eHealth, ICT and its relationship with self-reported health outcomes in the EU countries

•EU countries are grouped according to their performance on ICT and ehealth development.•In general, no relation exists between self-reported health and ICT and ehealth in the primary care in EU countries.•An exception is found: the larger the percentage of people reporting a chronic health problem, the higher the development in ICT.•The improvement in the relation between ICT and ehealth is still to happen despite the good indicators found in some countries. This work contributes to the discussion on the relationship between ICT and ehealth solutions in primary care, and self-reported health and health status in the European Union. The method used is an ordinary least squares linear model. The results show that there is no significant relation between self-reported health outcomes and ICT and ehealth indexes, except for self-reported chronic health problems. The more advanced that countries are in ICT, the larger is the share of people reporting a chronic health problem. This provides evidence on the existence of a link between chronic patients and ICT development.