The ePA is not that much of a garbage solution to be honest. It lower bureaucracy a lot and is run and developed by a German based non commerical organization. So both problems of US data storage and security flaws can be fixed. Indeed Gematik has promised to do just that and has actually released some patches making the hacks at least harder. So they are working on the security problems.
The proper solution is to fix the problems, instead the usual German solution is to end the entire project and restart. For software that means years of development and in the end they usually still have security problems, just different ones. Really Germany is way behind in that field and needs to catch up.
But it is not the only area this sort of stuff happens in. Take German railways for example. Probably the best case is the Rheintalbahn, which connects to the Gotthard Base Tunnel in Switzerland. The Swiss managed to drill the longest railway tunnel in the world faster, then Germany managed to built the connection on flat land. That connection is still not fully operational and will remain so for decades. Then you have things like Y-Trasse, which everybody knows is necessary, but nobody wants to give the go ahead.
Another engineering field is the electricity grid. Everybody knows additional power lines are needed between north and south Germany. Those got delayed for ages, due to being “ugly”.
The ePA is not that much of a garbage solution to be honest. It lower bureaucracy a lot and is run and developed by a German based non commerical organization. So both problems of US data storage and security flaws can be fixed. Indeed Gematik has promised to do just that and has actually released some patches making the hacks at least harder. So they are working on the security problems.
The proper solution is to fix the problems, instead the usual German solution is to end the entire project and restart. For software that means years of development and in the end they usually still have security problems, just different ones. Really Germany is way behind in that field and needs to catch up.
But it is not the only area this sort of stuff happens in. Take German railways for example. Probably the best case is the Rheintalbahn, which connects to the Gotthard Base Tunnel in Switzerland. The Swiss managed to drill the longest railway tunnel in the world faster, then Germany managed to built the connection on flat land. That connection is still not fully operational and will remain so for decades. Then you have things like Y-Trasse, which everybody knows is necessary, but nobody wants to give the go ahead.
Another engineering field is the electricity grid. Everybody knows additional power lines are needed between north and south Germany. Those got delayed for ages, due to being “ugly”.
And do not get me started on the Bundeswehr.