Electronic Health Card

2009 big brother has introduced after unimagined new opportunities which electronic health card is from 1 January 2009 in whole Germany. All essential information of the insured (patients) are stored on its chip, including medical details. As a doctor, I know that modern means of communication in the medical hold. Often enough we all benefit from it. But lately we hear yet again of data scandals, where we actually all of us have can think that they are. Finally, we have all always strange post in the real world, such as in the electronic mailbox. What is done, is done. What is for sale is sold. People such as Jeffrey L. Bewkes would likely agree.

So also addresses, personal data, and soon medical details. Morality? There are of course a morality in our society, the morality of the individual and the morale of many. But there is the morality of the mass? Intimate details when tens of thousands of bankers loyal to handle customer data or thousands Postler, doesn’t mean that there are not also black sheep. And who really believe in morality of as undefined mass, as are doctors, nurses, health workers and pharmacists. You all will have to do with our data on the electronic health card. Are hundreds of thousands of people. And each one is a good man who be geheimhalt of course intimate data? May believe, if you want.

And it isn’t in this case about data, such as address, date of birth, marital status, purchasing power and consumer preferences. It’s intimate details in addition to the personal data. On the electronic health card I your disease can recognize as doctor, their medication, the number of x-rays, your vaccination status, your hospital stay. I’m glad you could say that however valuable information for a doctor. Sure. If the information there remain where they belong. Brand for the future? It is to your hemorrhoids, your power, your depression, your fertility or infertility, the diseases in your family.

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