The patient’s file in Belgium

The Belgian patient card carries what the mutualities and the eHealth services ask for: the NISS, the mutuality and the answers of the insurability check.

The NISS

The NISS sits on the Identity tab, before the date of birth. It identifies the patient for life, at the mutuality and in every eHealth service: an eAttest cannot be sent for a patient without it.

Read the eID card

The card fills in the identity from the chip: name, NISS, date of birth, gender, nationality, place of birth, address and photo.

  1. Insert the patient’s card in the reader.

  2. On the patient card, click Contact, next to the name.

  3. Click Read eID Card at the top of the contact record.

  4. Wait for the message: reading takes up to 30 seconds.

The eID Card tab of the contact record keeps the card’s number, its chip number and its validity dates.

Create the patient in Practice → Patients first: a contact created from the card alone is not yet a patient of the practice.

Health insurance

The Identity tab shows a Health Insurance group:

  • Insurance Regime: Standard (Belgian mutuelle), or a special regime;

  • Health Insurance: the patient’s mutuality, and the Insurance Member Code;

  • Mutuality Code (MDA), CT1 (Holder Code) and CT2, as the mutuality answered;

  • MDA Insured, BIM Status and Last MDA Check, filled in by the insurability check.

The insurability on the card

At the top of the card, a banner says what the last check found:

  • Insurance eligibility not verified: no check yet;

  • Resident not insured: the last check found no insurability;

  • Resident hospitalised, or Palliative status, when the mutuality said so.

The button Verify Insurability asks the mutuality now; the MDA History button lists the checks. See Insurability (MDA).

When the mutuality reported them, the card also shows the Reference Pharmacy, the DMG Holder and the Palliative Status.

The global medical file

The DMG button of the card opens the questions asked to the DMG register for this patient. See Global medical file (DMG).

What’s next