The INCO-HEALTH operation will contribute to identify major items dealing with the introduction of EIHC in Europe under the operational and technological point of view starting from the experience of the public authorities involved in the project willing to extend and share their knowledge to other EU regions.

In order to reach these objectives, the operation will be structured according to the following main axes:

• Evaluation of current electronic health card experiences within regional healthcare policies in order to establish general evaluation criteria for reference. This exercise will be carried out having in mind the EU regulatory and strategic framework under definition in this area.
   

• Development of a coherent methodology identifying a cooperation framework enabling to establish a set of tools and services aimed at supporting regional authorities through EU to challenging the introduction of a regional plan for electronic health cards and their integration with the EHIC. The methodology will outline major operational, technological and organisational factors to be considered for the introduction of the EHIC.
   

• Set-up of INCO-HEALTH support services and tools for deploying operational plans and programmes introducing EHIC. The INCO-HEALTH strategy has the objective to decrease regional disparities in facing the EHIC introduction by homogenising and standardising procedures. The purpose is to offer a practice and a path for implementation thus bringing advantages to competent regional authorities. This strategy will be adopted having regard to the different regional contexts through the establishment of dedicated structures (antenna) with specific multi-tasking expertise.
   

• Launch of 5 regional antennas structured under a networking scheme. Each site will be self-sustainable, providing customised and multitasking services and will be a centre for promotion and exchange of information and experiences in the EHIC sector
   

• Implementation of dissemination and promotional activities ensuring a proper transfer of knowledge and sharing of experiences even beyond the operation partners including further European regions.