The electronic patient record will be permanently discontinued. There was no spd, because the First Chamber the proposal is not approved, but the system still had as a private initiative can survive. That is however not the case: there is too little money.
After a in the law, electronic health record was fired, it was up to the caregivers to such a system to finance, but that will not happen. That report Nictiz, the organization that the epd had set up and manage. A majority of the general practitioners, pharmacies and gp would have indicated to the epd to want to cooperate and to give money, but of the hospitals, this would be only 9 percent.
On november 1, had an amount of 7.2 million euros with each other, but then it was only 5.6 million gathered. In total, next year 10 million euro are necessary for the ehr to keep it going. Now there is not enough money is collected, on January 1, 2012 the national ehr infrastructure is disabled. So disappears the so-called national switch point, which had to be used to patient information between regions, to exchange. The regional epd will continue to work.
Interestingly enough, the set which provides ‘no own resources” and on the healthcare providers to have back for money. In may proved just that more than half of the total expenditure for the spd in the direction of Nictiz went. The organization has until may a total 215,3 million received; total cost of the introduction 305,8 million euro. Nictiz was not reachable for comment. The organisation says itself to continue to exist, but according to the Volkskrant lifted.
In april, drew the Second Room the plug from the patient record, because there is not enough support in the First Room was. Since 2002, it was tried to the epd. That implementation was several times postponed and politicians tried critics to convince of the necessity and the safety of the system, but the concerns remained, among others, the Consumers association and the First Room.