European Health Telematics Association

EU Legislative Interests

EHTEL has the ambition to support EU initiatives, policies and legislative files aiming at fostering the deployment of eHealth, mHealth and other ICT-based innovative services aiming at contributing to the transformation of health care systems in Europe. EHTEL is a multi-stakeholder platform with members in each of the main stakeholder groups engaged in the deployment of these services: public authorities at regional or national level, implementation agencies, health insurers and other payers, patient representatives, health care delivery organisations, universities, ICT and pharma industry ... EHTEL is therefore not representing/defending the interest of a particular stakeholder group, but of all those who believes that ICT is an enabler for the modernisation of the health care systems to make them more efficient in their use of financial and human resources, better accessible and also more personalised to ensure quality care.

Communication Activities

EHTEL actively supports and contributes to strategic EU-funded or co-funded projects relevant to the deployment of eHealth services in health and social care. Over the last 25 years, EHTEL has been involved in more than 35 EU-funded projects, all related to the deployment of eHealth. EHTEL supports projects by connecting them to stakeholders outside the project, through its own network of implementers and shapers in eHealth. EHTEL ensures that there is an effective and solid exchange of information in projects by: • Creating project visibility and informing stakeholders about visions, lessons learned, and outcomes; • Engaging relevant stakeholders in interacting with the project (through EHTEL working groups and task forces, as well as standardisation organisations and professional associations) • Making the most of the professional, technical, scientific, and business expertise of EHTEL members by getting them involved in European projects; EHTEL also creates communication, dissemination, and engagement materials, producing regular news coverage and organising conferences, workshops and webinars. Overall, this commitment to project involvement provides significant results to EHTEL’s members and the eHealth and digital health and care communities as a whole. EU funded projects: topics of interest Projects innovate, share new experiences, develop new knowledge and make that new knowledge better accessible. EHTEL is articulating its activities on the basis of three pillars 1. Transforming Care Delivery, including the use of AI. This track will focus on work related to Prevention, Integrated long-term care, The efforts of large-scale pilot projects. 2. Change Management, including capacity-building. This track has three parts. It is oriented towards Support for large-scale deployment, Health workforce skills, The integration of social robots in care processes. 3. Electronic Health Record Interoperability, including the European Health Data Space. This track has two parts. It is oriented towards the creation of an standardisation and policy hub in support of EHDS and the exploration on opportunities created by EHDS in relation to public health use of data.

Interests Represented

Does not represent commercial interests

Member Of

EU Health Coalition: https://www.euhealthcoalition.eu/ Strategic Partners’ Initiative for Data and Digital Health: https://www.who.int/europe/initiatives/strategic-partners-initiative-for-data-and-digital-health European Standards for Health Interoperability Alliance: https://www.eshia.eu

Organisation Members

https://www.ehtel.eu/join-us.html https://www.ehtel.eu/members.html https://www.ehtel.eu/who-is-ehtel-for.html