# German eHBA, eGK

Sometime in the future all german physicians and apothecaries will be equipped with a smartcard, the so called eHBA (elektronischer Heilberufeausweis). And all german citizens that are a member of a public health insurance company (gesetzliche Krankenkasse) will get a similar card, the so called eGK (elektronische Gesundheitskarte). This means that virtually every german citizen will have a smartcard soon (actually I wrote this sentence in 2006, so be carefull when interpreting the word "soon").

We do have eHBA test cards and they are StarCos 3.0 based. So in order to support these kind of eHBA we do need a StarCos 3.0 driver first. If you have informations about eHBAs, please let us know or add a link to the list below:

We also got eGK test cards but so far I had no time to test them. If you are interested, please contact me.

Information about the german eHBA / eGK:

- Informations about the "elektronische Gesundheitskarte Schleswig-Holstein"
- HPC-Specification V2.3.1 Part1: Commands, Algorithms and Functions of the COS Platform
- HPC-Specification V2.3.1 Part2: HPC Applications and Functions
- HPC-Specification V2.3.1 Part3: SMC Applications and Functions
- HPC Use-Cases
- eGK-Specification V2.2.2 Part1: eGK Spezifikation
- eGK-Specification V2.2.1 Part2: eGK Anwendungen
- eGK-Specification V2.2.0 Part3: äußere Gestaltung

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- HPC-Image.gif (18.1 KB) - added by pk 11 months ago. Image of german eHBA and eGK