[Health telematics projects in the perspective of the German federal states].
Starting in autumn 2005 with pilot projects, the new German electronic health card (EHC) and electronic health professional cards (HPC) will be implemented in the German health system. These cards are constituents of the full coverage networking of more than 120,000 doctor's practices, 22,000 pharmacies, 2,200 hospitals and 300 health insurance companies. The functions of the EHC, for example electronic prescriptions, the digital medication recording and the European emergency database, need both the interactions with the HPCs and with a complex network of IT systems and telecommunication services, i. e. with a comprehensive health telematics infrastructure. Model regions for the construction of a telematics infrastructure have been established in numerous federal states, e. g. Baden- Wurttemberg, Bavaria, Bremen, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein, and also recently in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Brandenburg. These model regions are designed in a way that allows smooth integration of the specifications of the so-called solution architecture of the EHC and also of electronic HPCs as soon as these are available. The implementation of first pilot trials in the model regions, each with 10,000 insured, is planned for the second half of 2005. A project task force was founded by a group from the German federal states in December 2004. The objective of these implementations is to establish a fully networked health system providing patients various e-Health applications which can be used any place and any time.
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Gesundheitstelematik (DGG) e. V., Hammarskjöldring 103, 60439 Frankfurt am Main, Germany. schug@iqmed.de
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