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  • 17/10/2024

    Celebrate 25 years of digital health milestones: EHTEL Anniversary Symposium: 3-4 December, Brussels

    EHTEL is marking its 25 years of action with a special Anniversary Symposium taking place on December 4, 2024, in Brussels, Belgium. Whether you represent a healthcare provider, ICT company, innovation hub, start-up, healthcare professional, association or delivery organisation: there is certainly something in it for you!

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  • 06/05/2024

    Data Saves Lives: A quickie guide to what the initiative offers

    Are you looking for easy-to-read, yet high-quality, information that explains to your members, staff, and other audiences how health data can be used and how it can ensure people's safety and well-being?

    Data Saves Lives could be just the initiative for you. Shortly about to celebrate its five years of existence, the initiative has much to offer

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  • 06/05/2024

    Integrated delivery of long-term care: An initial framework is available

    Are you following what's happening in the field of integrated long-term care?

    Back in 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Europe - based in Copenhagen, Denmark - launched a study to develop a useful framework for assessing the integrated delivery of long-term careThe resulting report was published online in 2021. It provides guidance for assessing the integrated delivery of health and social services for long-term care.

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  • 02/05/2024

    MedCom celebrates 30 years of digitalisation

    “Once upon a time, in a small kingdom towards the north, something new was underway. The small project organisation “Danish Centre for Health Telematics” (later just known as MedCom) was established on May 16, 1994. It was given a very important job by the monarch: to connect the health sector electronically.”

    This could have been the catchy beginning of the short story you are about to read. Yet what happened 30 years ago in Denmark is not a fairytale. Rather, it was the result of joined-up national efforts, built on local initiatives and innovation in digitalisation of the health sector, and the hard work of pioneers in the field of health IT.

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  • 23/04/2024

    The EHDS stakeholder coalition updates its public statement

    On 22 April 2024, the European Health Data Space (EHDS) stakeholder coalition launched an updated version of its latest views on the EHDS regulation document. This came about as a result of the coalition taking a look at the compromise document provisionally agreed by the European institutions on 15 March 2024

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  • 16/04/2024

    Catalonia's Blue Button offers citizens more efficient and informed healthcare

    Powered by the TIC Salut Social Foundation

    Since 2023, citizens in Catalonia can have access to a summary of their clinical data by downloading the data from La Meva Salut and through the Blue Button. The TIC Salut Social Foundation will provide Catalonian citizens with the Blue Button solution and ensure its proper functioning. 

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