Report "eHealth as a facilitator
of transnational co-operation on health"
The report is the result from work and exchange of experiences and
ideas that have taken place during the “eHealth for regions” project.
The purpose of this report is to, in the context of different ongoing
initiatives and developments in the area of eHealth, reflect ideas and
experiences on how eHealth can facilitate and be the necessary tool for
transnational co-operation on health.
The report consists of three
parts where the first part describes and gives examples of
transnational co-operation on health within EU. It describes
co-operation in the border regions and about patients going abroad for
treatment. EU citizens travel for many reasons and co-operation is
needed when they need medical service. Other areas of co-operation are
rare diseases where Competence centres do not exist in every country
and the use of eHealth solutions to make it possible to use competence
over larger areas to fill gaps in competence capacities.
The second
part shows a vision on how eHealth would facilitate transnational
co-operation on health. The vision will take the patients' and their
families’ perspective and the medical profession’s perspective and will
treat ethical, managerial aspects and impact of the use of
evidence-based methods in the health care practice.
The third part is dealing with the challenges we will face to bring the visions to become true and with important actions that has to be taken in the short perspective and in longer run.
Please, download here the report.
If you have any comments to this chapter please contact Owe Svensson, Region Skane, Sweden. E-Mail: Owe.Svensson@skane.se
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