adesso obtains “preferred partner” status for the RISE electronic patient record

The main goal of the electronic patient record is to create a highly secure, digital application for each insured patient, containing all of the necessary data for medical treatment. The record can then be made available to healthcare professionals at the patient’s request.

The electronic patient record (ePA 2.0) will be introduced into the private health insurance sector on 1 January 2022. From this point on, the electronic patient record, which has already been introduced into the statutory health insurance system, will be equipped with significantly more wide-ranging functions, such as the digital vaccination certificate, which will then be saved in the electronic patient record.

adesso’s use of RISE technology is primarily directed towards the private health insurance market, which adesso already serves with its application environment in|sure Ecosphere, an evolutionary standard software for the insurance market. Besides the efficient implementation of the electronic patient record, the cooperation between both of the companies enables them to also offer customers innovative, insurance-specific, value-added features.

The Austrian high-tech company RISE, located in Berlin, is one of Germany’s leading IT system houses for IT components in the medical telematics infrastructure and for electronic patient records. RISE is currently one of three manufacturers of approved electronic patient records and has developed one of the three connectors for the telematics infrastructure that have been approved in Germany. RISE’s electronic patient record is used by over 85 of the current 103 statutory health insurance providers today. Furthermore, RISE already carries out several electronic patient record connections at private health insurance companies that do not use in|sure Ecosphere. RISE is also the manufacturer of the central eRezept IDP (Identity Provider) which is scheduled to come out on the market this year.

“The electronic patient record is the next logical step in offering insured persons optimal, integrated healthcare. With the transfer of findings, diagnoses and therapeutic measures, it provides doctors, therapists and pharmacists with clear information and a basis for decision-making,” continues Dr Christian Schanes, Head of Telematics and IT Security at RISE. “Unlike statutory health insurance providers, private health insurance companies are not obligated to offer electronic patient records this year. However, the issue is becoming increasingly important in this sector and people are starting to realise that this is an area to invest in, so as not to fall behind the statutory health insurance providers. Private health insurance providers can now lay the groundwork to create secure and, at the same time, easy-to-use services for their customers.”