Design issues of a pan European Smart Cross Border "dream like" e-Gov Primary Health Care Medical Service

Abstract

The European Commission of the European Union has provided Member States with the appropriate regulation and systems for the development of services facilitating cross border transactions. So far there has been little progress in putting such services to full practice. This may be justified where such systems involve the processing of confidential and personal data. Nevertheless, the proposed by the European Commission systems guarantee (as far as recent developments in network and cloud securities can do it) efficient validation of data, through authentication procedures. Cross border systems are essential in supporting one of the key principles of the EU that of free movement. Recent research and the relevant literature has witnessed the proposal and development of a few cross border systems focusing on health, social services, the environment, and life sciences. In this paper, design issues of such a cross border authentication service, linking public or/and private primary health units, are presented. The system in support of this service will offer a standard conceptual design model to interested European Member States. To evaluate the potential of such a system and its practical appeal, Greece's and the UK's primary health care services are examined. They are used as a case study of a conceptual design model applied in building up a pan European smart cross border primary health service to the benefit of citizens of any European countries being on mobility.