Terje Peetso, MD from the European Commission, Brussels, Belgium gives an overview of her talk on eHealth in Europe held at the European Cancer Congress of the European Cancer Organisation (ECCO) 2017 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Dr Peetso explains that it consists of two parts, i.e. what they do to support policy and research. Further, for research there are two parts, i.e. supporting research to be innovative and supporting the deployment of technology that is available.