A step towards the electronic EHIC

The initial deployment phase of NETC@RDS project is now under way. This is aimed at achieving the widest implementation of an online service for the announced electronic European Health Insurance Card (eEHIC). The existing service, already successfully tested – market validation phase – in 85 pilots across 10 EU Member States, will be progressively extended to enable “non-planned” health care access for European mobile citizens who provide evidence of entitlement in any of the 305 project service sites across the 15 participating European countries. Among these, new service points at Hôpital Saint-Roch in Nice (France) and in the Lörrach area (Germany, French/Swiss border), involving 5 ambulatories care and 2 hospitals, have been recently inaugurated.