Insured individuals can now take advantage of two key new features of their electronic patient record (ePA). First, the digitally supported medication plan is available in the insured individuals’ front end. Second, insured individuals can now receive push notifications on their smartphones regarding activities in their ePA. BITMARCK and RISE have made the ePA, in its current version 3.1.3, available on schedule to 80 percent of statutory health insurance providers. The update with the new features is now available in app stores.

Andreas Strausfeld, Chairman of the BITMARCK Executive Board: “This new phase of development for the electronic patient record is an important step toward embedding it even more firmly in the daily lives of insured individuals. The digitally supported medication plan is a tangible benefit for people who take multiple medications, and push notifications also make the ePA a part of everyday life—just as we’re used to with banking apps, for example. However, for the ePA to continue its success, policymakers must take action. In particular, the ability to use artificial intelligence in the ePA must be promoted.”

Dr. Christian Schanes, member of the management board at RISE: “By releasing version 3.1.3 on schedule, we are consistently continuing the ongoing development of the ePA. The new features not only represent a functional expansion but also demonstrate that the ePA is designed to be flexible and scalable to meet future requirements. A modern architecture, standardized interfaces, and continuous releases make it possible to efficiently deliver new value to insured individuals and bring innovations to healthcare more quickly.”

Medication Plan Reduces Risks

With the digitally supported medication plan, insured individuals now have a complete overview of their medications: prescription drugs are listed, and over-the-counter medications can be added by the insured. In addition, dosage instructions can be linked to the medications, which can help reduce risks associated with taking them.

Push Notifications for Greater Transparency

Push notifications are a new feature that promotes transparency in care and actively involves insured individuals — the medical record sends a notification to a smartphone when new documents are uploaded or the record is accessed.

Full-text search is coming at the end of 2026

Another important feature of ePA 3.1.3 will be introduced at the end of the year: full-text search. All documents stored in the ePA can then be easily searched using keywords. This makes it easier for healthcare providers in particular to work with the data in the medical record and is another step toward integrating the ePA more closely into medical care.

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 Highspeed-Konnektor and TI-Gateway, 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.

RISE supplies business partners as a technology manufacturer or integrator and generally leaves broad-based communication to its customers and partners. Please send detailed information on technical, project, technology and research topics by e-mail to:
7a786f79796f4a7863796f277d6578666e24696567. The RISE Group operates in Germany with four companies in the field of substantial digitalization.

About BITMARCK

As the leading digitalization partner for statutory health insurance, BITMARCK is driving the digital transformation in the industry with innovative products and services. The foundation for this is the statutory health insurance software standard BITMARCK_21c|ng, which is used by the affiliated health insurance companies. The group’s clients include company and guild health insurance funds, as well as DAK-Gesundheit and other alternative health insurance funds—over 30,000 employees and approximately 35 million insured individuals in the statutory health insurance system benefit from BITMARCK’s IT services, and more than 80 percent of German statutory health insurance funds are clients of the group. With more than 1,900 employees, BITMARCK generates annual revenue of more than half a billion euros.