Our society is changing. However change is more than ever influenced by new technologies, including information and communication. We are in daily contact with these at home, at work and when we entertain ourselves. Of course we cannot avoid these in the health field. On the contrary, the health field is a domain where new technologies find their place rapidly and on large scale.

In health care, we talk about availability of care for all, about financial stability of systems and about the quality of the health care. Quality, availability and financial stability were set as the main goals for the development and reform of the health care systems in a European Commission report titled, "Modernising social protection for the development of high-quality, accessible and sustainable health care and long-term care".