SBK electronic patient record (ePA)
Your health information at hand at all times
With the electronic patient record (ePA), you have all information concerning your health, such as doctor’s letters, medication plans and results, with you at all times. This happens in the SBK-Patientenakte app. You can also share your data e.g. with doctors’ practices, pharmacies and hospitals. You decide who is permitted to see your data. At the start of 2025, every person in Germany with statutory health insurance will automatically be given an electronic patient record (in German the "ePa für alle"). The ePA is voluntary – you can object at any time.
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What is the ePA?
The ePA saves all your important health data safely and digitally. You therefore have access to doctor’s letters, medication plans and results at all times. You choose who you share your data with on an individual basis. You can easily keep your current doctors up to date by giving them access to your ePA.
The “ePA für alle” (ePA for everyone) is part of the Digital-Gesetz (digital act) and is intended to facilitate high-quality care and simple communication. The ePA also offers you a selection of functions. These will be continuously developed, improved and enhanced for you over the coming years.
You can already use these functions with the ePA
Your doctor can set up these documents:
How to use the ePA:
The ePA for everyone is created automatically for you. To use your ePA with the SBK-Patientenakte app, please download the app and identify yourself.
Please note: the app is only available in German right now.
The ePA is a particularly protected platform for your sensitive data. That is why a multi-stage registration process is very important.
Download the SBK-Patientenakte app here:
SBK-Patientenakte app for iOS 16 or higher
SBK-Patientenakte app for Android 10 or higher
Managing the ePA for other people
Would you, as a parent, like to manage the ePA for your underage children or support others in setting up the ePA? In the ePA app, up to five people can be added as representatives. Anyone can do this with a verified ePA app – relatives, friends, mentors and insurants of other health insurance providers. Important changes are documented so that it is always transparent who has performed which action.
You can set yourself as a representative for your own children and therefore see and maintain all important documents. To do so, you need to identify yourself as a legal guardian once at an SBK branch.
Information to download:
The legal information concerning the ePA can be downloaded here. We are obliged to provide you with the original version. This means that the linguistic style and formulations will be more complicated than you are used to from SBK. For legal reasons, the following information is only available in German.
