General practice in Belgium

In Belgium, the practice works with the patient’s NISS and mutuality, and with the eHealth and MyCareNet services that a doctor calls in their own name. WideCare installs them with the practice.

Before you start

The eHealth services are called in your name, as a doctor. Before the first call:

  • Your eHealth certificate: the personal certificate (.p12) the eHealth platform issues to you as a doctor. Import it as your eHealth identity.

  • Your eID card: a card reader, the Belgian eID software and the WideCare eID reader on your workstation. Once a day, the card signs you in to eHealth.

  • The access to the MyCareNet services you use: insurability, eAttest, DMG, eFact.

See eHealth identity and eID sign-in.

Test mode

The approvals of WideCare for the general practitioners’ MyCareNet services are in preparation. As long as Stub Mode (Development) is ticked in Settings, on the eHealth tab, the insurability and DMG answers are simulated: nothing leaves WideCare. The eAttest has its own test mode, shown by a Stub ribbon on the attestation. Keep them on until your practice goes live.

What Belgium adds to the Practice app

Menu

What it opens

Insurability

The insurability checks (MDA) of your patients.

Attestations

The eAttest: the electronic attestations of care given.

Global Medical File

Consultations of the DMG register and DMG Notifications.

eID sign-in

Your daily eHealth sign-in with your eID card.

Elsewhere:

  • eHealth → Configuration → My eHealth identity: your certificate;

  • eHealth → eFact per act: the third-party payment files;

  • Invoicing → Customers → INAMI Nomenclature: the codes, fees and personal shares.

What’s next