Lessons learnt, Germany takes up Europe’s e-health baton
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
Germany’s ambitious e-health card (eGK), to be owned by every eligible citizen, was to have made hand-written prescriptions a thing of past at its planned launch date in 2006. But worries over data security, mounting costs and sheer project complexity saw the initiative delayed several times until it was suspended in 2010.