Slide 1 Smart Cards for eGovernment and Health Insurance - Status in Austria

SV-ChipBE Slide 2 Company Background Sozialversicherungs-Chipkarten Betriebs- und Errichtungsg.m.b.H. –Private Limited Company –100% owned by Federation of Austrian Social Insurance Institutions –Responsibility: implementation and operation of the e-card system (Social Security)

SV-ChipBE Slide 3 Situation in the field Smart Cards using digital signature in Austria: –Trust Centers2002 –Banks2003 –Social insurance e-card2003 / 2004 –Credit card cooperations???

SV-ChipBE Slide 4 Applications eGovernment –Portal launched: –Step by step introduction of services (2002 – 2005) –Strategy: eSV –Portal launched: –First services available

SV-ChipBE Slide 5 Social Insurance - Present Procedure PhysicianEmployer Issue Health Insurance Certificates Accounting Registrations / Cancel of Registrations Employee

SV-ChipBE Slide 6 Social Insurance - Future Procedure Health Insurance Institution Entitled Persons Card Admin. Physician’s Terminal Accounting Phys. EDP Administrative Professional Card

SV-ChipBE Slide 7 Release for nationwide rollout accord. to „Physicians‘ agreement“ (Main Assoc. / Austria Med. Council) Period for System-Implementation Reference Med. Practices: u Surveying Phase with a) HIC-operation b) Test operation e-card u Analysis of results u Evaluation / Approval by Austrian Med. Council / Med. Councils of Federal States Start of operation with e-cards, step by step in each federal state to a nationwide equipment 01/02 Data - Verification (Information Initiative of SSIs for Insured) Time Schedule

SV-ChipBE Slide 8 Interoperability Target eEurope / eAustria: reduction of existing interoperatbility gaps - European pilot projects: NETLINK (D, F, I),  EU/G7 Interoperability dataset: ”Intern‘l Card Data”  Health service provider accesses remote database containing health records of the citizen  Entitlement to receive benefits abroad (e.g. E111, so called Intern‘l Treatment Certificate )  Remaining gaps: conversion software modules.

SV-ChipBE Slide 9 Potential Enhancements of the e-card system Applications with signature requirement: # eSV-Portal # Access to personal data by third parties # eGovernment Intern‘l Treatment Certificate (EC: „eE111“) Emergency Data: On basis of Act of Ministry: Definition, security, authorizations, infra-structure, execution, coding, update, backup. Electronic Prescription: Basis: Telematics-Project of German ABDA.

SV-ChipBE Slide 10 Configuration of Concept Example: Med. Practice Application AHI-Smart Card “Physician‘s Card” XML SSL Health-Related Patients‘ Data Server of Health Institution Physician‘s-PC Health Data Application Signature-Client PIN Hash Viewer Handling Procedure (XML) SS-Terminal PKI-Infrastructure (ZDA, RA) Social Security Application Keyboard „Signed Health Data“

SV-ChipBE Slide 11 Key Challenges Integration of smart cards into the public key infrastructure. Create and use the „killer application“. Avoid digital dividing.

SV-ChipBE Slide 12 thanks for your attention !