May 2009 : N°17

Editorial : eHealth: a solution for European healthcare systems?
Gérard COMYN, Head of Unit ‘ICT for Health’, European Commission

eHealth in Europe

Online Health and the advantages it offers the medical sector in Europe

• eHealth, for a better quality of healthcare
  Androulla VASSILIOU, EU Commissioner, Health
• Creating a European Health Market based on ICT
  Viviane REDING, EU Commissioner, Information Society and Media
• The French eHealth policy
  Roselyne BACHELOT-NARQUIN, French Minister of Health, Youth, Sports
• The Health Card in Germany, observations and evolution
  Dr Klaus Theo SCHRÖDER, German Secretary of State for Health
• It’s time to put eHealth on the political agenda!
  Göran HÄGGLUND, Swedish Minister for Health and Social Affairs
• The Slovenian eHealth Experience, Strategy and Objectives
  Borut MIKLAVCIC, Slovenian Minister for Health
• Andalusian eHealth Strategy
  María Jesús MONTERO CUADRADO, Regional Minister Of Health, Andalucia, Spain
• European eHealth - NPFIT
  Christine CONNELY, Chief Information Officer for Health/Director General Informatics, Department of Health, London, England
• Encouraging and promoting health online, with the 2010 eHealth programme
  Jorgo CHATZIMARKAKIS, Member of the European Parliament (Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe)
• eHealth in Europe the contribution of ICT to the modernization of European health systems
  Andrzej RYS, Director of Public Health, Health and Consumers Directorate-General, European Commission.
• Introducing Information and Communication technologies into medicine: New challenges for research and devevelopment
  Ilias IAKOVIDIS, Deputy Head of Unit, ICT for Health, DG Information Society and Media, European Commission
• Legal Basis of eHealth and Telemedicine
  Stefaan CALLENS, Professor in Health Law (K.U.Leuven) and Lawyer in Brussels
• The impact of telemedicine on the medical development of remote regions
  Professor Louis LARENG and Doctor Monique SAVOLDELLI Université Paul Sabatier, CHU Toulouse

Sector-based issues in online health

• Public-Private Partnerships: an added value for online health
  Françoise GROSSETÊTE, Member of the European Parliament, (Group of the European People’s Party
  and European Democrats)
• Re-deploying eHealth in Europe
  Eric MAURINCOMME, Vice President, Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer, Agfa HealthCare
• eHEALTH
  Dr Michael WILKS, President, Standing Committee of European Doctors (CPME)
• Conditions governing cover by eHealth insurers
  Alain COHEUR, Director of European Affairs –National Union of Socialist Mutual Health Funds - Belgium
• eHealth and quality of care: what contribution should the Haute Autorité de Santé (French National Health Board) make?
  Professor Laurent DEGOS, Chair of the HAS Board (French National Authority for Health)
• Favouring the development of telemedicine, to respond to the issues of access to healthcare and quality of life for all
  Dr. Jacques LUCAS, Vice-President of the French National Medical Council (Conseil de l’Ordre des Médecins)
• Telemedicine - an issue for practitioners
  Jean-François THEBAULT, President of the Syndicat National des Spécialistes des Maladies du Coeur
  et des Vaisseaux (French National Union of Specialists in Heart and Vascular Disease)
• epSOS EU-funded eHealth initiative to support medical assistance while travelling  and living abroad
  Fredrik LINDÉN, epSOS Project Coordinator
• ICT – a strategic axis for the French Health Insurance Organisations
  Alain FOLLIET, CIO, CNAMTS
• RSI’s preventive healthcare portal
  Philippe ULMANN, Director of Health Policy, RSI
• Progressive development of the European Card for health professionals
  Patrick FORTUIT, Group Coordinator, HPRO Card
• SESAM-Vitale: an infrastructure operator for secured electronic data exchanges between Health Professionals, Patients and French Health Insurance Organisations
  Jacques de VARAX, General Director of GIE The GIE SESAM-Vitale (Economic Interest Group)
• The Care Revolution: for the massive use of new technologies in personal services
  Martin VIAL, Chief Executive Officer of the Europ Assistance Group
• eHealth in Europe, Towards a conceptual revolution ?
  Professor Alain FRANCO, Professor of Geriatrics at the Université Joseph Fourier, in Grenoble,
  President of the International Society for Gerontechnology
• No e-health without privacy: securing health information systems
  Michel BENSADOUN, Executive Vice President, EMEA Western Region
• e-Health: the benefits are clear, but the risks entailed cannot be ignored
  Barbara DASKALA, CISA,CISSP, Risk Management Expert, ENISA
  Louis MARINOS, Senior Risk Management Expert, ENISA