eHealth Europa

France has reached eight million electronic health records (EHR) records created, one year after the Government relaunched the country's EHR system after years of neglect. In the last year, France's EHR, the DMP, has jumped from two million users to eight million. The figure represents 20 percent of the target the Government has set itself to achieve by 2022.

German healthcare insurance fund Knappschaft has awarded IBM a contract to develop an electronic health record (EHR). The new EHR is planned to be online by January 2021, and will be used by the fund’s 1.6 million insured members.

The devolved Spanish regions of Castilla-La Mancha and The Canary Islands have begun work on developing a shared electronic health record based on international standards. The aim is to create a shared EHR that can interoperate with existing electronic patient and clinical record systems and data models in use in Europe. The project is being led by the Health Service of the devolved Castilla-La Mancha region (Sescam), and has funding from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).

The German state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) has announced plans to create a virtual hospital. The state’s health ministry intends that the new virtual hospital will help modernise and upgrade hospitals across the state.