The Digital Agenda for Europe Interoperability and Standards

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The Digital Agenda for Europe Interoperability
and Standards
Joint ITU-WHO Workshop on eHealth Standards and
Interoperability Geneva, 26-27 April, 2012
Gisele Roesems European Commission DG INFSO
ICT for Health Unit
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The 7 pillars of the Digital Agenda for Europe
(DAE)

• Vibrant Single Market
• Trust and security
• Interoperability and standards
• Fast and Ultra fast internet access
• RD
• Digital Literacy, inclusions eSkills
• Societal challenges (public services, health,
  environment)

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DAE Standardisation and eID

• Action 21 Propose legislation on ICT
  interoperability
• As part of the review of EU standardisation
  policy, propose legal measures on ICT
  interoperability to reform the rules on
  implementation of ICT standards in Europe.
• Action 24 Adopt a European Interoperability
  Strategy and Framework
• Promote interoperability by adopting in 2010 a
  European Interoperability Strategy and European
  Interoperability Framework
• Action 77 Foster EU-wide standards,
  interoperability testing and certification of
  eHealth systems by 2015 through stakeholder
  dialogue
• Action 83 Propose a Council and Parliament
  Decision on mutual recognition of e-ID

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Policy Context for EU eHealth Interoperability
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eHealth Governance Initiative and eHealth Network
play an important role
Decision Making
eHealth Network of MS Art. 14 Directive on
Patients Rights (2011)
Joint Action Thematic Network eHealth
Governance Initiative
Production
SemanticHealthNet project
eHealth EIF project
CALLIOPE Network Interoperability Roadmap
HITCH project
epSOS project (Patient summary / ePrescription)
STORK project (eIdentification within eHealth
domain)
eHR QTN project
SmartPersonalHealth project
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Current projects

• epSOS
• European Patient Smart Open Services (23
  participating countries)
• To deploy concrete cross border services for
  citizens travelling across Europe
• Patient Summary for EU Citizens
• ePrescribing for EU Citizens
• Status Entered in operational mode in 7 MS
  recently
• eHR QTN
• Thematic Network on Quality and Certification of
  EHR systems
• Promotion of certification (in 27MS)
• Validation of EuroRec functional statements,
  certification tools and procedures

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epSOS contributions to standards

• epSOS selected and influenced international
  standards
• IHE, OASIS, HL7
• With the successful IHE connect-a-thons in
  Bratislava and Pisa, epSOS proved being
  implementable and is now operational for general
  public
• The project is working together with a new born
  OASIS TC in order to find feasible, real-world,
  and secure solutions to the 112 use case
• It provided the e-Health international community
  with a new profile, the Cross Community Fetch
  (XCF)
• It is reality-checking several European
  engagements for the fitness of use in the
  e-Health wild NSL/TSL, eSignature, x-border
  recognition
• Results are already being reused and epSOS is
  extensively extended by national engagements
  portals, system integration, security extension

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eHR Qtn Recommendations cross-border

• Strengthen national certification in order to
  improve average quality and to enable in a second
  step the Trans-European harmonisation, improving
  comparability and portability of content. 
• Promote equivalence of certificates across Europe
  by validating at European level both the
  functional descriptive statements of EuroRec and
  the IHE profiles. 
• Consider the possibility to create a cross-border
  Register of Quality Labelled or Certified
  Clinical Software, offering information about
  the products (complete EHR systems as well a
  software modules) and documentation about the
  certification process.

Brussels, March 30, 2012
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SemanticHealthNet

• Framework Program 7 Call 7 A Network of
  Excellence on semantic interoperability and
  European Health Infostructure
• Engage leaders and organisations to define and
  implement a research agenda on semantic
  interoperability
• European and international organizations in
• Medical terminology
• Record architecture
• Medical logic and workflow
• http//www.semantichealthnet.eu

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CIP Call 6 Objective 3.6 Adoption and taking up
of standards and profiles for eHealth
interoperability

• Funding Instrument Thematic Network 1 M
• Drive adoption of interoperability standards and
  specifications at European level
• Drive adoption of eHealth Interoperability
  Testing Guidelines.
• Drive closure of key gaps in interoperability
  testing tools.
• Drive adoption of a two-level labelling and
  certification process (European level and
  national/project level)
• Ensure that all necessary phases to attain
  eHealth interoperability shall be taken into
  account and addressed properly.
• Propose and implement solutions or process
  improvement to address barriers to standards
  adoption (as described in eHealth-Interop report
  as a result of M403 phase I).
• Include relevant organisations and consortia
  recognised by the market or by regulation and
  having demonstrated, well established and several
  years experience in standards or specifications
  development, testing or quality labelling.

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Thank you !
Digital Agenda for Europehttp//ec.europa.eu/digi
tal-agenda ICT for Health http//ec.europa.eu/in
formation_society/ehealthHitch
Roadmaphttp//www.hitch-project.eu/EIP On
active and healthy ageinghttp//ec.europa.eu/rese
arch/innovation-union/index_en.cfm?sectionactive-
healthy-ageingepSOSwww.epsos.euSemanticHealthNe
thttp//www.semantichealthnet.eueHR
Qtnhttp//ehrqtn.eurorec.org/email
gisele.roesems_at_ec.europa.eu