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Why is there suddenly a Fast-Track, how is digitalisation perceived by physicians, health insurers, hospitals, and patients? What other digitisation projects are pending in the German healthcare system?

Until 2016, there was no viable way to get digital health application (DiGA) into the statutory health insurance market. Since 2018, a broad array of digital legislation has been passed and brought into its implementation phases. Some statutory health insurers have been piloting digital health applications for longer than other players, but they have mainly done so out of marketing budgets and in the absence of proper regulation. The remaining players tend to be skeptical, in part because technology in the healthcare system did not always deliver what it promised. In addition to the introduction of DiGA, electronic patient record (ePA) infrastructure for all statutorily insured individuals (> 70 million Germans) was launched in 2021, which could establish a new digital health ecosystem. And then in 2022, electronic prescribing (e-prescription) will be introduced nationwide.