Patient safety is a new healthcare discipline that emphasizes the reporting, analysis, and prevention of medical error that often lead to adverse healthcare events. [Source: Wikipedia]. With regard to the ICT programme, its focus is on the use of ICT for safer surgery, clinical research, and early detection of public health events.
Mobility is addressed in the ICT work programme 2011/12 (p. 67) under the following challenges/objectives:
> Challenge 5: ICT for Health, Ageing Well, Inclusion and Governance
Objective ICT-2011.5.3 Patient Guidance Services (PGS), safety and healthcare record information reuse
b) Tools and environments enabling the re-use of electronic health records
