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The flexibility of healthcare in the Netherlands is increasing. This, however, requires collaboration among healthcare providers, such as your General Practitioner (GP), pharmacist and specialists. It is essential for healthcare providers to be able to share medical information quickly and securely. This helps reduce the risk of treatment errors. Moreover, your healthcare provider will always have the latest information about you.
Healthcare providers in many regions of the Netherlands have already been sharing information electronically for some time now. The exchange of information among healthcare providers throughout the Netherlands will now be possible. Healthcare providers will soon connect to the national electronic health record (EPD). The EPD will enable the healthcare provider treating you to consult your current information quickly and easily.
GP practices, GP after-hours surgeries, pharmacies and hospitals will be the first to use the national EPD system. The law will ultimately require healthcare providers to be linked to the EPD system. The proposed new law is currently being debated by the Lower House of the Dutch Parliament. Both the Upper and Lower Houses must approve the new law first of all. Only then can the national EPD system be implemented.
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12 January 2009
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