Health Insurance Firm Commissions Digital Identity Management

German health insurance firm BARMER has commissioned T-Systems and Verimi to provide and manage the digital identities of its 8.7 million policyholders. The contract has a term of seven years, and the companies have not disclosed the contract value.

T-Systems, which is part of Deutsche Telekom AG, relies on the Verimi ID Wallet to provide the digital identities of policy holders. The ID Wallet has already been approved by the German Federal Office for Information Security as a secure procedure. T-Systems operates the service in its Open Telekom Cloud, which includes three data centres to provide protection and zero-outage for the ID service.

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As patient records are becoming increasingly digitised, so the smartphone is becoming an electronic health insurance card, with policy holders receiving a digital twin of their insurance cards on their smartphones. The digital identities, managed by T-Systems and Verimi, will allow clients to access their medical data and use the app running on the smartphone as proof of insurance.