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Adequate care to everyone, everywhere

Providing patients with the needed treatment, wherever they are, is one of biggest challenges of eHealth. On one hand this implies sharing good practices in diagnosis and treatment of diseases and, on the other hand, in giving the opportunity to people to travel freely throughout Europe – knowing that they themselves or their carers can access the necessary health information from anywhere. The resulting impact on health safety and quality of life is massive: the availability of vital information, especially for patients suffering from chronic diseases, enables them to move across borders without anxiety and to receive the most appropriate treatment whenever needed.