evolaris analyses international e-solutions in the health care sector
evolaris gained an overview of the e-health applications planned or currently being used in Austria and the EU during the course of a project carried out for mobilkom austria. This covered current telematics or machine-to-machine solutions. It was found that the European projects currently running focus mainly on the implementation of electronic health/patient files, on the establishment of a data network in the healthcare sector, on the launch of centralised, national healthcare portals on the Internet, as well as on the introduction of electronic prescriptions and e-cards. As far as the implementation of such projects is concerned, the Scandinavian member states of the EU are clearly in the lead. However, Austria is expected to join the leading group once it manages to implement the e-card and to complete the initial implementation phase for (lifelong) electronic medical files.