Bitkom has commented on the implementing Act within EHDS regulation on an interoperable, cross-border identification and authentication mechanism for natural persons, health professionals and healthcare providers for the purposes of the cross-border exchange of personal electronic health data.
The success of the cross-border identification and authentication mechanism is a direct precondition for the value MyHealth@EU is intended to deliver to patients and clinicians. If patients cannot be reliably identified across borders, and if healthcare professionals cannot be securely authenticated in a way that works in clinical practice, the framework will not deliver its intended benefits.
Against this background, Bitkom proposes selected improvements that, in the view of our member companies, would materially improve how the framework operates in practice.
