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Stakeholders' Group

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The Stakeholders' Group involves key decision-makers and leaders from European standardisation bodies (such as CEN, CEN/ISSS, CENELEC, ETSI), industry associations, health authority associations, health professional representatives, user groups involving patients and citizens and representatives of current Sixth Framework Programme research and technology development co-financed projects and studies.

The members of the Stakeholders' Group, who are experts and leaders in different health and technology domains in their own right, are requested to provide specialist advice to the i2010 subgroup on eHealth with specific regard to eHealth with two particular aims in mind:

To review and assess the current activities in the field of interoperability of eHealth applications at EU and Member State levels, within a 3-month period. These activities would draw on initiatives currently being established or under consideration including various projects, studies, and working groups.
To make concrete proposals to accelerate progress ensuring the implementation of actions that result from the eHealth Communication and Action Plan COM(2004) 356(final) in the area of interoperability, within a 6-month period.

For more information visit the Stakeholders' Group dedicated website.

June 27, 2006

Sixteen members of the eHealth stakeholders’ group met to discuss progress, review the group’s mandate, and discuss its role. This meeting was very opportune because of the change in mandate of the eHealth working group, the prospective creation of the ad hoc group, and the character of the initial mandate for the stakeholders. The eHealth stakeholders’ group co-Chairs are to come back to the eHealth working group in the autumn with a new proposal for work.

March 7, 2006

On March 7th, the eHealth stakeholder’s group met for an in-depth review of its latest activities and progress; attendees included Member States’ representatives. The work included an assessment of the outcomes of a recent questionnaire survey on patient summaries, and proposals for ‘scenarios’ or ‘use cases’ of how patient summaries can be used in different contents with individuals with differing health circumstances. Much of this material has been taken on board in the draft eHealth interoperability working paper which is currently circulating.

February 23, 2006

Minutes of the meeting

January 12, 2006

More progress is made on eHealth interoperability! The eHealth stakeholders’ group met for the second time in Brussels on 12 January, 2006.

Twenty-three associations and projects representing technical, industry, standardisation, user associations and European co-financed projects attended the meeting. Some thirty-five persons were present.

Three individual candidates for the positions of co-Chairs were presented. For the position of technical/industrial co-Chair, Mr Kees Smedema of the European Coordination Committee of Radiological, Electromedical and Healthcare IT Industry (COCIR), a non-profit trade association, was successfully elected. The election of the user co-Chair was postponed until the next meeting on Thursday February 23, 2006.

To give an introduction to the work-on-hand, four presentations were made on eHealth interoperability: framework and methodology; the international scene; roadmapping exercises; and good eHealth practices.

The participants continued with the planning of their work to deliver a document covering the major challenges facing eHealth interoperability by March 2006. They are also planning the circulation of a brief questionnaire survey, and to assess materials direct from the European Member States and also other countries outside Europe.

All attendees were keenly eager to move forward the European eHealth interoperability agenda. The dates for completion of the targeted work remain challenging ones.

Presentations made during the meeting:

Co-chair election ( 93KB)
Voting procedure ( 546 KB)
Proposed presentations ( 383 KB)
eHealth Interoperability proposed activities ( 1216KB)
A survey on the Analysis of Electronic Healthcare Standards (1352KB)
RIDE Roadmapping Process - Collaboration Opportunities ( 502KB)
Interoperability: conceptual framework and methodology ( 4820KB)
eHealth interoperability - review of international experience ( short 12394KB)
eHealth interoperability - review of international experience ( long 18297KB)
Future meetings ( 606KB)

December 8, 2005

The eHealth stakeholders’ group met for the first time in Brussels on 8 December, 2005.

Sixteen associations and projects were represented and included technical, industry, standardisation, user associations, and European co-financed projects.

The participants committed to delivering a document covering the major challenges facing eHealth interoperability by March 2006.

All attendees were highly motivated to progress eHealth interoperability in Europe.

Presentations made during the meeting: