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The DiGA-Fast-Track is not the only digitalisation project in the German healthcare system. Even more fundamental and potentially impactful will be the finalisation of the domestic telematics infrastructure (TI) and, as its first major application, the electronic patient record (ePA). The ePA has the potential become the missing motherboard of the German healthcare system: a connector through which data flows freely between silos and is analyzed in a structured way, through which patients can decide who gets access to which data, and establishing a missing link between outpatient physicians, pharmacists, hospitals, nurses, and more. As such, this could create a unique, publicly-run digital health ecosystem. Where we are, how Germany’s TI will develop, and what this has to do with DiGA, will be explained in this chapter.