This report was prepared by the SemanticHEALTH project, a Specific Support Action funded by the EuropeanUnion 6th R&D Framework Programme (FP6). SemanticHEALTH developed a longer-term research anddeployment roadmap for semantic interoperability. Its vision is to identify key steps towards...

This report presents case studies from 30 European countriesfor which validated information was available to theproject by the end of November 2008.This informationreflects the situation of the cases at the date ofdelivery to the project by national correspondents duringthe time period...

This report presents the outcomes of the “Pilot on eHealth Indicators” study,carried out by empirica in association with IPSOS on behalf of the EuropeanCommission, Information Society and Media Directorate-General. The dataused for this report were collected by means of a survey of primary...

The paper investigates the specific challenges created by new online services and delivery methods with regard to the protection of consumers interests. By means of a survey of a representative sample of online consumers in five EU countries, the authors found a high degree of interest in young...

eHealth for Safety is a European study that addressed research and technology development (RTD) needs that arise from the potential contributions of information and communications technologies (ICT) applications to enhancing both patient safety and health systems’ risk management.The study had...

In Germany, multi-locational eWork continues to spread against a background of a growing need for more flexible forms of labour deployment. However, the potential of eWork to contribute to better work/life balance and to increasing workforce participation (by women and older people) is not fully...

This paper analyses key issues towards a research roadmap for eHealth supported patient safety. The raison d'etre for research in this area is the high number of adverse patient events and deaths that could be avoided if better safety and risk management mechanisms were in place. The benefits...

The dissertation is about what is the eInclusion@EU project about, what is eInclusion policy about, how to support the policy process by means of eInclusion monitoring and what to achieve during today.

The dissertation is about what are new work environments, why measure it, what to measure, the challenge, approach chosen, state of the art in research, a framework for benchmarking NWEs and next steps.

Benchmarking has recently achieved a major importance as a support tool for policy-making, inparticular at the EU level and in the context of the Lisbon process. Benchmarking has become acommon tool in policy support, especially in the most innovative policy fields where institutionallearning is...