Digital health card makes everyday life easier for millions of Danes

Denmark aims to be one of the world’s most digital societies. At the same time citizens expect easy, secure and mobile access to public services.

The physical health card had long been part of daily life but no longer matched a reality where people increasingly rely on their smartphone as their primary tool.

“Many Danes are used to keeping their most important things on their mobile. With both the driving license and the health card as apps it will soon no longer be necessary to carry physical cards.” René Stampe Lund, Industry Lead Public at Twoday

The Danish Agency for Digital Government needed a secure, scalable and user friendly solution that could:

• Act as a voluntary supplement to the plastic card
• Meet high requirements for data security and stable operation
• Be implemented efficiently and in line with existing public infrastructure

Twoday developed the digital health card app in close collaboration with the Danish Agency for Digital Government.

The solution is built on the same technical platform as the digital driving  license, making it possible to reuse existing security and data handling components. This reduced development time and complexity without compromising quality or compliance.

A dedicated agile team including a project manager, Scrum Master, developers and testers ensured an efficient process with close coordination between authorities and stakeholders.

The result is a stable and secure app that  gives citizens direct access to their health card whenever they need it.