Division 3.2.2.2 Improving patient safety through high-quality and safe health care (Annex — point 1.2.3)

Exchange of best practice between MS, as well as research on epidemiology of health care associated infections and on cost-effectiveness of infection prevention and control.

[Call for proposals for projects]

Providing tools for measuring and improving quality and safety of health care: develop guidelines or tools aiming at assessing the quality of health care provided by different health-care settings and to promote best practice; develop measurement systems to enable increasing compliance with treatment protocols.

[Call for proposals for projects]

Implementation of the action set out in COM(2008) 689 on telemedicine for the benefit of patients, health-care systems and society to foster collaboration between health professionals and patients in key areas for greater application of telemedicine as set out in that Communication, in order to develop specific recommendations on how to improve confidence in and acceptance of telemedicine, also taking into account ethical and privacy related aspects.

[Call for proposals for projects]