cross-border healthcaremeans healthcare provided or prescribed in a Member State other than the Member State of affiliation;
health professionalmeans a doctor of medicine, a nurse responsible for general care, a dental practitioner, a midwife or a pharmacist within the meaning of Directive 2005/36/EC, or another professional exercising activities in the healthcare sector which are restricted to a regulated profession as defined in Article 3(1)(a) of Directive 2005/36/EC, or a person considered to be a health professional according to the legislation of the Member State of treatment;
health technologymeans a medicinal product, a medical device or medical and surgical procedures as well as measures for disease prevention, diagnosis or treatment used in healthcare;
healthcaremeans health services provided by health professionals to patients to assess, maintain or restore their state of health, including the prescription, dispensation and provision of medicinal products and medical devices;
healthcare providermeans any natural or legal person or any other entity legally providing healthcare on the territory of a Member State;
medical devicemeans a medical device as defined by Directive 90/385/EEC, Directive 93/42/EEC or Directive 98/79/EC;
medical recordsmeans all the documents containing data, assessments and information of any kind on a patient’s situation and clinical development throughout the care process.
medicinal productmeans a medicinal product as defined by Directive 2001/83/EC;
Member State of treatmentmeans the Member State on whose territory healthcare is actually provided to the patient.
patientmeans any natural person who seeks to receive or receives healthcare in a Member State;
prescriptionmeans a prescription for a medicinal product or for a medical device issued by a member of a regulated health profession within the meaning of Article 3(1)(a) of Directive 2005/36/EC who is legally entitled to do so in the Member State in which the prescription is issued;