E-health directory service
The E-Health Directory Service ( eHVD ) is a directory service about health service providers (GDA) including their roles, which is operated by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Health .
Logos from the title bar of the e-health directory service (EHVD), who http://www.ehvd.at is operated
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aims
The primary goal of the eHVD is to confirm the identity and role of the individual GDAs for electronic communication with health data and thereby increase data security . Furthermore, the eHVD creates the prerequisites for qualified data access in the context of a future health portal.
In the course of European and international cooperation, the eHVD is also intended to serve as a starting point for secure, cross-national data exchange .
Legal basis
The eHVD is based on Article 10 of the Austrian Health Reform Act 2005 (Health Telematics Act-GTelG). The eHVD is an e-government application; In addition to the DSG , the e-government regulations (e-government law, supplementary register ordinance, master number register ordinance and the e-government area delimitation ordinance) must therefore be taken into account.
Requirements and functionalities
Since inclusion in the eHVD only takes place at the request of a GDA (voluntary), the implemented concept provides for the verification and verification of the identity and role of a GDA both via the eHVD and in a context without eHVD. The certificate (authentic confirmation) takes the form of an ( XML ) data structure ( GDA token ) signed in e-government- compliant manner , which can be used independently of the registration in the eHVD, in the case of an application for registration (supplemented by further in GTelG) but is also included in the eHVD.
The application for the GDA token and - if desired - the registration in the eHVD takes place via a central web application . All persons or bodies involved in the registration process access this central application and the underlying database from different perspectives .
The application for the issue of a GDA token or the application for registration in the eHVD must be e-government-compliant on the basis of citizen cards. This means that a GDA that wants to be included in the eHVD must have a valid citizen card environment .
After registration, the GDA token is sent to the applicant or made available for him to collect and, if necessary, released in the eHVD.
Only a few roles are available for implementation phase I of the eHVD - also in order to be able to carry out the necessary evaluations. It is intended to expand the definition of roles and thus also the registrations step by step.
Positioning the eHVD
In accordance with the recommendation in the E-Health Strategy Report of the E-Health Initiative (eHI) of December 2005, the eHVD is operated by the Federal Ministry of Health as an Austria-wide and cross-institutional trustholder .
In the interests of practicability, it is planned to technically and / or organizationally link the eHVD with directories or databases already available at various institutions . These databases should therefore not be replaced by the eHVD. A solution is sought with the respective operators for the initial issue of certain GDA tokens or the initial filling of the eHVD. Information relevant to communication (e.g. data formats that can be processed ) are also made available in the eHVD - for a limited time in view of the various standardization initiatives.