While they were as of August 16, to use direct immediate payment (PID), the milestone of 600 doctors has now been exceeded, according to a parliamentary response from the Minister of Health, (CSV), made to the LSAP deputies et . Around 20% of services are paid via this payment process. As a reminder, in 2022, Luxembourg had 2,762 approved doctors. The figure is therefore increasing, but there are still many doctors to convince.
The parliamentary question related to a recent press release from the CNS published on November 4, in which it indicated having taken over the digital solution Digital Health Network (DHN), “which was commissioned and largely financed by the Association of Physicians and Physicians- dentists (AMMD). What conditions have been set for this resumption of the DHN by the CNS? How much is the amount of a possible financial transaction?”, asked the LSAP deputies.
4.8 million euros for the acquisition of the DHN system
“On April 15, 2024, the company DHN informed the CNS of its decision to permanently cease all its activities. DHN proposed to CNS the voluntary transfer of all of its assets. (…) The CNS has expressed its interest in acquiring the DHN system, subject to the legal conditions imposed. Before taking a position, however, the CNS had to carry out technical and financial analyses, as well as an evaluation to verify whether the DHN system effectively met its needs. (…) On the basis of this work and its conclusions, the CNS board of directors decided to settle on October 30, 2024 for an amount of 4.8 million euros for the acquisition of the “all assets relating to the DHN solution, including those linked to the use of an electronic signature,” replied the Minister of Health.
The CNS set up the PID, which lacked the DHN digital solution developed in parallel under the responsibility of the AMMD. This solution makes it possible to involve the patient in the PID process by giving him the possibility of validating the bill of fees, paying his personal share and triggering payment by the CNS. In addition to the PID, the DHN solution was designed for the exchange of any other electronically signed health document such as prescriptions, certificates of incapacity for work or dental quotes between doctors, patients and the CNS. Ultimately, more than 15 million electronically signed documents will pass through this tool between the different players in the health sector.
“There are no plans to maintain two separate applications (CNS and DHN). The DHN architecture will be adopted in order to integrate existing applications. The documents passing through the final tool will, if necessary, be transferred to other applications such as the DSP, for example,” it is specified in the parliamentary response from Martine Deprez.
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