European Hospital Survey - Benchmarking Deployment of eHealth services (2012-2013) | European Commission

A survey carried out in about 1,800 hospitals in the 28 EU countries plus Iceland and Norway measures the level of deployment and take-up of ICT and eHealth applications in acute care hospitals in Europe.

The survey covered i) ICT Infrastructure, ii) ICT Applications, iii) Health Information Exchange and iv) Security and Privacy

Based on the survey results, the Joint Research Centre IPTS developed two composite indicators oneHealth deployment and eHealth availability & use and made a comparison with a previous survey carried out in 2010. The results suggest that the deployment of eHealth in European acute care hospitals has increased over the period 2010-2013 (from an average of 0.39 to 0.42 in a range of 0 to 1). Moreover, the gap between best performers (mostly Nordic countries) and less advanced countries (mostly Eastern European and Greece) in hospital eHealth deployment has narrowed. Advanced eHealth functionalities are not widely used across hospitals, however, when available, they are quite popular.