On behalf of gematik, RISE developed and launched the first implementation phase of the Proof-of-Patient-Presence (PoPP) service. All necessary requirements, including approval by gematik, have been met. RISE was commissioned in December 2025 - and just a few months later, the first implementation phase went live.

The PoPP service is a key component in the further development of the telematics infrastructure (TI) toward TI 2.0. It enables cryptographically secured verification that a patient is involved in a specific care situation, thereby laying the foundation for secure, location-independent care services. As a core platform service of the TI, the PoPP service meets the highest standards for data protection, security, and availability.

“With the go-live of the first implementation phase of the PoPP service, we completed a challenging IT project in an exceptionally short amount of time: Only a few months passed from the start of the project to its launch. As RISE, we were able to build on a comprehensive platform for developing and operating IT services, which made this tight timeline possible in the first place. The fact that primary system vendors are now integrating PoPP use cases into their systems is an important step toward advancing the digitization of the German healthcare system while making administrative processes both secure and efficient. To this end, we at RISE offer our customers and partners expertise as well as ready-made building blocks for integrating the PoPP ecosystem into the systems of healthcare provider institutions,” says Dr. Mario Bernhart, member of the RISE management board.

The first implementation phase lays the foundation for the gradual introduction of additional PoPP functionalities. The goal is to enable secure and flexible digital healthcare processes and to make modern IT applications available even outside of traditional healthcare facilities. In the future, in addition to the electronic health card (eGK), the digital identity of insured individuals (GesundheitsID) will also be usable for PoPP.

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.

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