What’s at the stake in the european health data space?
As long as patient data remains in silos, healthcare continues to be fragmented and inefficient. During the European Health Forum Gastein 2022 (26-29 September, Bad...
Digital health at a glance in 29 European countries
The Ministerial Delegation for Digital Health of the French Ministry of Solidarity and Health presented an overview of Digital Health in Europe, focusing on ethics...
What Exactly Does The EU Commission Do For Healthcare?
A conversation about the latest EU initiatives for health, European Health Data Space and strategies for resilient healthcare in Europe with Andrzej Ryś, Director responsible...
Is strategically critical healthcare moving toward data protectionism?
The war in Ukraine shows that also innovation is strongly influenced by the geopolitical situation. And that has profound implications for increasingly data-driven healthcare since...
Digital health priorities during the French presidency of the EU council
France, led by Emmanuel Macron, wants Europe to be sovereign, green, digital and healthy. Its plans include strengthening the Health Union and accelerating digitization.
What Does It Take To Inspire Public Trust In Health Data?
“Digital and health literacy are essential to developing societal trust in digital health and data-driven healthcare,” says Bleddyn Rees, Deputy Chair & Digital Health Society....
Travelling During The Pandemic: Europe Plans Digital Certificates
To facilitate safe and free movement inside the EU during the COVID-19 pandemic, the European Commission (EC) is working on a Digital Green Certificate (DGC)....
Consumer Power Drives Changes In The Healthcare Industry
Interview with Brian O'Connor, a founder and Chair of the ECHAlliance – European Connected Health Alliance, a community of 16,500+ individuals and 700+ member organizations...
Transforming Healthcare By Combining Education, Business And Research
EIT Health, founded mostly under the EU Horizon 2020 framework, has an ambitious vision: to deliver innovative healthcare solutions that can positively transform healthcare outcomes...
Europe Braces For The Game Of Data-Driven Economies
Europe is seeking its path of technological progress, focusing on democratic and ethical values. Will such idealistic visions suffice for the old continent to become...
EU launches the European COVID-19 Data Platform for open science, Stanford researchers want to use wearables to identify early signs of COVID-19, Apple and Google...
The biggest pan-European online hackathon is taking place on 24, 25, and 26 April. Innovators, foundations, startups, universities, civil society, and investors will be together...
Eu Strategy For Artificial Intelligence And Data. What’s Inside?
The European Commission has presented a White PaperOn Artificial Intelligence – A European approach to excellence and trust. The activities proposed in the document are...
Eu E-Health Adoption Study: 96% Of Doctors Use Electronic Health Record
eHealth adoption in primary healthcare in the EU is on a constant rise, although there are significant differences between the countries surveyed. Between 2013 and...
Support To Enabling The Digital Transformation Of Health And Care
The new Horizon 2020 project DigitalHealthEurope will provide comprehensive, integrated and centralised support to the Digital Health and Care Innovation initiative in the context of...
“The risks of basing digital health strategy on industry hype and alluring prototypes”
The World Health Organisation recently hosted a landmark “Symposium on The Future of Digital Health” (Copenhagen, February 6-8th 2019), which was attended by healthcare leaders,...
“For Patients, Wearables Are Fantastic Tools To Manage Health And Well-Being”
On his 8th birthday, Aron Anderson received his first chemotherapy treatment against cancer located in the lower part of his spine. There was pain, suffering...
Digital Health’s New Mission Is To Ensure Healthcare For All
The digitalization of healthcare must go far beyond the fascination with new technologies and instead become a core strategy for strengthening health systems around the...
Cross-Border ePrescription In The Eu Is There. What Next?
The first EU patients can use digital prescriptions issued by their home doctor when visiting a pharmacy in another EU country. European Commission wants to...
100% ePrescriptions In Finland And 0% In France. The Digital Gaps In Europe
In 2016, the proportion of primary care practices using an EMR was about 80% on average across 15 EU countries. Most countries are transitioning from...
Women Innovators Prize 2019 Opens For Applications
The European Commission launched the sixth edition of the EU Prize for Women Innovators. The Prize sheds light on the outstanding work of female entrepreneurs...
We Need To Accelerate Adoption Of Digital Health Services In Europe
The challenge is not the development of innovative solutions but the pace at which they enter the market – says Cecilia Bonefeld-Dahl, Director General of...
“The digital transformation of health and care will improve the lives of all Europeans”
Giving access to personal health data everywhere in Europe. Joining big data for genomic research and for detecting outbreaks of infectious diseases. Funding high-level digital...
Innovative Medicines Initiative (Imi) Applies Blockchain To The Drug Development
The accelerator programme is part of new Calls for proposals launched by the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI). Of the other topics launched in the Calls,...
European Commission Invites To Ict 2018 Conference
ICT 2018 “Imagine Digital - Connect Europe” will take place in Vienna on 4-6 December 2018. The European ICT community will gather to discuss future...
How World Health Organisation wants to strengthen national health systems with digital health? How digital health can tackle challenges in public health? We talk with...
If ranked among sovereign nations, the European Silver Economy (the economy of the population 50+) would currently be the third largest economy in the world,...