Enrica Ferrari, Roberto Zuffada
Regione Lombardia, Directorate General of Health

Digital technologies are really becoming more important in health management and regional policies development supporting health services: they offer the potential to reduce administrative costs, to deliver health-care services at distance, to avoid unnecessary duplicate examinations. In addition, the web-based technologies is increasingly used by citizens to obtain medical information. Against this background, it is crucial that e-health content and services are developed efficiently and available for all.
Within the above scenario the development of a common interregional approach for the implementation of e-Health strategies represent a stringent priority in Europe at large.