US and European Informatics Leaders Advance Transatlantic Cooperation on Health IT Policy

AMIA co-convenes meeting that succeeds in forging common US.-EU approach to HIT. The final meeting in a series held by the ARGOS eHealth Consortium, a project funded by the European Commission (EC) to develop and promote common methods for responding to global eHealth challenges, recently concluded in Budapest amidst greater mutual understanding and stronger agreement among a broad set of leaders in Europe and the U.S., all of whom are responsible for expanding the use of health information technology (HIT).