21 Amendments of Alojz PETERLE related to 2018/2776(RSP)
Amendment 12 #
Recital C
C. whereas innovative digital solutions for health and care can boost health and quality of life of citizens and enable more efficient ways of organising and delivering health and care services as well as creating new opportunities due to the emergence of new technologies;
Amendment 20 #
Recital D a (new)
D a. whereas digital data generated from devices and software provides opportunities to enhance knowledge and understanding about sickness and disease and to improve medical diagnosis and care;
Amendment 22 #
Recital D b (new)
D b. whereas digital devices and software have been developed to diagnose and treat illness and chronic disease, as well as to facilitate self-management and help people monitor their health;
Amendment 23 #
Recital E
E. whereas the organisation and the sustainability of healthcare delivery of health and social care is the responsibility of the Member states; whereas the Union can support the cooperation between Member States in promoting public health and prevention of disease and improving the complementarity of their health services cross-border;
Amendment 26 #
Recital G
G. whereas in the progressive digitalization of the society, patients, caregivers and healthcare professionals face the challenges of using information technology, personalised diagnosis and the digital infrastructure of patient records in the context of personal data security;
Amendment 27 #
Recital G a (new)
G a. whereas the Global Digital Health market was estimated to be worth €17 billion in 2017 with an average growth rate of 12-16 percent annually; whereas this is almost ten times the speed of growth of the whole EU economy; whereas this growth could double using health IT to enable the management of chronic diseases; whereas state of the art supply chain management processes could effectively lower the costs of healthcare operations; whereas science, research and innovation have a vital role to play in Europe’s response to challenges and to its competitiveness;
Amendment 37 #
Paragraph 3
3. Is of the opinion that the digital transformation of health and care needs to be patient-centred; believes that the EU needs to reiterate its support for the transition from existing fragmented health and social care models towards holistic and comprehensive coordinated healthcare system; supports the need to drive a real transformation of European networks, supporting a shift from a centred-oriented disease and care approach to a more prevention; agrees that healthcare professionals and patient- centric imperative have to be at the centre of all digital innovation;
Amendment 44 #
Paragraph 4
4. Believes that there is a need to ensure a key role for public health systems in the governance and the policymaking on digital health and care; notes that, by the implementation of innovative solutions, governments and policy-makers are not considering anymore the health expenditures as a pure cost but as an investment, fostering the growth of companies by innovation, and supporting the creation of jobs and new businesses;
Amendment 55 #
Paragraph 6
6. Regrets that, at present, many citizens in Europe have limited electronic access to their personal health data, in particular in cross-border treatments; supports the Commission's efforts to provide legal certainty, partnership regarding data processing that will enhance trust, allowing the flow of data across borders by building European Reference Network and other digital eHealth platforms;
Amendment 64 #
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8 a. Believes that digital health care solutions are related to technological advancement, based on scientific and research development; notes that digital health solutions require proper interoperability schemes, future infrastructure based on secure storages, 5G deployment, conditions for IoT development, processing health care big data in high performance computing centres; believes that, for the success in patient satisfaction, the accessibility of the adequate infrastructure should function everywhere and be open to everybody;
Amendment 74 #
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12 a. Stresses that health data should be widely used for research and development in the health sector; notes that data analysis methods available today allow research to tackle complex issues that were not solvable in the past; believes that supporting research focuses on design and analysis of executable computer algorithms describing biological phenomena, in particular cancer and brain disorders, which lead us to new discoveries and finally to the new therapies saving the people’s lives;
Amendment 75 #
Paragraph 12 b (new)
12 b. Believes that artificial intelligence, machine learning and exponential leaps in data availability and cloud computing fuel research initiatives to understand biology at molecular and cellular levels, guide the development of medical treatments and analyse data streams to detect health threats, predict disease outbreaks and counsel patients; believes that data mining and data navigation techniques can be used to identify care gaps, risks, trends and patterns;
Amendment 79 #
Paragraph 15
15. Calls on the Commission to facilitate European coordinated action to support pooling and secure exchange of genomic and other health data in order to advance research and personalised medicine, while ensuring full compliance with data protection legislation and ethical principles; believes that there is a gap to promote collaboration between universities and businesses in order to boost the commercialization of knowledge and innovation from digital health adoption;
Amendment 93 #
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20 a. Stresses that successful reorganisation of care delivery should adopt a transparent bottom-up approach to build trust and synergies between the different stakeholders; stresses that the reorganisation of healthcare delivery models and systems cannot materialise without the involvement of governments, providers, patients, insurers and health professionals; stresses that digital health requires innovation across industry sectors and disciplines, such as IT (artificial intelligence, IoT, data analytics, automated decisions, algorithms), digital (web techs, virtualreality, games, etc), design, social sciences (behaviour change, psychology) and medical sciences;
Amendment 95 #
Paragraph 20 b (new)
20 b. Notes that digital health provides a novel opportunity to exploit the advantages of the EU in psychiatric genetic research, building on the public health care system and biobanks; considers that this is a huge opportunity for a stronger prevention system to collect and provide access to sequenced genomes in the EU;
Amendment 99 #
Paragraph 22
22. Calls on the Commission to work with relevant actors to support more cooperation across borders and enlarge the deployment of digitally enabled care models; supports building the network which brings together national authorities responsible for digital health from all the Member States on a voluntary basis to work on common orientations for digital healthcare;
Amendment 101 #
Paragraph 23
23. Calls on the Commission and Member States to ensure that health professionals improve competences and skills; considers that, in order to support patients’ empowerment, the professional digital literacy addressed to the physicians with clear purpose: be more innovative and bold in using new digital opportunities, need to be improved;
Amendment 108 #
Paragraph 25
25. Considers that a positive balance to citizens between the use of digital tools and direct consultation with health professionals should be achieved; considers also that a secure access and cross-border sharing of health data would be a positive step forward; notes that there is a huge potential to support the creation of robust open-innovation platforms that create opportunities for innovators and the space for new business models;
Amendment 110 #
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26 a. Considers that an implementation of healthcare funding models incorporating performance-based payments should include improving patient care experience; considers that the sustainable healthcare systems and the investment in the transformative change are required for the widespread uptake of integrated care models in order to ensure long-term financial sustainability;
Amendment 111 #
Paragraph 26 b (new)
26 b. Calls on the Commission to create an integrated care roadmap towards legal framework for mutual recognition and acceptance of eID and eSignature, produce EU guidelines on eHealth, develop the regulation supporting a cross- sectorial use of the notified identification systems and extend the eHealth Digital Service Infrastructure (eHDSI);
Amendment 112 #
Paragraph 26 c (new)
26 c. Notes that digital healtcare transition will require political leadership, sustained investment and a long-term vision on both national and European level;