eHealth has the potential to revolutionalise the way we conceive healthcare and to change our expectations of healthcare systems. Accessing information at any time and in any place eases the work of health professionals but also of patients, who expect quick, quality and efficient treatment at all times.
Yet easy access must also be counterbalanced by security and guarantees of data protection and privacy. Our rules on data protection often impede the full implementation of ehealth tools and a way to allow the two to coexist must be found.
This seminar brought together some 30 regional politicians and officers to discuss the legal challenges they encountered when developing ehealth and how they overcame these.
Presentations are available hereunder.
Draft Agenda
Minutes of the Vienna meeting
Overview of the European legal framework: potential challenges and opportunities - Mrs. Isabell ANDOULSI, Exelia
The Swiss eHealth Coordination Board: Connectivity and Legal Aspects - Mr. Hansjörg Looser, Director eHealth, Dpt. of Health, St. Gallen (CH)
The Challenges the Regions faced and how they overcame them - Roberto Panizzo, Director International Health Department, Friuli Venezia Giulia (IT) & Ms Gilda De Marco, INSIEL
Confronting the Swedish Data Protection Board and the road to new national legislation - Mr. Benny Eklund, Uppsala (SE)
Medical data privacy & protection: HEALTH OPTIMUM Experience of Regione Veneto with the EHR - Mr. Mauro Rizzato, Project Coordination Manager, HEALTH OPTIMUM, Veneto (IT)
Telemedicine in Norway: Responsibility issues and legislation concerning access to EHR - Mrs. Ellen Christiansen, Senior Legal Adviser, Norwegian Centre for Telemedicine, University Hospital of North Norway (UNN)
County Council of Västerbotten (SE) : clinical applications of telemedicine in the county in 2007
News about the PEOPLE project (Interreg IVc) - Mrs. Jolanda Schneider, Policy Advisor, and Mr. Edwin MERMANS, Policy Advisor, Noord Brabant-NL
The Norwegian center for telemedicine published a number of fact sheets (click here).
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