Health insurance companies inform their insured persons about the electronic patient record (EPA) 3.0, which they are obliged to do. From 2021, statutory health insurance companies have had to offer an electronic patient file, but since only 1.4 million people have registered for this, it should come from 2025 for everyone who does not object.
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1,430,250 people with statutory health insurance have an electronic patient file (as of August 26, 2024).
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“Eleven AOKs are currently starting to send personalized letters or emails to their 27 million insured individuals about setting up their private insurance plans The EPA to inform,” said Dr. Carola Reimann, President of the AOK federal association.
AOK takes it According to his own statement The opportunity to provide information about the benefits of the EPA and the regulations for the protection of health data. If you do not want the EPA, you have to object. “Of course we also point out the possibility of objection,” Reimann promised. According to the AOK, “normal medical care (…) is also guaranteed for insureds who decide against the EPA.
Other health insurance companies, such as technicians or barmen, Inform your insured persons about “EPA for All”. Company health insurance companies have also informed their insured persons BKK Gildemeister Silk Stickers For example, in early August, Siemens Company Health Insurance Fund from May. The Federal Ministry of Health wants to launch an advertising campaign with nine reasons for the decline in EPA.
Limited functionality
From January 15, the EPA will initially be rolled out in the model regions of Hamburg and the Middle, Upper and Lower Franconia region. According to current plans, it will be launched throughout Germany in mid-February. The scope of the functions is initially limited: electronic doctor’s letters, discharge letters, diagnostic reports, laboratory findings and image findings can be stored as PDF/A files and information on medications can be stored as medication lists.
Large files such as MRI images cannot be stored. How and what the February rollout will look like remains to be seen. The nationwide introduction of e-prescriptions was repeatedly postponed and is still lacking. Critics complained that e-prescriptions were not tested enough in advance. This could have an even greater impact on EPAs. The extent to which hospitals will fill EPAs for everyone is also unclear.
Health insurance companies must inform the insured
As the “heart of the digitalization of the healthcare system”, the EPA is an even more complex structure, which is why doctors fear that they will have to inform many patients about the EPA as early as 2025. However, health insurance companies are legally obliged to provide the information.
As part of the information to its insured persons, the AOK Federal Association also publishes the results of a survey in August, which was carried out by the opinion research institute Sive on behalf of the AOK. According to this, 61.2 percent of all respondents are in favour of automatically creating an electronic patient file for everyone in the future. 20 percent of those surveyed are against it and 15 percent are undecided.
Accordingly, about 77 percent of the 10,000 respondents are interested in seeing health data such as doctor’s letters or laboratory data through the EPA in the future. 73 percent of those surveyed said they would like to see more information about prescribed treatments and medications.
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