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Yes, initially your electronic patient record is empty. There is no automatic transfer of your past medical documents. Your doctors will gradually fill your electronic patient record with the documents and data they generate. You also have the option of uploading existing medical documents to your record yourself via the Barmer eCare-App.
Very practical: your e-prescription data are automatically transferred to the electronic patient record to create your personal medication list. Once a quarter, Barmer will then create an overview of all the healthcare services you have received from doctors' practices or hospitals.
Yes, you can reject certain functions and still benefit from the electronic patient record. The following functions can be blocked individually:
If you do not wish to use these functions, you can block them yourself via the Barmer eCare-App or by contacting the Trust Office at Barmer.
If you change your mind later, you can reactivate the functions at any time.
At a later date, it will be possible to forward data from your patient record to the Federal Health Data Lab. You will also be able to block this using the methods mentioned above if you wish.
In principle, institutions have access to all data in the electronic patient record, provided you have authorized them via the eCare-App or with your e-health card.
A block is automatically stored in certain cases and cannot be bypassed:
In addition, you have the option of hiding documents via eCare as you wish, managing the access duration of an institution or blocking access for an institution.
Yes. If you change your health insurance provider, BARMER will automatically transfer your electronic patient record, including documents, authorizations for doctors and people representing you to the subsequent health insurance provider.
If you objected to the creation of the medication list and the transfer of your healthcare services overview, the rejection will also be passed on to the subsequent health insurance provider.
If you have blocked a practice or another facility, the block will remain in place.
We have provided you with information on the electronic patient record in a separate article (in German) on the ePA in accordance with Section 343 of the German Social Code, Book 5 (SGB V).
