The eHealth Lead Market Initiative will promote standardisation, interoperability testing and certification of electronic health records and equipmentNew telemedicine services such as online medical consultations, improved emergency care and portable devices allowing monitoring the health condition of people suffering from chronic disease and disabilities have the potential to offer a freedom of movement that patients have never previously enjoyed

For instance, new telemedicine services such as online medical consultation and portable devices that monitor the health condition of people suffering from chronic disease and disabilities have the potential to offer a freedom of movement that patients have never enjoyed.

Farmed fish should be procured from reputable suppliers and as far as possible have a verified health status.

(7) In its Resolution of 29 June 2000 on the follow-up to the Evora conference on health determinants, the Council considered that the increasing differences in health status and health outcomes between and within Member States called for renewed and coordinated efforts at national and Community level; welcomed the Commission's commitment to submit a proposal for a new public health programme containing a specific strand of action aimed at addressing health determinants by means of health promotion and disease prevention underpinned by intersectoral policy and agreed that there was a need to develop the appropriate knowledge base for th ...[+++]is and, therefore, that an efficacious health monitoring system should be established for this purpose; stressed the importance of the new Community public health strategy building upon the activities on specific determinants taken in the existing programmes, especially with respect to tobacco, nutrition and alcohol and that it was important not only to ensure continuity with existing actions, but also to take forward work on these issues in a fully coherent and systematic way.

STATE OF HEALTH IN THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY - COUNCIL CONCLUSIONS "THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, welcomes the Commission's report of 19 July 1995 on the state of health in the European Community; notes that, as the report was prepared before the accession of the new Member States, no information on them is included; notes with satisfaction the Commission's intention of submitting regular reports on the state of health; emphasizes the need for cooperation to this end with the international organizations responsible for public health; considers that the preparation of reports containing comprehensive and accurate information on heal ...[+++]th status, determinants of health and health-related activities throughout the Community provides a way in which to help improve public knowledge and understanding of major health problems in the Community and of the action and programmes being undertaken at Community and Member State levels; considers that these reports should provide useful information to be used in the planning of measures to be undertaken at Community level as well as for the evaluation of those already being carried out; agrees to consider further, in the context of the Commission's proposal for the adoption of a programme of Community action on health monitoring, inter alia: - the objective and format of future reports; - the sources of data to be used; - the frequency of their publication; - how they might be used as a basis for determining priorities for Community action".

take into account the results of national and international research, and existing national cardiovascular health strategies, encourage networking and the exchange of information between stakeholders, including professional, non-governmental and consumer organisations, consider the identification of best practice guidelines, in consultation with Member States, to enhance the co-ordination of population and individual high risk groups' health and prevention policies and programmes, strengthen the comparability of data on healthy lifestyles and behaviours data across Member States, as well as to study the possibility of using standardised ...[+++]procedures and methods for monitoring and surveillance of cardiovascular disease mortality, morbidity and risk factor data across Member States, take a multisectoral approach to promoting cardiovascular health and preventing cardiovascular disease and assessing the health impact of other public policies of the European Union; to include examining the economic cost of cardiovascular disease against the improved health status arising from a comprehensive public health strategy by Member States to reduce the burden of these diseases, continue to work towards the development of a comprehensive and integrated European food and nutrition policy, to include, among others, physical activity programmes, population dietary guidelines and address the impact on public health of promotion, marketing and presentation of foodstuffs, study ways of promoting better cardiovascular health, including