European Public Health Information Network for Eastern Europe (EUPHIN-EAST) : report on a WHO meeting, Rome, Italy, 11-13 October 1998

Abstract

In 1996, the European Commission and the WHO Regional Office for Europe began a two-year project to develop a European public health information network for eastern Europe (‎EUPHIN-EAST)‎. This concerted action by 23 countries 6 11 countries of central and eastern Europe and 12 newly independent states of the former USSR 6 is investigating the feasibility and applicability of a telecommunications network, which would link national health databases and make the data easily accessible to national and international users. The main objectives of the fourth EUPHIN-EAST meeting were: to provide participants with progress and management reports on the project; to evaluate progress in countries with regard to developing national health indicator databases (‎based on DPS software)‎, their use and related training; to make final arrangements to distribute the EUPHIN-EAST servers to countries and to complete evaluation of the pilot network; to discuss issues related to the implementation plan and final report; and to discuss and plan further joint activities for continuation of the project