Oberer, Birgit2019-06-272019-06-2720130978-1-61275-054-52160-10702160-1070https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12469/860With the establishment of a European E-Health Network the European Union would like to improve citizens' health by making life-saving information available using E-Health tools to make E-Health tools more effective user friendly and widely accepted by involving professionals and patients in strategy design and implementation of the network and to increase healthcare quality and access by making E-Health a part of the European health policy and managing cross national political financial and technical strategies on E-Health. In this study the epSOS project of the European Union on establishing an EU-wide E-Health network was analyzed main challenges highlighted and the limitations evaluated. Currently the European Union with its epSOS project is on its way to pilot cross-border eHealth services in a one-year pilot ending in April 2013.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessEuropeEhealthCross-Boarder ServiceConference Object23323819WOS:000318956300041N/AN/A