German eHBA, eGK

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 this above sentence in 2006 and now we already have 2010 - so be carefull when interpreting the word "soon".

We got eHBA and eGK test cards in 2008 and they were STARCOS 3.0 based. So in order to support these kind of eHBA OpenSC needs a STARCOS 3.0 driver first. If you have informations about eHBAs, please let us know or add a link to the list below:

Information about the german eHBA / eGK:

•  Informations about the "elektronische Gesundheitskarte Schleswig-Holstein"
•  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 V2.2.2 Part1: eGK Spezifikation
•  eGK-Specification V2.2.1 Part2: eGK Anwendungen
•  eGK-Specification V2.2.0 Part3: äußere Gestaltung