eRezept App

Introduction

Prescriptions for medicines that are only available in pharmacies can be issued as electronic prescriptions (e-prescriptions resp. E-Rezepte) for people with public health insurance from 1 July 2021. The official gematik E-Rezept App (electronic prescription app) is available to receive and redeem prescriptions digitally. Anyone can download the app for free:

Download E-Rezept on the App StoreDownload E-Rezept on the PlayStoreDownload E-Rezept on the App Gallery

and login with the health card of the public health insurance. In July 2021, the e-prescription will start with a test phase, initially in the focus region Berlin-Brandenburg. The nationwide rollout will follow three month later in the fourth quarter.

The e-prescriptions are stored in the telematics infrastructure, for which gematik is responsible.

Visit our FAQ page for more information about the e-prescription.

Support & Feedback

For endusers and insurant:

E-Rezept Webseite eMail E-Rezept E-Rezept Support Telephone

Members of the health-industrie with functional questions

eMail E-Rezept Team

IT specialists

eMail E-Rezept Fachportal eMail E-Rezept Team

Data Privacy

You can find the privacy policy for the app at: https://www.das-e-rezept-fuer-deutschland.de/app/datenschutz

Licensing

Copyright 2021-2025 gematik GmbH

EUROPEAN UNION PUBLIC LICENCE v. 1.2

EUPL © the European Union 2007, 2016

See the LICENSE for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License

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Development

Getting started

run $ make setup to start developing locally. This will make sure all the dependencies are put in place and the Xcode-project will be generated and/or overwritten.

You’ll need a running implementation of IDP and FD. A reference implementation for IDP and FD is available.

Documentation for setting up the entire system will be available at a later date.

Project setup

The Xcode-project is generated using xcodegen. The more complex build configuration(s) is done with the help of Fastlane. See the ./fastlane directory for full setup.

The App uses Apple’s Combine.framework for operation scheduling. The UI-Layer is built with The Composable Architecture ♥️ and SwiftUI ♥️. Minimum platform requirements are: MacOS 11 and iOS 14.0

Modularization

The app is composed of several modules:

  • eRpApp is the iOS front-end (consumer facing) eRezept App.
  • eRpKit bundles all non platform specific business logic.
  • eRpLocalStorage and eRpRemoteStorage serve as the FHIR communication module to send and request all the eRezept resources and store them locally.
  • Pharmacy handles communication with the Pharmacy API.
  • FHIRClient powers eRpRemoteStorage and Pharmacy by providing a generic FHIR interface (see FHIR for more information about the FHIR standard).
  • HTTPClient provides the interface for HTTP communication within the project.
  • IDP is used for authentication against the eHealth network.
  • VAU provides an encrypted communication channel with the eHealth network.
  • TrustStore validates trust with a given trust anchor and handles ocsp responses.

You can find more documentation about each module here.

Generated Source

We use sourcery to generate some data structures. Run $ sourcery to update generated code. The compiler will tell you, if you need to update the generated code by running sourcery in most cases. As sourcery is used as a weak (generated code is checked in, CI is not executing sourcery) dependency, you have to install sourcery manually by running $ brew install sourcery.

Build iOS app for release

Run $ make build

Note: make sure you’ve ran $ make setup before and have code-signing setup for your local (or ci-build) build.

Functional Requirements

The underlying requirements can be found within the Gematik Fachportal. Search for “E-Rezept Frontend des Versicherten”.

A mapping of these requirements can be found within the documentation. To generate the mapping from requirements to implementation run bundle exec fastlane list_requirements.