The European Commission has opened a public consultation dealing with the digitisation of health and care systems.

The aim of the consultation ist to identify measures to improve the health of the citizens as well as challenges to health systems in the Digital Single Market of the EU. The European Commission plans to publish a Communication towards the end of 2017 covering -amongst others- the following aspects:

• Citizens´ secure access to electronic health records and the possibility to share these across borders.
• Support data infrastructure to advance research, prevent disease and personalise health and care in key areas.
• Facilitate feedback and interaction between patients and healthcare providers enhance disease prevention and empower people to take responsibility for the management of their own health.

All proposed measures will be aligned with legislation on the protection of personal data, patient rights and electronic identification.

The consultation ist open until 12.10.2017 and may be answered under this LINK.