Press & News
January 11, 2007
DAK and ISKV opts for AuthentiDate technology for the electronic health insurance card
Strategic partners start setting up the telematic infrastructure at the second largest German health insurance company - DAK
Düsseldorf – The ISKV, a service provider for more than 200 statutory health insurance companies, is to set up and develop a Card and Application Management System (CAMS) at the DAK in conjunction with the strategic partner AuthentiDate as a subcontractor. The CAMS thus forms the basis for the electronic health insurance card at the second largest health insurance company in Germany.
By setting up its telematic infrastructure in the largest Smart Card project in Europe, the DAK has achieved the greatest progress for itself and its partner health insurance companies so far for the introduction of the electronic health insurance card in Germany.
The ISKV was commissioned to implement various basic components for the extensive project within the context of a Europe-wide invitation to bid. The long-standing strategic partner AuthentiDate is supporting the ISKV particularly in the area of the Card and Application Management System.
The DAK is thus a forerunner for the introduction of the electronic health insurance card. During the project, it will issue more than 6 million Smart Cards. The introduction of the electronic health insurance card makes it possible to optimize processes and thus reduce costs. At the same time, the insured persons benefit from better information networking and they can be served faster, more purposefully and cost-effectively.
The DAK will operate its own Certificate Authority essential for the electronic health insurance card within the telematic infrastructure. The CAMS will be an essential part of this. Among other things it provides the necessary certificates for the members’ health insurance cards and guarantees secure communication between patients, doctors, hospitals and health insurance companies.
The CAMS, among other things, enables the DAK to consolidate data and to manage the members’ health insurance cards. The management of the members’ health insurance cards is the central component for secure communication within the entire Germany-wide telematic infrastructure.
AuthentiDate provides important components for replicating these functionalities of the CAMS as well as the necessary security concept for the DAK. Apart from the establishment of the Certificate Authority (CA - Certificate Authority) for the card-to-card authentication, this also includes the implementation of a complete public key infrastructure for X.509 certificates, which also comprises, among other things, the use of AuthentiDate’s own OCSP responder and validation server.
With the aid of the AuthentiDate components, the DAK can check whether the certificate of an insurance card is valid and whether the card was used lawfully during the visit to the doctor, for example.
AuthentiDate additionally provides the security concepts for the entire Card and Application Management System (CAMS) and the Certificate Authority (CA) on the basis of the ISO Standard 27001.
According to Frank Krause, Managing Director of ISKV, “We are delighted that we, together with our long-standing partner AuthentiDate, can work on such an important and trendsetting project for the DAK. The joint solution of the ISKV and AuthentiDate provides optimal conditions for setting up the necessary infrastructure for introducing the electronic health insurance card quickly and in accordance with requirements “.
About the DAK
The DAK is an institution under public law with self-administration. It is the second largest private health insurance company in Germany with about 4.7 million members, 6.2 million insured persons, approx. 12,000 employees and 900 offices. With a tradition and expertise in national insurance that goes back 230 years, the DAK helps not only in cases of illness. It has primarily taken up the cause in health care. With a choice of nine offers, the DAK wants to reward healthy behavior. In addition, the company is considered to be particularly innovative within the statutory Health Insurance Fund. With supplementary insurance and individual tariffs as well as a large number of contracts of integrated care, it is implementing the health care reform in a consistent manner.
The DAK computer center as an operator of the KAMS was set up in 1962. It provides computer center services for the DAK, HEK, HMK and VdAK. It provides approx. 15,000 end-users with IT services and handles business processes for around 5.2 million members and consists of two simultaneously productive computer centers that function as an online network with mutual failure redundancy.
DAK-Rechenzentrum
Nagelsweg 27-31
20095 Hamburg
Fon +49 (0)40 – 2396 0
Fax +49 (0)40 – 2396 3941
Jörg Porth
Teilprojektleiter KAMS
Email: joerg.porth(at)dak.de
www.dak.de
About ISKV
The ISKV (ARGE Information Systems in the Statutory Health Insurance GmbH) was set up in 1994 as a GmbH with its head office in Essen and currently employs about 300 employees. The annual turnover in 2004 was 34.7 million euros. The company is an affiliation of several types of health insurance funds and is based on the regulations of the § 219 Social Security Statute Book V. The aim of the company is the development, transfer and support of information systems within the Statutory Health Insurance Fund as well as its further development. The information systems are developed in close coordination with the customers via study groups and test groups – staffed by employees from the types of health insurance funds involved.
ISKV
Bismarkstraße 36
45128 Essen
Fon +49 (0)201 – 1094 0
Fax +49 (0)201 – 1094 464
Ralf Dott
Projektleiter DAK KAMS
Email dott(at)iskv.de
www.iskv.de
About AuthentiDate
AuthentiDate, Duesseldorf/Germany, develops and provides vendor independent business-process solutions enabling for the first time anyone to integrate simply and quickly digital signatures and time stamps into existing corporate processing. The unique set of solutions, which can be used for almost any corporate process, i.e. billing, workflow, archiving, scanning and e-mail communication, will help to reduce costs significantly and optimize processing immediately.
Many high profile companies in various industries and governmental organizations using AuthentiDate digital signature solutions for years in Germany, Europe and other countries to substitute paper processing through legally binding, electronic business processes in accordance with international and local legal environments.
For the first time professional signature solutions are available either as boxed products, web services or individual solutions, based upon a common flexible and modular architecture. The elements of the unique offering, available from AuthentiDate Deutschland GmbH, may be used independently or in combination with other solutions. Today, many software vendors already have integrated AuthentiDate’s signature products into their standard offerings. Therefore any organization now may easily benefit from automatic digital signatures processing.
In addition, AuthentiDate International AG offers governmentally certified trust center services in accordance with the German Signature Act and the EU Signature Directive. AuthentiDate International AG was accredited by the German Federal Network Agency (Regulatory Agency for Telecommunications and Postal Affairs) in November of 2001 and operates a trust center especially for time stamp services.
The AuthentiDate Group is also present in USA and is today the sole supplier of the United States Postal Service® Electronic Postmark® (USPS® EPM®), a unique service for secure electronic communication in the USA. AuthentiDate Holding Corp, Inc. (New York) is listed on the NASDAQ (ADAT) and at German stock markets (Security Identification Code 893715).
AuthentiDate International AG
Großenbaumer Weg 6
40472 Düsseldorf
Fon +49 (0)211 43 69 89-50
Fax +49 (0)211 43 69 89-19
Judith Balfanz
VP Marketing
Email presse(at)authentidate.de
www.authentidate.de
