Division 2.1.1.5 eHealth (Annex — points 1.6, 1.8)

• improving linkages between national and regional websites and websites of non-governmental organisations and the EU health portal^f1; improvement of EU listing and access to relevant sources of medical information;

• promotion of projects that improve health information flows within and among health institutions (improving patient safety and public health reporting, contributing to effective networking and/or illustrating cost-quality scenarios);

• development of reporting on patients' and health professionals' behavioural and perception changes resulting from introducing eHealth solutions, modelling of the safety and risk implications of information and communication technology-related changes.

In cooperation with other EU policy areas:

• Promotion and dissemination of pilot projects, undertaken under the Community and Innovation Programme and other relevant Community instruments^f2, on patient summaries, patient, staff and object identifiers, ePrescription, emergency data sets and development of semantic interoperability;

• analysis of legal, medical and ethical issues of confidentiality; ownership and access to data arising from the use of eHealth tools and electronic health monitoring, in particular in relation to exchange of electronic health records in cross border settings; surveillance and reporting systems; prevention and promotion, palliative care and home care.