ASEM eHealth Working Group

Background

It was agreed that an ASEM Working Group on eHealth be established for drawing up the best practice guidelines under iii) above. This working group would comprise senior level experts from Europe and Asia, with input both from the World Health Organisation and the European Commission. The TFAP meeting co-chairmen asked Professor Richardson to coordinate the establishment of the Working Group and invited notices of interest in taking part in the Working Group to be sent to him (e-mail: rickyr@healthsysconsult.co.uk). Professor Richardson is Director of the European eHealth Forum, Director of the UK eHealth Association (UKeHA), Vice President of the International Society for Telemedicine and eHealth and Visiting Professor in eHealth at Imperial College, London. He is a highly respected figure in the international eHealth community and has been actively involved in ASEM’s eCommerce multilateral work on eHealth since 2003.

The UK’s Department of Trade & Industry agreed in December 2005 to help establish the Working Group with the aim of submitting a text of guidelines for approval by the ASEM partner countries at the next TFAP meeting on eCommerce which will be held in Beijing in late 2006.

Baltic Health Exchange (BHE) Project
The ASEM eHealth Working Group plan to hold a workshop in early December 2007 hosted by one of the prospective Asian participating countries (t.b.c.: China, Korea or Vietnam) in the Baltic Health Exchange (BHE) project agreed in Jiaxing.

WG Papers
- Background of ASEM eHealth Working Group
- 1st ASEM eHealth Working Group Meeting

TFAP e-Commerce Papers
- 5th ASEM Conference on e-Commerce
- 4th ASEM Conference on e-Commerce

Special Report
- WHO Global Report