Towards a GDPR compliant way to secure European cross border Healthcare Industry 4.0

European reference networks: moving towards a tangible outcome of the European Union's cross-border healthcare directive?

The directive on cross-border healthcare has been regarded by many as a major achievement of the policy of “patient empowerment” of the European Commission, granting EU citizens the right to access healthcare services (for planned treatment) in another member state [2]. In summary the aims of this directive are to: 1) clarify and simplify the rules and procedures applicable to patients regardin...

MARQulS: quality improvement strategies for European cross-border healthcare

This supplement is focused on the methods, results and recommendations from the research project ‘‘Methods of Assessing Response to Quality Improvement Strategies’’ (MARQuIS). MARQuIS was funded by the Scientific Support to Policies component of the European Union Sixth Framework Research Programme (Contract SP21-CT2004-513712), and it lasted from January 2004 to June 2008. MARQuIS was coordina...

Transnational healthcare, cross-border perspectives.

Designing a GDPR-compliant and Usable Privacy Dashboard

The role of personal data gained significance across all business domains in past decades. Despite strict legal restrictions that processing personal data is subject to, users tend to respond to the extensive collection of data by service providers with distrust. Legal battles between data subjects and processors emphasized the need of adaptations by the current law to face today’s challenges. ...

A Pattern Catalog for GDPR Compliant Data Protection

Today’s digital Business Models challenge the concept of privacy of the previous century. As a legislative approach to keep up with the rapid technological change, the European Union has passed the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which will be effective in May 2018. For companies, this implies extensive changes in established processes and new organizational duties. With this work, w...