NETC@RDS provides a service for the electronification of the European Health Insurance Card

Published: 10/01

BRUSSEL, BELGIUM - (HealthTech Wire) - The initial deployment phase of NETC@RDS project is now under way. This is aimed at achieving the widest implementation of an online service for the announced electronic European Health Insurance Card (eEHIC). The existing service, already successfully tested – market validation phase –, will be progressively extended to enable “non-planned” health care access for European mobile citizens who provide evidence  of their enrollement to the national insurance schema. This is presently deployed over 305 sites across 15 member states as part of the deployment phase of Netc@rds. Among these, new service points at Hôpital Saint-Roch in Nice (France) and in the Lörrach area (Germany, French/Swiss border), involving 5 ambulatories care and 2 hospitals, have been recently inaugurated.

“European mobile citizen”, health care providers, health insurance, cross border cost clearance organisations… who can benefit from the NETC@RDS on line services? Having been successfully validated through 85 pilots across 10 Members States, the NETC@RDS on line infrastructure for the electronic European Health Insurance Card (eEHIC) will be now deployed across 15 European countries and its services extended to more than 300 service sites.

This reliable, pan-European and interoperable solution for the EHIC electronification will be demonstrated at the next eChallenges e-2007 in The Hague, 24-26 October 2007.

Further information at The World of Health IT in Vienna, e-Session ES51: eHealth Implementation: From Plan to Action - Supporting Mobile Citizens: Integrating Healthcare across Europeat World of Health IT in Vienna, Austria

www.netcards-project.com