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Smart Cards for eGovernment and Health Insurance - Status in Austria. Company Background. Sozialversicherungs-Chipkarten Betriebs- und Errichtungsg.m.b.H. Private Limited Company 100% owned by Federation of Austrian Social Insurance Institutions
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Smart Cards for eGovernment and Health Insurance - Status in Austria
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)
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 ???
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
Social Insurance - Present Procedure Employee Issue Health Insurance Certificates Employer Physician Registrations / Cancel of Registrations Accounting
Social Insurance - Future Procedure Health Insurance Institution Entitled Persons Card Admin. Accounting Physician’s Terminal Phys. EDP Administrative Professional Card
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
Interoperability Target eEurope / eAustria:reduction of existing interoperatbility gaps - European pilot projects:NETLINK (D, F, I), Netc@rds. • EU/G7 Interoperability dataset: ”Intern‘l Card Data” • Health service provider accesses remote database containing health records of the citizen • Entitlement to receive benefits abroad(e.g. E111, so called Intern‘l Treatment Certificate ) • Remaining gaps: conversion software modules.
Potential Enhancements of the e-card system • Applications with signature requirement:# eSV-Portal# Access to personal data by third parties# eGovernment • Intern‘l Treatment Certificate (EC: „eE111“) • Emergency Data:On basis of Act of Ministry:Definition, security, authorizations, infra-structure, execution, coding, update, backup. • Electronic Prescription:Basis: Telematics-Project of German ABDA.
Physician‘s-PC Med. PracticeApplication Health Data Application Server of Health Institution XMLSSL Signature-Client PIN Hash Viewer Handling Procedure (XML) Health-RelatedPatients‘ Data Social Security Application Keyboard SS-Terminal PKI-Infrastructure(ZDA, RA) “Physician‘s Card” AHI-Smart Card „Signed Health Data“ Configuration of Concept Example:
Key Challenges • Integration of smart cards into the public key infrastructure. • Create and use the „killer application“. • Avoid digital dividing.
thanks for your attention ! Johann.Theiler@sv-chipkarte.at