Ensuring Electronic Signature Licitness for Healthcare in European Union

How to eSign a document: electronic signature licitness for Healthcare in European Union

Today we have launched our recommendations on "Improving lives and managing diseases through a data-driven EU healthcare system". The EU response to COVID in dedicating 20% of recovery money to digital is the right step. Member States need to modernise our health systems, digitise health records and build a secure infrastructure for health data to flow over borders. A hospital in Portugal has gone paperless and the use of AI in diagnostics and in electronic health records has reduced the 8% in-hospital mortality rate to almost zero. The GDPR delivers the strongest data privacy protection but it is also being implemented with different rules and exceptions by each Member State, for health. We need more guidance and a harmonised approach on processing health data. The Common European Health Data Space must be ambitious, opening important health data to the public and private research communities who are working together to find treatments and cures to diseases such as cancer, that took the lives of 1.3 million people in the EU in the first half of this year. Health data makes up 30% of the world's stored data. Data is critical to train AI algorithms to identify diseases at an early stage. In the Netherlands, several hospitals can share data in real-time between themselves and the health ministry. It's critical in a pandemic. This needs to scale up in every Member State. We are open to discuss these recommendations with you to find solutions for a very challenging path ahead of us.