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The Commission has presented a Recommendation for the creation of a secure system that will enable citizens to access their electronic health files across member states. Member states have already started to make some parts of electronic health records accessible and exchangeable across borders.

Since 21 January 2019, Finnish citizens can buy medicines using their ePrescriptions in Estonia and Luxembourgish doctors will be soon able to access the patient summaries of Czech patients.

The recommendations propose that member states extend this work to three new areas of the health record, namely to laboratory tests, medical discharge reports and images and imaging reports. In parallel, the initiative paves the way for development of the technical specifications to be used to exchange health records in each case. For more information see this press release and Questions and Answers.

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