www.ePractice.eu is the one stop place for the exchange of advice, experience, events and stories on practices of eGovernment, eInclusion and eHealth, offering the most complete information and exchange opportunities for these specialities in Europe. Real life cases, insight and lessons learnt are shared among eGovernment, eInclusion or eHealth practitioners. Thus, ePractice represents a real bridge between these communities, as there is a high potential of interesting lessons to be learnt on all sides.
There is a growing presence of eHealth practical cases in the portal, and our aim is to involve the eHealth community actively in the ePractice exchange. In order to foster this increasing area, ePractice.eu has created a special information page for the eHealth community.
In case you are an eHealth practitioner we strongly encourage you to sign up to ePractice.eu and submit your experience.
Selected eHealth cases:
• TeleMed-ESCAPE - Telemedicine - Electronic Signature in Care Activities for Paper Elimination, Roberto Rigoli (Treviso Health Care Unit ULSS9)
• NSSI-Health - Up-to-date health insurance status, Marin Kaltchev (The National Social Security Institute)
• e-card in Austria: health card and citizen card for a modern administration, Simone Polzer (Hauptverband der Österreichischen Sozialversicherung)
In the meantime – on this page you will find some key references on eHealth, of experiences and news, which hopefully are useful to you. The following are eHealth related interesting links:
- www.ec.europa.eu/information_society/ehealth
The aim of ICT for Health (also known as eHealth) is to significantly improve the quality, access and efficacy of healthcare. ICT for Health describes the application of information and communications technologies across the whole range of functions that affect the health sector. The European Commission has been supporting research activities in ICT for Health for the last two decades. This has placed Europe in a leading position in the use of regional health networks, electronic health records in primary care and deployment of health cards. These developments have contributed to the emergence of an “eHealth industry”, which has the potential of becoming the third largest industry in the health sector, after the pharmaceutical industry and the medical device and imaging industry. By 2010, eHealth spending may account for up to 5% of the total health budget of the European Union’s Member States. - www.good-ehealth.org
This page brings together a series of good practices in eHealth, analysing lessons learnt and associated benefits. One of the project’s objectives is to develop lessons learnt from proven approaches and see into their transferability. Furthermore it aims at stimulating and fostering the up-take of eHealth by addressing the common challenges of eHealth implementation. Here interesting practical case studies on eHealth can be found, with an analysis of their lessons learnt. The Project is managed by Deloitte Belgium, in cooperation with Empirica, Germany. - www.ehealth-impact.org
This page contains a whole series of case studies and good practices around eHealth from EU Member States across all important fields, and some in depth case studies. The objectives of the project are to develop assessment and evaluation frameworks and methods, including quantitative indicators for eHealth products and services. Furthermore it aims at identifying good practice examples of e-health applications across Member States which have relevance in the domain of this study; applying method and measurement tools to pilot sites and making the assessment method and tools generally available online. - www.ehealth-era.org
The objective of the eHealth ERA project is to contribute to the coordination of Member States’ eHealth strategy formulation and implementation as well as eHealth-related Research and Technology Development (RTD). The project surveys and analyses eHealth roadmaps and RTD programmes across Europe, identifies common priority issues, and develops a roadmap for joint actions. The project will recommend sustainable mechanisms for effective transnational cooperation between all or several of the participating states for their mutual benefit. Thereby eHealth ERA aims at establishing an effective European Research Area (ERA) in eHealth. It also supports the achievement of the European eHealth Action Plan, which has the goal to share best eHealth practices and to measure progress as well as to address common challenges and to foster pilot actions. - Legally eHealth
The Legally eHealth study was undertaken to make a comprehensive analysis of the legal issues related to eHealth. It tries to make sense on how EU-level legislation applies to eHealth. The entire report can be found at the European Health Management Association – www.ehma.org
In order to stay up to date with the latest news in eHealth, ePractice.eu has selected the following newsletters for you:
- ICT for Health newsletter
The newsletter on eHealth hosted by the EC Information Society Newsroom, looking into the way Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are changing the way medicine is practiced from diagnosis to follow up. This monthly newsletter looks at all of these issues, exploring the wealth of technological developments in the field. - Health EU e-newsletter
The Health-EU e-newsletter provides a selection of the latest news and activities in the field of public health at both European and international level. It will give you the latest information in 20 of the EU's official languages, including:
- healthcare action at EU level
- future events and conferences on public health
- latest publications
- new links on the EU Health portal
- Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) newsletter
The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) is the premier professional member organisation exclusively focused on providing leadership for the optimal use of healthcare information technology.
The HIMSS mission is to lead change in the healthcare information and management systems field through knowledge sharing, advocacy, collaboration, innovation and community affiliations. HIMSS EMEA brings this mission to Europe, Middle East and Africa.
For further information, please contact
- Corinne Wenner: http://www.epractice.eu/people/1605
