All Catalan citizens will be able to access their personal health file and their individual medication plan at the end of this year via the Internet through idCAT, the digital identifier issued by the Catalan Certification Agency. This service is part of the so-called Health Channel, which aims to facilitate the access of citizens, professionals and organizations to electronic services and resources related to health.
First phase in the Maresme
Joan Guanyabens, CEO of the Agency for Information, Evaluation and Quality in Health and general coordinator of ICT of the ministry, explained that, in the first phase, about 90.000 citizens of the Maresme region can now access the your personal health folder. At the end of this year, the Generalitat intends that all citizens of Catalonia over the age of 18 can have their personal health file available on the Internet.
Certification via mobile
Guanyabens pointed out that the possibility of digital certification being carried out via the mobile phone's SIM card is being studied, in a similar way to when a purchase is made, to make it easier to extend its use and make it easier to use. consultation of personal health data. For the time being, this possibility has been tested on the occasion of the celebration of the World Mobile Congress in Barcelona.