eHealth

eHealth

The European Commission has made progress in the implementation of the eHealth Action Plan, a roadmap improve health services by linking up devices and technologies, and investing in research towards the personalised medicine of the future. The following have been formed:

– a voluntary Network of national authorities responsible for eHealth has been set up aiming to achieve continuity of care and to ensure access to safe and quality healthcare.

• the eHealth Digital Service Infrastructure (eHDSI), an electronic cross-border health services infrastructure ensuring continuity of care for European citizens while travelling abroad in the EU. This gives EU countries the possibility to exchange health data in a secure, efficient and interoperable way;
• ePrescription and eDispensation which allows EU citizens to obtain their medication in a pharmacy located in another EU country, thanks to the online transfer of their electronic prescription from their country of residence where they are affiliated, to their country of travel.
• Patient Summaries which provide information on important health related aspects such as allergies, current medication, previous illness, surgeries, etc. It is part of a larger collection of health data called an electronic Health Record. The digital Patient Summary is meant to provide doctors with essential information in their own language concerning the patient, when the patient comes from another EU country and there may be a linguistic barrier.

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For which services are available in which countries:

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