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Summary. Strategy at EU Level: Digital Agenda for Europe (DAE) for Telehealth What; Why; How eHealth and Telehealth in Digital Agenda Key actions What’s next ?. What ?. DAE - EC Communication, adopted in May 2010 Flagship Initiative of EU 2020 Strategy. Sustainable growth.
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Summary • Strategy at EU Level: Digital Agenda for Europe (DAE) for Telehealth • What; Why; How • eHealth and Telehealth in Digital Agenda • Key actions • What’s next ?
What ? • DAE - EC Communication, adopted in May 2010 • Flagship Initiative of EU 2020 Strategy Sustainable growth Strategy “to deliversustainable economic and social benefitsfrom adigital single market
Actions clustered in 7 pillars: • Vibrant Single Market • Interoperability and standards • Trust and security • Fast and Ultra fast internet access • R&D • Digital Literacy, inclusions eSkills • Societal challenges (public services, health, environment)
Openness and interoperability Recognize and create more and better standards in Europe Make better use of these standards Ensure interoperability even in absence of standards
Internet for all 2013 2020 100% internet coverage 50% households take-up of ≥100Mbps 100% coverage of ≥30Mbps
ICT research and innovation Funds double investment to €11 bn light & fastmeasures to access Coordination
eHealth in the DAE2.7.2. Sustainable healthcare and ICT-based support for dignified and independent living
United Nations Population Division, World Population Prospects, 2004 Revision (Medium Variant, Shared Scaling)
Healthcare : heading for crisis? • Increasing elderly population • Relative decrease in resources (fewer taxpayers), chronic patients • Increasingly expensive care • Technologies, informed/demanding patients; chronic diseases • Healthcare expenditure growing faster the economic growth • Fewer health care professionals • Health care as a (European) Human Right eHealth can help!
eHealth actions in DAE KA 13 Undertake pilot actions to equip Europeans with secure online access to their medical health data by 2015 and to achieve by 2020 widespread deployment of telemedicine services; EMPOWERING
KA 13 (I) • pilot actions to secure online access to their medical health data by 2015 • Political priority in many MS • CIP ICT PSP Call 5 • Objective 3.4 a- Support pilots enabling patients access to data and associated services (including telehealth, CDM services) • 2 Pilots under negotiation total EC funding 7M – 18 regions (up to 120k patients involved)
KA 13 (II) to achieve by 2020 widespread deployment of telemedicine services • Implementation of Commission Communication on “Telemedicine for the benefit of patients', healthcare systems and society” COM (2008) 689 – Nov 2008 • RENEWING HEALTH –started Feb 2010 - Evidences on large scale • EC Staff Working Paper on legal issues (due end 2011) • CIP ICT PSP Call 5 - Objective 5.4 • Under negotiation 1 TN to support widespread deployment of telemedicine services, aiming at building consensus, legal and organizational guidelines exchange good practice, through expert network – 500k (3years)
eHealth actions in DAE KA14 Propose a recommendation defining a minimum common set of patient data for interoperability of patient records […] by 2012 CONTINUITY OF CARE + INTEROPERABILITY
KA 14 KA14 minimum common set of patient data for interoperability of patient records by 2012. Article 14 eHealth Network • epSOS • European eHealth Governance • Consultation with MS and stakeholders
eHealth actions in DAE Foster EU-wide standards, interoperability testing and certification of eHealth systems by 2015 through stakeholder dialogue • Support R&D FP7 Call 7 Objective 5.3 d (semantic interoperability and infostructure) • new EU standardisation framework • ISA WP 2011- Study on Interoperability framework for eHealth and Telemedicine – to be launched in 2011
What’s next? • New “eHealth Action Plan” – planned 4Q 2012 • Dissemination of evidences and awareness • Interoperability/standardization/market • Regulatory/Organisational issues • Innovation in Health http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/ehealth
Key Dates eHealth • eHealth Week (Ministerial Conference + WoHIT Conference and exhibition) – 7-9 May 2012, Copenhagen, EU Presidency – EC – HIMMS • eHealth Action Plan – 4Q 2012
Thank you!flora.giorgio@ec.europa.euDG Information society, Unit “ICT for health” Digital Agenda for Europe http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda ICT for Health http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/ehealth