a roadmap for the development and maintenance
of national specifications, re-usable services and
other assets;
national, reusable interoperability specifications,
compatible with the corresponding European
ones, developed through open and transparent
processes;
mechanism and tools for compliance control,
testing and certification;
a national semantic authority.
The introduction of a conformity assessment
scheme, considering ISO, IHE CAS
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and other
successfully deployed in member states is expected to
promote the adoption and take-up of interoperability
testing of eHealth solutions and products against
identified eHealth standards and profiles. This will
require the establishment of a test and compliance
control centre in the country.
Foreseen benefits include less effort in the
introduction of new services, lower cost for the
application of new solutions, a solid ground to
support better research, less red tape, and more
empowered patients in control of their diseases.
4 CONCLUSIONS
A key and essential pillar to establish a National EHR
in Greece is the design and implementation of an
interoperability framework that, with the appropriate
open governance, will enable the systematic
implementation of the necessary user cases that will
populate the EHR with valid and quality elements.
Transparency will allow other public administrations,
citizens and businesses to view and understand
administrative rules, processes, data, services and
decision-making
Appropriate governance and legislation will
guarantee that consistent management of eHealth
interoperability in Greece will be applied and that all
involved parties, including health organizations and
ICT solution providers, will comply with it. For that
to happen, a thorough research is required of relevant
best practices and corresponding level of maturity
reached, in regards to eHealth interoperability and
governance, in other countries sharing a similar
profile to that of Greece.
Digitising health records and enabling their
exchange could support the creation of large health
data structures, which combined with the use of new
technologies, such as big data analytics, and artificial
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intelligence can support the search for new scientific
discoveries.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This work has been funded, in part, by the Center for
eHealth Applications and Services, and was
implemented in co-operation with the Computational
Biomedicine Laboratory of the Institute of Computer
Science, of the Foundation for Research and
Technology – Hellas. Any opinions, results,
conclusions, and recommendations expressed in this
work are those of the authors and do not necessarily
reflect the views of the Hellenic Ministry of Health or
the European Commission.
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