Healthcare IT News April 22, 2024
With AI on the rise, promises of improved cross-border healthcare data exchange and new opportunities for research with the European Health Data Space, how do European patients feel about digitalisation?
Digitalisation in healthcare holds the promise of optimising processes and expanding access to care. In some European countries such as Slovenia, Croatia, Estonia, Poland and Hungary, patients can access national portals that contain their prescriptions, referrals, discharge letters, etc. In other countries such as Belgium and Spain, patients can access regional portals. In the Netherlands, Germany and Switzerland, individual healthcare providers offer their own patient portals. This means if a person visits multiple facilities, they must use different portals to access their health data. The European Health Data Space (EHDS)...