Welcoming the vote, Neelie Kroes, Vice President of the European Commission said: “I want to thank Spanish Member of the European Parliament Pilar Auyso for her positive approach to the eHealth Action Plan for 2012-2020. Her report and Parliament’s support underlines and strengthens the EU’s common vision on eHealth.
“In particular, I welcome the Parliament’s insistence on the importance of interoperability of eHealth systems and the need for the Commission to take a leading role in establishing international standards and an EU eHealth Interoperability Framework.”
She added: “Plainly speaking, eHealth will only have a future in Europe if our homes, hospitals, healthcare centres and public services can connect to affordable high-speed internet connections. eHealth needs ultra-fast broadband. For this we need a connected continent and we need a stronger telecoms single market. I look forward to the support of MEPs on this in the coming weeks.”
The Commission presented the eHealth Action Plan 2014-2020 in response to the 2009 request of member states. To prepare the new plan, the Commission ran a public consultation in 2011. The Digital Agenda for Europe includes three specific actions on eHealth aimed at widespread deployment of telemedicine, patients’ access to their health data and interoperability.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Clarice Africa
Quelle/Source: futureGov, 21.01.2014
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