Sometime in the future all german physicians and apothecaries will be equipped with a smartcard, the so called eHBA (elektronischer Heilberufeausweis). And all german citizens that are a member of a public health insurance company (gesetzliche Krankenkasse) will get a similar card, the so called eGK (elektronische Gesundheitskarte). This means that virtually every german citizen will have a smartcard soon.
I wrote the above sentence in 2006 and now already have 2012 – so be carefull when interpreting the word “soon”.
We got eHBA and eGK test cards in 2008 and they were [[STARCOS 3.0|STARCOS-cards]] based. So in order to support these kind of eHBA OpenSC needs a [wiki:STARCOS STARCOS 3.0] driver first. If you have informations about eHBAs or eGKs, please let us know or add a link to the list below:
Information about the german eHBA / eGK:
- Specifications and other related documents for the eHBA
- “Informations about the “elektronische Gesundheitskarte Schleswig-Holstein”":http://www.gesundheitskarte-sh.de
- HPC-Specification V2.3.2 Part1: Commands, Algorithms and Functions of the COS Platform
- HPC-Specification V2.3.2 Part2: HPC Applications and Functions
- HPC-Specification V2.3.2 Part3: SMC Applications and Functions
- HPC Use-Cases
- eGK-Specification V2.3.2 Part1: Kommandos, Algorithmen und Funktionen der Betriebssystemplattform
- eGK-Specification V2.3.2 Part2: HBA – Anwendungen und Funktionen
- eGK-Specification V2.3.2 Part3: SMC – Anwendungen und Funktionen