International eHealth telemedicine and health ICT forum: LIST’s participation in Med-e-Tel 2016

Med-e-Tel is the annual event of the International Society for Telemedicine & eHealth (ISfTeH) that represents federation of national associations for Telemedicine and eHealth. The Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) will participate in the 2016 edition to be held on 6-8th April in Luxexpo, Luxembourg.

Med-e-Tel forum focuses on eHealth and telemedicine applications and a wide range of other medical ICT applications and on the convergence of information and communication technology with medical applications, which lead to higher quality of care, cost reductions, workflow efficiency, and widespread availability of healthcare services.

Visit our booth on the Luxembourg pavilion organized by the Agence eSanté

LIST and the Agence eSanté will hold a booth at Med-e-Tel 2016 to introduce the European e-SENS project. This initiative aims to provide common solutions for seamless public service delivery across borders by developing infrastructure for interoperability, adaptable to different domains including eHealth. The work contributes to the launch starting 2017 of the cross border exchanges of Patient Summary and ePrescription as real day to day services in Europe.

Paper presentation

On Wednesday 6th April 2016 in conference Room 4, LIST’s experts François Wisniewski will present the e-SENS project in the session “International Telemedicine & eHealth Initiatives” with the paper: “Improving Cross-Border European ePrescription and Patient Summary Services through e-SENS Cross-Sectorial Building Block”.

Abstract: The cross-border healthcare services is now largely regulated by Directive 2011/24 EU on the application of patients’ rights. ePrescription and Patient Summary services are expected to be the first cross-border healthcare services to become operational in real life by some countries, starting 2017, with the support of the Connecting Europe Facility.

The Electronic Simple European Networked Services (e-SENS) project develops infrastructure for interoperability, adaptable to various EU public service domains (including e-Justice, e-Procurement, and Business Lifecycle), using the results of previous large scale pilot projects, such as e-CODEX, SPOCS, STORK, PEPPOL and the more specific to eHealth, epSOS.

The proposed solution improves on the technical solutions supporting the data protection, privacy and security process initiated in epSOS, through the use of technologies enabling stronger identification and authentication of the patient and improving on the usability of the technical solutions.

Therefore e-SENS eHealth Domain pilot has adopted the use of cross sectorial Building Blocks - Evidence Emitter, Electronic Identification, Service Location, and Capability Lookup - and has started incorporating them under the OpenNCP reference implementation framework for a National Contact Point for eHealth (NCPeH). Participating Member States - Austria, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, Portugal and Spain – tested the conformance of this reference implementation in by their NCPeH in IHE Connectathon (April 2015) and later in EXPANDATHON (December 2015).

E-SENS results will be handed over to the Connecting Europe Facility to increase the value of the cross-border health services offer to citizens and health professionals with fast, secure and seamless electronic access to medical information in the appropriate language. While cross sectorial Building Blocks usage reduces cost of maintenance and further developments.

e-SENS is an EU co-funded project under the ICT Policy Support Program.

Keywords: Patient-Summary, ePrescription, eHealth, Cross-border, sustainability

 

>> All info about Med-e-Tel2016 at www.medetel.eu

>> Contact François Wisniewski directly via email for any further information