Centre d'Excellence Europe Capitole

Study on the deployment of medical records and the implementation of telemedicine in the European Union.


Online healthcare features prominently in the third programme of action for public health established by Regulation (EU) 282/2014 of 11 March 2014 for the period 2014-2020:  it aims to develop the use of innovation in health and online health services by improving the interoperability of patient registries and other solutions provided by online health services.

In general, the Commission aims to encourage the development of online health in order to meet a number of challenges in the field of health and health systems: these include ‘improving management of chronic conditions and multimorbidity’, ‘increasing the sustainability and efficiency of health systems by releasing the potential of innovation through the strengthening of patient/individual-centred care and the empowerment of the individual’, ‘encouraging cross-border healthcare, health security and solidarity’, and even ‘improving the legal and health requirements for the development of online health products and services, universality and fairness’.

We see here all the benefits of focusing on the way in which Member States regulate or practise telemedicine on their territory (without yet regulating it). Students on the Master 2 in European Law (Major) and the Master 2 in Health Law, along with a PhD student from UT Capitole, have started a study, which will take place over two years, to outline the legal framework of telemedicine in several Member States. The final results will be published (in 2019), and the outlines of the studies carried out will be reported in the newsletter under this heading