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Health & Consumer Protection Directorate General

Health & Consumer Protection Directorate General. EU Public Health Portal Workshop on Interoperability in Public Health: The National Public Health Language London, 20 December 2004 Zinta PODNIECE SANCO Health Information Unit. EU Public Health Portal.

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Health & Consumer Protection Directorate General

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  1. Health & Consumer Protection Directorate General EU Public Health Portal Workshop on Interoperability in Public Health: The National Public Health Language London, 20 December 2004 Zinta PODNIECE SANCO Health Information Unit

  2. EU Public Health Portal An initiative under the EU Public Health Programme 2003-2008 to be realised by the end of 2005 Objectives: • serve as a single point of access to public health and related information at Community level and at national and regional levels • improving the diffusion and availability of outputs from the EU Public Health Programme • providing a mechanism to produce user-friendly reports on health status

  3. EU Public Health Portal Targeted user groups: • Citizens – thematic presentation of public health and related activities at EU level • Administrations – possibility to share and exchange information and data between and with MS authorities • Interested groups (health professionals, patients, policy makers, researchers etc.) – better access to data and information on public health from Commission and other sources

  4. EU Public Health Portal Content: • Thematically structured and complete information about the health-related activities at EU-level (Commission and other institutions) – mostly links • Access to the results of projects co-financed from the EU Public Health Programme, to databases resulting of the activities as well as other external databases, in particular in Member States and other international organisations – links and search engine • The activities of national health ministries, health institutes and regional health organisations will be accessible– links • A tool to interrogation databases at Community level to produce reports on specific health indicators (ECHI short list) – links and search engine

  5. EU Public HealthPortal Participants: • Commission (SANCO, ENTR, INFSO, EMPL, ENV, ESTAT, RTD, etc.) • EU Public Health Programme executive agency (currently being created) • MS Competent Authorities (Health Ministries, Public Health Institutes and other relevant bodies) • External Data Providers funded under the EU Public Health Programme and/or participating to the EUPHIN (European Union Public Health Information Network)

  6. EU Public Health Portal Development phase – overview • from mid 2004 – end of 2005 • financed under the Interchange of Data between Administrations (IDA) programme • IDA funding for 2004 – 600.000 euros; 2005 – 700.000 euros

  7. EU Public Health Portal Development phase – implementation steps (1) • Analysis, functional and technical specifications (due to April 2005): • inventory on relevant existing public health and related information/data/links at EU, national and regional level • Portal’s thematic structure • technical and functional specifications • detailed plan for the further Portal’s development

  8. EU Public Health Portal Development phase – implementation steps (2) • Development (due to July 2005): • conception & development of design for the Portal • operational prototype Portal • Implementation (due to December 2005): • Portal’s pilot testing • establishment of the Portal • Quality assurance (throughout the project)

  9. EU Public Health Portal Development phase – Start-Up Editorial Board (SEB) Tasks: • decide on what information should be included into the Portal • decide on Portal’s thematic structure • help to identify relevant for the Portal information sources / links Composition: • 5 representatives from the MS (nominated by the NCA) • 3 representatives from the relevant NGOs • representative from WHO • representatives from Commission’s services dealing with public health and related issues

  10. EU Public Health Portal As the Portal will become operational…..

  11. EU Public Health Portal Management Bodies (1) - Portal Editorial Board: • EU Public Health Portal Editorial Board: creation and management of the editorial policy and advise on thematic approaches to the classification of information. As the Portal is developed, the Board will also monitor the operation of the content flow chain. The Board will be composed of representatives of the Commission, of the Member States and other relevant stakeholder organisations.

  12. EU Public Health Portal Management Bodies (2) - Steering Group: • The Portal will be supervised by a Steering Group comprised of the SANCO C/2 (Health Information Unit) project team, an IT-advisor from SANCO A/4 (Information: Systems and Publications Unit), an information policy adviser from SANCO A/4 and a representative of the existing Public Health website team to safeguard consistency between the two dissemination media. Other Commission services will be invited to participate if appropriate. The Steering Group will plan and coordinate the implementation of tasks related to their responsibilities.

  13. EU Public Health Portal Management Bodies (3) - Operations Group: • Managing operations, like technical issues concerning the implementation and the actual production of the Portal contents, will be the responsibility of the Operations Group. This group will be comprised of a Content Manager, a Technical Manager and the Contractors.

  14. EU Public Health Portal Use of IDA services and tools (1): • TESTA: no security requirements, usage on demand from MS • CIRCA: as a networking tool for the Editorial Board and the data providers • IDA Architecture Guidelines: recommendations will be taken into account during design phase

  15. EU Public Health Portal Use of IDA services and tools (2): • ‘Your Europe’/EU Portal strategy: • close co-operation foreseen, also with relevant other Commission services • recommendations on linguistic policy • recommendations from Ex Ante Evaluation • usage of template from Terms of Reference with Editorial Board.

  16. EU Public Health Portal Technical approach: • Using Web Content Management (WCM) toolkit, developed & managed by DG PRESS for ‘Europa 2’ portal-based Commission sites • Toolkit as basis for prototyping and implementing of the Portal, to be deployed at the Commission's Data Centre. • Using standard web development tools available at the Commission’s Data Centre

  17. EU Public Health Portal Main development tools used by the Commission: • Macromedia ColdFusion MX • Macromedia Dreamweawer MX • Macromedia Flash MX • BEA WebLogic 7.0 or 8.1 • Oracle 9i • Business Objects • Documentum

  18. EU Public Health Portal Next step • Portal will become operational by the end of 2005 • it will be hosted on Europa website • daily management will be provided by the Executive Agency • the SEB is replaced by Editorial Board

  19. EU Public Health Portal Thank you! For more information see the Global Implementation Plan for the Portal: http://europa.eu.int/comm/health/ph_information/implement/nca/docs/ev20040705_rd03_en.pdf

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