Title
European Patient Summary Guideline: Focus on Greece.
Abstract
The European Patient Summary (PS) guideline specifies a minimal dataset of essential and important information for unplanned or emergency care initially defined in the epSOS project with aim to improve patients' safety and quality of Care. The eHealth Network of European Union (EU) Member State (MS) representatives established under Article 14 of the EU directive 2011/24 on patient rights to cross-border healthcare adopted PS guideline in November 2013 and since then the guideline has been part of MS strategic eHealth implementation plans, standardization efforts, and concrete regional, national, European and international projects. This paper reviews implementation efforts for the implementation of an operational patient summary service in Greece drawing on challenges and lessons learned for sustainable standards-based large scale eHealth deployment in Europe and abroad, as well as the reuse of best practices from international standards and integration profiles.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.3233/978-1-61499-653-8-1
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
Keywords
Field
DocType
Interoperability,large scale eHealth deployment
Health care,Patient safety,Knowledge management,Directive,eHealth,Guideline,Medicine,Standardization,Member state,European union,Process management
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
224
0926-9630
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alexander Berler120.77
Anastassios Tagaris200.34
Catherine E. Chronaki3189.35