Overview

• From October 1, doctors, hospitals and pharmacies must use the electronic patient record and document new diagnoses and findings.
• Patients grant default 90-day access by inserting their insurance card at check-in, and they can later control which providers see which data.
• Brandenburg’s medical association says practices are well prepared after months of information efforts, and Berlin’s pharmacy group reports technical readiness.
• Health insurers have already created records for roughly 70 million of the more than 74 million people in statutory plans under the opt-out approach.
• Pharmacists welcome the rollout but cite repeated past outages they want Gematik to fix, and key items such as narcotics prescriptions, aids and non-prescription medicines are planned for next-year integration.