egk v1.2.1

node-egk

A Node.js package for reading the unencrypted data from public health insurance cards from germany (eGK) and austria (e-Card)

Installation

• Install Node.js
• Install PCSC Lite. On Debian/Ubuntu systems this can be done using apt install libpcsclite1 libpcsclite-dev pcscd.
• npm install egk

Supported card readers

This library was written and tested using the Identiv uTrust 2770 R but should work with any reader that provides a PC/SC driver.

Usage

See example/index.js for a full example on how to use this module. Basically, you just have to subscribe to a "card was inserted"-event and call getInsurantData when it occurs:

const eGKReader = require('egk');
const egk = new eGKReader();

egk.on('card-connect', async (reader, atr) => {    
    try {
        // Note that this library uses promises/async&await for asynchronous operations and does not 
        // provide a callback. 
        const data = await egk.getInsurantData(atr, "DE");
        // do stuff
    } catch (err) {
        console.log("Error: ", err);
    }
});

This results in a JSON object representing the insurants data:

{
   "cardType":"egk",
   "insurantId":"P123456789",
   "dob":"19881005",
   "firstName":"Max",
   "lastName":"Musterman",
   "sex":"M",
   "street":"Musterstr.",
   "houseNumber":"1",
   "zipCode":"12345",
   "city":"Musterstadt",
   "country": "DE"
}

API

Events

Functions