Electronic applications for medicines Chapter IV: frequently asked questions

Its duration varies depending on the care provided and the relationship with the care provider .

• If you read the patient's eID during a consultation, a therapeutic relationship is usually registered for an individual healthcare provider (except emergency physicians and doctors in on-call posts) for fifteen months. This is also the term for pharmacies when delivering a medicine. For a referral, this duration is three months.
• If you have a long relationship with your patient, which is formalized by a global medical record (GMD), you have access for one year from the opening date of the file. This period will be extended again by one year if your GMD is extended.
• In case of hospitalization or outpatient treatment in hospital, the duration of the therapeutic relationship is three months.
• An emergency doctor or doctor in a waiting post has access to the data for one month, counting from the date of patient contact.
• It is also possible for a therapeutic relationship to be registered if there was no physical contact between doctor and patient. For example, when doctor A refers a patient to doctor B. If he or she needs to be sufficiently trained before the first consultation, doctor A can register a therapeutic relationship between the patient and doctor B for three months. The patient must have his eID read by doctor A and enter his PIN code.