US EditionSwitzerland Wants to Introduce the Electronic Health Dossier (Almost) Automatically
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The Federal Council is taking a new approach to driving digitalisation in healthcare. There is a difficult debate between quality and efficiency on the one hand and data protection on the other.
The state government gives up the electronic patient dossier. In the future, the population will have a new one.
When it comes to the Federal Council, the days of the EPD are numbered. In the law, which the executive entrusts to the parliament, the electronic health dossier is new. All persons in Switzerland are to receive one, whereby the use remains voluntary.
And now everything from the beginning – with "Health" instead of "Patient" in the name, but old, chanceless concept. The Federal Council said: The E-Health dossier (E-GD) is coming. It is meant to solve the "problem that was known for years under the name E-Patient dossier (EPD) – and hardly anyone wanted to use it. So now the restart, this time automatically for everyone (with opt-out). But who [...]
Don't call it "patient electronic record" anymore. This computer tool becomes the health record through technological centralization. Elisabeth Baume-Schneider presented the outlines of this evolution this Wednesday in BernIt is known that he is ill, unappreciated and even less used. The patient electronic record (PED) requires shock treatment to find, finally, the path of success with users and health care providers. To revive him, the Confeder…
The Federal Council wants to replace the failed electronic patient dossier (EPD) with a new electronic health dossier (E-GD) – automatically for everyone, centrally at the federal government and without serious voluntary action. Digital society supports digitalisation in the healthcare sector, but strongly rejects the new proposal. The federal government does not create benefits and trust for people, but builds up risky infrastructure with enorm…
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