My Health in Europe”: Luxembourg offers first cross-border e-health service under CEF eHDSI  (electronic cross-border health information services)

You are on holiday or on a business trip in Luxembourg, need to go see a doctor and want him to have access to your essential health data? No problem, we can make that happen!

Because Luxembourg provides CEF eHDSI cross-border health services. These services allow your patient summary to be shared with a healthcare professional (doctor or nurse) abroad, or your e-prescription with a pharmacist, while traveling to other EU countries, further to your prior explicit consent.
 

1st cross-border health information service now available in Luxembourg : electronic retrieval of your Patient Summary

Accordingly, a doctor practicing in Luxembourg can ask to receive your Patient Summary from your country of affiliation. This document contains your essential medical information, and will thereby help doctors to formulate an adequate treatment and avoid some possible risk (for instance in case of allergy). Since it is delivered in the doctor’s language, as well as in your country’s language, it also helps to overcome potential linguistic barriers.

Currently Czech, Maltese, Portuguese, Croatien and Estonian citizens can benefit from this service, and in the upcoming months also Cypriotic ones.

Gradually the MyHealth@EU-services will become available to the citizens of all the 22 European Member states participating in the CEF eHDSI programme.

Next eHDSI services provided by Luxembourg 

Luxembourg will soon operate the following MyHealth@EU services:

• sending a Luxembourg citizen’s patient summary to a healthcare professional abroad.
  This will allow the doctor abroad whom the Luxembourg patient consults, to retrieve the latter’s patient summary, further to his prior explicit consent.
• sending an ePrescription - prescribed by a Luxembourg doctor - to a pharmacy abroad so as to allow a Luxembourg citizen to retrieve his medication there.

Other EU countries operating the CEF eHDSI services

The cross-border electronic exchange of Patient Summaries and ePrescriptions are progressively being rolled-out in the following 22 EU countries: Finland, Estonia, Czech Republic, Luxembourg, Portugal, Croatia, Malta, Cyprus, Greece, Belgium, Sweden, Austria, Italy, Hungary, Ireland, Poland, Germany, France, Spain, Slovenia, Lithuania, and the Netherlands. To check the latest state-of-play, please consult the overview of participating countries here.

Patient Information Notice on the Cross-Border Electronic Transfer of the Patient Summary

In order to operate the electronic cross-border exchange of your Patient Summary under the European CEF eHDSI programme, your relevant personal administrative and health related data are being processed by the two parties involved : the healthcare professional you are consulting in Luxembourg and who will receive your Patient Summary, and Agence eSanté in its role of National Contact Point for eHealth who is facilitating the exchange through the secure gateway it provides for this purpose.

To learn more about the storage, transfer and other processing activities of your data in relation with the electronic transfer of your Patient Summary to the Luxembourg healthcare professional, or to obtain information about your data protection rights in this respect, please consult the Patient Information Notice below.