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...

The health systems of the European Union are a“fundamental part of Europe's social infrastructure”.eHealth, defined in a holistic fashion as encompassinginformation and communication technology (ICT)-enabled solutions providing benefits to health, be itat the individual or at the societal...

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 concepts and architecture underlying a large-scale integrating project funded within the 7th EU Framework Programme (FP7) are discussed. The main objective of the project is to build a tool that will have a significant impact for the monitoring and the control of infectious diseases and...

The purpose of this EU funded project is to describe a short and medium term Research and Deployment Roadmap for Semantic Interoperability in e-health. It started by defining 4 levels and 3 dimensions for Semantic Interoperabilty. The vision is to reconcile the needs for the direct patient care...