2.2 Strategic Goals of "eHealth for Regions"

How can we share knowledge and resources to benefit from higher accessibility, cost-efficiency and quality in health care? To answer this question the “eHealth for Regions” pioneers a common Baltic Sea eHealth Area. The project brings together relevant actors from all the regions and involves those who are concerned with health systems as well as regional development. The partners are convinced that such a cross-sectoral partnership is essential for citizens to benefit from all the potentials offered by eHealth and for promoting the attractiveness of the regions.

The specific objectives are:

• to enhance the attractiveness of the regions by using eHealth as an instrument for regional development,
• to improve the accessibility and quality of health care available to citizens in urban and rural areas (“pervasive health care on the basis of eHealth”),
• to share knowledge and resources through transnational transfer, standardisation and localisation of eHealth solutions,
• to promote the acceptance of patients, doctors and other actors in the health care sector with regard to eHealth services,
• to build a transnational, cross-sectoral network and develop an organisational and business model promoting co-operation in the field of eHealth in the Baltic Sea region,
• to experience the transnational network and to co-operate cross-border in the field of eHealth.

If you have any comments to this chapter please contact Thorsten Beck, AOK Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. E-Mail: thorsten.beck@sh.aok.de