With the approval of ePA 3.0.5, technology manufacturer RISE is expanding the electronic patient record with important functions that will make everyday digital life in the healthcare sector noticeably easier. Together with its partner BITMARCK, RISE is making the new version of the ePA available to more than 25 million people with statutory health insurance by the July 15, 2025 deadline. Private health insurance policyholders will also benefit from the new features.

Insured persons can enjoy even more user-friendliness and data protection in the new version - in addition to the improved content of the medication list, it is now also possible to precisely control access to it. Health insurance companies can now use the patient file to inform insured persons about health risks. For a better overview of a patient's key details, especially in emergency situations or when taking a medical history, the new version includes the electronic patient short file. It provides a concentrated overview of central details such as emergency data and personal statements.

The RISE e-prescription module has also been expanded: digital health applications can now be prescribed using electronic prescriptions. With the RISE solution, privately insured persons will in future be able to receive a digital pharmacy invoice directly after dispensing a medication in order to submit it to their private insurer completely electronically. The structured data of the invoice format simplifies and accelerates the billing processes of private health insurance companies.

Dr Christian Schanes, Member of the Management Board, emphasises: "With the 'ePA for all', we have created the basis for a data hub in the healthcare sector. Additional applications are being established and continuously developed on the basis of this secure platform. The TI platform is an important building block for digital sovereignty in the German healthcare system."

About RISE (Research Industrial Systems Engineering):

As a manufacturer and driver of digital technologies from Europe for Europe and the entire digital world, the IT company RISE, which was founded more than 20 years ago as an R&D company from the Vienna University of Technology, can point to leading references, long-standing customers, key technologies, solid products and in-depth expertise in sectors such as healthcare, mobility, finance, retail, administration, manufacturing, industry and IT security. RISE enables partners to be solid innovators and digital transformers, while at the same time reliably integrating good old procedural and existing knowledge from established companies and institutions.

Since 2006, RISE has played a leading role in setting up the telematics infrastructure (TI) in the German healthcare system and has brought numerous components and services to approval. RISE is currently responsible for the ongoing expansion of the RISE (high-speed) connector and TI gateways, the development of over 22 million highly secure patient files (ePA) for more than 80 statutory and private insurance companies, a service for secure e-mail communication between doctors (KIM), the TI's central identity provider (IDP) for access control to specialist services such as the electronic prescription (e-prescription), several federated IDPs and numerous other special components in the TI. RISE supplies doctors' surgeries, pharmacies and many hospitals with infrastructure software and provides end-to-end operation, maintenance and further development. In addition to ePA deliveries to statutory health insurers, RISE equips a growing number of private health insurance customers with ePA technology and a future-proof health ID.

As a global software construction company as well as a system manufacturer and integrator, RISE has key experience, technologies and components for nationwide and Europe-wide solutions in many digitalization sectors such as gov-tech, insurance, payment and banking, logistics, transport, mobility, public administration, industrial IoT, IT security technology, cell phone security or digital ID.

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