Progress: Procedure completed
Role | Committee | Rapporteur | Shadows |
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Lead | ENVI | AYUSO Pilar ( PPE) | TĂNĂSESCU Claudiu Ciprian ( S&D), PARVANOVA Antonyia ( ALDE), NICHOLSON James ( ECR) |
Committee Opinion | FEMM | RONZULLI Licia ( PPE) | |
Committee Opinion | REGI | IMBRASAS Juozas ( EFD) | |
Committee Opinion | ITRE | ||
Committee Opinion | IMCO | IRIGOYEN PÉREZ María ( S&D) | Matteo SALVINI ( ENF) |
Committee Opinion | EMPL |
Lead committee dossier:
Legal Basis:
RoP 54
Legal Basis:
RoP 54Subjects
- 2.40.02 Public services, of general interest, universal service
- 3.30.06 Information and communication technologies, digital technologies
- 3.30.20 Trans-European communications networks
- 3.50.04 Innovation
- 4.20.02 Medical research
- 4.20.06 Health services, medical institutions
- 4.60.06 Consumers' economic and legal interests
- 4.70.07 European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)
Events
The European Parliament adopted a resolution on the eHealth Action Plan 2012-2020 –Innovative healthcare for the 21st century in response to the Commission Communication on the same issue. Parliament noted that equal access to high-quality universal healthcare is recognised as a fundamental right, but that access to a healthcare system is in many cases restricted as a result of either financial or regional constraints. eHealth systems can play an important role in improving these health inequalities. It also stressed the gender aspects of eHealth in the resolution and asked the Commission and the Member States to ensure equal access for women to the field of eHealth, not only as patients but also as caregivers (professional or not), ICT specialists and policymakers , highlighting the fact that women we re involved at all levels of the health sector throughout their lives .
Parliament stated that Union action in the field of eHealth, based on Article 168 TFEU, should consist of helping all competent authorities at local, regional, national or state level to coordinate their efforts at national and cross-border levels and supporting their actions in fields where EU intervention can provide added value.
In this respect, Members welcomed the Commission Communication entitled ‘eHealth Action Plan 2012-2020: Innovative healthcare for the 21st century’, which updates the eHealth Action Plan adopted in 2004 by putting in place further actions, especially as regards improving access to health services, reducing health costs and ensuring greater equality among European citizens. They urged the Commission to continue working towards the wholesale adoption of eHealth throughout the EU.
Parliament also welcomed the Commission’s intention to launch a study regarding the legal aspects of eHealth services. It stressed, however, the need to take effective measures concerning reimbursement, liability and data protection. It emphasised the importance of strengthening the role of healthcare professionals such as doctors, pharmacists and nurses, as well as of patients and patient organisations, in the implementation and development of the eHealth Action Plan, keeping in mind that patients should have the possibility of viewing, using and consulting information concerning their health.
The Commission and the Member States were called upon to play a major part in bringing different stakeholders together in order to share experience and best practices and to focus in particular on its central role in supporting the sharing of best practices on rare diseases.
Accessibility: Parliament emphasised that eHealth applications must be accessible to everyone and that, when developing any product or software application, accessibility should be a mandatory condition, in order to prevent any inequality with regard to access. It recommended that the necessary steps be taken to close the digital gap between the different regions of the Member States. Equal access should be ensure for women to the field of eHealth, not only as patients but also as caregivers (professional or not), ICT specialists and policymakers. The Commission and the Member States are also called upon to:
· pay particular attention to digital literacy and to technical training in order to ensure that eHealth tools, especially telemedicine, are genuinely effective and accessible for the whole population;
· provide the economic, human and material resources necessary to ensure that access to and use of eHealth services will not add to the territorial inequalities already affecting access to existing ICT services;
· encourage and promote eHealth services designed for (informal) family carers so as to support them in their often heavy caring tasks and to enable them to provide the best care possible;
· encourage eHealth solutions for isolated women, not only those living in remote areas but also home-bound women lacking the mobility and/or (social) support network they need in order to maintain their health and well-being;
· bring forward guidelines and legislative proposals to fill the legal gaps that currently exist, in particular in the field of responsibilities and liability, and to ensure effective implementation of the eHealth system across the EU;
· proceed with guidelines and legislation on the legal and data protection considerations relating to eHealth, in particular legislation enabling secure sharing, processing and analysis of data, in order to balance data protection with data access;
· continue their efforts to implement Article 14 of Directive 2011/24/EU on the application of patients’ rights in cross-border healthcare, which is aimed at establishing an eHealth network;
· ensure the technical standardisation and interoperability of ICT enabled solutions and of data exchange at all levels of European healthcare systems, while developing guidelines for the EU-wide interoperability of these systems;
· run eHealth awareness and IT literacy training campaigns (taking into account social and territorial inequalities) aimed at overcoming the lack of knowledge and trust among patients, the general public and healthcare professionals;
· to promote a gender-balanced approach to healthcare and medicine and, when implementing the eHealth Action Plan, to take into consideration the specific needs of women and girls as healthcare beneficiaries.
In the light of these considerations, Parliament called 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.
Members considered the proposed cuts to the Connecting Europe facility for broadband and digital services deeply regrettable. They hoped that financing for this area under Horizon 2020 will be maintained.
The Commission is urged to come forward with a “mHealth action plan” for mobile devices, which should include guidelines on market surveillance of mHealth apps in order to ensure data protection and the reliability of the provided health information, as well as to guarantee that these apps are developed under appropriate medical scrutiny.
It is also urged to dedicate resources within future research and development framework programmes to eHealth.
Parliament called on the Commission to publish every other year a progress review as regards the implementation of the eHealth Action Plan in the individual Member States, showing how this tool has been modified in innovative ways to provide citizens with high-quality and efficient healthcare systems, and, in the light of this, to set effective indicators at national and Union levels to measure the progress and impact of the actions planned, paying particular attention to potential discrimination or to access inequalities that could affect consumers and patients.
Lastly, Parliament recommended that the Member States and the Commission, with the help of the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE), collect gender-disaggregated data on initial findings as regards the accessibility and impact of eHealth systems and tools, and called for steps to be taken to share best practices in eHealth implementation.
The Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety adopted the own-initiative report by Pilar AYUSO (EPP, ES) on the eHealth Action Plan 2012-2020 – Innovative healthcare for the 21 st century in response to the Commission Communication on the same issue.
The report stated that equal access to high-quality universal healthcare is recognised as a fundamental right . However, access to a healthcare system is in many cases restricted as a result of either financial or regional constraints. eHealth systems can play an important role in improving these health inequalities.
Article 168 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union stipulates that Union action must complement national policies and be directed towards improving public health. Therefore, Union action in the field of eHealth should consist of helping all competent authorities at local, regional, national or state level to coordinate their efforts at national and cross-border levels and supporting their actions in fields where EU intervention can provide added value.
In this respect, Members welcomed the Commission Communication entitled ‘eHealth Action Plan 2012-2020: Innovative healthcare for the 21st century’, which updates the eHealth Action Plan adopted in 2004 by putting in place further actions , especially as regards improving access to health services, reducing health costs and ensuring greater equality among European citizens. They urged the Commission to continue working towards the wholesale adoption of eHealth throughout the EU.
The report also welcomed the Commission’s intention to launch a study regarding the legal aspects of eHealth services . It stressed, however, the need to take effective measures concerning reimbursement, liability and data protection. It stressed the need to endorse the wider concept of eHealth, and emphasises the importance of strengthening the role of healthcare professionals such as doctors, pharmacists and nurses, as well as of patients and patient organisations, in the implementation and development of the eHealth Action Plan, keeping in mind that patients should have the possibility of viewing, using and consulting information concerning their health.
The Commission and the Member States were called upon to play a major part in bringing different stakeholders together in order to share experience and best practices and to focus in particular on its central role in supporting the sharing of best practices on rare diseases .
Accessibility : the report emphasised that eHealth applications must be accessible to everyone and that, when developing any product or software application, accessibility should be a mandatory condition, in order to prevent any inequality with regard to access. It recommended that the necessary steps be taken to close the digital gap between the different regions of the Member States. Equal access should be ensure for women to the field of eHealth, not only as patients but also as caregivers (professional or not), ICT specialists and policymakers. The Commission and the Member States are also called upon to:
pay particular attention to digital literacy and to technical training for women, especially elderly women, in order to ensure that eHealth tools, especially telemedicine, are genuinely effective and accessible for the whole population; provide the economic, human and material resources necessary to ensure that access to and use of eHealth services will not add to the territorial inequalities already affecting access to existing ICT services; develop new eHealth tools that are accessible to and user-friendly for the elderly and for persons with disabilities; bring forward guidelines and legislative proposals to fill the legal gaps that currently exist, in particular in the field of responsibilities and liability, and to ensure effective implementation of the eHealth system across the EU; establish 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; proceed with guidelines and legislation on the legal and data protection considerations relating to eHealth, in particular legislation enabling secure sharing, processing and analysis of data, in order to balance data protection with data access; develop data standards for collecting, sharing and reporting on cross-border, health-related issues; continue their efforts to implement Article 14 of Directive 2011/24/EU on the application of patients’ rights in cross-border healthcare, which is aimed at establishing an eHealth network; ensure the technical standardisation and interoperability of ICT enabled solutions and of data exchange at all levels of European healthcare systems, while developing guidelines for the EU-wide interoperability of these systems; ensure good governance of operations related to health information on the internet; run eHealth awareness and IT literacy training campaigns (taking into account social and territorial inequalities) aimed at overcoming the lack of knowledge and trust among patients, the general public and healthcare professionals.
Members considered the proposed cuts to the Connecting Europe facility for broadband and digital services deeply regrettable. They hoped that financing for this area under Horizon 2020 will be maintained.
The Commission is urged to come forward with a “ mHealth action plan ” for mobile devices, which should include guidelines on market surveillance of mHealth apps in order to ensure data protection and the reliability of the provided health information, as well as to guarantee that these apps are developed under appropriate medical scrutiny.
It is also urged to dedicate resources within future research and development framework programmes to eHealth .
Lastly, Members called on the Commission to publish every other year a progress review as regards the implementation of the eHealth Action Plan in the individual Member States, showing how this tool has been modified in innovative ways to provide citizens with high-quality and efficient healthcare systems, and, in the light of this, to set effective indicators at national and Union levels to measure the progress and impact of the actions planned, paying particular attention to potential discrimination or to access inequalities that could affect consumers and patients.
PURPOSE : to set up an eHealth Action Plan 2012-2020.
BACKGROUND : EU health systems are under severe budgetary constraints, while having to respond to the challenges of an ageing population, rising expectations of citizens, and mobility of patients and health professionals. Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) applied to health and healthcare systems can increase their efficiency , improve quality of life and unlock innovation in health markets.
Despite the economic crisis, the market potential of eHealth is strong. The global telemedicine market has grown from $9.8 billion in 2010 to $11.6 billion in 2011, and is expected to continue to expand to $27.3 billion in 2016, representing a compound annual growth rate of 18.6%.
The first eHealth Action Plan was adopted in 2004. Since then, the European Commission has been developing targeted policy initiatives aimed at fostering widespread adoption of eHealth throughout the EU. For instance, the Commission Recommendation on cross-border interoperability of electronic health record systems (2008/594/EC), the Communication on benefits of telemedicine for patients healthcare systems and society .
The adoption of the Directive 2011/24/EU on the application of patients' rights in cross-border healthcare establishing the eHealth Network, marked a further step towards formal cooperation on eHealth. The eHealth Network set up by this Directive is the main strategic and governance body at EU level to work towards interoperability of cross-border eHealth services.
Notwithstanding this substantial progress, barriers continue to exist that need to be addressed in order to reap all the benefits from a fully mature and interoperable eHealth system in Europe.
CONTENT : the new eHealth Action Plan outlines the vision for eHealth in Europe , in line with the objectives of the Europe 2020 Strategy and the Digital Agenda for Europe . The vision of this Action Plan is to utilise and develop eHealth to address several of the most pressing health and health systems challenges of the first half of the 21st century:
to improve chronic disease and multimorbidity (multiple concurrent disease) management and to strengthen effective prevention and health promotion practices; to increase sustainability and efficiency of health systems by unlocking innovation, enhancing patient/citizen-centric care and citizen empowerment and encouraging organisational changes; to foster cross-border healthcare, health security, solidarity, universality and equity; to improve legal and market conditions for developing eHealth products and services.
The Action Plan addresses the barriers and the following operational objectives:
(1) Achieving wider interoperability of eHealth services : the Commission recognises the need for an eHealth interoperability framework, building on eHealth roadmaps and the general European Interoperability Framework with its four levels of interoperability: legal, organisational, semantic and technical.
(2) Supporting research, development and innovation in eHealth and wellbeing to address the lack of availability of user-friendly tools and services : short-term and mid-term research priorities include health and wellbeing solutions for citizens and health professionals, better quality of care, including of chronic diseases, while increasing citizens’ autonomy, mobility and safety. Particular attention is paid to the design and usercentricity of mobile technologies and applications. There will be an additional focus on ways of analysing and mining large amounts of data for the benefit of individual citizens, researchers, practitioners, businesses and decision makers. The Commission shall support:
Public-Private Partnerships and other actions involving research and innovation and translation of knowledge to clinical trials and demonstration projects; actions to improve the market conditions for entrepreneurs developing products and services in the fields of eHealth and ICT for wellbeing.
(3) Facilitating uptake and ensuring wider deployment : the Commission will leverage the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) for the large scale deployment of innovative tools, the replicability of good practices and services for health, ageing and wellbeing, with a particular attention to improving equal access to services.
From 2013, starting with the Competitiveness and Innovation Programme and continuing under Horizon 2020 , the Commission will support activities aiming at increasing citizens’ digital health literacy.
From 2014, sets of common indicators will be made available to measure the added value and benefit of eHealth solutions, based on work funded by the Commission in partnership with
stakeholders.
(4) Promoting policy dialogue and international cooperation on eHealth at global level : the Commission shall enhance its work on data collection and benchmarking activities in health care with relevant national and international bodies (WHO, OECD) to include more specific eHealth indicators and assess the impact and economic value of eHealth implementation. It shall promote policy discussions on eHealth at global level to foster interoperability, the use of international standards, develop ICT skills, compare evidence of the effectiveness of eHealth, and promote ecosystems of innovation in eHealth.
The Action Plan emphasises cross-border activities but it should be noted that work done at the EU level has a strong effect at the national level and vice versa. Therefore, the Action Plan encourages national and regional authorities, healthcare and social care professionals, industry, patients, service providers, researchers and EU Institutions to closely work together.
Documents
- Commission response to text adopted in plenary: SP(2014)320
- Contribution: COM(2012)0736
- Results of vote in Parliament: Results of vote in Parliament
- Decision by Parliament: T7-0010/2014
- Debate in Parliament: Debate in Parliament
- Committee report tabled for plenary: A7-0443/2013
- Amendments tabled in committee: PE524.557
- Amendments tabled in committee: PE521.697
- Committee opinion: PE514.574
- Committee opinion: PE516.618
- Committee opinion: PE514.579
- Committee draft report: PE516.917
- Document attached to the procedure: N7-0043/2014
- Document attached to the procedure: OJ C 358 07.12.2013, p. 0013
- Non-legislative basic document published: COM(2012)0736
- Non-legislative basic document published: EUR-Lex
- Document attached to the procedure: N7-0043/2014 OJ C 358 07.12.2013, p. 0013
- Committee draft report: PE516.917
- Committee opinion: PE514.579
- Committee opinion: PE516.618
- Committee opinion: PE514.574
- Amendments tabled in committee: PE521.697
- Amendments tabled in committee: PE524.557
- Commission response to text adopted in plenary: SP(2014)320
- Contribution: COM(2012)0736
Activities
- Edward MCMILLAN-SCOTT
Plenary Speeches (2)
- Pilar AYUSO
Plenary Speeches (1)
- María IRIGOYEN PÉREZ
Plenary Speeches (1)
- Petru Constantin LUHAN
Plenary Speeches (1)
- Ivana MALETIĆ
Plenary Speeches (1)
- Silvia-Adriana ȚICĂU
Plenary Speeches (1)
- Nikola VULJANIĆ
Plenary Speeches (1)
Amendments | Dossier |
224 |
2013/2061(INI)
2013/07/15
REGI
28 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Welcomes the Commission communication on the eHealth Action Plan 2012-2020 and considers that it offers an important set of guidelines for national, regional and local institutions on how to prepare the healthcare systems in the EU for today’s challenges, which include the ageing of the population and the exodus of young people from rural areas, the spread of chronic diseases, growing demand for quality care and specialised services, the need for more efficient use of ever- scarcer resources, reducing red tape and corruption, and creating a stable market environment to encourage innovation;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Considers that eHealth opens up great opportunities for improving the accessibility of national and cross-border healthcare services for all EU citizens equally, irrespective of their location, citizenship, income or social status, or of disability and age; stresses that health literacy of patients, digital skills of patients and
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Considers that the Commission must facilitate the use of EU structural funds to implement e-health infrastructure in Europe while developing guidelines for interoperability of these systems on an EU wide basis;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 b (new) 2b. Considers that, for all its shortcomings, eHealth has great potential and could be of benefit to the general public, patients, medical staff and the authorities themselves;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Stresses the need to give adequate support to SMEs in the context of eHealth, so as to guarantee equal market access in a developing social market economy and ensure that they contribute to social and territorial cohesion;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 c (new) 2c. Considers that providing the necessary tools for the harnessing of public and real-time data for better understanding of benefit risk, prediction of adverse events, and improving the efficiency of HTA assessment;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 d (new) 2d. Stresses the need for sustained effort in terms of cohesion policy and regional policies to eliminate regional disparities, particularly with regard to the accessing of ICT services;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Notes that in many Member States health policy is to varying extents entrusted to regional and local authorities, and welcomes their active involvement in eHealth project design and implementation; calls for the role of regional and local authorities in developing eHealth infrastructures to be strengthened;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Notes that in many Member States health policy is to varying extents entrusted to regional and local authorities, and welcomes their active involvement in eHealth project design and implementation; calls for the role of regional and local authorities in developing mHealth services and eHealth infrastructures to be strengthened; takes the view that a well-functioning
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3.
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Notes that in many Member States health policy is to varying extents entrusted
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Welcomes the Commission communication on the eHealth Action Plan 2012-2020 and considers that it offers an important set of guidelines for national, regional and local institutions
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Notes that, in view of the very substantial differences between the EU regions, eHealth could prove to be an outstanding advantage for those resident in less developed regions, providing them with better, more transparent and lower- cost access to high-quality services;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Underlines that regional differences in accessing ICT services and insufficient broadband coverage in certain areas may hamper the uptake of eHealth; recommends more investment in ICT infrastructure taking into account the future funding opportunities under Cohesion Policy in order to close the gaps and to facilitate the use of eHealth services;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Stresses that the organisation of healthcare systems is a competence of the Member States; urges the Commission, nonetheless, to play a more active role in coordinating Member States' actions and encouraging telemedicine cooperation, clarifying conditions and identifying common barriers to crossborder health provision, as well as assessing the efficiency of existing eHealth applications in terms of fostering the exchange of best practice
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Stresses that the organisation of
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Stresses that the organisation of healthcare systems is a competence of the Member State
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Deeply regrets, especially given the current crisis of competitiveness in the Union, the proposed cuts to the Connecting Europe facility for broadband and digital services; hopes that financing for this area under Horizon 2020 will be maintained; encourages local and regional authorities to make use of EU funds for financing eHealth without at the same time reducing funding for traditional health services or closing down community-owned hospitals for example.
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Deeply regrets, especially given the current crisis of competitiveness in the Union, the proposed cuts to the Connecting Europe facility for broadband and digital services; hopes that financing for this area under Horizon 2020 will be maintained; encourages local and regional authorities to make use of EU funds for financing eHealth
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Deeply regrets, especially given the current crisis of competitiveness in the Union, the proposed cuts to the Connecting Europe facility for broadband and digital services; hopes that financing for this area under Horizon 2020 will be maintained; encourages local and regional authorities to make effective use of EU funds for financing eHealth.
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Is concerned about the significant shortage of the provision of health services in times of crisis, inter alia by shutting down health centres and reducing staff which adds to the specific challenges for islands, remote and mountainous areas to ensure accessibility to health services;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Welcomes the Commission communication on the eHealth Action Plan 2012-2020 and considers that it offers an important set of guidelines for national, regional and local institutions on how to prepare the healthcare systems in the EU for today's challenges, which include the ageing of the population, the spread of chronic diseases, growing demand for quality care and specialised services, the need for more efficient use of ever- scarcer resources, achieving cost reductions of health systems, reducing red tape and corruption, and creating a stable market environment to encourage innovation, sustainability and optimization of healthcare systems;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Welcomes the Commission communication on the eHealth Action Plan 2012-2020 and considers that it offers an important set of guidelines for national, regional and local institutions on how to prepare the healthcare systems in the EU for today’s challenges, which include the ageing of the population, the
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Considers that, given both the impact of demographic changes and the fall in the number of healthcare staff, the European Union and the Member States must adopt major structural reforms so as to ensure the sustainability of health systems and public access to high-quality services in all EU regions without exception;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Considers that eHealth, as a complement to traditional health services, opens up great opportunities for improving the accessibility of healthcare services for all EU citizens, irrespective of their location, citizenship, income or social status, or of disability and age; stresses that health literacy of patients, digital skills of patients and medical personnel, broadband access and user-friendly eHealth ICT tools are essential in order to strengthen social and territorial cohesion, eliminate health inequalities and provide access to preventative healthcare measures and medical advice in remote, sparsely populated and otherwise disadvantaged regions; considers that in this regard local and regional authorities have an essential role to play in spreading information, educating and organising training according to the needs of local communities, and involving civil society organisations and volunteers;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Considers that eHealth opens up great opportunities for improving the accessibility of healthcare services for all EU citizens, irrespective of their location
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Considers that eHealth opens up great opportunities for improving the accessibility
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Considers that eHealth opens up great opportunities for improving the accessibility of high quality and sustainable healthcare services for all EU citizens, irrespective of their location, citizenship, income or social status, or of disability and age; stresses that health literacy of patients, digital skills of patients and medical personnel, broadband access and user-friendly eHealth ICT tools are essential in order to strengthen social and territorial cohesion, eliminate health inequalities, ensure safety and surveillance for patients and provide access to preventative healthcare measures and medical advice in remote, sparsely populated and otherwise disadvantaged regions; considers that in this regard local and regional authorities have an essential role to play in spreading information regarding the benefits and opportunities of eHealth, educating and organising training
source: PE-516.648
2013/09/05
IMCO
54 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Welcomes this eHealth Action Plan 2014-2020, which updates the
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Calls on the Member States, given that the e-health Action Plan will create new job opportunities in the research, health, medicine and ICT sectors, to pay particular attention to gender balance in education, training and recruitment in all these sectors, such as in the profession of nursing which is currently under- represented by men;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Stresses that not all citizens and health practitioners have the opportunity to use IT tools or the necessary skills, and that those concerned should therefore be offered suitably adapted assistance and training, to be available throughout the Union, in order to help them develop their digital skills and thus fully exploit the benefits of eHealth services while not increasing social or territorial inequalities; Stresses also the need to develop systems accessible to all, keeping in mind the target for intuitive interphase; underlines the necessity to maintain the equal possibility to use traditional health care services;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 b (new) 3b. Calls on the Commission to encourage and promote e-Health services designed for (informal) family carers, who are still mostly women, so as to support them in their often heavy caring tasks and to enable them to provide the best possible care.
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Stresses
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 c (new) 3c. Calls on the Commission to encourage e-Health solutions for isolated women, not only those living in remote areas but also isolated and home-bound women lacking the mobility and/or (social) support network to maintain their health and wellbeing.
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Stresses that not all citizens and health practitioners have the opportunity to use IT tools or the necessary skills, and that those concerned should therefore be offered suitably adapted assistance, information and training, to be available throughout the Union, in order to help them develop their digital skills and thus fully exploit the benefits of eHealth services while not increasing social or territorial inequalities;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 d (new) 3d. Calls on the Commission to promote e-Health solutions which facilitate independent living and prevent domestic accidents, so as to enable older women to live an independent life for as long as they wish or need, regardless of their health status.
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Is convinced that health literacy of patients, encouraging them to monitor and measure their health, to understand and control their health data and to eliminate the prevailing unequal specialist-patient relationship, is a crucial factor needed to improve quality of health services, increase transparency of health institutions, fight corruption and to ensure that patients allow re-use of their data for creating new knowledge;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 e (new) 3e. Calls on the Commission to tackle the information isolation of older generations, in particular older women, and to encourage and promote e-Health technologies as a contribution to the Commission's objectives regarding active and healthy ageing (HLY+2).
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Is convinced that health literacy of patients, encouraging them to monitor and measure their health, to understand and control their health data and to eliminate the prevailing unequal specialist-patient relationship, is a crucial factor needed to improve quality of health services, increase transparency of health institutions, fight corruption and to ensure that patients allow re-use of their data for creating new knowledge;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Encourages the Commission to recognise that e-Health solutions may not significantly improve health outcomes and patients' wellbeing, if they replace human interaction rather than being integrated with a face-to-face approach between patients and (health)care providers; hence, calls on the Commission to make sure that e-Health technologies will not become a substitute for the trusting relationship between patients and their (health)care professionals.
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. 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; underlines the fact that innovations in the field of eHealth create business opportunities and contribute to future growth;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 b (new) 4b. Acknowledges the need for e-Health technologies, particularly to unlock its potential in regard to health issues which are still burdened by major taboo's, such as elder abuse, sexual abuse, and other sexual and reproductive health issues.
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. 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
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 c (new) 4c. Calls on the Commission to view and promote e-Health as a contribution to more effective (health)care systems aiming at improving women's health and wellbeing across the lifespan, so as to contribute to closing the gender gap in overall health outcomes.
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Recall the need for the future eHealth Action Plan to guarantee the following key principles: - optimising healthcare spending in times of economic crisis; - strengthening and promoting applications and solutions for market development; - ensuring the interoperability of healthcare and hospitals information systems.
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Recalls that, since one of the main
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Stresses the importance of maintaining a human and patient-centred dimension in healthcare, especially in the context of an ageing population and the consequent frequent difficulty in distinguishing the medical from the social;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Recalls that, since one of the main objectives of the e-health Action Plan is to ensure equal access to healthcare services for all citizens of the Union, measures should be taken as a matter of urgency to close the digital gap between the different regions of the Member States and between urban and rural populations and, more particularly, to tackle disparities as regards
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5.
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Asks the Commission and the Members States to pay particular attention to digital literacy and technical training for women and especially elder population in order to ensure that e-health tools, especially telemedicine, are genuinely effective and accessible for the whole population.;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Welcomes this eHealth Action Plan 2014-2020, which updates the previous Action Plan by putting in place further actions, especially as regards improving access to health services, reducing health costs and ensuring greater equality among European citizens;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Calls on the Member States, given that the e-health Action Plan
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Stresses that citizens' confidence is essential for both domestic and crossborder eHealth services; emphasises the need to comply with the rules on personal data protection, since this is an essential prerequisite for the protection of citizens, for patients' trust in eHealth services, and for the proper functioning and increased use of electronic communications in the health sector; enhances that the data protection measures should be developed towards strong individual protection, however in a way that do not hinder the future health research;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Asks the Commission and the Members States to pay particular attention to digital literacy and technical training for women, considering especially elderly women, in order to ensure that e-health tools, especially telemedicine, are genuinely effective;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Stresses that citizens' confidence is essential for both domestic and crossborder eHealth services; emphasises the need to comply with the rules on privacy and personal data protection, since this is an essential prerequisite for the protection of citizens, for patients' trust in eHealth services, and for the proper functioning and increased use of
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. Calls on the Commission to promote health and ICT literacy of older generations, in particular older women, and to encourage and promote user- oriented and women-friendly e-Health solutions as a contribution to the Commission's objectives regarding active and healthy ageing.
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6.
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Calls on the Member States, when addressing the operational objectives of the Action Plan, to tackle the obstacles to women's occupational mobility in the e- health sector particularly the training of girls in ICT for future careers;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6.
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 a (new) 7a. Calls on the Commission to deliver clear guidelines regarding funding in order to directly support the ICT and health sectors which have been acknowledged as sectors with the highest growth and employment potential;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new) 6 a. Call on the Commission and Member States to further cooperate in order to ensure healthcare professionals liability at national and cross-border levels;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8.
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. Emphasises the importance of strengthening the role of health practitioners and patients in the implementation of the eHealth Action Plan and calls for Member States to share experience and best practice;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8. Asks the Member States and the Commission, with the help of the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE), to collect gender-disaggregated data on initial findings as regards the accessibility and impact of e-health systems and tools and calls to share best practice in e-health implementation.
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Calls on the Commission to publish
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Asks the Commission and the Members States to pay attention to the patients' health literacy to ensure effective implementation of e-health tools.
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Calls on the Commission to publish an annual review of progress in the implementation of the eHealth Action Plan in the individual Member States, showing how this tool has been innovatively modified in order to provide citizens with high-quality, efficient healthcare systems and, accordingly, set effective indicators to measure the
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Calls on the Commission to publish an annual review of progress in the implementation of the eHealth Action Plan in the individual Member States, showing how this tool has been innovatively modified in order to provide citizens with efficient healthcare systems and, accordingly
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Perceives the increasing possibilities for personalised healthcare as one of the most important opportunities of the eHealth; where the medical records of the patient can be automatically stored in electronic form, are non-dependant on the location of the patient and accessible only by the patient himself with a personalised ID;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Stresses that women are especially under-represented in the research and ICT sectors; the Commission should therefore promote integrated and collective actions such as mentoring programmes and schemes in order to encourage the participation of women in these sectors;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 b (new) 1b. Welcomes the Commission's intentions to propose an eHealth Interoperability Framework by 2015 and sees it as a very important step towards patient empowerment in eHealth; sees important to include in that Framework the creation of standardised reporting in medical records as well as the support towards the development of medical devices with the feature of automatic electronic storage of medical records;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Calls on the Member States to guarantee equal treatment and pay for men and women taking up these new roles;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 c (new) 1c. Stresses the need to endorse the wide concept of eHealth, including all stakeholders such as doctors, specialists, patients, pharmacies, nurses and other health care professionals;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 b (new) 1b. Calls on the Member States, when they promote the plan, to stress the importance of gender balance;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Sees the need to widely involve patients and patient organisations in developing eHealth at EU level in the future, keeping in mind that the patients should have the possibility to view, use and consult the information on their health;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Asks the Commission and the Member States to ensure equal access for women and men to the field of e-health, not only as patients but also as caregivers (professional or not), ICT specialists and policymakers.
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Deplores the fact that budgetary adjustments have led to harsh cuts in health resources, including a reduction in healthcare staff, at a time when the demands on health services are increasing and medical cases linked to the crisis are on the up;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Asks the Commission and the Member States to ensure equal access for women to the field of e-health, not only as patients but also as caregivers (professional or not), ICT specialists and policymakers
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 b (new) 2b. Calls for the Commission also to take a significant role in getting different stakeholders together to share best practices; calls for the Commission to have special focus on its central role in supporting the share of best practices on rare diseases;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Urges the Commission and the Member states to promote a gendered approach to healthcare and medicine and, when implementing the e-health Action Plan, to take into consideration the specific needs of women and girls as beneficiaries of healthcare
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Stresses that not all citizens and health practitioners have the opportunity to use IT tools or the necessary skills, and that those concerned should therefore be offered suitably adapted assistance and training, to be available throughout the Union, in order to help them develop their digital skills and thus fully exploit the benefits of eHealth services while not increasing social or territorial inequalities; stresses the need for the training curricula for health practitioners to include digital health training;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Calls on the Commission to encourage and promote e-Health services designed for women of all ages, more specifically, dealing with women's health issues and therefore offering women-oriented advice and care solutions.
source: PE-516.921
2013/10/18
ENVI
126 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A A. whereas equal access to high-quality healthcare is internationally recognised to be a fundamental right;
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution Recital L a (new) L a. -whereas access to healthcare system in many cases is restricted either due to financial or regional constraints (There are many cases where access to healthcare system is either limited or not recommended. Without creating any kind of discrimination, it seems imperative for the MS to explore the potential of e-health applications in order to provide the most appropriate and adequate healthcare protection to all citizens)
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Urges the Commission and the Member States to work together, including the relevant stakeholders to pinpoint eHealth tools and models to support the implementation and development of Article 12 of Directive 2011/24/EU, which deals with the development of European reference frameworks;
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Urges the Commission and the Member States to work together to pinpoint eHealth tools and models to support the
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 – subparagraph 1 (new) Calls on the Commission to allow membership of all regional authorities that are competent for eHealth applications in the eHealth Network set up by Directive 2011/24/EU
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution 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 order to balance data protection with data access and to this end increase the transparency over health data use and re-use;
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Urges the Commission and the Member States to bring forward guidelines and legislation on the legal and data protection considerations relating to eHealth
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution 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 107 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Urges the Commission and the Member States to bring forward legislation on the legal and data protection considerations relating to eHealth and mHealth;
Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Urges the
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 a (new) 12a. - Underlines that it is essential for patients to be able to access their own personal health data; patients should always be informed in a clear and transparent manner how this data is being processed after having given prior consent to the use of such data
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution Recital L a (new) L a. whereas inequalities resulting from the digital divide will extend to healthcare inequalities if access to high speed internet connections is not improved as e- health services are expanded.
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 a (new) 13a. Urges the Commission and the Member States to apply the processing standards for health-related personal data as laid down in the proposal for a regulation on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, once that regulation has entered into force;
Amendment 111 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 a (new) 13a. Stresses the need of an ethical code of practice for cross-border activities without prejudice to the principle of subsidiarity
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 a (new) 13a. Stresses that, with regard to any potential misapplication of eHealth services and prescriptions, and for the benefits and mutual trust between patients and healthcare professionals, Member States should either have or create legal frameworks at national level to establish clear rules for liability and subsequent redress
Amendment 113 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Points to the need to use international standards both in the modelling of information and in its exchange
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution 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) 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;
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. Emphasises the need to ensure the technical
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. Emphasises the need to ensure the technical
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. Emphasises the need to ensure the
Amendment 119 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. Emphasises the need to ensure the technical standardisation and interoperability of European healthcare systems and hospitals information;
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution 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 120 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 a (new) 17a. Stresses the importance of assuring the interoperability between the applications used by the patients and those used by the doctors in order to attain better results and improve communication
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 a (new) Amendment 122 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 a (new) 15a. Emphasises the need to ensure that the cultural and linguistic diversity of the European Union is fully respected with regard to the technical standardisation and interoperability of European healthcare systems;
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 a (new) 16a. Stresses the importance of global surveys in eHealth evidence-building
Amendment 124 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 17. Calls for the development of eHealth tools not to centre solely on technological and financial considerations, but to be based on the effectiveness of the tools and their worth improving the health outcomes and the quality of life, and for the overriding aim of their development be the best interests of patients including the elderly and the patients with disabilities;
Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 a (new) 17a. Recall the need for the future eHealth Action Plan to guarantee the following key principles: - optimising healthcare spending in times of economic crisis; - strengthening and promoting applications and solutions for market development.
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 a (new) 17a. Calls on the Commission to publish an annual progress report on the implementation of the eHealth Action Plan in Member States, detailing the innovations brought to this tool in order to provide citizens with efficient healthcare systems, thereby establishing effective indicators for gauging the success and impact of the projected measures;
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution Recital L a (new) L a. whereas eHealth should be a cost- effective and efficient way of providing healthcare to patients aiming to reducing their medical expenses without placing undue burden on current national healthcare systems.
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D D. whereas the differing organisational and cultural approaches to the way healthcare is delivered
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D a (new) Da. whereas article 4(5) of Directive 2011/24/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 March 2011 on the application of patients' rights in cross- border healthcare stipulates that Union action shall not affect laws and regulations in Member States on the use of languages
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E E. whereas there has been an increase in the mobility of the general public within the healthcare systems of their own countries, and it is now
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E a (new) Ea. whereas we are facing multiple cross- border health concerns
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution 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; however further investment in research, development, evaluation and monitoring is required to ensure eHealth systems, particularly mobile applications, lead to positive outcomes.
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution 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 2 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A A. whereas equal access to high-quality universal healthcare is internationally recognised – especially within the EU – to be a fundamental right;
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution 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
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution 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
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H H. whereas there is a need for ICT specialists, consumers, patients, informal carers, healthcare professionals in general – and doctors in particular – and the public health authorities to work together in this field;
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H H. whereas there is a need for ICT specialists, consumers, patients, healthcare professionals in general – and doctors in particular – and the public health authorities to work together in this field;
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H H. whereas there is a need for ICT specialists, patients, consumers, healthcare professionals in general – and doctors in particular – and the public health authorities to work together in this field;
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution Recital H a (new) Ha. whereas successful eHealth initiatives and projects like epSOS or the Virtual Physiological Human initiative have demonstrated the great value of eHealth solutions
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I I. whereas health and safety as well as legal and data protection considerations should constitute a priority;
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I I. whereas, patients' health data is of an extremely sensitive nature, legal and data protection considerations should constitute a priority;
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I I. whereas legal and data protection considerations relating to eHealth and mHealth should constitute a priority;
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I I. whereas legal and data protection considerations should constitute a priority and data privacy shall be balanced with access to data;
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A a (new) Aa. whereas trust of patients in the healthcare services provided to them is crucial to guarantee high-quality healthcare;
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I I. whereas legal and data protection considerations
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I I. whereas legal and data protection considerations should
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I a (new) Ia. whereas there is a need for regulatory frameworks regarding eHealth in all Member States
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J J. whereas it is necessary to
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J J. whereas it is necessary, and without risking narrowing a market to a single provider, to standardise
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J J. whereas it is necessary to
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J J. whereas it is necessary to
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J J. whereas it is necessary to standardise, or make interoperable, the system technology used in the various Member States, in order to guarantee its effectiveness;
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J J. whereas it is necessary to standardise the system technology used in the various Member States
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C C. whereas, therefore, the European Union’s action in the field of eHealth consists of helping
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I b (new) Ib. whereas EU guidelines are needed for health professionals on how to use correctly patients data
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution Recital K K. whereas not only healthcare professionals but also patients, carers and, where necessary, other members of civil society or government entities dealing with patient care and/or counselling, should be provided with on-going training in the use of the ICT applied in healthcare systems;
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution Recital K K. whereas healthcare professionals, patients and informal carers should be provided with on-going training in the use of the ICT applied in healthcare systems
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution Recital K K. whereas healthcare professionals should be provided with on-going training in
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution Recital K K. whereas healthcare professionals should be provided with on-going training, including as part of continuing professional development, in the use of the ICT applied in healthcare systems;
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution Recital K K. whereas healthcare professionals should be provided with on-going training in the use of the ICT applied in healthcare systems and a simplified and patient- friendly technology should be considered imperative;
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution Recital K a (new) Ka. whereas citizens and healthcare professionals do not all have the opportunity to use IT tools, nor do they have the skills needed to take advantage of eHealth services;
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G a (new) Ga. whereas patients with chronic disease need a multidisciplinary approach
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution Recital K a (new) Ka. whereas eHealth solutions have the potential to increase the well-being of – especially chronic – patients because it is easier to treat them at home;
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution Recital L L. whereas
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C C. whereas, therefore, the European Union’s action in the field of eHealth consists of helping Member States to coordinate their efforts
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution Recital L L. whereas importance should be attached to databases, such as cloud computing and to where and how they are kept;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution Recital L b (new) Lb. -whereas it is estimated that between 8 % and 12 % of patients admitted to hospitals in the EU suffer from adverse events including healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), (There are many cases where access to healthcare system is either limited or not recommended. Without creating any kind of discrimination, it seems imperative for the MS to explore the potential of e-health applications in order to provide the most appropriate and adequate healthcare protection to all citizens)
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution 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,
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution 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 or territorial inequalit
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Recommends that the necessary steps be taken to ensure that having access to and use of quality eHealth services benefits all EU citizens equally, without this becoming a source of social inequality and underlines the need to ensure that people that are not familiar with computers and other forms of ICT should not be left behind;
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. - stresses the need for patients, as the intended beneficiaries of any eHealth program, to play a central role in the development of such technologies
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution 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 57 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Points out that eHealth must foster mutual trust between patients and health professionals and that the development of eHealth applications requires not only IT infrastructure and digital literacy, but also measures concerning confidentiality, data protection and liability, in order to ensure that sensitive data are protected from hacking or other forms of abuse.
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Urges the Member States to make full use of structural funds to improve internet connectivity and reduce the digital divide; calls on the Commission to support these efforts through the Digital Agenda for Europe and to engage further with telecom operators to encourage broadband mapping.
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to develop new eHealth tools accessible and user friendly for the elderly and for the persons with disabilities;
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C C. whereas, therefore, the European Union’s action in the field of eHealth consists of helping Member States to coordinate their efforts in this area and supporting their actions in fields where its intervention can provide added value, the aim being to improve quality of life for citizens;
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. 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;
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3.
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Urges the Commission to continue working both with healthcare professionals and with patients associations and the competent
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Urges the Commission to continue working both with healthcare professionals
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Urges the Commission to continue working both with healthcare professionals
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to bring forward legislative proposals to fill the legal gaps which currently exist and ensure effective implementation of the eHealth system across the EU;
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Calls on the Commission to bring forward legislative proposals to fill the legal gaps, particularly, in the field of responsibilities and liability, which currently exist
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Calls on the Commission to bring forward guidelines and legislative proposals to fill the legal gaps which currently exist and ensure effective implementation of the eHealth
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure good governance and operations of health information on the internet
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Stresses the need for doctors
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C a (new) Ca. whereas there are conflict regions, remote or disadvantaged areas with no direct access to medical care and where eHealth tools play an important role to improve these health inequalities;
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Stresses the need for doctors and other
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Stresses the need for doctors
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Stresses the need for doctors and other healthcare professionals to be provided with special training, which could form part of continuing professional development, in eHealth:
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to provide healthcare professionals and citizens throughout the EU with appropriate assistance and training, so as to help them develop their digital literacy and hence make the most of eHealth services without exacerbating social or territorial inequalities;
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Stresses the importance of eHealth tools in education and awareness-raising in the area of sexual and reproductive health
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Recommends that the opinions of doctors and other
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 a (new) 6 a. Encourages the Commission to recognise that eHealth solutions may not significantly improve health outcomes and patients' wellbeing, if they replace human interaction rather than being integrated with a face-to-face approach between patients and (health)care providers; hence, calls on the Commission to make sure that eHealth technologies will not become a substitute for the trusting relationship between patients and their (health)care professionals;
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 a (new) 16a. Points to the importance of preserving a human dimension in healthcare, especially in view of the fact that the population is ageing and it is therefore becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish between that which is medical and that which is social;
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Calls on the Member States
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to run eHealth awareness and training campaigns aimed at
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G a (new) Ga. whereas eHealth systems can improve healthcare provision in sparsely populated areas;
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to run eHealth awareness and training campaigns aimed at the general public. These campaigns should be tailored to the
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution 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 with a specific emphasis on social and territorial inequalities. These campaigns should be tailored to the social groups they target, since public information and active public participation are key to the effective development of new healthcare delivery models;
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to share their experiences, knowledge and good practices and to work among themselves and with
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Calls on the Member States to share their experiences, knowledge and good practices and to work among themselves, with relevant stakeholders and with the Commission to increase the effectiveness of eHealth systems;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Calls on the Member States to share their experiences, knowledge and good
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 – subparagraph 1 (new) Points to the possibilities of eHealth applications to allow for decentralised healthcare policies at a regional or local level, and to adapt the healthcare policies to the local needs and differences
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. Emphasises that eHealth applications must be accessible to everyone. When developing any product or software application, accessibility should be a mandatory condition, in order to prevent that inequality in regard to access will not occur;
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Underlines the potential of apps for mobile devices for patients, especially for those with chronic diseases and encourage the development of helpful apps for health only with medically verified content;
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 b (new) 8b. Urges the Commission to come forward with an "mHealth action plan", which should include guidelines on market surveillance of mHealth apps in order to ensure data protection and the reliability of the provided health information, as well as to guarantee that these apps are developed under appropriate medical scrutiny;
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 b (new) 13b. Urges the Commission and the Member States to adopt standards for health-related mobile apps so as to ensure that the information transmitted is accurate and remedy the lack of legal clarity and transparency regarding the use of the data collected by such apps;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G b (new) G b. whereas there is a need to close the digital gap between regions within the EU
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 a (new) 9a. Calls on the Member States to establish electronic platforms in which they can share good practices of eHealth systems and solutions
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10. Urges the Commission and the Member States to continue working through pilot projects, such as the epSOS and 'Renewing health' project, to develop pan- European interoperability;
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10. Urges the Commission and the Member States to continue working through pilot projects, such as the epSOS project
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 a (new) 10a. Stresses that eHealth creates new jobs in medicine, research and health related services and in this regard calls on the Commission to encourage national authorities to make use of EU funds to finance programmes for eHealth and cross border health threats;
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 – subparagraph 1 (new) Calls on the Commission to support and facilitate eHealth SMEs projects by setting guidelines on the eHealth market and improving the cooperation between stakeholders, research bodies and health insurance schemes to create innovation for healthcare providers.
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 17 b (new) 17b. 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 96 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 a (new) 10a. Urges the Commission to dedicate resources within future research and development framework programmes to e- health;
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Urges the Commission and Member States to work together to develop sustainable funding models for e-health services within national health budgets, and to consult other stakeholders such as health insurance funds, national health institutions, healthcare professionals, and patients organisations when doing so;
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 a (new) 11a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to develop data standards for collecting, sharing and reporting on cross-border health related issues
Amendment 99 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 12. Urges the Commission and the Member States to work together with patients and other relevant stakeholders to pinpoint eHealth tools and models to support the implementation and development of Article 12 of Directive 2011/24/EU, which deals with the development of European reference frameworks;
source: PE-521.697
2013/11/26
ENVI
16 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Recommends that the necessary steps be taken to
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution 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 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
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution Recital K K.a (new). whereas citizens and healthcare professionals
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution 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 2 #
Motion for a resolution 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) 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 3a.
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution 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.
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Stresses the need for doctors
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to run eHealth awareness and IT literacy training campaigns
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Calls on the Member States to share their experiences, knowledge and good practices and to work among themselves
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution 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 A #
Motion for a resolution Recital J J. whereas it is necessary to foster EU- wide use of standard
Amendment B #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. Emphasises the need to ensure the technical standardisation and interoperability of
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