28 Amendments of Carlos ZORRINHO related to 2018/2776(RSP)
Amendment 1 #
Citation 1 a (new)
- having regard to the Commission communication of 30 April 2004 - e- Health - making healthcare better for European citizens: an action plan for a European e-Health Area (COM(2004)356 final),
Amendment 2 #
Citation 1 b (new)
- having regard to the Commission staff working document of 21 December 2007 - Action plan of the lead market initiative in the area of eHealth - Annex I to the communication - A lead market initiative for Europe {COM(2007) 860 final, SEC(2007) 1730},
Amendment 3 #
Citation 1 c (new)
- having regard to the Commission Recommendation of 2 July 2008 on cross- border interoperability of electronic health record systems (notified under document number C(2008) 3282)1a, _________________ 1a OJ L 190, 18.7.2008, p. 37–43
Amendment 4 #
Citation 1 d (new)
- having regard to the Commission communication of 4 November 2008 on telemedicine for the benefit of patients, healthcare systems and society (COM(2008)689 final),
Amendment 5 #
Citation 2 a (new)
- having regard to the Commission communication of 6 December 2012 - eHealth Action Plan 2012-2020 - Innovative healthcare for the 21st century (COM(2012)0736 final),
Amendment 9 #
Recital B
B. whereas health systems need to maximise the effectiveness and efficienciciency, equitable access and sustainability of health services and long-term care, deliver seamless care across services and providers, and deliver improvements that matter to patients and their changing care needs;
Amendment 14 #
Recital C
C. whereas innovative digital solutions for health and care can boost prevention of diseases and promotion of healthy and quality of lifestyles of citizens, and enable more efficient ways of organising and delivering health and care services;
Amendment 24 #
Recital F
F. whereas patients’ expectations are rising, and there is a need for an empowerment of citizens regarding their health through user-centred services and more ways for people to interact with health services and health professionals;
Amendment 30 #
Recital G a (new)
G a. whereas several eHealth pilot projects are already being tested in various Member States;
Amendment 31 #
Recital G b (new)
G b. whereas the recent General Data Protection Regulation has ensured the patients’ rights to access their health data and their privacy protection without entering into data property questions or new rights for patients, but instead it lies with the public health systems as guarantors of the common interest;
Amendment 33 #
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the Commission communication on enabling the digital transformation of health and care in the Digital Single Market which aims to promote health, prevent and control disease, help address patients’ unmet needs, represent an opportunity to improve the sustainability of health systems and make it easier for citizens to have equal access to high quality care through the meaningful use of digital innovations;
Amendment 38 #
Paragraph 3
3. Is of the opinion that the digital transformation of health and care needs to besupport patient-centred services as well as empowering citizens to play a more active role in the cycle of disease prevention and health and care services;
Amendment 43 #
Subheading 1 a (new)
Data governance and protection of citizens’ sensitive information
Amendment 46 #
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Stresses that the future of digital health will need to develop secure and effective anonymization and pseudo- anonymization techniques enabling sensible data to be used in health research without compromising the privacy of patients; draws attention to the importance of pseudo-anonymization techniques allowing the re-identification of the data donor in case of risk for their health;
Amendment 48 #
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4 b. Considers that the sensitive nature of health data requires a special protection of the patients’ privacy, which needs specific measures to protect them not only from cyberattacks but also from inadequate uses by the possible users;
Amendment 49 #
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4 c. Acknowledges that the exploitation of the data generated by health and care sectors come with a significant economic interest and the data governance must have clear responsibility schemes and therefore, this new paradigm requires new public-private relationships to guarantee it;
Amendment 50 #
Paragraph 4 d (new)
4 d. Believes that the public health systems are the best-placed authorities to manage and/or supervise the collection, anonymization and pseudo- anonymization, custody and exploitation of health data while protecting the patients’ privacy as well as the efficiency, equitable access and sustainability of the whole health and care sector;
Amendment 54 #
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Stresses that a Commission proposal on sharing information and data governance is necessary to tackle the implications for national health systems;
Amendment 63 #
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Commission to continue promoting the cooperation of Member States’ health authorities to connect to the eHealth digital infrastructure in order to extend its use to also cover the interoperability of Member States’ electronic record systems by supporting the development and adoption of a European electronic health record exchange format, taking into account the Union’s multilingualism and special needs' users;
Amendment 77 #
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14 a. Considers that the move towards digitalisation would be an opportunity to re-examine public-private partnerships in terms of responsibility and equitable use of research results;
Amendment 81 #
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on the Commission to proceed together with the Member States with the testing of specific applications for cross-border health data exchange for research and health policy to improve treatment, diagnosis and prevention of diseases in order to help health systems to meet current and future challenges;
Amendment 82 #
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16 a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to support the use of real- world data in combination with medical data by public health and care providers leading to favourable health outcomes;
Amendment 85 #
Paragraph 18
18. Believes that the development of a shared frameworkstandards to harmonise the collection of health data, storage and use in the EU could improve the quality of research and health services provided to citizens, also facilitation universal access;
Amendment 96 #
Paragraph 21
21. Stresses the importance of person- centred approaches to organising health and care, including by using digital solutions and tools which have a great potential in improving the quality, equity and sustainability of health services but also people’s health and well- being;
Amendment 100 #
Paragraph 22
22. Calls on the Commission to work with relevant actors, especially national health systems, to support more cooperation across borders and enlarge the deployment of digitally enabled care models;
Amendment 103 #
Paragraph 23
23. Calls on the Commission and Member States to ensure that health professionals improve the necessary competences and skills to collect, analyse and protect health data;
Amendment 105 #
Paragraph 24
24. Calls on the Commission to work with Member States and regions to develop networks to educate citizens in the use of digital healthcare, enabling universal and equitable access; considers that, in order to achieve that goal, there is a need to improve systems’ interoperability and users skills, with the highest possible protection of sensitive data with tools and mechanisms provided by the public health systems;
Amendment 107 #
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24 a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to ensure that all measures to improve citizens digital skills and access to and use of their health data take into consideration sensible groups such as elder citizens and people with disabilities;