EHTEL Anniversary Symposium - Presentations
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, Brussels. We kindly thank all speakers and participants to the symposium. Presentations can be downloaded below by pointing to the presentation titles or in the "Files" section at the page bottom.
Welcome addresses (no presentation files)
- Welcome address by the European Economic and Social Committee
Irini Ivoni Pari, EESC Vice-President and Member of Group I (Employers) - A Decade for eHealth - Welcome address by EHTEL
Martin Denz, President of EHTEL
Anniversary Addresses
- Daniel Forslund, Head of Section, Health Ministry, Sweden
- European Commission Gerard Comyn, Head of eHealth Unit, DG INFSO, European Commission
- Dutch National eHealth Project
Michiel Sprenger, Senior adviser IT and Innovation, NICTIZ, The Netherlands
Keynote speech:
Panel: Pulse of the industry - Global visions for the healthcare of the future
Chair: Ilias Iakovidis, Deputy Head of Unit, DG INFSO, European Commission
- Martin Fuchs, Director Germany/Switzerland, InterComponentWare, Germany
- Octavian Purcarea, Global Health Solutions Manager, Microsoft, Belgium
- Patrice Cristofini, Vice-President Strat. Partnership, Orange Healthcare, France
- Giancarlo Ruscitti, Department of Health & Social Services, Veneto Region, Italy
- John Chave, PGEU (Pharmaceutical Group of the European Union)
- Liuska Sanna, Programme Officer, EPF (European Patients' Forum)
Reality checks for eHealth and telemedicine in routine healthcare
Chair: Niels Rossing, Danish Centre for Health Telematics (Medcom)
- eHealth and telemedicine in daily and long-term ambulatory care
Brian McKinstry, Senior Research Fellow, Division of Community Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh, UK - eHealth reimbursement by health insurers
Rachelle Kaye, AIM (Association Internationale de la Mutualité, WG on Chronic Disease Management), and Maccabi Healthcare Services, Israel - The views of organised civil society on telemedicine and eHealth as reflected by the recent EESC opinion
Lucien Bouis, EESC Member, Group III (Various Interests) and Union Nationale des Associations Familiales (UNAF), France
Visions of tomorrow: moving eHealth beyond the "e"
Chair: Liina Carr, EESC Member, Group II (Employees), Estonia
- ePrevention: why and how eHealth will help us to stay in better health
Agneta Granström, Chair, eHealth Network - Assembly of European Regions (AER), County Council Commissioner of Public Health in Norrbotten, Sweden - Biomedicine, genomics and visions of personalised health care
Alejandro Frangi, Director, CISTIB Center - Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain - Living independently: how will smart services help us in the future?
Peter Wintlev-Jensen, eInclusion Unit, DG INFSO, European Commission - Moving eHealth beyond the "e": what do users expect in the future?
Björn Bergh, Chair, IT & Med. Engineering, Univ. Hospital Heidelberg, Germany
Closing remarks:
A decade of eHealth has passed: what should we expect next?
Murray Bywater, Managing Director, Silicon Bridge, UK
