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.