Change history of the service

planned updates

Attention

Due to recurring clean-up work, test e-prescriptions may lose their actions (history) at any time. The validity of the e-prescriptions is retained.

Any transactions such as partial or full dispensations and locks will be deleted.

If you have any questions or uncertainties on this topic, please contact us: support@hin.ch

2026

April:

• With the release of erxproxy, all startup commands have been updated.
• Lock/Unlock is now listed separately.
• Authentication has been consolidated.
• Broken links have been fixed.

January:

• The description of the visualization service is now online: Visualization
• Endpoint for querying token validity: The query and response Token validity have been adjusted to comply with the official oAuth guidelines.
• The “ADSwiss CI” authentication component has been decommissioned as announced.

2025

December: The return value of the GetTokenInfo endpoints now always returns a HTTP/200 with the boolean "active".

November: The “ADSwiss CI” test environment has been decommissioned. If you have encountered problems with your environment, please contact support: support@hin.ch The description of the new e-prescription visualization service is online.

October: The shutdown of the “AD-Swiss CI” authentication component has been announced for November 30, 2025. The transaction data in the INT environment will be deleted in October. Please take this into account in your tests.

September: The Info Letter No. 2 for developers has been sent to the integrators.

June: The phase out of the “AD-Swiss CI” authentication component is progressing. Users of the component are contacted directly.

February: Separate listing of the migration instructions for the authentication mechanism: https://developers.e-rezept.ch/erezept/en/autmig.html

January: The following documents were published: Visualization guidelines for the Swiss e-prescription: https://e-rezept.ch/ Self-declaration e-prescription Switzerland principles: https://e-rezept.ch/

New lock/block function: Publication of the function at https://developers.e-rezept.ch/erezept/en/locbsp.html

Various corrections were made.

2024

October: The new authentication method for signing e-prescriptions replaces the previous one. There are changes to the configuration for integrators. A summary can be found under Signing/Authentication at the bottom of the page. This only affects pharmacies / POS.

Fall: Planned simplification to the authentication flow. Each integrating party will be informed individually and supported during the migration. July: The site is now available in English. Various typos and content corrections made. April: The "revoke" action is only possible for doctors (unclear documentation has been corrected.

2023

December: New parameter for the "partial dispense" action. To correctly identify the id of the medication, the id type has to be set (substitution_id_type).