After the AMMD set an ultimatum to both ministers, Lenert responded by saying she would not be blackmailed by the association and its demands, which were ‘non-lieu’ anyway, she said.
The dispute goes back to an app that the AMMD had developed with a partner company DHN (Digital Health Network). The app should enable patients to pay bills, share lab results and download prescriptions. The software development cost them €4 million.
In its ultimatum, the AMMD demands that the electronic signature developed by DHN would be approved for official use. Furthermore, that all documentation, from prescriptions to medical certificates, must be authorised for transfer to the E-Santé Agency.
DHN would also like to benefit from the financial support announced by minister Haagen at the end of April, amounting to €2.1 million.
But it was never agreed that AMMD should have exclusivity on the Luxembourg market with its software. Another company is competing as well, and for both exploiters the same financial compensations would apply, minister Lenert said.
This amounts to €625 per cabinet for the operator who installs the software. This would amount to a total of €2.1 million.
Both the financial incentives and the willingness to agree on the electronic signature had already been decided before the AMMD ultimatum, Lenert clarified.
The minister responded to the ultimatum with the fact that the app from DHN had not had the hoped-for success so far and that there would now be competition.
