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  "legislation": "eudn/2009/964",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Decision of 18 December 2009 on the adoption of the Work Plan for 2010 for the implementation of the second programme of Community action in the field of health (2008-2013), on the selection, award and other criteria for financial contributions to the actions of this programme and Community payment to the WHO Framework Convention on tobacco control (notified under document C(2009) 10183) (2009/964/EU)",
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  "heading": "European Health Information System (Annex — point 3.2.1)",
  "text": "Identification and development of tools aiming at facilitating recognition of prescriptions from another Member State. Technical action to support the improvement of collection, assessment and recognition of prescriptions across the borders of the Member States, so as to promote the flow of relevant medical information, increasing the quality and comfort of the treatment of citizens as they move within the European Union. The aim is to develop recommendations on a core set of data, a recognizable layout of information and health professionals' practice to support the transfer and recognition of prescriptions across borders.\n[Call for tenders]\nImplementation of the Communication on Telemedicine — a platform for stakeholder involvement. Technical action to support the implementation of the Communication on Telemedicine, in particular the participation of health professionals and patients in the design, validation and implementation of eHealth tools, in particular of Telemedicine. This action will be coordinated with the related support of DG INFSO, with the work of the existing Member State governance structures on eHealth and with the Presidency priorities. The aim is to support the technical work of the governance structure, in particular in developing recommendations on how to involve health professionals and patients in eHealth and to address barriers to implementing e-health solutions within Member States.\n[Joint actions]\nWeb 2.0 applications for patient information and empowerment, patient safety, adverse effect reporting, health systems quality assessment and health systems coordination. Technical action to assess the quality and validity of web-based tools for patient information and empowerment, patient safety, adverse effect reporting, health systems quality assessment and health systems coordination. The usefulness, representativeness, fairness and predictive value should be evaluated in particular for: patient tutorials; social networking tools that report on patient experience, quality of treatment and patient safety; web-based health information repositories. The aim is to prepare to evaluate the potential use of these tools for health systems in general and to disseminate the related best practice.\n[Call for proposals for projects]\nBest practice in involving health professionals and patients in designing, validating and implementing eHealth tools. Technical action to support the participation of health professionals and patients in the design, validation and implementation of eHealth tools. These tools should be evaluated as to their capacity to increase the flow of life-saving information and save the time of health professionals, to increase the quality and coordination of treatment and patient safety, and contribute to dynamic health systems. The aim is to evaluate and devise sound and practical ways to involve health professionals and patients in eHealth.\n[Call for proposals for projects]\nCooperation on key areas of work of the Health Committee of the OECD in the following areas: modelling of the labour market impact on health systems' interventions, namely prevention, in particular in the area of obesity; developing information on health workforce, namely on the capital stock available to the healthcare sector; joint publication of an EC/OECD flagship report on health data and analysis; development of ways to improve statistical coding practices (joint training, support tools, validation studies); promoting the participation of Member States and of neighbouring countries which are not members of the OECD in the data collection of the OECD. The data resulting from the cooperation will feed into policy-making, in particular in the areas of health care, health systems and patient safety.\nThe direct grant with the OECD is necessary so as to ensure the cooperation and expertise of the Health Committee of the OECD in the above areas. The OECD is the only organisation that can provide this, and the activities directly build on previous work.\n[Direct grant agreement with OECD]\nComparisons between health systems. Commission membership of the European Observatory on Health Policies and Health Systems, to support the core work of the Observatory and to strengthen the integration of European and cross-border dimensions into the work of the Observatory, with the aim of making best use of their particular expertise and capacity for the implementation of the European health strategy.\nThe Observatory is a repository of technical expertise, independent analysis and respected advice, and its work is complementary to the services of the Commission. For the purposes above, it is more effective and efficient to cooperate with the Observatory, contributing to the consistency between the outputs of the Observatory and the objectives of the EC in the domain of public health. These activities cannot be provided by any other institution and they follow up and build on previous work.\n[Direct grant agreement with the European Observatory on Health Policies and Health Systems]\nEstablishing mechanisms to assemble ‘state of the art’ data, information, evidence and technical advice on specific health topics to support the European Health Information and Knowledge Sharing system. The aim is to provide evidence based data and information to EU citizens, politicians, stakeholders and experts.\n[Call for tenders]",
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