Category: eHealth

  • Important reasons for drawing up a living will; the dear values

    Important reasons for drawing up a living will; the dear values

    The importance of advance directives for adults with capacity to act in Switzerland In the last blog post(link), we talked about living wills in general: the legal basis, the content and scope, but also which problems and critical aspects need to be considered. Today we are going to look at the reasons why it is…

  • The official Swiss Electronic Patient Dossier (EPD)

    Idealistic Fiction or Functional reality? The current version of the EPD – a failure! At least, this seems to be the opinion of a large – not so silent – minority. The following reasons are cited again and again: Another question arises for many: to what extent is the lack of dissemination of the EPD…