The overall objective of the INCO-HEALTH operation is to define a common operational framework dealing with the European Health Insurance Card (EHIC) enabling to identify major items referred to the electronic health card domain and to set-up an interregional cooperation through the establishment of a set of tools and services aimed at exchanging experiences and knowledge, sharing know-how and good practices, building up relationships devoted to deploy and reinforce innovative actions on this e-Health sector. The cooperation will result into the installation of a network of regional antennas playing an EU pivotal role in EHIC domain.

The sub-objectives of the operation can be listed as follow:

• to identify and collect main strategies, programs, initiatives and experiences within the EU regional contexts through measurement and surveying with the goal to identify the actual state of the art in this sector.
   

• to design a methodological framework for nailing major operational, organizational and technological factors facilitating the adoption of a political strategy for the introduction of EHIC including regulatory issues and technical constraints.
   

• to consolidate a complete set of tools and services supporting regional authorities to launch EHIC strategies and to develop new policies and approaches.
   

• to launch, in each region covered by the operation, a pilot site playing the role of centre of expertise and knowledge for the dissemination of know-how in the field domain and for supporting regional public administrations in introducing innovative actions programmes and implementing successful projects ideas already experienced covering the EHIC sector.
   

• to network the established “antennas” enabling to implement structured INCO-HEALTH services including know-how transfer, identification of innovative measures and creation of a common basis for deploying e-cards in Europe at large.

INCO-HEALTH is an Individual Project.

Start date: 1 September 2004
End date: 28 February 2007

It involves 5 partners representing 3 EU Member States:
- Italy
- Slovenia
- Hungary

Total budget: 903.607 €

520.178,50 € ERDF contribution

383.428,50 € National co-funding