One of its main missions is to support, as the European authorised certification body, EHRs certification development, testing and assessment by defining functional and other criteria.
EuroRec is organised as a permanent network of National ProRec centres and provides service to industry (developers and vendors), healthcare providers (buyers), policy makers and patients.

The objectives are:

• To federate the established ProRec centres that comply with a set of explicit criteria.
• To develop specifically those activities that cannot be handled at the level of ProRec centres and/or within their scope, according to the principle of subsidiarity and in view of both synergy and economy of scale. This implies ipso facto that the activities of the Institute will have a multinational or transnational character.

Those activities that provide a response to an actual need for the development, implementation and use of quality EHR systems, are not, or need not be, tackled at the national level but need to be developed at the European level. Examples of such activities encompass for instance:

• identifying the characteristics of products found on the market, in order to

1. help to devise terms of reference for invitations to tender
2. help to analyse bids
3. establish quality labelling for EHR systems

• facilitating data and information interchange, as well as interoperability of EHRs, by helping developers, implementers, and users find their way in an increasingly complex world of product offers, components and building blocks, standards and specifications, and terminological systems. In this way those products and information elements can be accessed more easily. The above may take the form of a variety of registers following updated inventories of what is available and revelant.