EHR-Q(TN)

EHR-QTN was a Thematic Network project that prepared the health community across Europe for systematic and comparable quality assurance and certification of e-Health products, more specifically of the Electronic Health Record systems. The project fit with objective 1.6 of the 2nd Call for Proposals for the CIP-ICT PSP program: “Improving certification of eHealth products,” more specifically where the work program referred to the “good practice requirements as elaborated by EuroRec.”

The EHR-QTN project promoted certification by organiSing a series of national workshops in 27 different European countries, validating the EuroRec criteria (over 1,600 functional statements), translating these into over 20 different European languages, and validating the EuroRec certification tools and certification procedures. The focus was on validating and translating functionalities in relation to medicinal product prescriptions, medication management, summary records, and on generic statements regarding the reliability and trustworthiness of the systems, as well as on security and access management.

EHR-QTN also delivered, for each of the countries involved, an EHR market overview. Another report documented possible roadmaps toward sustainable certification at the national or even cross-border level.