Activities of Pilar AYUSO related to 2013/2061(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
eHealth Action Plan 2012-2020 (short presentation)
Reports (1)
REPORT on the eHealth Action Plan 2012-2020 – Innovative healthcare for the 21st century PDF (240 KB) DOC (135 KB)
Amendments (23)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Recommends that the necessary steps be taken to ensure that having access to and use of eHealth services benefits all EU citizens equally, without this becoming a source of social inequality;close the digital gap between the different regions of the Member States and to ensure that having access to and use of eHealth services does not become a source of social or territorial inequality and benefits all EU citizens equally, reaching patients who are not familiar with ICT technologies and those who otherwise would be excluded or underserviced by national healthcare systems.
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a, b, c (new)
Paragraph 3 a, b, c (new)
3a (new). Points out that adoption of the ‘eHealth’ culture by healthcare professionals is paramount, as is the creation of the conditions that will lead to the patients’ empowerment and trust in eHealth; 3b (new). Emphasises in this respect the importance of strengthening the role of healthcare professionals, as well as of patients and patient organisations, in the development and implementation of the eHealth Action Plan; 3c (new). Stresses in particular the need to guarantee that patients should have the possibility of consulting and using information concerning their health and asks therefore the Commission and the Member States to ensure patients’ health literacy in order to enable effective implementation of ehealth tools;
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a, b, c (new)
Paragraph 2 a, b, c (new)
2a. (new) Urges the Commission and the Member States to provide the economic, human, and material resources necessary to ensure that access to, and the use of, eHealth services will not add to the territorial inequalities already affecting access to existing ICT services ; 2b. (new) Urges in particular the competent authorities within the Member States to make full use of the EU structural funds to improve internet connectivity and reduce the digital divide ; 2c. (new) Calls on the Commission to support these efforts through the Digital Agenda for Europe, to facilitate the use of these Funds for this purpose, while providing clear guidelines regarding funding in order to directly support the ICT and health sectors and to engage further with telecom operators to encourage broadband mapping.
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3a. UStresses that the organisation of healthcare systems is a competence of the competent authorities within the Member States, but urges the Commission, nonetheless, to continue working both with healthcare professionals and with patients’ associations and the competent Member States authori, patients associations and other key stakeholders and the competent authorities when framing its policies and addressing the conflicting priorities in eHealth, keeping in mind that the main priority is the access of patients to an effective and affordable healthcare system 3b Calls on the Commission and the Member States to play a major part in bringing different stakeholders together in order to share experience and best practices when framing its policies;; 3c Against this background, calls for the establishment of a platform for collaboration in research between patients, academia, industry and professionals in order to ensure the delivery of an effective and all inclusive eHealth policy.
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
-4a. (new). Points out that the development of eHealth applications, including the health data use and re-use, requires measures concerning confidentiality, data protection, liability and reimbursement in order to ensure that sensitive data are protected from hacking, illegal data selling or other forms of abuse; Welcomes, in this respect, the Commissions intention to launch a study regarding the legal aspects of eHealth services ; 4. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to bring forward guidelines and legislative proposals to fill the legal gaps which currently exist particularly, in the field of responsibilities and liability and ensure effective implementation of the eHealth system across the EU; 134.c. Urges in particular the Commission and the Member States to bring forwarproceed with guidelines and legislation on the legal and data protection considerations relating to eHealth;, in particular legislation enabling to secure data sharing processing and analysis, in order to balance data protection with data access.
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses the need for doctors and other healthcare professionals to be provided with special training in eHealth:, other professionals involved in healthcare, patients and informal carers to be provided with continuous specialised assistance and training in eHealth so as to help them develop their digital literacy and hence make the most of eHealth services without exacerbating social or territorial inequalities; 5a (new) Believes that assistance and training should prioritise: 1) training in the use of IT tools and digital health training, upgrading the relevant skills for healthcare professionals; to this end, students and junior professionals have to be provided with updated curricula on eHealth; 2) IT literacy and awareness of eHealth services for patients at national and cross- border levels
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to run eHealth awareness and IT literacy training campaigns aimed at the general public(taking into account social and territorial inequalities), aimed at overcoming the lack of knowledge and trust among patients, the general public, and healthcare professionals. These campaigns should be tailored to the variety of social groups they target, since public information and active public participation are key to the effective development of new healthcare delivery models;
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Member States to share their experiences, knowledge and good practices and to work among themselves and, with the Commission and with stakeholders to increase the effectiveness of eHealth systemspatient-centred eHealth systems; To this end, Member States should continue collaborating though electronic platforms in which they can share good practices of eHealth systems and solutions and both the Commission and the Member States should support the connection between the different eHealth projects in the EU;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10.1 (new) Underlines the fact that innovations in the field of eHealth create business opportunities and contribute to future growth; 10.2 (new) Emphasises the need to guarantee SMEs appropriate support in order to ensure a level playing field in the eHealth sector and boost SMEs’ market access in this domain and ensure that they contribute to social and territorial cohesion; 10.3 (new) Calls therefore on the Commission to support and facilitate eHealth SMEs projects by setting guidelines on the eHealth market and improving the cooperation between SMEs and stakeholders, research bodies and health insurance schemes to create innovation for healthcare providers. 10.4 (new) Also stresses the need for transparency and competitivity when it comes to SMEs developing ICT tools in order to ensure affordable prices for the eHealth tools.
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Ga (new)
Recital Ga (new)
Ga whereas access to a healthcare system in many cases is restricted either due to financial or regional constraints (e.g in sparsely populated areas) and eHealth systems can play an important role to improve these health inequalities;
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas ICT has developed to such a point that it can be applied in eHealth systems and this has met with success in various EU Member States; and countries around the world, entailing numerous benefits at national level, in particular, as a way to strengthen patient safety, to facilitate a holistic approach of a patient and to foster the development of personalised medicine as well as to increase efficiency and therefore sustainability of the healthcare systems; Gb (new)Whereas, however, further investment in research, development, evaluation and monitoring is required to ensure eHealth systems (including mobile applications), lead to positive outcomes.
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
C a. whereas the economic downturn implies cuts in national healthcare budgets, which implies that solutions must be found to increase the efficiency of healthcare systems and, hence, ensure the sustainability thereof;
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
K.a (new). whereas citizens and healthcare professionals should be provided with on-going trainingdo not all have the opportunity to use IT tools, nor do they have the skills needed to take advantage of eHealth services; K b whereas, as a consequence and in order to provide all the actors with the necessary knowledge and skills to engage in eHealth;: Professionals involved in healthcare, should be provided with vocational training (including as part of their continuing professional development) in the use of the ICT applied in healthcare systems; Patients and informal carers should be provided with assistance in the use of the ICT applied in healthcare systems;
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L
Recital L
L. whereas importance should be attached to databases (such as cloud computing) and to where and how they are kept, and whereas their security must be a priority;
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas ICT has developed to such a point that it can be applied in eHealth systems and this has met with success in various EU Member States, entailing numerous benefits at national level, in particular, as a way to strengthen patient safety as well as to increase efficiency and therefore sustainability of the healthcare systems;
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas legal and data protection considerations should constitute a priority and data privacy shall be balanced with access to data;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Points out that adoption of the ‘eHealth’ culture by healthcare professionals is paramount, as is patients’ empowerment and trust in eHealth;
Amendment A #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas it is necessary to foster EU- wide use of standardises in the system technology useddesign of ehealth systems and make the latter interoperable in the various Member States, in order to guarantee itstheir effectiveness on a European, cross-border scale, while also ensuring that standardisation actions only seek to ensure interoperability and do not result in a single player having a monopolistic position;
Amendment B #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Emphasises the need to ensure the technical standardisation and interoperability of European healthcarICT-enabled solutions and of data exchange on all levels of European healthcare systems, while developing guidelines for the EU-wide interoperability of these systems;
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Urges the Commission and the Member States to bring forward legislation on the legal and data protection considerations relating to eHealth, in particular legislation enabling to secure data sharing processing and analysis;
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Welcomes, in this respect, ongoing international collaborations with WHO and OECD
Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)
Paragraph 14 b (new)
14b. Welcomes the EU-US cooperation on eHealth characterized by on-going collaborations, including those developed in the context of the Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation surrounding health information and communication technologies and including notably the jointly developed EC-HHS roadmap for the development of internationally recognised interoperability standards and interoperability implementation specifications for electronic health information systems;