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...

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...

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...

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...