Smart Cards for eGovernment and Health Insurance Status in Austria

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Smart Cards for eGovernment and Health Insurance
- Status in Austria
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Company Background

• Sozialversicherungs-Chipkarten Betriebs- und
  Errichtungsg.m.b.H.
• Private Limited Company
• 100 owned by Federation of Austrian Social
  Insurance Institutions
• Responsibility implementation and operationof
  the e-card system (Social Security)

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Situation in the field

• Smart Cards using digital signature in Austria
• Trust Centers 2002
• Banks 2003
• Social insurance e-card 2003 / 2004
• Credit card cooperations ???

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Applications

• eGovernment
• Portal launched www.help.gv.at
• Step by step introduction of services(2002
  2005)
• Strategy www.cio.gv.at
• eSV
• Portal launched www.sozialversicherung.at
• First services available

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Social Insurance - Present Procedure
Employee
Issue Health Insurance Certificates
Physician
Employer
Registrations / Cancel of Registrations
Accounting
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Social Insurance - Future Procedure
Health Insurance Institution
Entitled Persons
Card Admin.
Accounting
Physicians Terminal
Phys. EDP
Administrative Professional Card
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Time Schedule
Release for nationwide rollout accord. to
Physicians agreement (Main Assoc. / Austria
Med. Council)
Period for System-Implementation 2002 - 2004

• 22 Reference Med. Practices
• Surveying Phase with a) HIC-operation
  b) Test operation e-card
• Analysis of results
• Evaluation / Approval by Austrian Med.
  Council / Med. Councils of Federal States

01/02
Data - Verification (Information Initiative of
SSIs for Insured)
Start of operation with e-cards, step by step in
each federal state to a nationwide equipment
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Interoperability

• Target eEurope / eAustriareduction of existing
  interoperatbility gaps - European pilot
  projectsNETLINK (D, F, I), Netc_at_rds.
• EU/G7 Interoperability dataset Internl Card
  Data
• Health service provider accesses remote database
  containing health records of the citizen
• Entitlement to receive benefits abroad(e.g.
  E111, so called Internl Treatment Certificate )
• Remaining gaps conversion software modules.

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Potential Enhancements of the e-card system

• Applications with signature requirement
  eSV-Portal Access to personal data by third
  parties eGovernment
• Internl Treatment Certificate (EC eE111)
• Emergency DataOn basis of Act of
  MinistryDefinition, security, authorizations,
  infra-structure, execution, coding, update,
  backup.
• Electronic PrescriptionBasis
  Telematics-Project of German ABDA.

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Signed Health Data
Configuration of Concept Example
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Key Challenges

• Integration of smart cards into the public key
  infrastructure.
• Create and use the killer application.
• Avoid digital dividing.

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thanks for your attention !
Johann.Theiler_at_sv-chipkarte.at