By Sascha Marschang, Policy Manager, EPHA Following concerns about the ability of consumers to assess the usefulness of the large number of health apps now available on the market, the European Commission’s DG CONNECT set out to develop guidelines for a “framework of...
By Martyna Giedrojć, Policy Officer for eHealth and Health Workforce, EPHA Good news for the many EPHA members working on health workforce issues. The New Skills Agenda for Europe, which aims to ensure a broad set of skills for people of working age also has...
Increasing inequality across Europe is a huge challenge to policy-makers in all areas, not least health policy. Income inequality in OECD countries is higher today than at any time in the last fifty years, which has profound impacts on the health and wellbeing of the...
By Martyna Giedrojć, Policy Officer for eHealth and Health Workforce, EPHA In the context of our work on eHealth and as part of the 2016 European Week Against Cancer (EWAC), on 25 May EPHA attended the event”Unleashing the mHealth potential for cancer...
2016 eHealth Week took place on 8-10 June in Amsterdam, organised under the Dutch Council Presidency. Under the banner “You, at the heart of transition”, the event displayed a much stronger focus on the needs of patients and vulnerable groups than previous editions....