On 8 April, the CPME Executive Committee adopted a statement addressing certain particularities of interoperability in the healthcare sector, offering few recommendations. European doctors stress that an interoperability policy in the healthcare sector needs to be driven by specific fundamental principles, such as security by design, privacy by design, medical confidentiality and ethical principles. Moreover, […]

Joint conference of the Standing Committee of European Doctors and the German Medical Association (BÄK) – 20 November 2020. The event was part of the associated programme of Germany’s Presidency of the Council of the EU. Summary video here. The conference opened with a statement by Jens Spahn, Germany’s Federal Minister of Health, on digital […]

On 2 February, CPME Executive Committee adopted a statement on the European Health Data Space providing feedback to the Commission’s initial consultation. CPME stresses that the proposal should define what is to be considered ‘innovation for the public good’ to avoid abuse and misuse. It also highlights that in medical research, the GDPR is not […]

On 6 January 2021, CPME endorsed the Digital Doc Thematic Network Joint Statement. The Joint Statement focuses on actions needed to prepare future and current doctors to cope with and contribute to the digital transformation of healthcare through the integration of digital competencies in the education and training curricula of medical doctors. CPME contributed extensively […]

On 21 January, CPME Executive Committee endorsed the EUHPP Thematic Network Joint Statement. The Joint Statement identifies health workforce skills and competences necessary to address digital transformation in support of effective, accessible and resilient health systems. The Statement highlights European innovations in digital and data areas that represent best practices in developing the skills of […]

On 2 October 2020, the CPME Executive Committee adopted the CPME Response to the Public Consultation on the Revision of the NIS Directive’ (CPME 2020/076 FINAL). Please see the response here.

On 7 August 2020, the CPME Executive Committee adopted the ‘CPME Response to the eHealth Stakeholders Group on First Year Priorities’ (CPME 2020/065 FINAL).

On 9 July May 2020, the CPME Executive Committee adopted the ‘CPME response to the Digital Doc Thematic Network Survey on Challenges, Recommendations and Best Practices’ (CPME 2020/060 FINAL). CPME believes that the digital transformation of medicine should be understood by all actors as a long-lasting disruptive process of change and innovation that will massively […]

On 7 May 2020, the CPME Executive Committee adopted the CPME response to Public Consultation on the European Data Strategy’ (CPME 2020/043 FINAL) . CPME welcomes the Eu ambition of becoming a leading role model for a society empowered by data to make better decisions in business and the public sector. However, certain conditions need […]

On 7 May 2020, the CPME Executive Committee adopted the ‘CPME response to EUHEalthSupport Consortium on health data processing’ (CPME 2020/048 FINAL) CPME welcomes the work being developed by the EUHealthSupport Consortium to conduct a study which examines EU Member States’ rules governing the processing of health data, with the objective of highlighting possible differences […]