MobiHealth News March 26, 2021
Anna Engberg

Since January 2021, all statutorily insured 72 million German citizens have been legally entitled to a national electronic patient record (ePA).

In Germany, the public health insurers are in charge of the ePatient record (ePA) app delivery. MobiHealthNews asked Sandra Hoyer, ePA project manager at one of Germany’s main insurers, Techniker Krankenkasse (TK), how the implementation works – and how it has been used so far.

Q. The payers are responsible for providing the national ePA in Germany. How does that work?

At the moment we provide an ePA app. As of 2022, there will also be a non-web-based desktop version. The purely mobile approach currently guarantees us secure access to the ePA because it allows us to install ID...

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