GIE SESAM-VITALE: a technical expertise
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Based on its expertise with projects aiming to eliminate paper forms
in the health care area, GIE Sesam-Vitale contributes to the success
of several inter-operable solutions at the European level.
Financed by the European Union, these projects are promoting the
development of a European Health Insurance Card (EHIC) in 2004 and
also are anticipating the general deployment of an electronic EHIC
by 2008. These projects allow the insured persons easy access to
health care thanks to the electronic cards which are being used
in test areas. Based on this expertise, GIE SESAM-VITALE was designated
as one of the promoters of the new European project NETC@RDS.
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NETC@RDS aims to experiment and assess concrete solutions
enabling users to do away with health care paper forms in the Member
States of the European Union. Consequently, with the implementation
of European Health Insurance Card (EHIC), NETC@RDS has become de
facto the major test laboratory for the implementation in 2008 of
the future electronic European health insurance card. The electronic
EHIC aims to promote the insured persons' mobility within the European
Union, whereby access to health care will be made easier while,
at the same time, the system will ensure that any personal data
will be handled in a secured manner. GIE Sesam-Vitale took part,
for example, in the implementation of the system allowing to read
smartcards in 14 Greek hospitals during the Olympic Games in Athens.
These systems enabled the citizens from Austria, France and Germany
to be covered up to 100% for their health care expenses in these
hospitals when using their domestic health insurance card. Further,
citizens from the whole E.U could apply for the EHIC in Greek pilot
hospitals as well thanks to the NETC@RDS processes.
The project is organized in five phases:
1. 2002-2003 PHASE A1:
preparation and signing of the multilateral General Agreement,
delivering an initial investment Plan, including functional and
technical specifications, as well as draft guidelines for pilot
sites evaluation.
2. 2004-2005 PHASE A2:
implementation of the pilot sites, operation and assessment of
the service, consolidated Investment Plan.
3. 2005 PHASE A3:
extension of the pilot sites to Finland and to four of the ten
new Member States of the EU enlargement: Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia,
Czech Republic.
4. 2006-2008 PHASE B:
Initial deployment in the Member States taking part in the project.
5. 2009-2010 PHASE C:
Deployment of the electronic EHIC. Generalization of the service
in all the EU Member States.
Click on the icon to display the functional diagram of the NETC@RDS
project.
Thanks to the NETLINK project,
it was possible:
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To recommend the choice of standard technical components for the
design and implementation of information systems based on inter-operable
cards containing micro-processors and secured networks in the
area of Health Care. The NETLINK recommendations have been adopted
by the international standards organization ISO. Several European
countries such as Italy or Slovenia apply the NETLINK recommendations,
for example, for the coding on the card of emergency medical data.
- To deploy a French-German pilot site on the field in order to
demonstrate the feasability of the recommended choices. Click
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The TRANSCARDS project enables 100,000
French insured persons (who are part of the "régime
Général") and 50,000 Belgian insured persons
to have access to medical care in the 8 hospitals of the border
area of “Thiérache”, with no prior formality,
just by using their Health Insurance card (Vitale for the French
insured and SIS for the Belgian). |
