18th International HL7 Interoperability Conference (IHIC) 11./12. July 2018, Portsmouth, United Kingdom The IHIC is coming close! Registration is still open! Please visit http://ihic.info

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Survey for FHIR Usage Worldwide

To better serve you and the greater FHIR community, HL7 is gathering information about FHIR usage worldwide. Your responses to a brief survey will help us guide the development of the FHIR standard in the coming years to ensure that your needs are being met.
Find the survey here:

We hope to collect enough data to report to the HL7 Executive Committee July 25, though I will likely leave the survey open for some time.

Other Information

The European Commission has unveiled an action plan to address barriers to the full use of digital solutions in Europe's healthcare systems (07/12/2012)

The goal is to improve healthcare for the benefit of patients, give patients more control of their care and bring down costs. While patients and health professionals are enthusiastically using telehealth solutions and millions of Europeans have downloaded smartphone apps to keep track of their health and wellbeing, digital healthcare has yet to reap its great potential to improve healthcare and generate efficiency savings.

• Full press release
• eHealth Action Plan 2012-2020
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Innovative Healthcare for the 21st century
• Commission Staff Working Document
• Applicability of the existing EU legal framework to telemedicine services
• eHealth Action Plan 2012-2020 - innovative Healthcare for the 21st century
• EU eHealth policy > Innovative Healthcare in the 21st Century
• Videos
• Why healthcare should embrace the digital revolution