“Germany’s health minister, Philipp Rösler, has decided to put on hold the introduction of the planned electronic health card system, whereby every citizen was meant to hold an electronic card carrying their health data, medical history, prescriptions, and insurance status.
The project, originally to have been launched in January 2006, has so far cost the country’s health insurance companies and its government a total of {euro}1.7bn (£1.5bn; $2.5bn).”
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Annette Tuffs, BMJ 2010;340:c171
