MyHealth@EU

Project background

The main objective of this application is to support Germany`s efforts to be part of a secure peer-to-peer Member States government’s network allowing the exchange of medical documentation through the MyHealth@EU infrastructure (also known as eHealth Digital Service Infrastructure/eHDSI). MyHealth@EU is the infrastructure built by the Member States and the Commission to enable the secure cross-border exchange of elements of patients’ Electronic Health Records, such as:

  • Patient Summary,
  • ePrescriptions,
  • Original Clinical Documents,
  • Medical images and medical imaging reports,
  • Laboratory results,
  • Hospital discharge reports.

MyHealth@EU is intended to serve as a main building block of the European Health Data Space for the primary use of health data. Currently, it is an operational infrastructure defined in the Commission Implementing Decision 2019/1765 of 22 October 2019 under the Cross-Border Healthcare Directive and embedded where relevant in the Member States national law. The infrastructure is being deployed by most of the Member States and is already operational in more than 10 Member States. It provides a secure way to enable access to citizens’ health data when they are abroad.

The Member States cooperation on MyHealth@EU paves the way to reach the following general objectives:

  1. Enable seamless cross-border care and secure access to patient health information between European healthcare systems.
  2. Contribute to patient safety by reducing the frequency of medical errors and by providing quick access to patient health information, as well as by increasing the accessibility of a patient's own prescriptions, also when abroad.
  3. Provide medical personnel with life-saving information in emergencies and reduce the repetition of diagnostic procedures.

Additionally, services provided by MyHealth@EU are significantly contributing to the Pillar 1 and Pillar 2 of the Commission Communication on digital transformation in health and care, which are: firstly, citizens' secure access to their health data, also across borders; and secondly, personalised medicine through shared European data infrastructure. Health technology is considered critical to the Digital Single Market. The Digital Single Market Strategy seeks to provide the essential interoperability and standardisation in the health area, including eHealth and telemedicine.

Project goal

Germany’s goal is to facilitate high quality healthcare for its citizens living or traveling abroad, by making sure their health data can be used at the pharmacy abroad. As corresponding national eHealth services are already offered at national level, each German citizen or resident can potentially benefit from the cross-border exchange of health data.

The objective of this project is to deploy the German National Contact Point for eHealth’s (NCPeH) components necessary to provide the following services:

ePrescription country A – start of operations in 2026 (Wave 10)

Contact information: europa@gematik.de