“Healthcare IT leaders from the United States and Europe say they’re confident they stand on the brink of a new era of eHealth cooperation. But if the areas they identified at a panel on EU-US cooperation represents the “low-hanging fruit,” no one should expect immediate results.
“The way to solve a problem is to make it bigger,” noted Ilias Iakovidis, a high-level European Commissioner director for health. “If we have not solved the interoperability problems in Europe, we can solve it by making it global.”
Also on the cooperative to-do list: EHR certification, analytics for measuring progress, and secondary use of healthcare data.”
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Jack Beaudoin, Healthcare IT News, 16 March 2010
