European Health Telematics Association

The European Health Telematics Association (EHTEL) is a European non-profit organization, which provides a platform to all European eHealth stakeholders to exchange information on eHealth. Martin Denz of the Swiss Society for Telemedicine and eHealth is the current President of EHTEL.

Vision

EHTEL’s Vision • eHealth is a cooperative process intensifying and changing the interactions of all stakeholders in health and social care for the purpose of improving Continuity of Care and Patient Safety. • eHealth is a tool to ensure information, choice and empowerment, as requested by European consumers and patients • eHealth must comprise multiple communication channels for ensuring both equal access to services and their ubiquity

Mission

EHTEL: The European eHealth Multidisciplinary Stakeholder Platform Through our growing membership of currently 60 organisations, we enable our members to voice their views throughout the eHealth ecosystem. We also facilitate the sharing of experience with colleagues and representatives across Europe and beyond. At EHTEL, we take an holistic view of eHealth.

As such we collaborate closely with European associations representing Hospitals (HOPE and EHMA), health insurers (AIM), Physicians (CPME, UEMS), Pharmacists (PGEU, EAHP), Nurses (EFN), patient and citizens (AGE Platform, European Patients’ Forum), as well as professional associations dedicated to quality and certification to care processes and eHealth services (ESQH, EuroRec).

The multitude of backgrounds and interests of these stakeholders enable EHTEL, as a neutral forum, to draw a more complete picture of the benefits and challenges of the deployment of ICT in the fields of health and social care, thereby also identifying topics requiring particular attention and further developments at European level.

History

EHTEL was founded in 1999 and the organization represents about 100 organisations and individuals from 30 countries in and outside Europe.

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