TY - JOUR
T1 - Interoperability for EU DSM
T2 - Implementation of CEF building blocks in the Smart4Health project - success stories and lessons learned
AU - Neininger, Kerstin
AU - Slosarek, Tamara
AU - Marx, Claudia
AU - Wohlbrandt, Attila
AU - Sukumaran, Murali
AU - Gu, Wei
AU - Sieglerschmid, Gabriel
AU - Böttinger, Erwin
AU - Kremer, Andreas
N1 - Funding Information:
The Smart4Health project, which was funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 826117), follows a truly multidisciplinary approach with a project team constituted by 18 beneficiaries from eight different European Union member states and the United States of America, including ICT developers, hospitals, social sciences researchers, physiotherapists, nurses, informal caregivers, regional government, research centres, universities and SMEs. The consortium (funded in period 2019-2023) aims at empowering EU Citizens with an interoperable European Electronic Health Record (EHR) exchange that supports EU citizens to manage and bridge their own health data throughout the EU and beyond, thereby advancing their own and societal health and wellbeing.
Publisher Copyright:
Copyright: © 2023 Neininger K et al.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - The Smart4Health (S4H) software application will enable European Union (EU) citizens to manage, analyse, and exchange their aggregated electronic health data. This citizen-centred EU electronic health record (EHR) exchange approach for personalised health services will be the first step for the provision of citizen-centred solutions and services in a digital single market for wellbeing and healthcare. Establishing interoperability between the diverse EU EHR data and citizen-generated health data is mandatory to guarantee adequate usability, reliability, and trust of the service. The Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) building blocks address/fulfil such aspects while complying with EU regulations. Here we demonstrate the current status and applicability of the CEF building blocks in the digital health environment for the envisioned S4H software application. The major findings and success stories resulted from the S4H Project are as follows: (1) a secure and user-friendly eID service for the EU-wide Smart4Health community was successfully integrated into the Smart4Health platform, whereby 7 out of the 13 supported EU Member States are already connected, (2) the eTranslation service was compared to other popular alternatives on the market with the result that eTranslation is a secure and valid tool to address multi-language challenges and (3) we identified several use cases for which Smart4Health can benefit from the usage of CEF building blocks, including the improvement of data quality and increase of trust in data sharing.
AB - The Smart4Health (S4H) software application will enable European Union (EU) citizens to manage, analyse, and exchange their aggregated electronic health data. This citizen-centred EU electronic health record (EHR) exchange approach for personalised health services will be the first step for the provision of citizen-centred solutions and services in a digital single market for wellbeing and healthcare. Establishing interoperability between the diverse EU EHR data and citizen-generated health data is mandatory to guarantee adequate usability, reliability, and trust of the service. The Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) building blocks address/fulfil such aspects while complying with EU regulations. Here we demonstrate the current status and applicability of the CEF building blocks in the digital health environment for the envisioned S4H software application. The major findings and success stories resulted from the S4H Project are as follows: (1) a secure and user-friendly eID service for the EU-wide Smart4Health community was successfully integrated into the Smart4Health platform, whereby 7 out of the 13 supported EU Member States are already connected, (2) the eTranslation service was compared to other popular alternatives on the market with the result that eTranslation is a secure and valid tool to address multi-language challenges and (3) we identified several use cases for which Smart4Health can benefit from the usage of CEF building blocks, including the improvement of data quality and increase of trust in data sharing.
KW - Citizen-centred
KW - Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) building blocks
KW - Digital Health
KW - Digital Service Infrastructure (DSI)
KW - Digital Single Market (DSM)
KW - Electronic health record (EHR)
KW - Interoperability
KW - data quality and trust
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85152927390&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.12688/f1000research.128648.1
DO - 10.12688/f1000research.128648.1
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85152927390
SN - 2046-1402
VL - 12
JO - F1000Research
JF - F1000Research
M1 - 203
ER -