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AFAIK the same thing has happened in Belgium. There are several databases, allegedly controller by hospital networks, which you can access using government ID.
by Tharkun 8y ago
AFAIK the same thing has happened in Belgium. There are several databases, allegedly controller by hospital networks, which you can access using government ID. There's supposedly an opt-in clause, but I've certainly never opted in and all my x-rays are on the interwebz. Must be nice to be a 21st century government, where you can access any data on anyone in your country.
- Insanity 8y agoThat is the case indeed. However the ehealth-ehub system (which I assume you are talking about) is not automatically in-sync with the data the hospitals have about you. When it is necessary to receive the data, the system will poll the hospital for the required data. Then we have "NexuzHealth" in Belgium, which is an app you can install that shows you which data the hospital has about you. It's a network of 20+ hospitals but you can only view your data if you are actually a patient at these hospitals, and the goal was to provide the _patients_ with the same information doctors can see about you. Something you would normally not know about. Source: I work in one of these hospitals (software engineer) but not directly related to the app nor the ehealth system, so this is my (limited) understanding of how it works from being around the people actually implementing this.