A step towards the electronic EHIC

The project coordinator Nöel Nader has illustrated the NETC@RDS project results at the National eID & ePassport Conference 2009 which took place in Lisbon on 22-23 October.

For more details: http://www.eid-epass.org/index.html

The 11th Steering Committee Meeting of the NETC@RDS project took place on 15-16 October 2009 in Krakow organised by the Polish National Health Insurance Fund (Narodowy Fundusz Zdrowia – NFZ) 

The deployment of the service continues with success across Europe. From July to September 2009 new NETC@RDS sites have been launched  in France, Poland and Slovakia increasing the total number to 172 units (healthcare organizations) and 427 workstation points. These activities, coordinated by each national deployment coordination team, has been taken over together with dissemination and training events targeting healthcare professionals and citizens.

In France CNAM, GIE SESAM VITALE and the French Ministry of Health organised a joint meeting with the selected hospitals (Paris, French-German nearborder area including regions of Alsace & Lorraine and French Riviera areas) for training delivery and communication purposes (Paris, 3rd July 2009). Hospitals’ sites have been equipped with publicity material and testing devices (posters in national language, card readers, test cards, scanners). This action relies on the opportunity to exploit summer as period of vacation for foreign citizens using healthcare services in touristic areas. 

In Poland the 16 regional offices of the National Health Insurance Fund (Narodowy Fundusz Zdrowia - NFZ) have started in-depth activities of information and training at local level for increasing the awareness of the healthcare staff in deploying the services. NFZ has also triggered activities at national level to prepare the ground for deployment: solution for installing and securing the portal; purchase of smart cards readers and smart cards; user’s documentation and dissemination materials distribution. From July up to date 70 agreements for service site equipment have been signed and 42 installations completed. 

In Slovakia a new service point has been launched at The Faculty Hospital of Nitra. This is the fourth service point of the site, currently installed in the emergency room of this hospital.

NETC@RDS for eEHIC workshop

“Deploying eEHIC services for borderless care in Europe”

Luxembourg 2 April 2009

The NETC@RDS mid-term workshop successfully took place on 2nd April 2009 in the context of the MEDeTEL Forum (www.medetel.lu). More than 100 representatives of the healthcare and eHealth community attended the event that was aimed at pointing up the project achievements reached so far in the deployment phase with specific focus on policy and legal related aspects, potential market dimension and commercial features of the service. The workshop targeted on the effectiveness of the proposed ICT solution in view of the interoperability of the eEHIC as forthcoming challenge for borderless healthcare in Europe.