BERLIN (dpa-AFX) – Electronic prescriptions and digital patient files are to come into mass use after years of delays. This is the aim of the traffic light coalition’s legislative plans, which the Bundestag is due to pass on Thursday (9 a.m.). Accordingly, e-prescriptions should become standard and mandatory for practices at the beginning of 2024. At the beginning of 2025, everyone with statutory health insurance should receive electronic patient files – unless they reject this for themselves. The use of combined health data for research is also to be promoted according to the plans of Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD).
The e-files are intended to be a personal data storage and accompany patients throughout their lives with all doctors. The bundled data is also intended to avoid drug interactions and multiple examinations. The e-files with certain identification rules should be accessible via health insurance apps. They were already introduced as an optional offer in 2021, but have hardly been used so far.
In a current hour, MPs will also debate the results of the World Climate Conference in Dubai. In addition, the Bundestag wants to establish the office of a police commissioner. This is intended to offer police officers and citizens a contact point to report misconduct or structural grievances to the Federal Police and the Federal Criminal Police Office./sam/ax/DP/ngu