Whenever it will be appropriate, contacts will be made with specific sub-committees in the European Parliament, and with other relevant official European organisations. The contacts established through this activity, which will assist in the identification of new developments and policies, will constitute an important link in the information chain of the Observatory. Objectives Promotion of consensus among the different health telematics actors, through clarifying user needs and understanding of the potential of the sector. The Strategic Board should give clear contribute to EHTO, through namely its harmonised views and consensus obtained. This contribute will give EHTO a market realistic support, which are fundamental to Observatory future plans and to its adequate strategic implementation.
Actual deployment can only succeed if it is done in the languages of the majority of the players.
Therefore EHTO should be relayed by activities in the local languages. This relay should act both ways, information flowing from the central site to the satellites and also from the satellites to the central site. This would ensure de-fragmentation of the market because both industry and key buyers could have both a synthetic and analytical view of needs. These National Languages Sites will have the additional advantage of a better promotion of European health telematics services outside Europe. One could envision that the concept of Satellite Sites could spread outside of Europe and evolve into a world-wide network of health telematics observatory sites.