Calliope

CALLIOPE, the European multi-stakeholder platform for eHealth interoperability

Connected health and sustainable eHealth services are high priorities on the European agendas. CALLIOPE, as the European multi-stakeholder platform for eHealth interoperability is a key enabler for trusted eHealth services across Europe.

The CALLIOPE network activities focus on producing value for decision makers in the field of eHealth. It is a targeted effort to establish an appropriately governed, composed and structured open forum. It supports Member States to implement interoperable eHealth solutions in close collaboration with the key stakeholders: users, industry, and payers.

CALLIOPE was initiated in June 2008 as a Thematic Network by 6 Health Administrations, 13 Competence centres and 9 EU level professional organisations representing physicians, pharmacists, patients, industry and health insurers. By February 2010, the CALLIOPE Network was joined by an additional 8 Health care Administrations, 3 health professional organisations and 1 Competence centre, thus representing today 22 EU and EFTA countries.


Over the past year these partners established an open co-operation platform bringing together the needed competences and expertise to support EU level planning and actions:

• CALLIOPE has established a process for the elaboration of a European interoperability roadmap.
• CALLIOPE reflects on the EC Interoperability Recommendation and its deployment as well on best practice examples in EU member states – thus also establishing synergies for supporting the implementation of the upcoming roadmap.
• CALLIOPE follows up closely on standardisation organisations and interoperability initiatives and collaborates in the framework of the M403 mandate.
• The collaboration initiative between CALLIOPE and the EU-Large Scale Pilot epSOS (CALLepSO) has proven to be a useful platform to ensure appropriate and early involvement of member state competent organisations and key EU stakeholders not participating in the epSOS consortium in the various stages of the project.

Find out more about that project at the conference:
“The CALLIOPE Project: In support of multi-disciplinary care – looking beyond technical interoperability” conducted by Dr Michael Wilks, Immediate Past President of CPME, Chair of eHealth User Stakeholder Group and co-Chair of the CALLepSO working group of CALLIOPE.