Today, the National Chamber is about to vote on the Electronic Patient Record Act. The Federal Office of Public Health is refusing to engage in a fundamental technical debate. The digital civic society might push for a referendum.
If one were to create a separate patient record for the electronic patient record project itself, the list of problems would be long: a complex web of different stakeholders, pseudo-competition, a chronic lack of demand due to the medical profession’s failure to make it mandatory, certification hurdles for providers, a graveyard of PDFs.
Of over 9 million residents, only just over 140,000 people have so far had a digital medical record created on a voluntary basis. Years ago, the then Minister for Health, Alain Berset, had to admit that, unfortunately, progress had not been as far as hoped.
It was regarded as a failed IT project.
That is why the government pressed the reset button in 2025 with the new Minister for Health, Elisabeth Baume-Schneider.
No the rebranding is done: the patient dossier is to become the health dossier.
https://techjournalismus.ch/controversy-over-security-in-the-digital-health-record/
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