Electronic Patient File Is Now Mandatory for Practices
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As of today, medical practices and hospitals are obliged to use the electronic patient records. Information about diagnostics, treatments and medications will become centrally accessible - with the approval of the patients.
New month, new specifications: As of today, doctors in Germany have to enter important data into the electronic patient file. This should improve and simplify the treatment. But how well is the digitization project going and what do insured persons have to observe? An overview.
From now on, practices, clinics and pharmacies will have to fill the electronic patient records, which patients should now know about the ePA.
Medical practices, hospitals and pharmacies are obliged from today to use the electronic patient file.

In the practices, the two syllables are likely to sound familiar: "e-PA, the abbreviation for electronic files for patients. The largest digital project in the healthcare sector must now prove itself.
Electronic patient file now mandatory. Criticism points have not been cleared up so far.
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