Download or read book The European Health Data Space written by and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research paper provides an assessment of the legislative proposal for "The European Health Data Space", including linkages with other EU measures and with Member State rules and laws. It also includes recommendations on further steps needed in order to achieve, facilitate and improve health data sharing, exchange and re-use across the EU. This document was provided by the Policy Department for Economic, Scientific and Quality of Life Policies at the request of the committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE).
Download or read book Health Data Pools Under European Data Protection and Competition Law written by Giulia Schneider and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-04-13 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the emerging economic reality of health data pools from the perspective of European Union policy and law. The contractual sharing of health data for research purposes is giving rise to a free movement of research data, which is strongly encouraged at European policy level within the Digital Single Market Strategy. However, it has also a strong impact on data subjects' fundamental right to data protection and smaller businesses and research entities ability to carry out research and compete in innovation markets. Accordingly the work questions under which conditions health data sharing is lawful under European data protection and competition law. For these purposes, the work addresses the following sub-questions: i) which is the emerging innovation paradigm in digital health research?; ii) how are health data pools addressed at European policy level?; iii) do European data protection and competition law promote health data-driven innovation objectives, and how?; iv) which are the limits posed by the two frameworks to the free pooling of health data? The underlying assumption of the work is that both branches of European Union law are key regulatory tools for the creation of a common European health data space as envisaged in the Commissions 2020 European strategy for data. It thus demonstrates that both European data protection law, as defined under the General Data Protection Regulation, and European competition law and policy set research enabling regimes regarding health data, provided specific normative conditions are met. From a further perspective, both regulatory frameworks place external limits to the freedom to share (or not share) research valuable data.
Download or read book The European Health Data Space written by Katharina O Cathaoir and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2024-11-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely volume provides a comprehensive examination of how the proposed new European Health Data Space (EHDS) legislation will impact upon health and genetic data, individual privacy, and providers of health services. Including contributions from some of the leading scholars in this area, this ground-breaking book will be key reading for students and researchers across Law and Public Health.
Download or read book The European Health Data Space written by and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research paper provides an assessment of the legislative proposal for "The European Health Data Space", including linkages with other EU measures and with Member State rules and laws. It also includes recommendations on further steps needed in order to achieve, facilitate and improve health data sharing, exchange and re-use across the EU. This document was provided by the Policy Department for Economic, Scientific and Quality of Life Policies at the request of the committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE).
Download or read book European Data Protection In Good Health written by Serge Gutwirth and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-02-23 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Europe has a significant legal data protection framework, built up around EU Directive 95/46/EC and the Charter of Fundamental Rights, the question of whether data protection and its legal framework are ‘in good health’ is increasingly being posed. Advanced technologies raise fundamental issues regarding key concepts of data protection. Falling storage prices, increasing chips performance, the fact that technology is becoming increasingly embedded and ubiquitous, the convergence of technologies and other technological developments are broadening the scope and possibilities of applications rapidly. Society however, is also changing, affecting the privacy and data protection landscape. The ‘demand’ for free services, security, convenience, governance, etc, changes the mindsets of all the stakeholders involved. Privacy is being proclaimed dead or at least worthy of dying by the captains of industry; governments and policy makers are having to manoeuvre between competing and incompatible aims; and citizens and customers are considered to be indifferent. In the year in which the plans for the revision of the Data Protection Directive will be revealed, the current volume brings together a number of chapters highlighting issues, describing and discussing practices, and offering conceptual analysis of core concepts within the domain of privacy and data protection. The book’s first part focuses on surveillance, profiling and prediction; the second on regulation, enforcement, and security; and the third on some of the fundamental concepts in the area of privacy and data protection. Reading the various chapters it appears that the ‘patient’ needs to be cured of quite some weak spots, illnesses and malformations. European data protection is at a turning point and the new challenges are not only accentuating the existing flaws and the anticipated difficulties, but also, more positively, the merits and the need for strong and accurate data protection practices and rules in Europe, and elsewhere.
Download or read book Health Data Privacy under the GDPR written by Maria Tzanou and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-23 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The growth of data-collecting goods and services, such as ehealth and mhealth apps, smart watches, mobile fitness and dieting apps, electronic skin and ingestible tech, combined with recent technological developments such as increased capacity of data storage, artificial intelligence and smart algorithms, has spawned a big data revolution that has reshaped how we understand and approach health data. Recently the COVID-19 pandemic has foregrounded a variety of data privacy issues. The collection, storage, sharing and analysis of health- related data raises major legal and ethical questions relating to privacy, data protection, profiling, discrimination, surveillance, personal autonomy and dignity. This book examines health privacy questions in light of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the general data privacy legal framework of the European Union (EU). The GDPR is a complex and evolving body of law that aims to deal with several technological and societal health data privacy problems, while safeguarding public health interests and addressing its internal gaps and uncertainties. The book answers a diverse range of questions including: What role can the GDPR play in regulating health surveillance and big (health) data analytics? Can it catch up with internet-age developments? Are the solutions to the challenges posed by big health data to be found in the law? Does the GDPR provide adequate tools and mechanisms to ensure public health objectives and the effective protection of privacy? How does the GDPR deal with data that concern children’s health and academic research? By analysing a number of diverse questions concerning big health data under the GDPR from various perspectives, this book will appeal to those interested in privacy, data protection, big data, health sciences, information technology, the GDPR, EU and human rights law.
Download or read book Study Supporting the Impact Assessment of Policy Options for an EU Initiative on a European Health Data Space written by and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study provides evidence to support the realisation of a European Health Data Space (EHDS) for primary and secondary use of health data. Evidence was collected from existing sources and new research undertaken to inform the analysis of the impacts. This included desk research, a public consultation of stakeholders, findings from related studies conducted recently by the EU Commission in preparation of this IA, and interviews with Member States' representatives. The evidence was brought together and used to assess the impacts of the options identified using the dimensions of effectiveness, efficiency, and coherence, as compared to the baseline. The analysis suggests that the preferred option for EHDS is Option B (B+ for primary use). This option introduces the regulatory framework for a system of joint decision-making at European level on requirements for interoperability, security and other related aspects of use of health data, affecting Member States and market operators in the Single Market, supported by national implementation. It strengthens the rights of individuals to access and control their health data and establishes an EU framework for re-use of health data. The governance relies on national bodies brought at EU level in expert groups that would implement and enforce nationally EU-level mandatory requirements.
Download or read book Study Supporting the Impact Assessment of Policy Options for an EU Initiative on a European Health Data Space written by and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study provides evidence to support the realisation of a European Health Data Space (EHDS) for primary and secondary use of health data. Evidence was collected from existing sources and new research undertaken to inform the analysis of the impacts. This included desk research, a public consultation of stakeholders, findings from related studies conducted recently by the EU Commission in preparation of this IA, and interviews with Member States' representatives. The evidence was brought together and used to assess the impacts of the options identified using the dimensions of effectiveness, efficiency, and coherence, as compared to the baseline. The analysis suggests that the preferred option for EHDS is Option B (B+ for primary use). This option introduces the regulatory framework for a system of joint decision-making at European level on requirements for interoperability, security and other related aspects of use of health data, affecting Member States and market operators in the Single Market, supported by national implementation. It strengthens the rights of individuals to access and control their health data and establishes an EU framework for re-use of health data. The governance relies on national bodies brought at EU level in expert groups that would implement and enforce nationally EU-level mandatory requirements.
Download or read book Study on an Infrastructure and Data Ecosystem Supporting the Impact Assessment of the European Health Data Space written by and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The COVID-19 pandemic had a significant societal impact in the EU and has highlighted the importance of improved digital health services for citizens and of timely access to health data for research and policy making purposes. Development and use of a European interoperable digital infrastructure and data ecosystem for secondary uses of data could facilitate secure cross-border analysis of health data and linking points of access/digital infrastructures at national level. The objective of this study is to present insights and evidence-based conclusions on a health data infrastructure and contribute to the impact assessment of options for a European Health Data Space (EHDS). 18 workshops were conducted with a purposive sample of 69 stakeholders who are actively engaged in health data uses and infrastructures. Semi-structured questionnaires were sent after each workshop, followed up by a survey on the cost-effectiveness of the presented digital health infrastructure options. The results revealed that the infrastructure for cross-border exchange of health data for primary uses (MyHealth@EU) could be extended with additional patient-centric services. In the area of secondary uses of health data, a new cross-border infrastructure would enable multi-country re-use of health data for research, innovation, policy-making or regulatory activities, among others.
Download or read book Is the European Health Union Ready for the Challenges of the 21st Century written by Elizabeth Kuiper and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The COVID-19 pandemic laid bare the unpreparedness and structural weaknesses of national health systems while emphasising the disparities in national capabilities among European countries and the lack of a common European approach against cross-border health threats. To enhance the protection of citizens’ health, prevent and prepare for future pandemics, and strengthen the resilience of Europe’s health systems, the European Commission set out its plans for a European Health Union. As we enter a post-pandemic era, this Discussion Paper assesses the proposals under the European Health Union and sets out recommendations to address the identified shortcomings. The following recommendations build on the discussions of the European Policy Centre’s Task Force on the European Health Union: Adopt a more holistic approach by appointing a Vice President for Well-being. / Strengthen crisis preparedness by elevating the Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority to an agency. / Promote access and affordability by extending joint procurement. / Strengthen the European health workforce by tackling shortages and addressing skills gaps. / Mitigate the cost of inaction by increasing investment in health. / Ensure planetary health by promoting a Green European Health Union. / Promote Europe’s status as a global leader in health data by harmonising health data regulations with the European Health Data Space. / Safeguard the EU’s strategic autonomy by implementing the Versailles Declaration and strengthening supply chain resilience./ Build on the EU’s Global Health Strategy by exploring global partnerships.
Download or read book Referral Guidelines for Imaging written by European Commission. Environment Directorate-General and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This booklet sets out referral guidelines that can be used by health professionals qualified to refer patients for imaging. It has evolved from the booklet 'Making the best use of a department of clinical radiology: guidelines for doctors' published by the Royal College of Radiologists in 1998 and can be adopted as a model for Member States. The EU Council Directive 1997/43/EURATOM declared that Member States shall promote the establishment and use of diagnostic reference levels for radiological examinations and guidance thereof. These referral guidelines can be used for that purpose.
Download or read book Does Europe Need a Health Union written by Anne Bucher and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health outcomes in the European Union are good by international standards, even compared to other developed economies, and improved continuously before COVID-19. This reflects the alignment of the objectives of improving health and wellbeing with the overall socio-economic objective of prosperity, and suggests that a radical overhaul of EU health policy is not needed. However, the EU could benefit from closer integration in some areas and be more effective in delivering a high level of health protection. Action could be taken in the following areas: The European Commission's November 2020 Health Union package to increase resilience to cross-border health threats is ambitious, in particular with the establishment of the Health Emergency Response Authority, which extends the scope of cooperation in health emergencies. The EU should pursue further the Health Union approach to address cross-border externalities and enhance health security. It could, for instance, do more to tackle anti-microbial resistance, or define minimum requirements for the resilience of health systems. For non-communicable diseases, the EU should tap the economies of scale of research and knowledge organised at EU level, and put in place systems for the surveillance of non-communicable diseases and consolidation of scientific knowledge. This could be achieved through an extension to non-communicable diseases of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control mandate. The "Health in all Policies" principle is a key channel to deliver good health outcomes at EU level. EU scientific agencies provide health risk assessments in a number of areas, but the EU should better organise, coordinate and consolidate the scientific knowledge that underpins health-protection measures in sectoral legislation, and should more systematically apply better regulation rules to the health impacts of EU policies. The EU should support the digital transformation of health systems and set high targets for the European Health Data Space initiative, which is a critical infrastructure for the future of health research, regulation and policymaking. Several non-health EU policy objectives (cohesion policies, European Pillar of Social rights, economic governance) are linked to the performance of health systems. A common understanding on how to measure this performance would inform these policies in a consistent way. Moreover favourable health outcomes in the EU have not reduced health inequalities, which remain high between and within EU countries. Monitoring of health inequalities, including those related to access to and quality of healthcare, should be improved as an initial step.
Download or read book European Union Public Health Policy written by Scott L. Greer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02-11 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ranging from influence over world trade laws affecting health to population health issues such as obesity to the use of comparative data to affect policy, the EU’s public health policies are increasingly important, visible, expensive and effective. They also provide an invaluable case study for those who want to understand the growth and impact of the EU as well as how states can affect their populations’ lives and health. European Union Public Health Policy capitalizes on extensive new research, providing an introduction to the topic and indicating new intellectual directions surrounding the topic. An introductory section and extended conclusion explore the meaning of public health, the relationship of EU public health policy to health care policy, and the place of public health in the study of European integration and Europeanization. Focusing on health system transformation, global health governance and population health, the chapters address: Relevant policy issues and EU policies; Effects of the EU policies on practice or outcomes; An explanation of the policy trajectory; Current issues and likely future directions or conflicts. Drawing together an international and multidisciplinary selection of experts, this volume is an important contribution for all those interested in public health policy, EU health policy and EU governance.
Download or read book EU Health Systems and Distributive Justice written by Danielle Da Costa Leite Borges and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EU Health Systems and Distributive Justice uses theories of distributive justice to examine tensions created by the application of the Internal Market rules to the provision of health care services within the European Union. Using the concepts and principles embedded in the theories of egalitarianism and libertarianism, this book analyses the impact of the Internal Market rules on common values and principles shared by European health systems, such as universality, accessibility, equity and solidarity. This analysis is conducted using the specific issue of cross-border health care. This book makes innovative contributions to the study of the relationship between EU health systems and the Internal Market – it encompasses the analysis of all principles recognised by EU institutions as guiding principles of European health systems; it integrates human rights law and practice into the discussion of the EU Court of Justice’s approach to patient mobility cases; and it assesses the potential impact of the Internal Market over EU health systems through the lens of distributive justice, looking at the underlying principles of these systems that are mostly concerned with social justice. Ultimately, this is not a book on EU law and health care, but it is a book on distributive justice, health care and the principles and policies guiding European health systems.
Download or read book State of Health in the EU Hungary Country Health Profile 2021 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-13 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This profile provides a concise and policy-relevant overview of health and the health system in Hungary as part of the broader series of the State of Health in the EU country profiles. It provides a short synthesis of: the health status in the country; the determinants of health, focussing on behavioural risk factors; the organisation of the health system; and the effectiveness, accessibility and resilience of the health system. This edition has a special focus on the impact of COVID‐19.
Download or read book Assuring the Quality of Health Care in the European Union written by Helena Legido-Quigley and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2008 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People have always travelled within Europe for work and leisure, although never before with the current intensity. Now, however, they are travelling for many other reasons, including the quest for key services such as health care. Whatever the reason for travelling, one question they ask is "If I fall ill, will the health care I receive be of a high standard?" This book examines, for the first time, the systems that have been put in place in all of the European Union's 27 Member States. The picture it paints is mixed. Some have well developed systems, setting standards based on the best available evidence, monitoring the care provided, and taking action where it falls short. Others need to overcome significant obstacles.
Download or read book Trends in EU Health Care Systems written by Winfried de Gooijer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-03-20 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nations of the EU have long led the world in universal health coverage. Recent economic developments have created problems ranging from inequities of care to growing numbers of uninsured — a progression analyzed by Win de Gooijer in Trends in EU Health Care Systems. His ideas may be startling, and the book is bound to be controversial. This is critical reading for health care managers and policymakers, politicians and insurors - anyone looking to Europe to understand this far-reaching evolution.
