Annexes to COM(2012)736 - EHealth Action Plan 2012-2020 - Innovative healthcare for the 21st century

Please note

This page contains a limited version of this dossier in the EU Monitor.

Annex I – Commission Staff Working Document: SEC(2007) 1729], the Commission Recommendation on cross-border interoperability of electronic health record systems (2008/594/EC), the Communication on benefits of telemedicine for patients healthcare systems and society (COM(2008)689 final)

[5]               www.epsos.eu

[6]               The Network was established under Article 14 of Directive 2011/24/EU on the application of patients' rights in cross-border healthcare, http://eurlex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2011:088:0045:0065:EN:PDF - OJ L 88, 4.4.2011,p.45.

[7]               Communication from the Commission Europe 2020 a strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth - com(2010) 2020 final

[8]               http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/digital-agenda/index_en.htm

[9]               See the 2012 Ageing Report: Economic and budgetary projections for the 27 EU Member States (2010-2060), chapter 3 at http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/publications/european_economy/2012/2012-ageing-report_en.htm

[10]             See the 2012 Ageing Report: Economic and budgetary projections for the 27 EU Member States (2010-2060), chapter 4 at http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/publications/european_economy/2012/2012-ageing-report_en.htm

[11]             http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/product_details/publication?p_product_code=KE-ET-10-001

[12]             Green Paper on the European Workforce for Health COM(2008) 725 final of 10.12.2008

[13]             http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/innovation/policy/lead-market-initiative/files/final-eval-lmi_en.pdf

[14]             According to BCC Research study of March 2012

[15]             "Patient empowerment is a process to help people gain control, which includes people taking the initiative, solving problems, and taking decisions, and can be applied to different settings in health and social care, and self management” [ENOPE 2012].

[16]             Staff Working Document Accompanying eHealth Action Plan – innovative healthcare for the 21st century.

[17]             Economic Impact of Interoperable Electronic Health Records and ePrescription in Europe (01-2008/02-2009): http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/health/docs/publications/201002ehrimpact_study-final.pdf

[18]             Idem

[19]             EU Citizenship Report 2010 – Dismantling the obstacles to EU citizens' rights COM(2010) 603 final (see action 7)

[20]             More information in the Staff Working Document Accompanying eHealth Action Plan – innovative healthcare for the 21st century. See also recommendations of the EU eHealth Task Force

[21]             Interoperability is where two or more eHealth applications (e.g. EHRs) can exchange, understand and act on citizen/patient and other health-related information and knowledge among linguistically and culturally disparate clinicians, patients and other actors or organisations within and across health system jurisdictions, in a collaborative manner.

[22]             http://ec.europa.eu/isa/documents/isa_annex_ii_eif_en.pdf

[23]             EU Study on the specific policy needs for ICT standardisation, http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/sectors/ict/files/full_report_en.pdf

[24]             European countries on their journey towards national eHealth infrastructures, EU Study, http://www.ehealth-strategies.eu/

[25]             http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/european-standards/documents/official-documents/index_en.htm

[26]             Among others www.epsos.eu and www.semantichealthnet.eu

[27]             Directive 1999/93/EC on a Community framework for electronic signatures http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:31999L0093:EN:NOT

[28]             The ISA programme helps European public administrations setting up efficient cross-border and cross-sector electronic information exchange and collaboration. The ISA Joinup platform allows professionals to share interoperability solutions for public administrations and to find semantic interoperability assets. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/

[29]             http://ec.europa.eu/isa/documents/isa_annex_ii_eif_en.pdf

[30]             http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=COM:2008:0689:FIN:EN:PDF

[31]             http://ec.europa.eu/health/programme/policy/proposal2014_en.htm

[32]             eHealth Task Force Report of May 2012

[33]             Commission proposal for a regulation on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data: http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/document/review2012/com_2012_11_en.pdf

[34]             See EDPS Opinion on the data protection reform package, para. 298 and 299, 7 March 2012:

                http://www.edps.europa.eu/EDPSWEB/webdav/site/mySite/shared/Documents/Consultation/Opinions/2012/12-03-07_EDPS_Reform_package_EN.pdf

[35]             http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/health/ehealth_ap_consultation/index_en.htm

[36]             Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction. (The NIST Definition http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/PubsSPs.html#800-145)

[37]             http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/article-29/index_en.htm

[38]             Proposal for Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on medical devices, and amending Directive 2011/83/EC, Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 and Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009, COM(2012) 542 final, available at http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=COM:2012:0542:FIN:EN:PDF; Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on in vitro diagnostic medical devices, COM(2012) 541 final, available at http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=COM:2012:0541:FIN:EN:PDF; Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions on Safe, effective and innovative medical devices and in vitro diagnostic medical devices for the benefit of patients, consumers and healthcare professionals, COM(2012) 540 final, available at http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=COM:2012:0540:FIN:EN:PDF

[39]             http://ec.europa.eu/health/medical-devices/files/meddev/2_1_6_ol_en.pdf

[40]             Projects designed to prove the viability of new technologies offering potential economic advantage but which cannot be commercialised directly or to stimulate the up-take of innovative services or products by demonstrating the impact potential and the technical, organisational or legal feasibility of operational pilot services based upon the take-up of completed R&D work or already tested prototype services.

[41]             http://ec.europa.eu/research/innovation-union/index_en.cfm?section=active-healthy-ageing&pg=implementation-plan

[42]             Virtual Physiological Human http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/health/research/fp7vph/index_en.htm

[43]             National eHealth strategy toolkit. World Health Organization and International Telecommunication Union 2012. http://www.itu.int/dms_pub/itu-d/opb/str/D-STR-E_HEALTH.05-2012-PDF-E.pdf

[44]             http://ec.europa.eu/commission_2010-2014/president/news/speeches-statements/pdf/20111019_2_en.pdf

[45]             www.epsos.eu

[46]             Staff Working Document SWD(2012) 61 of 14.3.2012

[47]             See evidence overview in Staff Working Document Accompanying the eHealth Action Plan and responses to the eHealth Action Plan consultation. http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/health/docs/policy/ehap2012public-consult-report.pdf

[48]             http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/health/docs/publications/2009/2009semantic-health-report.pdf and http://www.semantichealthnet.eu/