The initial ultimatum that the Association set for the government expired on Wednesday - and Minister of Health Paulette Lenert had already made clear that government would not be blackmailed by ways of an ultimatum. The breaking point of the dispute lies in the development of a piece software, the Digital Halth Network (DHN), which the AMMD commissioned and financed for €4 million.
Since the AMMD believes that the government is blocking this avenue in favour of its own platform, the ‘File for Shared Treatments’ (DSP), they threatened to cancel a number of conventions made with the National Health Fund (CNS) and further recuse themselves from every commission.
The latest encounter ended with the AMMD handing over a list of 30 questions to Minister of Health Paulette Lenert and Minister of Social Security Claude Haagen. On Wednesday evening, both the AMMD and the ‘éSanté’, the CNS department in charge of digitalisation, sat down once more for a talk in hopes of finding a solution.
Although both politicians provided answers to the 30 questions, the ultimatum is not yet off the table, says AMMD vice president Dr Philippe Wilmes. However, it has now been prolonged up until the next general assembly of the Association in June.
