Creating European Infrastructure for

health data exchange

Tapani Piha

Head of Unit

Cross-Border Healthcare and eHealth

Patient can access cross-borders

their prescriptions & summary health data

Connecting EU Member States

@Tapani_Piha @EU_Health

@EU_eHealth

Connecting Member States for

health data exchange

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Hospitals

GPs

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2014-2015

Maintain and develop

interoperability assets,

handover to CEF

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2013-2015

Use common IT building

blocks in different public

policy areas

2008-2014

Pilot the service infrastructure

for cross-border health

eHDSI under CEF 2015 ->

Rely on the eHealth Network Guidelines

Implementation by Member States and Commission

Patients’ rights in Cross-border Healthcare

Directive 2011/24/EU

A major step towards a Europe for Health

eHealth Network

• Article 14 of Directive

• Leads cooperation of

Member States

• Gives direction to eHealth

developments

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eHealth Network Guidelines

• Patient summary data (2013)

• ePrescriptions (2014)

• Operational Framework for

the National Contact Point for eHealth (2015)

• Country Guide for eHealth NCP implementation (2016)

• Refined eHealth European Interoperability Framework (2015)

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National eHealth networks

Ireland’s vision

Finland’s implementation

Prescriptions

Health Records

Consent

Pharmacy

Health Centre

Private health care

Hospital

MyKanta

eHealth Digital Service Infrastructure

the CEF funded project

Core services

Horizontal Building Blocks eID, …

eHealth Building Blocks

terminology server, …

Hospitals

GPs

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NCP: National Contact Point Member State’s connection to the EU network

NCP

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NCP NCP

Building National Contact Points

@Tapani_Piha @EU_Health

@EU_eHealth

Connecting Europe Facility (CEF)

supports building real exchange

Dec 2014

CEF 2015 Work Plan - € 15 mill.

to eHealth

March 2016

20 Member States sent proposals

April-Dec 2016 Evaluation, grant

contracts

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2018 First countries

go live

2019, 2020, + More countries

go live

2017

2nd call for Member States?

@EU_HEALTH

@EU_Commission @EU_eHEALTH

@V_Andriukaitis DG Health and Food Safety

site

http://ec.europa.eu/health/e

health/policy/index_en.htm

DG Connect site

http://ec.europa.eu/digital-

agenda/en/eu-policy-ehealth

Cross-Border Possibilities

European Reference Networks

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PILOTING DEPLOYMENT

CEF

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