EPD makes a comeback outside of government to

There is still an Electronic Patient record, but the government is not involved in this. That have general practitioners, hospitals and pharmacists to the Second Room, let us know. The data exchange is done on the basis of consent.

The general practitioners, hospitals, pharmacists and the Dutch Patients and Consumers Federation or NPCF with the health care providers agreed that a final go-around of the electronic exchange of medical data via the National switch Point.

The NPCF start of 1 January 2012, a project that eventually should lead to anyone who uses the healthcare system has access to a Personal health record. “Patients are if the us is no longer dependent on the doctors to give them access to their own medical data,” says Wilna Wind, director of the NPCF. She calls MijnZorgnet as an example of a successful existing initiative.

Patients need to be expressly give their consent or their medical records national electronic exchanged. This is a requirement of the board for the Protection of Personal data. Minister Edith Schippers of public Health one-time € 2 million is available to the project, but the government plays no further role in the launch of the EPD.

The SPD has a long history in which it alternately and not by seemed to go. In april it seemed the curtain finally cases when the First Room the plan rejected. Initially it seemed to also be a private continuation not of the land, due to lack of money.


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