The concepts and architecture underlying a large-scale integrating project funded within the 7th EU Framework Programme (FP7) are discussed. The main objective of the project is to build a tool that will have a significant impact for the monitoring and the control of infectious diseases and...

The purpose of this EU funded project is to describe a short and medium term Research and Deployment Roadmap for Semantic Interoperability in e-health. It started by defining 4 levels and 3 dimensions for Semantic Interoperabilty. The vision is to reconcile the needs for the direct patient care...

Much of the debate around telework, eWork and other ICT-based ways of remote workhas been driven by notions of technology-driven progress. Often, this has led to theassumption that locationally flexible forms of working had an “inbuilt” tendency to benefitworkers by giving them more...

The health systems of the European Union are a“fundamental part of Europe's social infrastructure”.eHealth, defined in a holistic fashion as encompassinginformation and communication technology (ICT)-enabled solutions providing benefits to health, be itat the individual or at the societal...

This paper analyses key issues towards a research roadmap for eHealth supported patient safety. The raison d'etre for research in this area is the high number of adverse patient events and deaths that could be avoided if better safety and risk management mechanisms were in place. The benefits...

As the Information Society turns from a concept to a European reality, the question of ensuring the accessibility and inclusiveness of such a society besomes impossible to ignore. EU policy makers are called on to draw up a coherent answer to this question but are facing considerable...

It is a dissertation about “Towards a European Approach for Monitoring eInclusion”. The main points are Measuring access, Internet access, Functional restrictions and Measuring competence.

The dissertation is about what is the eInclusion@EU project about, what is eInclusion policy about, how to support the policy process by means of eInclusion monitoring and what to achieve during today.

The dissertation is about use of “services of public interest” in 3 domains:• Government & public administration (eGovernment)• Lifelong learning / adult education (eLearning)• Healthcare (eHealth), attitudes, preferences, experiences, ICT take-up, eSkills, attitudes and extensive...