A high-level group of eHealth experts on 7 May 2012 warned that Europeans will only be able to benefit from the affordable, less intrusive and more personalised healthcare which ICT can bring if agreement is reached on how to use health data. 

The 'Health in Europe: Information and Data Interface' (Heidi) website was launched on 3 May 2012 by the European Commission's Directorate-General for Health and Consumers.

The number of entries made by doctors in the electronic health records (EHRs) of the Czech national IZIP system (EZK, in Czech) now averages over 800 000 per month, a new record, it was reported on 1 November 2011.