Reports and Studies about eHealth

In November 2015, representatives of all EU member states coming together as the eHealth Network, formed an mHealth subgroup to work on suggestions for future work in this field. Proposals for concrete actions in the field of mobile health (mHealth) have now been made available.

At an informal meeting in Tallinn on 20 July, EU health ministers discussed the future of digital solutions in health. The ministers identified areas for closer collaboration among member states and possible actions at EU level to overcome the main challenges of data-driven digital innovation in health.

The study, entitled "Mapping out the obstacles of free movement of electronic health records in the EU in the light of single digital market", shows that both patients and health professionals look forward to the development of eHealth services and the legislation that supports the movement and the safe use of health data.

The National Interoperability Framework observatory (NIFO) of the European Commission has just published the report “State of Play of Interoperability in Europe 2016”. The report, which was created with the support of the ISA² programme, presents the highlights of the results of the 2016 NIFO monitoring exercise and compares them with previous years.

eStandards presented its Roadmap for collaborative and sustainable development of standards at its Final Conference on 26 -27 June 2017 in Brussels

Since March this year, the European Reference Networks are allowing doctors from 26 countries to share data and resources. The stories of four patients show how this works and how it tackles complex or rare diseases.

This study, commissioned by MEP Michał Boni, explores the eHealth development rate among European countries and the various ways eHealth and mHealth solutions can contribute to more cost efficient healthcare systems. The study was presented at the European Parliament on the 8th of June.

For more than 20 years the Future & Emerging Technologies (FET) programme has been a landmark in advanced European science and technology. Over the years, it has supported research that led to amazing developments in a wide variety of areas, from a bionic hand to robotic plants, from synthetic brains to quantum technologies, from modeling epidemics to creative machines.

The stakeholders' Working Group on mHealth assessment guidelines, which the Commission established in February 2016, recently concluded its works. A report, including a few case studies on mHealth, is now available.