Legal analysis: electronic health card is not equal to medical insurance electronic card. Residents' health card is a basic carrier of personal information based on electronic health records, electronic medical records and three-level information platform proposed by "352 1 Project" of national health informatization. It is necessary to realize cross-system, cross-institution and cross-regional interconnection and information sharing of medical and health services, and it is a CPU card that can be recognized by computers. The electronic certificate of medical insurance is issued by the national medical insurance information platform, which is a medical insurance identification electronic medium generated for all insured persons based on the basic medical insurance information base. The electronic certificate adopts real name/real person authentication technology and encryption algorithm to form an electronic logo, which has important characteristics such as safety, reliability and unique authentication. Insured persons can enjoy all kinds of online medical security services through electronic certificate, including medical insurance business handling, medical insurance account inquiry, medical insurance benefits, drug purchase and payment, etc.
Legal basis: Article 2 of the Social Insurance Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) The state establishes social insurance systems such as basic old-age insurance, basic medical insurance, industrial injury insurance, unemployment insurance, maternity insurance, etc., to protect citizens' right to get material help from the state and society according to law in case of old age, illness, industrial injury, unemployment and maternity.