Telematics infrastructure for a digital healthcare system

Digital prescriptions, fast data exchange between attending doctors, telemedicine, medical care in rural areas and much more: Germany’s health sector is now benefiting from the advancement of digitalization. The basis for this is the secure connection of all stakeholders.

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Secure access to the telematics infrastructure

The telematics infrastructure (TI) digitally connects all stakeholders in the statutory health insurance system. Doctors, dentists, psychotherapists, pharmacists and members of other health care professions as well as unlicensed healthcare professions can securely exchange patient data across sectors and systems. The TI enables rapid communication between all stakeholders in the healthcare system, reduces costs in the medium and long term and leads to a more efficient supply of treatment for patients across disciplinary boundaries.

Trust is everything! To protect sensitive patient data from misuse or manipulation, only registered users can access the TI, which is set up much like a closed network. Communication between users is encrypted. This requires an SMC-B card for medical practices and institutions as well as an eHPC card (electronic Health Professional Card). Patients can now rest assured that their data will only be used by people and institutions who are actually authorized to do so.

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The technical components of the Telematics Infrastructure

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Applications in Telematic Infrastructure: All That’s Included in TI

The goal of the telematic infrastructure (TI) is to provide a secure digital network for all participants involved in medical care – including patients. Thanks to the telematic infrastructure, medical information can be exchanged without loss of time or data. In order to achieve this, a range of applications are available for different tasks.

How we are enhancing the telematics infrastructure

The TI provides a secure foundation for the digitalization of healthcare. In order to make the advantages of this development available to all patients, D‑Trust is working on a variety of solutions to bring life to the possibilities offered by the TI, both now and in the near future. Here you can find a comparative overview of the latest TI products and services:

	eHPC	SMC-B	sign-me eHealth
Suitable for:	Service providers in the German healthcare system	Institutions in the German healthcare system	All healthcare workers
Qualified electronic signature	Yes	No	Yes
Use of the online ID function	Yes	Yes	No
Suitable for:
ePrescription	Yes	No	No
electronic sick note	Yes	No	No
eID card	Yes	Yes	No
KIM	Yes	Yes	No
Doctor’s letter	Yes	No	Yes
Invoicing	Yes	No	ja
ID card	Yes	No	No
Identification necessary	Yes	Yes	Yes

TI products from D‑Trust

As a trust service provider, D‑Trust produces SMC-B cards for practices and institutions as well as eHPC cards for health professionals. These cards are issued on behalf of the responsible issuers (state chambers and statutory health insurance schemes) and enable access to the TI. In addition to the eHPC, D-Trust offers eIDAS-compliant digital signatures with sign‑me eHealth for all online transactions with legally binding electronic signatures.

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Electronic Health Professional Card (eHPC)

With the Health Professional Card or the Professional Card, members of the following professions can identify themselves personally within the high-security TI: doctors, dentists, psychotherapists, pharmacists, nurses, physiotherapists, paramedics, occupational therapists, podiatrists, speech and language therapists, dental technicians, orthopaedic shoemakers, orthopaedic technicians, hearing aid acousticians and opticians.

Electronic practice card / institution ID card (SMC-B and SMC-B ORG)

The SMC-B, also known as the practice or institution ID card, is the key to the Telematics Infrastructure. It is used by healthcare institutions to identify themselves as medical facilities.

TI Remote Signature – The Digital Signature for the Healthcare Sector

TI Remote Signature enables online signing of electronic documents in the healthcare sector throughout the EU in a legally compliant manner and in accordance with the eIDAS regulation.

SM-B Institution Certificates: Virtual proof of identity for institutions

The SM-B institution certificates provide the health care system with hardware-independent and card-free secure access to the telematics infrastructure. This makes it possible to access EHC data.

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