Monday, December 10, 2012

Europe wants to smash ‘barriers’ to digital health


As the rise in mobile, connected health management services creates an ehealth boom in the US, Europe launches a strategy to upgrade health systems it concedes are stuck in the 20th century.

European Commission has drawn up an “action plan” to improve prospects by 2020, to:

  • specify the structure of patient record data that can be exchanged across borders
  • improved patients’ digital health literacy
  • develop a mobile health green paper by 2014
  • improved the market conditions for ehealth entrepreneurs, and more

More on the topic:

http://gigaom.com/2012/12/10/europe-wants-to-smash-barriers-to-digital-health/

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