Report: Under Four Percent of Insured People Use Electronic Patient Records
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Only a very small minority of legally insured persons actually use their electronic patient file (ePA) to see findings, older documents ... The post Annihilating Judgment for Lauterbach: Only a very small minority uses the electronic patient file appeared first on Apollo News.
According to a media survey, only a fraction of the legally insured persons actively use the electronic patient file. As reported by the newspapers of the editorial network Germany (RND) on Wednesday on the basis of their own survey among the large health insurance companies in Germany, the proportion of active users in relation to the number of electronic files created last amounted to 3.6 percent. This was a point more than in July 2025.Accord…
Since October, medical practices have been obliged to store treatment results in the digital patient file. A survey by the health insurance companies shows that the owners have little interest in this. Only a disappearing minority actively uses their own e-file.
Since October 2025, doctors' practices and clinics have been obliged to fill the electronic patient records with relevant health data, hoping that this would significantly increase the number of active users. However, this has not happened so far.
Only a fraction of those with statutory health insurance actively use the digital patient record (ePA) to view their own health data, upload older documents, or restrict doctors' access. This is the finding of a survey conducted by the "Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland" (Editorial Network Germany) among several major health insurance companies, which together cover well over half the market. For these companies, the proportion of active users rela…
Only a fraction of the statutory insured persons actively use the digital patient file (ePA) to view their own health data, upload older documents or restrict the access possibilities of doctors. This is the result of a survey conducted by the editorial team of the network Deutschland (RND) in several large health insurance companies, which together cover well over half of the market. This is an increase of around 190,000 insured persons. With t…
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