On January 21, digital exchange of prescriptions and patient summaries became a reality between Finland and Estonia, the first two countries pioneering the use of e-prescriptions across borders.  As such, the first EU patients will be able to use digital prescriptions issued by their home doctor when visiting a pharmacy in another EU country: Finnish […]

On January 16, UEMO was represented at the HTA Network Stakeholder Pool, by the Swiss and French Doctors, Daniel Widmer and Patrick Ouvrard. The meeting was organized by DG SANTE, in Brussels, and covered current topics of interest for healthcare professionals such as the relationship between patients and healthcare professional experts in the Health Technology […]

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has recently published an overview of its key recommendations of 2018 on the authorization and monitoring of medicines for human use. In 2018 alone, EMA recommended the marketing authorization for 84 medicines. Of these, 42 present a new substance active that has never been used in the EU before. There […]

On the 10th of January, the European Parliament will hold a workshop entitled “Innovative solutions for research in healthcare – Developing a novel approach to deliver better precision medicine in Europe”. The event will start at 9h30 with a welcome from coordinator and MEP Paul Rübig (EPP) and a keynote from Belgian Health Minister Maggie […]

After four years under the Italian mandate, UEMO welcomes the Romanian mandate Presidency to assume the accomplishment of its goals and targets of raising the voice of European GPs/FMs. Dr. Calin Bumbulut, the new President of UEMO who will be in charge of steering the discussion of important topics for General Practitioners/Family Medicine, said: “It […]

UEMO welcomes the adoption of the Council Recommendation on strengthening the cooperation among Member States against vaccine preventable diseases. Furthermore, it encourages all actors involved to follow these guidelines and to prevent a growing problem in the EU. Despite their outstanding track record, several EU and neighbouring countries currently face unprecedented outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases […]

UEMO supports the Astana declaration promoting “primary health care and health services that are of high quality, safe, comprehensive, integrated, accessible, available and affordable for everyone and everywhere, provided with compassion, respect and dignity by health professionals who are well-trained, skilled, motivated and committed”.  UEMO welcomes the intention to invest in primary care. The creation […]

On November 23, UEMO’s Italian President Aldo Lupo was honored in London with the highest honor that the Scientific Society of British family doctors grant. Dr. Lupo received from the President of the Royal College of General Practitioners the Honorary Fellowship, the highest honor that the Scientific Society of British Family Physicians grants for exceptional merits […]

The European Commission has announced the publication of a roadmap where it presents a Recommendation to establish a Format for a European Electronic Health Record (EHR) Exchange. This Recommendation follows a 2017 public consultation which revealed that all stakeholders believe that the lack of interoperability between the Electronic Health records is a great obstacle to […]