Welcome to the press section of epSOS.

Press releases

• April 13th 2012:On the 13th of April 2012, the epSOS piloting phase has started, testing the technical, semantic and legal solutions that have been developed in the epSOS project in a real-life environment over a one-year period. Over more than three years, the members of the epSOS project, cofunded by the European Commission, have invested hours of hard work as well as enthusiasm into the development of feasible cross-border eHealth services, addressing technical, semantic and legal interoperability challenges. These tremendous efforts have now finally culminated in the large scale pilot entering into operational mode.
  Download the Press Release announcing the pilot operation start
• September 29th 2011:Announcement of the "epSOS pilots setting sail" event: The epSOS consortium is pleased to offer to a wide audience of delegates from governments, industries, healthcare and research organisations the results achieved so far and demonstrate how epSOS got to setting sail of its pilots. The "epSOS pilots setting sail" open event will take place on the 10th of November, 2011 in Athens in the framework of a number of eHealth related activities. 
  Download the "epSOS setting sails" event announcement
• May 19th 2011: The second epSOS Projectathon took place in Pisa (Italy) from April 11th to 15th, 2011. epSOS Participating Nations and companies took advantage of the chance to test the interoperability of their systems.
  Download the Projectathon II press release
• February 28th 2011:The Council of the European Union has approved the European Parliament's amendments on a draft directive aimed at facilitating access to safe and high-quality cross-border healthcare and promoting cooperation on healthcare between member states. Download the Council's press release
• December 27th 2010:One key milestone within the epSOS project - the 1st Projectathon - was held in Bratislava, Slovakia from 22nd to 25th November, 2010. Its results point to a successful pilot operation start in 2011, beginning with the virtual testing from January 2011. Download press release
• March 15th 2010: epSOS presents its remarkable project progress at the Annual High-Level eHealth Conference of the European Union in Barcelona, Spain. Download press release
• November 16th 2009: The Swedish EU-presidency in cooperation with the European Commission organises the 5th EU conference in the area of eGovernment under the title “Teaming up for eUnion” which will be held in Malmö, November 18th to 20th 2009. The focus of the conference lies on eGovernment Services, outcomes will be definitely of high relevance to eHealth.
  Download press release: CAT , CZE , DAN, ENG, GER, ITA , SLV, SWE
• February 18th 2009: Access Your Needed Medical Data When Abroad.
  Interoperable eHealth in Europe achieves significant momentum through successful epSOS - CALLIOPE co-operation.
  Download press release

epSOS in the press

• eHealth week 2012 day 3: The epSOS project has gone live in 5 countries (HealthTechWire, 09.05.2012)
• eHealth week 2012 day 2: Be proud of epSOS (HealthTechWire, 08.05.2012)  
• Start of epSOS Pilot Operation (eHealthNews.eu, 23.04.2012)
• Facilitating access to cross-border eHealth services (DG EMPL, 20.04.2012) 
• e-Health, the next big step for cloud computing (NEWEUROPE, 17.04.2012)
• IHE Connectathon to include epSOS nations (HITE, 10.04.2012)
• Two articles on EU Observer: 13.03.2012 and 14.03.2012
• Research*EU: Build-connect-grow edition (February 2012)
• Announcement by Neelie Kroes for WoHIT 2012 (January 2012)
• epSOS pilots setting sail announcement (CC, September 2011)
• Healthcare-IT: A European endeavour (HealthTechWire, 07.04.2011)
• European Countries on their Journey Towards National eHealth Infrastructures (eHealthNews.eu, 24.02.2011)
• IHE Connectathon to be held in Pisa (E-Health Insider, 20.01.2011)
• European Connectathon moves to Pisa, Italy (HealthTechWire, 17.01.2011)
• epSOS Projectathon determines next steps (e-Health Insider, 08.12.2010)
• Europe’s E-Health Initiatives. An Overview of European Interoperability Initiatives 
  (Journal of AHIMA, September 2010)
• Crossing frontiers (European Hospital, Vol. 19 Issue 2/2010)
• epSOS project to extend to 2014 (e-Health Europe, 18.03.2010)
• epSOS project: Technical specifications about to be published (HealthTechWire, 16.03.2010)
• Brussels pushes cross-border healthcare records 
  (SmartHealthcare.com / Guardian Professional, 16.03.2010)
• The e-Health Insider Conference (European Hospital, 26.01.2010)
• epSOS makes a strong start (e-Health Europe, 25.02.2009) 
• A project epSOS (Sdělovací technika, 02.09)
• epSOS (European Hospital, Vol. 17 Issue 5/2008)
• Europe launches its healthcare data exchange pilot (HealthcareITNews, 06.10.2008)
• 12 European countries take first step across e-health borders (HealthTechWire, 06.10.2008)

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