The Days of eHealth

Digitalization and data are transforming the world. Modern technologies must benefit the patients most, and they must be the centre of this transformation, participants of the Days of eHealth conference remarked. MEP Irena Joveva also addressed the attendees of the conference.

Medicine offers patients more and more research, tests and examinations, which will be organized transparently with the help of modern technology and used effectively. The technology will also help us improve work processes in medicine and optimize inventory management, achieve optimization of waiting times and increase system transparency. These are, of course, our wishes, the reality is, however, not so ideal. To improve the health situation as quickly as possible, the Commission has declared the establishment of a European data space as one of the health sector priorities in the period from 2019 to 2025.

In her video speech, MEP Joveva emphasized that the common European health data space would promote better exchange and access to different types of health data, such as electronic health records, genomic data, patient registry data, etc., not only by supporting health protection, but also to support health research and health policy-making. She announced that several interested parties from the digital, health and private sector were working with the Commission on a new regulation: the regulation on the use of secondary health data. This will also include a number of important areas of health, such as the European Health Data Space, the Pharmaceutical Strategy for Europe, the European Medicines Agency Regulation until 2025 and the Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan.

You can watch the full speech below: