Euregio II Solutions for improving health care cooperation in border regions
The three-year project EUREGIO II “Solutions for improving cooperation in border regions” ran from December 2008 to November 2011, aiming at supporting health and health service related cross-border activities in border regions. It is a successor of the project "Evaluation of cross border activities in the European Union" (EUREGIO, 2004-2007) and complementary to the project "Health investments in Structural Funds 2000-2006: learning lessons to inform regions in the 2007-2013 period" (EUREGIO III). All of these projects have received funding under the Public Health Programme of the European Union. The EUREGIO II project produced the three following deliverables. Handbook on the effective use of INTERREG funding in cross-border healthcare,
developed within work package 4, led by Gesundheitsmanagement OG, Vienna, Austria.
The Handbook provides relevant practical information for different stakeholders responsible for healthcare cooperation in border regions. It summarises all the relevant information on cross-border cooperation in border regions and Structural Funds (especially INTERREG), analyses several models of good practice and provides advices to be followed when planning and implementing cross border healthcare activities.
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 http://www.euregio2-conference.eu/info/doc_wp4.html Guideline for the use of Health Technology Assessment (HTA) in border settings, developed in work package 5, led by the European Hospital and Healthcare Federation (HOPE), Brussels, Belgium.
The Guideline has been designed to inform decisions about the introduction of a new technology – often a new instrument or equipment, an organizational procedure, or a new treatment – in local cross border settings. It aims to empower all decision-makers in border regions to effectively develop and implement new technologies. It offers practical indications and examples about how to answer the questions and where to find the information. It has been tested in two experimental case studies developed in the University hospitals of Maastricht and Aachen which represent the first and unique examples of HTAs in small-sized, local cross border settings.
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http://www.euregio2-conference.eu/info/doc_wp5.html Legal Report concerning liability and data protection issues in cross border cooperation developed in work package 6, managed by Ingeborg van der Molen, University of Maastricht, the Netherlands.
The Legal Report gives insight into how border regions actually tackle legal challenges, it underlines what is of legal importance and where loopholes still exist, and shows that combined efforts can lead to best practice projects within cross-border health care. The report discusses the future of data protection and gives recommendations such as the creation of a sustainable and transparent legal basis when cooperating across the border, and if possible the use of a legal toolkit within cross-border healthcare service projects.
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