2024 digital decade ehealth indicator study : executive summary

As one of the targets in the Digital Decade Policy Programme 2030, facilitating 100% of EU citizens with access to their electronic health records by 2030 is a key priority and ambition for Europe's digital transformation. This report presents the state-of-play of the EU-27 as well as Iceland and Norway towards the Digital Decade target on eHealth. This report is the first follow-up monitoring exercise after the 2022 baseline study 'Digital Decade e-Health Indicators Development' that developed the methodology. In brief, the methodology involves: - Gathering data through an online survey completed by the competent authorities in eachparticipating country. Responses reflect the state of play as of 31 December 2023. For countries withregional electronic record access services, the survey collected data for each region. - Analysing survey responses in terms of 12 sub-indicators that define the key performance indicatorsof the eHealth target. These 12 sub-indicators capture the concept of 100% of EU citizens havingaccess to their electronic health records by outlining what types of health data, from which suppliers,through what modes of access, and with what access requirements represent technical access bycitizens to their electronic health records online. Each sub-indicator contributes equally to theoverall composite eHealth score. - Transforming survey responses into maturity scores according to a pre-defined scoring scheme. Theresponse options are allocated scores between 0% and 100% to create a maturity scale for each sub-indicator.