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15/04/2014Nordics lead initiative to share European patient records data
In November last year, the European Union’s 28 member states adopted guidelines for sharing basic clinical and administrative data on patients internationally, the latter including details of ‘home’ healthcare providers and insurers. Britain is unusual in having a ‘single payer’ for healthcare – most countries have numerous insurers, regardless of whether they are public or private.
And since April 2008, many European countries have been co-operating through epSOS, a project to establish the infrastructure for such exchanges of data, with €36.5m (£30m) of funding from the European Commission.
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