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EHTEL pursues the vision of enabling personal wellbeing and positioning patients/ citizens at the very centre of health and social care. EHTEL expects that eHealth infrastructures and services will more or less "disappear" from the perception of patients and health professionals, hence becoming a fully integral part of health care. This would enable health care systems to deliver smarter Patient Care" where

  • Accessible health information, smart diagnostics and tailored advice and therapies empower citizens to stay healthy.
  • Intelligent clinical care is enabled by underlying clinical evidence in all diagnostic and therapeutic activities. Thus it provides high quality medical support and contributes to the step change in productivity demanded by the demographic and economic challenges that face healthcare.
  • Ambient technologies support staying healthy and coping with increasing needs for assistance.

Through its 10th anniversary symposium EHTEL takes a look forward at the next steps of the eHealth evolution.

 
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Symposium "Joining for Visions of Person Centred Health"

EHTEL kindly thanks all participants to the symposium for their participation. The symposium "Joining for Visions of Person Centred Health" was held on 21-22 October 2009 together with the the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) at Rue Belliard 99 (EESC - Jacques Delors Building), 1000 Brussels, Belgium.

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Programme [Download full programme as PDF]

Wednesday, 21 October 2009, 10:00 - 18:00 hrs


Welcome addresses

  • European Economic and Social Committee (EESC)
  • European Health Telematics Association (EHTEL

Anniversary addresses

  • European Commission,
  • Representative of the EU-Presidency (Sweden)
  • National eHealth Project of The Netherlands.

Keynote Europe and "A decade of eHealth"

Panel: Pulse of the Industry

"Reality Checks" on eHealth and telemedicine in routine healthcare

  • eHealth reimbursement by Health Insurers
  • Recent opinion of the EESC on the EC communication on Telemedicine.
  • eHealth and Telemedicine in routine hospital and ambulatory care: Feasible and useful?

Panel "Visions of tomorrow: Moving eHealth beyond the 'e'"

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21.10.2009, 19:00 - 23:00 hrs: Gala Dinner

Thursday, 22 October 2009, 09:00 - 13:00 hrs

  • EHTEL Annual General Meeting
  • EHTEL Meetings on strategies for the future

Thursday, 22 October 2009, 13:00 - 17:00 hrs

  • CALLIOPE Open Session
    Cross-border eHealth Services in Europe: Putting Interoperability into Practice
    Download the full CALLIOPE Open Event Programme [PDF]
    [Open Session will be preceeded by buffet lunch, offered by CALLIOPE] Connected health and cross-border health services are high priorities everywhere on the European agendas. CALLIOPE is a unique platform for eHealth interoperability, jointly supported by more than 20 Health Authorities and 13 stakeholder organisations representing physicians, community pharmacists, patients, industry and health insurers. As part of its work programme CALLIOPE will propose a European roadmap for eHealth interoperability, review and advance the EC interoperability recommendation, and add value to eHealth standardisation initiatives.
    This event is a public opportunity to observe achievements and progress in the establishment of cross-border access to patient and medication summaries as foreseen in national and international projects including epSOS and other EU funded large scale pilots. The focus will be on the patient summary, medication summary and eprescription use cases across national borders. In addition, the audience will learn about recent EU Commission and Member States eHealth interoperability initiatives and cross-border eHealth projects with political impact.
    Based on first hand information the audience will be able to contribute to the next steps of the debate on European challenges that are addressed by CALLIOPE, epSOS, HPROCard, STORK and other projects.    

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Host and venue

The Anniversary Symposium was hosted by the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC). The EESC is a consultative body that gives representatives of Europe's socio-occupational interest groups, and others, a formal platform to express their points of views on EU issues. Its opinions are forwarded to the larger institutions - the Council, the Commission and the European Parliament. It thus has a key role to play in the Union's decision-making process. To learn more go to eesc.europa.eu.

All sessions of the Symposium and the gala dinner will take place on the EESC premises at 
European Economic and Social Committee
Rue Belliard 99
1000 Brussels
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Contact

For any questions please contact:
EHTEL
50 Rue d'Arlon
B-1000 Brussels, Belgium
Tel: +32 2 230 1534
Fax: +32 2 230 8440
Email: conference@ehtel.org

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A Decade of eHealth

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The past decade has been the witness of significant changes in health care supported by Health ICT.

Nowadays, eHealth symbolises the modernisation of healthcare in support of quality of care, empowerment of patients, higher efficiency and increased health professional job satisfaction. This has been enabled by synergy of strategic plans, political commitments and technical developments.

Founded 10 years ago in 1999, EHTEL, the European Health Telematics Association has played an integral part and often been a moderator of these achievements. Today, based on its multi-stakeholder membership, EHTEL provides an important platform to reflect the current situation and to look ahead to the future.

In its 2009 briefing paper, EHTEL reviewed progress made over the last two decades of health information and the prognoses for the coming decade.

Three stages of eHealth exist (discovery, acceptance and deployment) to be followed by a fourth stage when IT is an integral part of healthcare: The "e" in eHealth will disappear and health care will be digital by default.