At the same time all EU neighboring countries should also have changed at that time to the new card. This stands for a considerable advantages for the mobile data entry.
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The new health insurance card not only contains - like its predecessor - personal data and some key numbers. In addition, the following possibilities with the new smart card will be possible:
Obliging functions of the health insurance card
The following possibilities must function to the deadline:
Insurance data including information to the additional payment status
Authorization to be treated in the European foreign country (substitute of the E-111 form)
Paperless transference of a prescription
Medical part
The medical part is voluntarily usable by every patient. For the case that he can file data here the following functions are possible:
Documentation of the taken medicaments
Emergency information (e.g. .: Blood type, chronic organ sufferings, allergies, heart desease, dialysis, asthma)
Additional health information (e.g..: current diagnoses, operations, vaccinations and x-ray examinations)
Possibility of admission of electronic communications (for example medical reports)
Enabling of a so-called patient's receipt which informs the patient about the work performed by the doctor and their preliminary costs
Own data made available by the patients (for example course documentation of a diabetic, advice to patient's living will)
Expectations of the citizens / patients
Indeed, according to an Emnid-survey (carried out from the Techniker health insurance company, see news from Health insurance company-direct) a third of the questioned fear data protection, however, 96% are of the opinion that just if necessary a better treatment would be possible, because comprehensive information are at the doctor's disposal immediately.
Importance for the rescue service
Just the medical part will be of particular importance in the rescue service. A RTW-staff or an emergency doctor will have to select the new health insurance card to their patients, becuase important informations could be stored on it, like current diagnoses, allergies etc.
Waiting for the new health insurance card
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An interested rescue service should - in our view - not await the start of the new health insurance card system as a reason to invest in a mobile solution. On the one hand, the lead times surely are very long for the procurement of such a system, on the other hand a system like the RDA already is of considerable use with the normal health insurance card . Furthermore we count from now on daily a rising inquiry and can probably barely prevent bottlenecks on the day of implementation.
Availability in the ESH RDA-system
Our MDE-devices with the used smart cards will be able to read the new card from the middle of 2005. This depends of course on the realisation of the whole project for which we must wait at first. In the second step the medical data are made available by us for the rescue service, so that it can give life-saving informations to the rescue service. For this purpose our customers will probably have none or only low add-on costs.
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