Romania’s “digital health wallet” blocked on launch day
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- Romania’s newly launched e-Sănătatea Mea health platform experienced technical problems from its first day of operation.
- Users reported server errors, authentication failures and repeated problems verifying their identities through ROeID.
- The platform was designed as a single access point for medical histories, reimbursed services and electronic interactions with the health insurance system.
Romania’s new “digital health wallet” ran into trouble from its first day, with users unable to complete registration or access key services.
The e-Sănătatea Mea platform launched on Sept. 1 with the promise of giving patients a single place to consult their medical history, view reimbursed services and interact electronically with the national health insurance system. The platform includes 12 functional modules.
I logged in through ROeID, the portal looks good aesthetically, surprisingly, then I receive an email saying the password must be changed, followed by a bad host gateway error, typical.
A test of the service encountered problems at several stages. The e-Sănătatea Mea website initially failed to load because of a server error. Registration then stalled inside the ROeID application, which repeatedly failed during biometric identity verification using the phone’s front-facing camera.
It does not work. I have an account and can see prescriptions issued in the past, but nothing else appears.
Users described a range of additional failures. Some reported Cloudflare 502 errors, incomplete insurance histories, password-change loops and accounts that displayed only previously issued prescriptions. Others said the system repeatedly froze during selfie verification.
The National Health Insurance House had presented the platform as an alternative digital tool for accessing health insurance services. The launch problems, however, affected users throughout the registration process rather than at a single point.
It gets stuck in a loop during selfie verification. We will see version two sometime.
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Originally published by Adevărul in Romanian. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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