Visit of the Serbian Medical Chamber in Germany
Visit of the Serbian Medical Chamber in Germany, Berlin, March 16 th 2010 Membership in the State Medical Chamber of Berlin Communication between the chamber and their members Christoph Röhrig State Medical Chamber of Berlin Department Membership / Vocational training EU- Law and Laws of the State Chamber Günther Jonitz, 25. 02. 2010
Membership in the State Medical Chamber, Berlin The following groups of physicians are members of the State Medical Chamber of Berlin: or else Physicians who practise their profession in the Federal State of Berlin Membership due to the place of work „Berufsausübungsmitgliedschaft“ Physicians who are residents of the Federal State of Berlin, unless they have already become member of another Medical State Chamber Membership due to the place of residence „Wohnsitzmitgliedschaft“ Günther Jonitz, 25. 02. 2010
Membership in the State Medical Chamber of Berlin Mandatory Membership • Membership in one of the State Medical Chambers of the Federal Republic is mandatory for all physicians. • If the necessary requirements for membership are met, membership is founded in the laws. • The physician is either member of the Chamber/s of the federal state/s in which he/ she practises his/her profession, or else, if he/she doesn‘t practise his/her profession, of the State Chamber in the federal state in which he/ she lives • No exemption from mandatory membership exists: There is nearly no possibility to obtain exemption from the requirement of mandatory membership in a State Medical Chamber. Christoph Röhrig 16. 03. 2010
Membership in the State Medical Chamber, Berlin Important Statutory Tasks of the State Medical Chamber • • Representing professional interests: Representing the common interests of all members of the State Chamber Disciplinary power: Supervision of the members of the State Medical Chamber as to their work performance Quality management of postgraduate training and Continuing Medical Education (CME) Arbitration in matters of professional conflicts It is not part of the responsibilities of the State Medical Chamber to issue either full or abridged medical licenses („Approbation“ and „Berufserlaubnis“). This falls into the responsibility of the regional administrative bodies of the Department of Health. Christoph Röhrig 16. 03. 2010
Membership in the State Medical Chamber, Berlin Internal information management framework current status • To fulfil it‘s statutory tasks the chamber is reliant on an efficient data collection and data processing • Because of that the members are bounded by law to give to the chamber the required data information (compulsory registration) • Current information pathes: letter, mail, phone • The data are collected into a central internal information management framework • The data framework is the essential fundament for all tasks of the chamber relating to a member (f. e. enforcement of the disciplinary power or payment of membership dues) Christoph Röhrig 16. 03. 2010
Membership in the State Medical Chamber, Berlin Internal information management framework current status • The chamber is using a standard enterprise ressource planing software (ERP-Software) • The software was developped in Denmark and called „Navision“ • In 2002 the enterprise was adsorbed by Microsoft and now the software is called „Microsoft Dynamics Nav“ • The software is disdtributed by microsoft sales and marketingpartners, who adapt it to the enterprises internal processes Christoph Röhrig 16. 03. 2010
Membership in the State Medical Chamber, Berlin Service Portal: The aims • Implementation of electronic communication processes instead of the classical • Reduction of the administration effort and the administration costs • Comfort and additional benefit for the members • Temporal flexibility for all the participants of the communication or administration process • Rapid provision of information in the essential scopes Christoph Röhrig 16. 03. 2010
Membership in the State Medical Chamber, Berlin The essential elements of a Service-Portal Unidirectional Bidirectional Public Content Management System Application Server • Not personalized contents and offers for members, patients and others • Personalized informations and transactions exclusively for members • Unprotected for everyone availabe • protected Christoph Röhrig 16. 03. 2010
Membership in the State Medical Chamber, Berlin A successful Service-Portal !? The success of the service-portal will depend on attractive informations and transactions, f. e. • Inspection and changing of recorded personal data • Inspection of the chamber‘s documentary management system (important documents, examination records) • Initiating of administrative proceedings (to make applications) • Asking for the current status of an application • Receipt of chamber decicions abandoning an administrative proceeding Christoph Röhrig 16. 03. 2010
Membership in the State Medical Chamber, Berlin Service-Portal: Necessary and advisable tools • flexible software elements • open-source-applicationsserver • acquisition of the source-code Christoph Röhrig 16. 03. 2010
Membership in the State Medical Chamber, Berlin Service-Portal: Necessary tools How to protect data and create a legal access? software-solution hardware-solution username signature-card & password Christoph Röhrig 16. 03. 2010
Membership in the State Medical Chamber, Berlin Service-Portal Advantages of signature-cards • the user can authenticate (verificate) himself • the user can encrypt informations • legally binding signatures can be done with it Because of these three essential functions signature-cards can be implemented whereever is a need to exchange sensible information Christoph Röhrig 16. 03. 2010
Membership in the State Medical Chamber, Berlin Signature-cards in Germany Using signature-cards is forced by german policy and law • The new german identy-card f. e. will include the possibility to apply signature-functions • The medical chambers are bounded by law to give so called „Health professional cards“ to their members because there is a public interest in an efficient and assured way of data communication between physician and patient Christoph Röhrig 16. 03. 2010
Membership in the State Medical Chamber, Berlin Communication between the chamber and their members • We hope, that using signature-cards will professionalize the data communication between physician and patient • We also hope, that using the cards will improve considerably the Communication between the chamber and their members Christoph Röhrig 16. 03. 2010
Thank you ! Christoph Röhrig 16. 03. 2010
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