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The EU wants to make sure e-health schemes play their full part in today's tight financial conditions. The EU's engagement with e-health is not new. Programmes have been...

Healthcare could be changed drastically by e-health. But there is a long way to go. Imagine that a Brussels resident breaks his leg on the French ski-slopes. The doctors...

What can information technologies do to improve the delivery of healthcare? How should the gap between promise and practice be closed? These questions become ever more...

Technical and aspirational parts of the healthcare proposal will be difficult to deal with. There is a lot more to the proposal on cross-border healthcare than the parts...

European Commission presses the case for EU states to move quickly to expand e-medicine. Patients living in remote areas or suffering from chronic diseases that need...

Two MEPs discuss health research and technology

The healthcare sector is in line for a radical shake-up over the next few years with the advent of targeted eHealth technologies that will soon become the norm in local...

EU citizens are demanding – and increasingly receiving – the best healthcare in their history. The result is a gratifying longevity in Europe and spiralling costs...

ADVANCES in medical science are being accompanied by huge technological strides which will have a major impact on the public health sector. Dubbed 'health-care telematics',...