The University Hospitals of Geneva (HUG) is a consortium of public and teaching hospitals in the Geneva region, offering primary, secondary, tertiary and ambulatory care. Its widely used clinical information system is a component-based, message-oriented solution, featuring advanced tasks such as ePrescription and clinical pathways.

The Terveysportti health portal is an online service operated by the Finnish Medical Society - Duodecim. At a single internet address, it provides key medical content to support the work of healthcare professionals.

Industry-hospital partnership that aims at improving the quality of medical care with IT-based solutions affecting a broad variety of Healthcare-IT processes.

T3C, the National Tele-radiology Communication Center is used by 96 % of health care facilities using Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS) in order to send/receive patient imaging studies in the Slovak Republic and between the Slovak and the Czech Republic.

QResearch is a large consolidated database derived from the anonymised health records of over 10 million United Kingdom (UK) patients. The data (November 2008) come from 570 general practices in the UK that use the EMIS clinical computer system. Some of the data extend back to the 1990s.

The Safe Surgery System™ improves patient safety by mistake-proofing the surgical journey and reducing the opportunity for wrong side, wrong site surgery (WSS). The system provides major cost benefits by reducing exposure to litigation costs and improving theatre efficiency.

The Luxembourg mammography programme was one of the first in Europe. Running since 1992, it regularly reviews its performance, and follows clear European guidelines. In 2004 it became digital.

The implementation of a Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) as well as a Radiology Information System (RIS) was the most important part of the ICT strategy of John Paul II Hospital. It led to increased quality of care and cost reductions.

Wikifood.lu is a simple-to-use internet portal that enables citizens with food allergies to identify which packaged foods contain allergens to which they might have a reaction. Details of some 13,000 food products are on the Wikifood website.

Since its foundation in 1999, Medgate has become the leading Swiss centre for telecounselling (doctor to doctor) and teleconsultation (patient to doctor). More conventional centres only provide information to the patient. In contrast, Medgate can in 57% of all patient contacts successfully treat the patient and prescribe medicine via a mail-order pharmacy. A team of 90 physicians and medical assistants handles 2,000 patient contacts daily and takes care of around 2.8 million insured persons via telephone, internet and biometric monitoring.

Motol University hospital in Prague, Czech Republic uses RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) for comprehensive inventory tracking and management of its IT assets resulting in less time spent on inventory management leading to a return on investment in just six months after implementation.

The ICT referral-application supports GPs in all steps of the referral process. In operation in 25% of Dutch hospitals it results in 60% less unnecessary hospital visits as well as unplanned referrals and a 45% reduction of second consultation visits to specialists.

In the hospital's pharmacy, robot-operated systems are used for preparing, mixing and packaging the medication prescribed by physicians. Orders are transmitted electronically. Automated carts deliver the medicines from the pharmacy to the nurse in charge at the ward.

Meavita, a large healthcare company in the Netherlands has 3 years of operational experience in treating patients via internet through their own TV, using a settop box, a camera and remote control.The strategic objective is to improve quality of care, processes of care delivery and HRM using ICT.

The new Annecy hospital opened in July 2007 aims at increased comfort and well-being of patients. For this purpose the hospital installed bed-side touch screen terminals that can be used by health professionals to access patient information and by the patient to access different multimedia services.

Since 2005 Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, a centre of excellence in oncology treatment in Italy, uses an RFID application for tracing blood infusions to improve patient safety

The Imaging Network project integrates digital imaging technologies in the region of Valencia, Spain. The regional health network consists of 27 hospitals and around 900 primary care centres which share images across the entire health system in the Region.

Laboratory tests, patients’ diagnosis and management of pharmaceutical goods, and other allied activities is automated and integrated into a single IT solution running in all seven Medicover clinics and nine Synevo laboratories in Romania.

The Hospital Information System (HIS) of Arras (a public hospital in Northern France) fully integrates a large variety of services related to the management and monitoring of administrative and clinical (patient-centred) tasks and functions.

The DPPR (Shared and Distributed Patient Record) results from a regional initiative in "Rhône-Alpes" to create a region-wide federated patient health record by existing EHR systems or other personal health data sources. It is made accessible to citizen concerned and to authorised hospital-based or privately practising health professionals.

The Charisma Medical Software (CMS) includes complete health services, electronic patient records and real time stock for the substances used in the medical treatment at the ‘Dr. Victor Babes’ Hospital, Bucharest – Romania.

The SGIM information system is integrating the whole prescription process in an electronic way.The SGIM e-prescription system is based in the System of Integrated Management of the Medicine.

Telemedicine network is part of the Primary Care Services of the Public Healthcare Service in the Extremadura region of Spain (SES). It connects 18 primary care centres and the healthcare services of two prisons with 11 reference hospitals.

Implemented in the Andalusia region of Spain, Receta XXI is an eHealth solution that automates all processes involved in prescription, control, and dispensation of medicines. It also assists in other health services-related administrative tasks, like billing.

The SIS-ARD is an information system which integrates the different I.T. solutions – clinical and non-clinical – from the several “stakeholders” of the Regional Health Service of Azores.

The INSA (National Health Institute of Portugal) introduced a new web facility within its EXTERNAL QUALITY ASSURANCE PROJECT (EQA). It tries to facilitate the information flows between the “stakeholders” of INSA and to reduce errors.

Implementation of ubiquitous electronic applications to produce a paperless and filmless health care process at the Son Llàtzer Hospital in Spain.

The ICT system includes electronic health services and electronic patient records at the Hospital District of Helsinki and Uusimaa, Finland.

The Bioserveur is a medical information database/server that retrieves, stores and distributes medical information.

An integrated pre-hospital health emergency management system was developed to provide advanced technological support through the use of intelligent eHealth tools and services for the optimal response management of pre-hospital health emergencies.

Founded in 1993 in Athens, Greece, CARDIOEXPRESS S.A introduced telemedicine services specializing in cardiology. Today, it is one of the largest European telemedicine companies providing service for transmitting 8,000 trans-telephonic ECGs per annum.

The NHS Scotland Emergency Care Summary (ECS) system provides a summary of demographic, allergy and medication information for patients in Scotland from GP Practices. The ECS enables out of hours, A&E, and the national call centre clinicians access to important patient information in emergency care situations.

The Oxford Clinical Intranet is a regional network with options for eLearning and using Electronic Health Records, serving the Oxford Radcliffe Hospital (1,500 beds), and 90 General Practices in the county of Oxfordshire.

Télémédecine Ile de France (TELIF) is a regional telemedicine network in France.

The solution is an integrated Telemedicine and eHealth Network in Västerbotten County, consisting of three specific fields: Orthodontics, Teledermatogology and Telepathology. It has been implicated in 3 hospitals, which have a total of 1,100 beds and 160 family doctors/GPs.

Citizens without social insurance are covered through a Green Card (GC) System in Turkey. GCIS is the central data management system used for storing the records of current GC holders and possible GC obtainers. GCIS provides health services via electronic provision instead of paper-based approvals.

Teledermatologic Network Services for Counselling on Diagnosis of Skin Diseases (TelDermServ) is a global service consisting of 20 providing sites, 200 requesting sites, 1 academic medical centre, a Cross Border Health Network, and eLearning, and Telemedicine capabilities.

Telemedicine Assisted referrals to Plastic Surgery (“TAPS”) trauma service in the UK.

TalkingEyes is a risk management and screening program for vascular diseases with locations in all major metropolitan areas of Germany, a central program administration, medical grading and result delivery. There are more than 45,000 participants and 200 screening locations.

SVEIDRA is an information management system for the public healthcare service. The system is used for the management, storing, exchanging, analysing and reporting of all the services provided by healthcare institutions. Electronic Reimbursement; National Network

Sustains has been created to allow for direct access to medical records by patients via the internet. The concept emulates internet banking by creating a similar program for Health Care. EHR’s are currently being accessed by 2,300 patients and we would like to see that number expanded.

Melior Medication Management and Melior e-prescription.

Family Medicine Information System (FMIS) is used by family physicians (GPs) to store health service records about patients. FMIS first stores these records locally and then it transfers the data to the Ministry of Health’s Electronic Health Record (EHR) system. The interfaces are HL7 v3 compliant.

National network connecting primary care physicians via an Electronic Health Records Enterprise healthcare ICT platform. Number of Patients in trial: ca. 20,000. In full operation, the system will include over 4 million people.

Protesica in rete (Prosthesis online) is a telematic service that allows incontinence products to be collected directly at pharmacies. The service also involves ePrescriptions and Chronic Disease Management.

Online enquiry of individual health insurance status in Austria; National Network for administrative Health Information; Web portal for citizens; Electronic (online) request for social and health insurance status

Chronic Disease Management; Electronic Health Record; Web-based disease management and medical record for networking between equal-righted medical partners and their patients; Self-management and consultations.

The “National Health Insurance Fund” Portal for Health Information focuses on details regarding insurance and health services matters.

National electronic Library for Health - eLearning, Health Information Electronic library

Public Health Nursing Mobile Computing; Telecare Statistics; Results Reporting; Electronic Health Record; Ebooking; General Administrative Support - for approximately 100 Public Health Nurses in the Northwest of Ireland.

Regional network, eReportig Information Network used by Medical and Paramedical professionals in different health and social care institutions.

IHE Pathway for Patients: “Patient Treatment Lifecycle Management” (PTLM). Electronic Health Record; Virtual, region-wide, multi-disciplinary clinical teams (eMDTs) in real time consultation with an expert centre - United Bristol Hospitals NHS Trust.

Chronic Care Management Solution implementing Telecare, Chronic Disease Management, eLearning for patients, and remote health monitoring and management service Programmes for various illnesses.

Frontis: "Hospital at Home".
Telecare, Electronic Health Record, Condition monitoring, Results reporting

Electronic registration and notification system for births and deaths in Ireland, facilitated by a central electronic messaging system. Life Event Management Central electronic messaging system supports administrative processes for citizens and public agencies.

e-Learning; cross border network Statistics, longitudinal patient record database with data from 4 EU countries: Germany – 1954 practices including specialists, UK – 630 office based physicians, France – 840 office based physicians, Austria – 120 office based physicians.

The DIAFOOT system has been created for patients suffering from diabetic feet, medical teams at hospitals, and podologists charged on the podiatric care of patients with Diabetes Mellitus.

Chronic Disease Management; Telemedicine; Home care; Regional Network: Information environment for care of chronic patients.

The e-Pharmacy system includes electronic prescribing, dispensing, distribution, stock-management, and procurement of drugs at the Chelsea and Westminster hospital in London, UK.

ePrescription; Supply chain management (medication workflow within a hospital); Hospital information system

EHR, monitoring of chronic diseases, and online quality management of care for chronic disease patients.

Regional eHealth network covering 21 hospitals and 60+ health centres, and involving EHR, eReferral, ePrescribing, PACS, Chronic Disease Management, Telemedicine, and Telecare.

Electronic Health Record; Quality assurance, prevention, research, Dental Data Mining and Analysing System

The service provides health information and email consultation via the use of Telecare. It is a web portal for citizens of Finland.

Terivan Platform for Chronic Disease Management is an ICT solution, which relies on multiple digital media platforms. It was adopted by the primary care of the city of Tampere in 2003 and is used by both patients and professionals.

HealthNet is a tool that enables genuine collaboration and virtual integration between primary and secondary healthcare units. The network connects all 15 health centres and 1340 workstations in the district.
Regional Network Electronic Health Record; Hospital Information System; Electronic Referrals

Baltic eHealth is a cross-border and regional network, with a trans-national infrastructure, that enables eConsultations, eRadiology and eUltrasound through pilot applications in the Baltic Sea Region.

The Ambroise Paré hospital is a public university hospital with 500 beds that effectively integrated its information resources, which improved workflows and accessibility of patient records without large investments and without replacing well-known and well working specialised information systems.

The Rede Telematica da Saude (RTS) project is a telematic health network in the Aveiro region of Portugal.

RPS2 is a multidimensional capability planning system. The system aims at facilitating the capability planning systems in hospitals. RPS2 integrates several autonomous systems and resources, which are essential to achieve optimised clinical treatment.

eDRG is a Web application/system for collecting, processing and analysing inpatient episodes on a national level. Its main functionalities are uploading episodes of care data, checking the data formats, processing the data (including DRG grouping), analysing the data and providing feedback. 

It is a complex piloting project which aims at improving the delivery of healthcare services in Lithuania for patients with cardio- and vascular diseases by modernizing and optimizing the existing infrastructure and ICT implementation.

Reorganizing St Olav's processes to achieve patient centered care using advanced ICT.

The Project aims at replacing fragmented and poorly organised implementation of information and communication technologies (hereinafter - ICTs) in the healthcare sector by consistent, rational and coordinated activities and technical solutions in order to enable electronic exchange of medical data.

ACTION is a home care service for older citizens in Sweden. It maintains and enhances the autonomy and quality of life for frail and disabled people and their family carers by providing information, advice and support in the home.

The aim of this project is to create a central database of digital images from different medical devices, modalities (X-ray, PC tomography, ultrasound, etc.). The core of the project is a close, long term cooperation between hospitals and that makes sharing of patients´ records more convenient.

FLOW stands for: Facilities (services and related infrastructure); Legal implementation (the telex files); Organisations (loco-regional teams); and Wisdom (co-ordination and supervision centre).

Elias-HIS is an eHealth information management system designed for use in Romanian hospitals.

pecujici.online is a website intended to help those who take care of their older relatives. The main aim of this project is to educate the caregivers, enhance their social prestige and assist them in reaching useful information.

HEALTH OPTIMUM provides telemedicine services that are able to optimize the health care services’ workflow and promote the exploitation of local best practices. Neurosurgery Tele-consultation and Tele-laboratory services are currently delivered to 12 Local Health Agencies in the Veneto Region.

The emergence of SARS and other new or re-occurring infectious diseases worldwide has highlighted the importance of early detection and monitoring of infectious diseases. CIDR is a new information system developed to manage the surveillance and control of infectious diseases in Ireland. It also monitors organisms' ability to resist antibiotic drugs (anti microbial resistance).

The Ingolstadt Medical Online Portal in Germany optimises input and retrieval of information at the point of care. Hospital physicians are equipped with Tablet PCs, which allow filling in of forms, accessing laboratory and other results, and the scheduling of examinations.

A portal website targeted at empowering patients undergoing an In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) treatment in a routine care situation.

`Every error counts´ is the motto of www.jeder-fehler-zaehlt.de . The platform provides an opportunity for incident reporting and learning from medical errors in general practice.

The TELE-EKG systems is a means of allowing patients in rural locations quick and efficient diagnosis of cardiac problems via the telecommunication of ECG signals to qualified health practitioners.

During this project, which started in mid-2005, patients at the hospital in Saarbrücken, Germany, are equipped with RFID (radio frequency identification) wristbands. Additionally computerized prescribing with decision-support is applied for improving patient safety.

The Sotiria Chest Disease Hospital in Athens extended its service through an eHealth unit established in 1999. The unit aims to advanced eHealth services to chronically ill patients, especially for tele-rehabilitation, home care and home-hospitalization.

Vhi.ie is a comprehensive and trustworthy resource, an electronic gateway to a library of health and lifestyle articles, an A-Z of medical matters, featuring ask-the-experts interactive service, a range of interactive online health promotional tools, and a monthly personalised e-mail newsletter.

The HIS is an electronic health record system for Latvian hospitals. The HIS includes all relevant information about all contacts of citizens with healthcare services derived from GP and hospital visits, dental treatments, laboratory and radiology tests, etc.

The EPR solution implemented in two NHS hospitals includes several exceptional modules, among them an accident and emergency patient pathway and a maternity services record, as well as a patient administration system incorporating booking and waiting lists management.

Choose and Book is a national solution in the NHS that combines electronic booking and patient choice. All ten GP practices in the Harlow locality, serving a population 87,145, are now operating the service effectively to support patient choice.

Scottish Ambulance’s eHealth strategy includes cab-based mobile data transmission; access to the patient community health index; telemetry; telemedicine; the NHS communication network N3 and NHS mail and the first responder model linking general practitioners and emergency services.

Electronic messaging is the main collaborative measure adopted in Norway for exchange of patient information between health care providers (HCP), and also between primary care and specialised care.

Malta’s eHealth Portal is a one-stop shop for e-services specific to the Maltese public health care system. The portal is aimed primarily at individual Maltese residents and visitors. The project includes the development of back-office applications that integrate seamlessly with the Portal website.

This Latvian MIS shows all relevant information about in-/ out-patient services, contracts, finances, and statistics. In addition it allows for centralised procurement of medicine. It leads to improved time and cost efficiencies. Healthcare providers can access the medical history of patients.

The RESPECT service affects the management of neurological emergency cases (such as, cranial trauma and stroke events) through an innovative telemedicine system and service model. RESPECT promotes the compliance of international clinical guidelines for cranial trauma management.

Irish Health.com is a comprehensive source of medical and healthcare information. The website is highly interactive, and is organised in a user friendly manner.

Hungarian Society of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care (HSAIT) developed the ANESZTINFO NRS (Nationwide Reporting System) with contribution of the Ministry of Informatics and Communications for solving nationwide data collection from these specialities.

In the Transplant Information Portal, physicians can access each patient’s individual health record to aid the processes of tissue typing and organ matching.

Evisand offers support for vital emergency situations; teleconsultation with specialists and the training of professionals. It provides integral healthcare services in a safe and secure way saving geographical, social and cultural distances.

The Nationwide Estonian Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) is established for simultaneous archiving and viewing of radiology images produced in different health care institutions all over the country.

The Digital Health Record System enables exchanging health data between health care professionals all over Estonia, provides citizens with better access to high-quality health services and accelerates the processing of health information.

The eHealth Portal - sundhed.dk - brings together the entire Danish health services on the Internet, making this the electronic way for patients, their families, and healthcare professionals to obtain information, communicate and maintain an overview.

This Danish solution facilitates access to therapy for alcohol abusers in remote areas. Using video equipment set up at a rehabilitation centre on the island of Funen and two hospitals located on remote islands, abusers are treated via tele-therapy.

DITIS enables effective collaboration and management of virtual home healthcare teams by  providing an electronic health record (EHR) with secure access from anywhere via desktop computers and mobile devices, and other supporting tools like messaging and ePrescription.

The Health On the Net (HON) Foundation has specified the HONcode, to provide a set of criteria guiding providers of online medical and health information. An HONcode-certified website helps users identify sources of reliable information.

The solution is a step-by-step approach for implementing a hospital information system integrating medical and administrative IT applications in the National Heart Hospital in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Software product supporting General Practitioners (GPs) and specialists in Medical Centers (MCs) maintaining a patient electronic record and producing all documentation required by the National Health Insurance Fund (mandatory service based on employers and employee contribution).

Multisite videoconferencing program providing continuing medical education (CME), organised by the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and the Vlaams Ziekenhuisnetwerk (Flemish Hospital Network). Programs for a multi-specialty audience are preferably scheduled.

The Digital Logbook is a web-based medical record system for thrombosis patients and their physician combined with home-monitoring equipment. Every ten days patients submit their blood test data monitored by their physicians, increasing their mobility by freeing them from frequent consultations.

The Ykonos Project is a regional eHealth solution allowing immediate access to radiological information and medical images of any patient to all health professionals at any healthcare centre in Castilla-La Mancha, Spain.  As of 2003 it is in routine operation and has since then underwent several phases of significant extension and improvement.

Electrocardiogram data about citizens’ heart conditions are transferred to a call centre. Nurses at the centre monitor the conditions and, when necessary, pass cases on to one of a team of geographically spread cardiologists for specialist interpretation and advice.

The Swedish website Klamydia.se allows citizens in the anonymity of their home to screen themselves for a potential Chlamydia infection. Preventing the further spread of this sexually transmitted disease is supported by free testing material and costs, ease of use and anonymity guaranteed.

RIPAM is a joint initiative between a general practitioner and SNR/Planet HC, a vendor interested in experimenting with a community health information network. RIPAM remotely stores patients' health documents accessible by patients and health care professionals alike, while retaining patient's control.

ONCOLOR is a regional oncology network in Lorraine, France.

Ärztenetz Medizin und Mehr (Physicians’ network Medicine and More or “MuM”) is a regional network consisting of 60 doctors, who are either GPs or specialists, and a hospital. The network deals with Electronic Health Records and GesundheitsCards (Patient Cards).

Diraya is the electronic health record system implemented in the Spanish region of Andalucía which is located in the south of Spain and covers a population of around 8 million people. It is intended to cover most of the healthcare activities of primary and secondary care in an integrated manner. It supports the continuity and coordination of care and the analysis of clinical and managerial data and thus contributes significantly to the provision of citizen-centred care.

COHERENCE, the acronym for a COmponent-based HEalth REference architecture for Networked CarE, is a comprehensive clinical information system (CIS) conceived and developed to be operational at the opening of the HEGP university hospital in July 2002.

Diabcarnet is an online electronic logbook used for diabetes monitoring in France.

The core of CRS-SISS is a ‘Healthcare Extranet’, linking professionals, social services, public and private organisations and citizens in the region of Lombardy. Citizens and healthcare professionals access the network by the means of the regional service card (CRS).

Electronic communication between blood banks and blood donors.

Reacting to a shortage of radiologists in Sweden, the application allows regular teleconsultations for Swedish patients given by specialists in Spain.

NHS Direct has developed and used NHS Direct Online (NHSDO) to provide citizens with access to information about health and healthcare. NHSDO is a web portal and it is a service in addition and complementary to the NHS Direct call centres.

Did you know that supplies such as pharmacological or medical products are key cost factors for hospitals? To cut these costs, MedicalOrder®Center offers logistics support to German hospitals. The system leads to demand-based ordering resulting in a smaller stock and fewer expired drugs.

The network allows fast information flow, in form of consistent data. It connects healthcare providers (GPs, hospitals, pharmacies…) as well as relevant stakeholders of the social care system.

The solution provides an electronic vaccination record for each child, vaccination stock control and supply, a rapid and reliable messaging channel about changes to vaccination policies and practices and a source of data for performance monitoring, and strategy development.

Institut Curie in Paris is a leading research and treatment hospital for certain cancers. The combination of its sophisticated Elios EHR system & the search tool Prométhée, allows using latest research in current treatment, analysing data and creating new knowledge.

With help of the system, operators can identify the nature of an emergency, give first advice, and allocate an ambulance equipped with the appropriate facilities and staff. Time savings occur from a locating system, allowing operators to identify free ambulances nearest to the emergency’s location

The delivery of ePrescriptions is a joint effort between each county council in Sweden and Apoteket, the national pharmacy. Currently 42% of all prescriptions in Sweden are transferred from the doctor to the pharmacy electronically via a health extranet, Sjunet, or by using web based prescribing.

People insured by AOK Rheinland can be treated in 14 hospitals along the Dutch and Belgium coast by presenting the GesundheitsCard Europa (GCE), which physically is their German health insurance card. Insurance cover verification and reimbursement follow via a web application.

The eHealth application is a national EHR, used by all relevant stakeholders in healthcare, including the patients themselves. It is supported by the largest health insurer in the Czech Republic, serving two thirds of the Czech population.