Collaborating for Digital Health and Care in Europe

Tools to support implementers: Help with service readiness and innovation adoption

Digital transformation involves various kinds of effort. It is certainly not all about technologies. It can be said that only a relatively small part of the effort is directly about digital, whereas all the rest is about societal and organisational transformation. These include the transformation of services.

Italy’s National Telemedicine Platform (PNT): An overview

EHTEL member, Engineering, explains its 10-year role going forward in expanding Italy’s telemedicine services.

COMFORTage and LIFEBOTS Exchange: Social robots assisting carers

In December 2024, a LIFEBOTS Exchange’s workshop looked at beneficial interactions with other European projects, including COMFORTage. A focus was on future potential uses of social robots in the field of dementia.

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Next in line, is a webinar on understanding and addressing the emotional, physical, and practical support requirements for patients and caregivers, to be held on 21 March 2025 by the COMFORTage Community Forum. Make sure you register to attend.

The European Patient Data Ecosystem: Growing by the minute

Effective Stakeholder Engagement and Capacity Building in the EHDS: A Call for an Actionable Process

Since 2022 EHTEL has been a member of an informal European Health Data Space (EHDS) stakeholder coalition. The stakeholders include medical professionals' and research organisations, patient representatives, industry associations, and data collaborations. They strongly support the aims of the EHDS as proposed by the European Commission.