eHGI and Convergence

21st March 2013

DIRECTIVE 2011/24/EU OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 9 March 2011 on the application of patients’ rights in cross-border healthcare

Directive on cross-border health

Article 14: ehealth1. The Union shall support and facilitate cooperation … among Member States

with a voluntary network connecting national authorities responsible for eHealth designated by the Member States.

2. The objectives of the eHealth network shall be to: (a) work towards delivering sustainable economic and social benefits of European eHealth (b) draw up guidelines on:

(i) a non-exhaustive list of data that are to be included in patients’ summaries (ii) effective methods for enabling the use of medical information for public health and research

(c) support Member States in developing common identification and authentication measures to facilitate transferability of data in cross-border healthcare

3. The Commission shall … adopt the necessary measures for the establishment, management and transparent functioning of this network

eHGI and eHealth Network

eHealth Network of MS

Art. 14 Directive on Patients Rights (2011)

eHealth Network of MS

Art. 14 Directive on Patients Rights (2011)

eHealth Governance InitiativeeHealth Governance Initiative

epSOS project

(Patient summary / ePrescription)

epSOS project

(Patient summary / ePrescription)

Semantic Network Project

Semantic Network Project

STORK project

(eIdentification within eHealth domain)

STORK project

(eIdentification within eHealth domain)

eHealth EIF projecteHealth EIF project

CALLIOPE Network

Interoperability Roadmap

CALLIOPE Network

Interoperability Roadmap

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WP Interoperability, Standardization, Market

• Paper on semantic and technical interoperability

• Endorsed by the eHealth Network in October 2012

• Next step:Policy paper due in May 2013

Endorsed recommendations

• Encourage greater cooperation between MSs• Encourage greater cooperation between

national authorities and standardisation bodies

• Enable the recommendation of standards and harmonised profiles based on selected use cases

• Use purchasing power of public sector as enabler

Endorsed recommendations

• Foster data portability– For patients– For healthcare providers

• Link and harmonise coding systems• Facilitate access to existing standards and medical

vocabularies• Stimulate usability engineering for structured and

encoded data• Consider incentivisation of healthcare providers

Thank you for your attention!