Updated: Feb 1, 97
GEHR-II

The Good European Health Record

Project Code: A2014 Project value: 2822 KECU EC contribution: 2765 KECUs No of partners: 7 No of countries 5 Duration: 36 months

Contact Prof. David Ingram St. Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College, Clinical Skills & Informatics Charterhouse Square London EC1M 6BQ, U.K. Tel.: +44-71-982.61.00 Fax: +44-71-982.61.03

The medical record of a patient is the heart of medical treatment. The efficiency of every medical decision depends on its accuracy and also on its quick availability. This is not yet possible today and for example, about 10% of costly or painful medical tests are duplicated unnecessarily only because the medical record is not available or not understood. The free circulation of people in Europe can only become effective if every citizen has access to the same high level of care wherever he travels or works in Europe. This implies that his medical record can be quickly transferred across boarders and understood independently of language or cultural differences while still complying with strict confidentiality rules. European software industry has not been able to provide an agreed solution and open up to this huge potential market. These challenges were confronted by developing an architecture that takes into account existing local efforts and is sufficiently open and flexible to accommodate for different hardware or software systems. Acceptability by leading users in each country is crucial for success, so the setting up of nationally sponsored test sites was foreseen.

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