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...

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.

This report presents the outcomes of the “Pilot on eHealth Indicators” study,carried out by empirica in association with IPSOS on behalf of the EuropeanCommission, Information Society and Media Directorate-General. The dataused for this report were collected by means of a survey of primary...

We sought to identify whether home telemonitoring (HTM) improves outcomes comparedwith nurse telephone support (NTS) and usual care (UC) for patients with heart failure whoare at high risk of hospitalization or death.

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...

We study the contribution of health-related behaviors to the health education gradient by distinguishing between short-run and long-run mediating effects: while in the former only behaviors in the immediate past are taken into account, in the latter we consider the entire history of behaviors....