E-voting, patient files and the like: here too the federal government wants our data

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The federal government wants and must push digitization forward. However, many of the IT projects have been behind schedule for years. The current scandal surrounding the hacker attack at the IT service provider Xplain shows why such projects take time – they have to be 100 percent secure.

This is all the more important when it comes to personal data of citizens. Blick shows the largest IT construction sites in federal Bern and how far they have progressed.

The unpopular patient file

The electronic patient file must contain the paper flow in healthcare and simplify processes. Instead of GPs, hospitals and specialists having to laboriously send information about their patients back and forth, our health data should be stored digitally in a central register.

This dossier already exists. But so far it has received little acceptance from doctors, hospitals and the general public. Since its launch, only 20,000 patients have registered. In addition, doctors and hospitals prefer to use their own systems. Minister of Health Alain Berset (51, SP) is therefore increasing the pressure. Doctors and hospitals will be forced to use it in the future and we patients will have to say no if we do not want such a file.

Security vulnerabilities in e-voting

A no less difficult subject is e-voting. In the future it should be possible to vote electronically. But this project is also progressing slowly. The plan was for two-thirds of cantons to be able to vote electronically by the 2019 election. However, the project was halted prematurely due to security vulnerabilities.

Since this year, tests with e-voting have been allowed again in three cantons. In the vote on June 18, about 65,000 Swiss people abroad were able to cast their vote online for the first time. In the spring, the Federal Chancellery could not yet say when e-voting will be possible across the board.

They did not want an E-ID

The E-ID should make it easier to identify yourself on the Internet in the future. It is really nothing more than the conventional identity card (ID) in digital form. On March 7, 2021, the Swiss said no to the introduction of the electronic identity card. It turned out because of privacy concerns.

As a result, then Minister of Justice Karin Keller-Sutter (59, FDP) decided to take matters into her own hands. Consultations on this continued until the end of last year. However, a concrete bill is not yet available.

Source:Blick