Reports and Studies about mHealth

The European Commission has published a 'Study on Safety of non-embedded software; Service, data access, and legal issues of advanced robots, autonomous, connected, and Artificial Intelligence based vehicles and systems'. The study sheds light in particular on the effects of digital Apps on health.

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.

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

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.

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.

A survey held by the European myAirCoach project shows that both patients and healthcare professionals are strong supporters of mobile health tools (apps and smart inhalers) for the self-management of asthma.

The public consultation on the safety of applications for mobile devices ("apps") and other non-embedded software was launched in June 2016 as a result of the public consultation on the Green Paper on mHealth in 2014. The latter showed the need to have a special focus on safety aspects of mHealth apps.

5G is expected to support the health domain broadly in the future. This white paper, published by the Wireless World Research Forum, represents a comprehensive review of 5G technologies and eHealth applications including some examples of use cases.

41 businesses, organisations, public authorities and academia replied to the public consultation on the safety of apps and other non-embedded software. You will find below the responses of those who have given their consent to publication. Some replies have been anonymised at the request of the respondent.