Set up healthid at the AOK: This is how it works

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February 02, 2025 at 8:00 p.m.

You are insured with one of the AOKs and want to set up your healthid? We show you how it works and what you need for it.

• The healthid serves as a personal identification number on the smartphone. You can digitally identify yourself with her in the healthcare system.
• AOK insured persons receive the healthid by downloading the AOK AOK IDENT.
• You need the healthide with AOK Ident, among other things, to access the e-recipe and the electronic patient files in the AOK my life app.

Can you imagine not having to show a health card at the doctor in the future because you can digitally identify yourself with your smartphone? That should go with the healthid from 2026. You can already use the service for many healthcare services. AOK customers can also set up a healthide – we show how it works.

This is how you get the healthid at the AOK

In order to get the healthide from one of the eleven AOK health insurance companies, you need the AOK IDENT app. It is available free of charge for Android and iOS. To use the app, you need a smartphone on which at least Android 9.0 or iOS 15.0 is installed and which has an NFC function.

You also need a screen lock. After installing the app, you can set up your healthide directly and have to confirm an email address in the first step and award a healthid code.

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The first step is then taken. In the second step you have to confirm your identity with an identification method. This can be done with the online ID or the electronic health card as well as the associated PIN, or with a postident.

Once you have done this, you can still select whether biometry (fingerprint, face recognition) should be used to release registrations. Then you can use the healthid directly to register my life at the AOK AOK.

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