Monitoring

eHealth

The eHealth DSI supports EU and EEA countries associated to the programme in the cross-border exchange of patient data in the form of ePrescriptions and Patient Summaries. By doing so, it increases the continuity of care, patient safety, their access to highly specialised care and the sustainability of health systems.

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In addition, eHealth supports the creation of European Reference Networks (ERNs), virtual networks involving healthcare providers across Europe. ERNs aim to facilitate discussion on complex or rare diseases and conditions that require highly specialised treatment, and concentrated knowledge and resources.

The eHealth DSI aims to support Health Professionals. These services pave the way towards delivering sustainable eHealth systems exchanging health data and services cross-border.

The Core Service Platform for ePrescriptions and the Patient Summary support the development and maintenance of the artefacts necessary to enable cross-border exchange of ePrescription and Patient Summaries by the eHDSI deploying countries.

Generic Services for ePrescriptions and the Patient Summary supported EU and EEA countries associated to the programme to set up their National Contact Points for eHealth to start exchanging cross-border ePrescription and Patient Summary data.

The Core Service Platform for the European Reference Networks (ERN) includes the Clinical Patient Management Systems (CPMS) and ERN Collaborative Platform (ECP) allowing secure sharing of patient data and secure communication and information delivery.

Generic Services for ERNs served to set up the customized Operational Helpdesk that serve as a first line help for all ERN members and facilitates their use of the CPMS.

The eHealth DSI is in line and supports the provisions on the application of patients’ rights in cross-border healthcare contained in the European Directive 2011/24/EU, which promotes the cooperation and the exchange of information among EU and EEA countries associated to the programme aiming at delivering sustainable eHealth systems and services and providing interoperable applications at European level.

Enhancing the interoperability of electronic health records in line with the Commission Recommendation on a European Electronic Health Record exchange format (C(2019)800) of 6 February 2019 should further help expanding the datasets currently being exchanged within the eHDSI to include valuable information concerning laboratory results, medical imaging and reports, and hospital discharge reports. This would further enhance continuity of care.

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