Title Page -- Contents -- Recommendations for Case-Based Telematic Systems towards Equity in Health Care -- Section 1. Introduction -- Case-Based Telematic Systems towards Equity in Health Care -- WHO/EURO as a European Health Information Centre -- Quality of Care Development Policy Implications for Case-Based Telematic Systems in Europe -- Section 2. Case-Based Telematic Systemsto Achieve Equity -- Equity and Improvement in Outcome of Breast Cancer in Denmark -- Case-Based Information Systems in Swedish Health Care -- A Networked Patient-Based Integrated Care System as a Basis for the Achievement of Quality in Practice -- Integrated Specialty and Operational System for Diabetes Management in South West England -- The OBSQID Project -- DIABCARE - FRANCE, Un Menu à la Française -- CARE Telematics: Towards a Trans-European Network for Health Statistics -- Lessons from a Child Health System on Opportunities and Threats to Quality from Networked Record Systems -- Section 3. Patient Data-Basesfor Efficiency and Quality of Care -- The Evolution of Case-Mix Measurement Using DRGs: Past, Present and Future -- Lessons from Sharing Hospital MBDS in the CAMISE Project: Need for Further Standardization -- Case-Based Quality Management System for Surgery, A Bottom Up Approach -- BERTE - A Database for Children with Congenital Heart Defects -- Quality in Obstetrics using a Telematic System -- Analysis of Discharge Data in a Large Hospital in Slovakia Its Application to Diabetic Patients -- Equity Productivity and Case Mix in the Greek Hospital Sector -- Computer Assisted Clinical Data Analysis -- Capturing Data From Distant Hospital Databases For Cancer Registration -- Section 4. Case-Mix and Telematics in Belgium towards Equity in Health -- Case-Mix: A new Approach towards Financing Hospital Care in Belgium -- Development of Standards and Data Quality Control