On 5 november, a nationwide campaign will be launched in the Dutch people to turn on to give permission to be included in the Electronic Patient ntdossier. On 1 January, the EPD will start but unlike the original plans is inclusion in the system is not required.
Hospitals, doctors and pharmacies are largely agree about the alternative Electronic patient record, and January 1, the system for exchange of patient data can start. People must explicitly give their consent if they want their data to be included and to as much as possible, the Dutch to do this, turn start 5 november a large-scale campaign, writes the Volkskrant.
Currently, health care providers of approximately 9 million people in the netherlands exchange data, but if people don’t explicitly consent, to the organizations in this stop on 1 January. Almost half of the pharmacies and two-thirds of the general practitioners connected to the network. Also, eighteen of the one hundred hospitals are connected to the system. The political paid in previous years, 300 million euros for the infrastructure and over the next three years is around 60 million for the roll-out pulled out. It is the stakeholders, there is so much to located that as much as possible, the Dutch to their fiat.
The alternative EPD is an initiative of the Association of healthcare providers for zorgcommunicatie, VZVZ, that is established by organisations representing general practitioners, pharmacies and hospitals. In addition to the EHR, the health insurers, the Dutch Patients and Consumers Federation and technology company, which provides involved.
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.