Title:	E-ID MEETS E-HEALTH ON A PAN-EUROPEAN LEVEL
Author(s):	Bernd Zwattendorfer, Thomas Zefferer, Arne Tauber
ISBN:	978-972-8939-49-6
Editors:	Mário Macedo
Year:	2011
Edition:	Single
Keywords:	eID, electronic identity, eHealth, STORK, epSOS
Type:	Full Paper
First Page:	97
Last Page:	104
Language:	English
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Paper Abstract:	Information and communication technologies are more and more becoming an inherent part of our life. This is particularly manifested in the fields of electronic government and electronic health care. Identification, authentication, and data privacy protection are the key elements to ensure both secure and reliable transactions and trust in the applied technologies. So far, European governments and public administrations have rolled out eID (electronic identity) solutions and put in place proper eHealth infrastructures that are tailored to national needs. Globalization and the opening of the EU internal market have raised the demand for interoperable solutions across national borders in order to allow citizens to use own eGovernment and eHealth infrastructures also abroad. For this reason, the European Commission has started several initiatives with the aim to establish interoperability between different national solutions. The large scale pilot STORK strives for the goal to enable mutual recognition of electronic IDs between EU Member States. Another large scale pilot called epSOS provides a pan-European framework for the secure and reliable exchange of patient health data. In this paper we review and compare both large scale pilots from several perspectives. We further investigate how synergies between both pilots can be exploited so that epSOS can reap the benefits of STORK to replace paper-based identification procedures with a fully-fledged electronic one.
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