TEN4Health – Trans-European healthcare support network for Europe’s mobile citizen.
This project will develop a service package which will improve access of mobile citizens to healthcare provision in other Member States, based on a secure web service and its integration into developing European eHealth networks. Its key components include:
• pertinent information for citizens in their language at the point and time of treatment abroad
• instantaneous verification of insurance status
• electronification of reimbursement procedures across Member State borders
• assurance of interoperability.
Two European projects developing IT-based services for cross-border healthcare provision, TEN4Health and NetC@rds, have agreed on a common European web service specification supporting standardised messaging to link hospitals and other health care providers with health insurance organisations and with national healthcare IT infrastructure. The common web services are specified in WSDL and messaging is XML-based.
“With this agreement we are paving the way for a European standard supporting the necessary communication and data exchange processes for cross-border healthcare in Europe” said Pascal Collotte, project officer at the European Commission DG Information Society and Media
Are we looking at a upcoming de-facto standard driven from a insurance perspective that could be used in the public insurance perspective too? What do you think?