xShare Adoption Site – Denmark

MEDIQ is an independent consultancy company within health informatics.

We assist central authorities, regions, hospitals and others with specification, procurement, implementation and integration of health IT systems, services and infrastructure.

We have knowledge about the technology, standards, and terminology on one hand and the care processes, care management and organisations on the other.

Care plans provide an overview of the patient’s illness and key values that are significant for treatment and monitoring. The Care plan module can be used as a dialogue tool with the possibility of supporting the patient’s self-care and agreeing goals for the individual patient. Patients’ care plans can be shared with healthcare professionals at hospitals and municipalities via the national eHealth infrastructure, which contributes to coherent and coordinated patient care. 

For patients, shared care plans help to clarify treatment goals and expectations. The alignment of these goals between general practitioners, specialists, and patients is particularly beneficial for chronic disease management, such as COPD or diabetes. By enabling all parties to track progress on agreed objectives, the electronic care plan fosters greater patient engagement and self-management. It provides patients with a clearer overview of their treatment journey, which is crucial in fostering better adherence to prescribed therapies and lifestyle adjustments.  

All 1.700 primary care clinics in Denmark are integrated to the general care plan module. In May 2025 care plans are prepared and maintained for more than 250.000 individual patients with COPD, diabetes type 2 or heart failure. 

Within xShare, Denmark does not demonstrate the Yellow Button functionality for Care Plans. Instead, experience from the Danish implementation has contributed to the xShare proposal for establishing Care Plans as a new Health Information Domain (HID) within the EHDS. This work includes a Care Plan logical model, an xShare Care Plan Implementation Guide and a Care Plan X-Bundle aligned with the evolving European Electronic Health Record Exchange Format (EHRxF).