The digital healthcare app saga continues between the Affiliation of Docs and Dentists (AMMD), Minister of Well being Paulette Lenert, and Minister of Social Safety Claude Haagen.
After the AMMD set an ultimatum to each ministers, Lenert responded by saying she wouldn’t be blackmailed by the affiliation and its calls for, which had been ‘non-lieu’ anyway, she mentioned.
The dispute goes again to an app that the AMMD had developed with a associate firm DHN (Digital Well being Community). The app ought to allow sufferers to pay payments, share lab outcomes and obtain prescriptions. The software program growth value them €4 million.
In its ultimatum, the AMMD calls for that the digital signature developed by DHN could be accepted for official use. Moreover, that each one documentation, from prescriptions to medical certificates, should be authorised for switch to the E-Santé Company.
DHN would additionally like to profit from the monetary help introduced by minister Haagen on the finish of April, amounting to €2.1 million.
But it surely was by no means agreed that AMMD ought to have exclusivity on the Luxembourg market with its software program. One other firm is competing as properly, and for each exploiters the identical monetary compensations would apply, minister Lenert mentioned.
This quantities to €625 per cupboard for the operator who installs the software program. This may quantity to a complete of €2.1 million.
Each the monetary incentives and the willingness to agree on the digital signature had already been determined earlier than the AMMD ultimatum, Lenert clarified.
The minister responded to the ultimatum with the truth that the app from DHN had not had the hoped-for success up to now and that there would now be competitors.
