Public Report
eHealth priorities and strategies in European countries

Publications

Deliverables

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Fact sheet brochure

The eHealth ERA project compiled fact sheets of eHealth priorities and strategies in European countries. In April 2007, the European Commission published them in a brochure. This comprehensive overview charts eHealth in the 27 EU Member States and 5 other European countries. It shows the engagement of each individual country to bring forward the eHealth agenda in Europe, initiated in 2004 with the European eHealth action plan.

Click here to download the brochure

Leaflet

The eHealth ERA project leaflet can be downloaded here.

The eHealth ERA project partners continuously inform the project’s target groups about project output in order to ensure the efficient use of its results.

Target groups

The main target groups of the project are the following:

eHealth strategy and roadmap planners, managers and deployers: e.g., public authorities and their committees, centres of excellence, and experts,
eHealth RTD community,
eHealth appliers: healthcare professionals, hospitals and insurers,
eHealth end-users: general public, i.e. citizens and patients.

The eHealth ERA project has been presented on numerous occasions, and a number of scientific publications is available.

Presentations (selected)

National Conference Telemedicine 2007, Warsaw, Poland, 20-21 July 2007, theme "the prospects for development of e-health services in the environment of economy transformation in countries of Central Europe”: presentation of eHealth ERA results
IX National Congress of Health Informatics (SEIS), Madrid, Spain, March 2007. Presentation on “Patient Empowerment: Health at Web 2.0", including findings from eHealth ERA Priority Topic Cluster 2 report.
World of Health IT, Geneva, Switzerland, October 2006: session about findings from eHealth ERA Priority Topic Cluster 1, patient summaries.
High Level eHealth Conference, Malaga, 12 May 2006: The European Innovation-oriented eHealth RTD Report Progress & Interim Results. Presentation to the project’s Co-ordination Committee.
Australian Health-e Nation Conference: Presentation of eHealth ERA and EU eHealth RTD and Framework Programme to Australian Government institutions and research institutes, Melbourne, 6 April 2006.
J.L. Monteagudo. “eHealth in Europe and Spain”. Invited Conference. Technical Forum of the National Health Informatics Society (SEIS). 27 Oct 2005. Ciudad Real. Spain
European Health Forum Gastein, 5 - 8 October 2005, Bad Gastein, Austria. The eHealth ERA project organised two sessions: “eHealth infostructures for tomorrow’s health systems – the EU eHealth Action Plan and beyond; “health information strategies for European citizens – the Member States activities”.
European eHealth Strategy Development Workshop (supporting member states) of the Working Group on Information and eHealth of the High Level Group on Health Care and Medical Services, DG SANCO, on Sept. 16 2005 at the Dutch Ministry of Health in The Hague.
FP6 Concertation meeting, Brussels, 08. Sept., 2005
European Medical Informatics Conference 2005, Geneva, August 29, 2005
HINE Industry Advisory Board, May 30, Diegem/Brussels
Third High-level Ministerial eHealth 2005 Conference, Tromsø, Norway, May 23-24, 2005
Bulgaria / Romania eHealth conference in Sofia/Bulgaria, May 12-13, 2005
Statutory and Complementary Social Insurance in Europe – Dealing with the increase of relevant risks such as health, occupational Injury, disability and long term care on a European scale, European Association of Paritarian Institutions of Social Protection (AEIP) Conference, Brussels, April 21, 2005.
Issues and Actions on eHealth in Greece, National seminar - Greek eBusiness Forum, April 12, 2005, Athens, Greece.
WHO/EC Workshop on Semantic Interoperability, Brussels, Feb. 14-15, 2005.
European eHealth interoperability projects co-ordination meeting; Amsterdam, 14 January 2005.

Publications

Doupi P, Hämäläinen P, Ruotsalainen P. eHealth in Europe: Towards higher goals. World Hospitals and Health Services 2005; 41 (2):35-39.
J. L. Monteagudo: “Impacto de la Sociedad del Conocimiento y la Información en el Sistema Sanitario” in “Un nuevo Contrato Social para un Sistema Nacional de Salud Sostenible” Ed. JR. Repullo and L.A. Oteo. Ariel. Pp 253-264 Sep 2005 Madrid. (Book chapter)
J. L. Monteagudo: “Construyendo nuestro futuro”. Diario Medico. Jueves, 30 Junio 2005. pag 35. (Medical Newspaper free distributed to over 50.000 professionals daily)