EU IOP Projects
epSOS LSP
epSOS European Patient Smart Open Services - aims at building and evaluating a service infrastructure demonstrating cross-border interoperability between Electronic Health Record Systems in Europe. epSOS (European Patients Smart Open Services) (previously known as S.O.S. - "Smart Open Services - open eHealth initiative for a European large scale pilot of patient summary and electronic prescription") is a Europe-wide project organized by 27 beneficiaries out of twelve EU-member states, including ministries of health, national competence centres and industry, making it the first European project clustering such a large number of countries in practical cooperation. The overarching goal of epSOS is to develop a practical eHealth framework and Information & Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure that will enable secure access to patient health information, particularly with respect to a basic patient summary and ePrescription, between European healthcare systems.
STORK - eID
The CIP e-Government LSP STORK on electronic identification (eID). STORK is a large scale pilot in the ICT-PSP (ICT Policy Support Programme), under the CIP (Competitiveness and Innovation Programme), and co-funded by EU. It aims at implementing an EU wide interoperable system for recognition of eID and authentication that will enable businesses, citizens and government employees to use their national electronic identities in any Member State. It will also pilot transborder eGovernment identity services and learn from practice on how to roll out such services, and to experience what benefits and challenges an EU wide interoperability system for recognition of eID will bring. The network plan has a liaison with the epSOS project referring electronic identification in the public health sector.
Netc@ards
The NETC@RDS initiative is devoted to establish new improved health care administration services for mobile citizens across the EU. The actual phase aims at deploying e-health services via the European Health Insurance Card through a wide trans-European network simplifying health care access procedures. NETC@RDS successfully tested the electronic version of the European Health Insurance Card (EHIC) during its first and second Market Validation phases in 85 pilot sites of 10 E.U. member states. The Initial Deployment phase of the project - launched on 1 June 2007 - will deploy operational services in all targeted sites, to a total of 305 service sites serving 566 service points across the 15 participating countries.
HPROCARD
The main aim of the health professional card is to ease the free movement of the health professionals in Europe whilst ensuring the patient safety. Moreover, the card may have others usages such as the validation of continuing education, or the access to medical records. In order to advance in the harmonization, the main task of the HPRO Card project will be a study on the interoperability issues, on the usages of the card, on the authentication techniques of the health professional along with the building of the list of the competent authorities.
TEN4Health
TEN4Health - Trans-European healthcare support network for Europe’s mobile citizen: TEN4Health will contribute towards improved healthcare provision for mobile European Union citizens. Initiated by leading public health insurance providers, the TEN4Health service package assures access of citizens to healthcare in participating Member States’ hospitals, based on a secure web service and its integration into developing European eHealth infrastructure networks. The TEN4Health service package fundamentally contributes to the ubiquitous acceptance of the European Health Insurance Card and prepares for the later introduction of its eCard version. It greatly enhances and extends its utility by integrating efficient support for electronic post-processing at the Union level. The TEN4Health service will be validated at 11 hospitals directly participating in the consortium, and several other indirectly participating hospital sites across six Member States – Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands.
