Within the context of Standardising the single market, we have twelve projects for the 2012 Single Market” – one of which is to Strengthen Standardisation.
The overall goals can be summarised as:
1) Free movement of Goods: Product interoperability, safety, quality
2) Services: inclusive services, ensuring growth
3) Standards – accessible, inclusion of SMEs
But behind these overarching goals, there are deeper issues.
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Let us focus on the issue within the topic “Twelve projects for the 2012 Single Market” of European services standards as distinct from the impact of the effectiveness, efficiency and inclusiveness of the European standards system on that question.
While of course to separate these issues removes the very interesting political and philosophical debate whether it is wise or not to revise the European standardisation system to extend it to services based upon the performance of the European standards system to deliver relevant services standards to the market. My rationale is that the best predictor of future performance is past performance. Those who believe that the European standards model largely oriented to products has performed well in the past will see benefits to its extension to services in the future. And those who believe other standards models have better served markets in the past will reach negative conclusions.
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E-health is one of those holy grails in healthcare policy. The technology is talked about in the most glowing terms as promising a new era of efficiency, consumer-friendliness and dynamism but, in reality, such promises are rarely delivered. While private companies or individual parts of Europe’s healthcare systems may have introduced one-off, bespoke solutions, we are a long way away from seeing an integrated e-health market in Europe or indeed in the fragmented United States insurance system.
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In the West, due to ageing populations, e-health has always been a centre of focus.
While there are indeed many hurdles to overcome, I believe that there are many opportunities just around the corner.
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I think that the greatest opportunity for standards will not be the existing systems but in systems new changes to the system. Essentially, the Point of Care has changed and moves from the hospital to your home and to your body……
Talk of eHealth is of a new era of efficiency, consumer-friendliness and dynamism, but we are a long way away from seeing an integrated eHealth market in Europe or the US…..
Part 5: Putting the Man on the Moon
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Part 4: Global Smart Grid Technology
Part 3: Developing a Smart Market
Mattias Ganslandt, George Arnold, Ajit Jaokar and Kevin Doran
Part 2: Standards for innovation on the other side of the meter