Monitoring eHealth Strategies: lessons learned, trends and good practice cases

Study rationale:

Fostering the development and implementation of national eHealth policies and strategies has been a key goal of the European Union (EU) eHealth Action Plan of 2004. The work in this project builds upon earlier EC-funded projects, chief of which is the eHealth ERA project, which mapped for the first time Member States eHealth and RTD activities.

Study objectives:

The study will describe, measure and assess:

• national eHealth policies, strategies and implementation measures
• progress achieved, focusing on selected eHealth Action Plan priorities
• particular challenges and enablers faced by Member States in achieving these goals and
• European and national actions which may support the further realisation of the eHealth Action Plan.

Outputs:

At the end of the study, a summary European level progress report will be published. It will include

• main findings and an assessment of progress made by Member States and other European countries towards realising key objectives of the eHealth Action Plan,
• lessons learned in this context and good practice cases from national eHealth programme planning and implementation,
• recommendations on areas where EC support as well as further coordination and collaboration among Member States may be warranted.