Using Smart ID Card Readers for the Elderly Health Care Voucher Scheme/為長者醫療券計劃使用智能身份證閱讀器

 Using Smart ID Card Readers for the Elderly Health Care Voucher Scheme/為長者醫療券計劃使用智能身份證閱讀器

Using Smart ID Card Readers for the Elderly Health Care Voucher Scheme

The Elderly Health Care Voucher Scheme (HCVS) has been enhanced since end-July 2023 to allow shared use of Vouchers between spouses who are both voucher recipients, and to enable the use of e-Consent.

Using Smart ID card readers connected to the eHealth System (Subsidies) [eHS(S)] can efficiently pair up eHealth (Subsidies) accounts of spouses who are both eligible elderly persons, thus allowing them to share vouchers. Besides, paperless e-Consent has been introduced for making voucher claims with Smart ID card readers. Smart ID card readers are convenient and easy to use. It helps ensure accurate input of the personal particulars of voucher recipients including their names, date of birth, HKIC Number and date of issue of HKIC into the eHS(S), avoiding human errors in making claims. By adopting e-Consent, you are no longer required to keep paper consent forms, thus saving space and paper. Since the introduction of e-Consent in end-July 2023, Enrolled Healthcare Service Providers (EHCPs) can only use paper consent forms in exceptional circumstances, such as when the chip of the ID card cannot be read or the voucher recipient is a mentally incapacitated person requiring a guardian to sign on the paper consent form, etc. In such circumstances, EHCPs are required to print out or fill in a paper consent form for signing by the voucher recipient (VR) (or the guardian of an incapacitated VR) and retain the signed paper consent until the expiry of seven complete financial years in accordance with clause 51 of the HCVS Definitions, and Terms and Conditions of Agreement.

Every EHCP has already been given a Smart ID card reader upon successful enrolment to any of scheme/programme using the eHS(S) platform. For installation of and using Smart ID card reader, please refer to the eHS(S) manual and eHealth System (Subsidies) FAQs (TP8-TP18). If you wish to obtain a replacement or re-issued Smart ID card reader (such request can only be coped with subject to stock availability), please complete this Form and submit to the Health Care Voucher Division of Department of Health as early as possible.

Department of Health
June 2026

為長者醫療券計劃使用智能身份證閱讀器

長者醫療券計劃已於2023年7月底推出優化措施，包括讓雙方均為醫療券使用者的配偶連結醫健通（資助）戶口共用醫療券，以及引入電子同意書。

使用連接醫健通（資助）系統的智能身份證閱讀器可快捷地為合資格長者夫婦連結醫健通（資助）戶口讓其共用醫療券。此外，以智能身份證閱讀器作出的醫療券申報交易可以電子同意書取代紙本同意書。智能身份證閱讀器不但方便及容易使用，亦能確保醫療券使用者的個人資料包括姓名、出生日期、香港身份證號碼及香港身份證簽發日期能準確無誤地輸入醫健通（資助）系統，有助防止申報時人為出錯。使用電子同意書更可節省保存紙本同意書的空間和紙張。自2023年7月底推行電子同意書後，醫療服務提供者只可以在特殊情況下，例如未能讀取智能身份證的晶片或精神上無行為能力的長者須以監護人代為在紙本同意書上簽署等，才可以使用紙本同意書。在此情況下，醫療服務提供者必須打印或填寫紙本同意書供醫療券使用者(或精神上無行為能力的醫療券使用者的監護人)簽署。醫療服務提供者必須按照《醫療券計劃定義附表及協議的條款和條件》（下稱「協議」）的第51條保存已簽署的紙本同意書至七個完整財政年度完結。

每名成功登記使用醫健通（資助）系統的計劃／項目的醫療服務提供者均已獲發智能身份證閱讀器。有關安裝及使用智能身份證閱讀器的資料，請參閱醫健通（資助）系統用戶手冊及常見問題(TP8-TP18)。如需更換或補發智能身份證閱讀器（有關要求將視乎存貨而作出安排），請盡快填妥此表格並交回衞生署醫療券事務科。

衞生署
2026年6月