At Medica - Siemens exhibiting functional scenario of Germany's healtcare programme

• All the information of a patient is stored in a centralized server.
• The patient card called an eGK serves as a token to authorize the patient to access information from the server.
• HBA is the health professionals card that authorize doctors to access limited information of patients.

This scheme seems to be tighter and more centralized than the French government's "Sesam Vitale"