medcards

[Michael Sicher <sicher@adis.at>]

hello,

i am michael from the austrian society for privacy and data protection
("ARGE Daten") and i would ask you to answer the following questions because
we are looking for information about the use of medcards (healthcards, ...)
in different countries.

thank you very much!

yours, 
michael sicher


medcard questionaire:
 
- are medcards used in your country, are there tests for using it, or is it
planned to use it in the future?

   - are medcards used throughout the country or just in specific regions?

   - is the usage of medcards restricted to specific areas, i. e. emergency
data, social security data, local doctors, hospitals, etc.?

- which technology is used? chipcards, etc.?

   - who supports this system and who is the operator? a society of all
doctors, social security insurances, private insurances, drug stores, card
issuing firms, etc.?

- has the medcard to be used (by doctors and patients) or can it be used on
a voluntary basis?

- does the medcard just store administrative data (identification data of
the patient, of the doctor and the insurance) or also healthdata?

- who has read and who has write access to the medcard. how is this
controlled? what is done in case of loss of a medcard or the data on it or
in case of tampering the data?

- which experiences are there concerning doctors and patients? how is the
colaboration with represantatives of patient and consumer rights and of data
protection in developing the medcard?

- which legal regulations are there for securing the secrecy and privacy of
the medcard? who controlls this regulations? are there any effective
indemnity or complaint proceedings? how often are they used?

- any other experiences with medcards - comments?


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