The Digital Single Market Strategy and Healthcare

Katja Neubauer

Team leader eHealth

Cross Border Healthcare & eHealth Unit

DG SANTE – European Commission

Digital Single Market Strategy

• to make the EU's single market fit for the digital age

• adopted on 6 of May 2015

• covers a wide range of areas and is built on three pillars:

DSMS and Health

• Health considered as technology critical to the Digital Single Market

• The Digital Single Market Strategy seeks to provide the essential interoperability and

standardisation in the health area, including mhealth and telemedicine.

Delivering on the strategy

Path to digitise European industry 19 April 2016

• Set of measures to help European industry, researchers

and public authorities make the most of new

technologies:

• Priority standards to boost digital innovation

• Modernise digital public services: An eGovernment action plan

• The European Cloud Initiative to give Europe's researchers and

a virtual environment to store, manage, analyse and re-use a big

amount of research data

ICT priority Standardisation plan

eGovernment action plan

• ICT standardisation plan to speed

up the standard setting process in:

• 5 core technologies: 5G, IoT,

cybersecurity, cloud and big data

• 3 specifc sectors: eHealth, transport,

energy

• An eGovernment action plan to modernise digital

public services.

• The Commission puts forward 20 measures

• Help Member States to develop cross-border services

Contribute to the eGovernment Action Plan

2016 – 2020

• Online platform has been set up to gather

ideas for new actions and provides a space

for all to collaborate

• In addition to the already identified 20 actions,

more could be added throughout the duration

of the Action Plan (2016-2020) https://ec.europa.eu/futurium/en/egovernment4eu

• 2016 factsheets on eGovernement published

(include section on eHealth) https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/nifo/og_page/egovernment-

factsheets#eGov2016

Actions on eHealth

• Support Member States in the development of cross-border

eHealth services, i. e. cross-border ePrescription and patient

summary (eHealth DSI)

• Foster deployment of telemedicine and tele-monitoring, in

particular in the context of the European Reference Networks

• Support Member States in developing a report and a

recommendation on patients' access to their health data

• Develop guidelines on the security, safety and interoperability

of mHealth apps

• International standardisation activities related to the IDMP

Update EU audiovisual rules / e-commerce

targeted approach to online platforms 25 May 2016

• Commission proposal for revised Audiovisual Media

Services Directive

• To make European audiovisual medial landscape fit for purpose

in the digital age

• Self and co/regulation to protect minors from alcohol advertising

• Commission proposals on e-commerce

• Unjustified geoblocking, cross-border parcel delivery, consumer

rights and unfair commercial practice

• Communication on online platforms

Communication on online platforms

• Refers to online platforms like online marketplaces,

search engines, payment systems, social media, video

and content-sharing sites

• 'one-size-fits-all' approach was not appropriate for the

very diverse types of online platforms

• Commission will look at each area where it can act, from

telecoms to copyright rules

• Study on role of platforms in health in WP 2017 ?

Thank you!

DigitalSingleMarket@DSMeu

EU_Health@EU_Health

Katja Neubauer@katja_neubauer

DG Health and Food Safety

http://ec.europa.eu/health/ehealth/policy/index_en.htm

DG Connect

http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/eu-policy-ehealth