Brussels wants European patient file with ‘success’ QR code | Abroad
With ‘The European Health Data Space’, Brussels wants to make it possible for doctors to easily access medical records. This is useful if hamburgers end up in another hospital or forget to take them with you during a holiday. Europeans to be able to access their medical records.
Brussels wants to further use the health data in a second database for researchers, government institutions and industry. European Commissioner Stella Kyriakides (Volks) speaks of a ‘historical step forward’ and data only obtained access with a special permit. It can also be used for bigger specials, such as developing new vaccines to get better started in terms of data. It is not the intention that health insurers will use it to pay their premiums.
Delay
In the Netherlands, plans for an electronic electronic patient record created a political air. A first attempt failed in 2011. Now there is a basis for making data possible, but with the explicit consent of the patient. The House should have already debated that appearance, but Minister Ernst Kuipers (VWS) asked for a postponement. He wanted to wait for the European side, because that will have an impact on our own legislation. The cabinet takes a position on the European patient file, the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport said.
It is striking that Brussels uses the self-mentioned success with the digital corona pass as an argument to continue with European digitization of health care. The QR code was the subject of a heated privacy debate in many countries.
The European Parliament and are still considering the plan. The two databases, where all information from 27 must be linked together, should be up and running in 2025. That is still very much the question. It is expected that there will be a considerable debate about privacy and cybersecurity.