EU-US Cooperation in eHealth policy and Research. Iakovidis I. eHealth week 2010 (Barcelona: CCIB Convention Centre; 2010)

1. EU-US Cooperation in eHealth policy
and Research
Ilias Iakovidis, PhD
Acting Head of Unit -ICT for Health,
DG Information Society and Media
European Commission

2. eHealth in EU
1) Individual Member States'
eHealth policy strategies
www.ehealth-era.org
2) EU wide strategy
• EC Research (FP) and Innovation
programmes 450 projects, €1 Billion
• eHealth Action plan (2004)
• Lead Market Initiative (2007)
• EC Recommendation on EHR
Interoperability (2008)
• Telemedicine Action Plan (2008)

3. EU-US Cooperation in eHealth
Policy and support to deployment
• Benchmarking/ assessment of benefits
• Interoperability
• why: safety, efficacy, continuity of care, defragmentation of global market: competition
better quality at lower price
• What: global approach to standardisation (PS 27 17/3) ,
• interoperability testing, certification
Relevant EU Project: www.epsos.eu
• Re-use of health data for public health, education and research
• why: safety, efficacy, continuity of care, defragmentation of global market: competition
better quality at lower price
• What: converging standards, interoperability testing, certification
Example project: www.transformproject.eu
• EU-US Cooperation in eHealth
• www.eurorec.org/RD/ARGOS.cfm

4. The Virtual Physiological Human (VPH)
International Initiative
The Virtual Physiological Human is a
methodological and technological framework
that once established will enable the
investigation of the human body as a single
complex system.
The VPH research roadmap developed by
project STEP in 2007: www.europhysiome.org
Relevant EU Project:
www.vph-Noe.eu

5. EU-US Cooperation on VPH
WHAT
• Cooperation with NIH
http://www.nibib.nih.gov/Funding/MultiscaleModeling, http://www.cancer.gov/
and in particular in IMAG group activities http://www.imagwiki.org/mediawiki/
• Some cooperation with Japan and China
• International organizations to our VPH projects (5 new
contracts start now with partners from US in 2010)
• Current call on VPH is open and encourages US partners
• The call in 2012 will have dedicated budget to US, CA, NZ,
Chna partners
Conferences with participation of US and EU projects
• ICT-BIO 2006 and 2008
• IMAG symposium: http://www.siam.org/meetings/ls08/index.php
• Healthgrid conferences
• VPH 2010 29-30 October 2010, Brussels