EHTEL Symposium 2011 and
RENEWING HeALTH midterm workshop
More than 150 eHealth stakeholders met on November 30th and December 1th to discuss how to change the traditional delivery models of European healthcare and welfare for making them better fit to the long-term needs of persons with chronic conditions. The dialogue on new strategies and their implementation was particularly inspired by a keynote from Kaiser Permanente, US.
The EHTEL Symposium 2011 - colocated with the RENEWING HeALTH Midterm Workshop - convened European-wide leaders, drivers and frontrunners, including health policy, competence centres and many stakeholder representatives.
The event was kindly hosted by the EESC, the voice of organised civil society in the Union's decision-making process.
New models go much beyond the scope of venerable traditions like organising health and welfare in independent silos and seamlessly integrate the healthcare and social service domains. Both eHealth and Telemedicine provide personal health services and can contribute significantly to the successful implementation of up-to-date health strategies.
Demonstrations and service presentations provided some evidence how it should be possible to move from high level EU policy initiatives into operational sustainable services.
The EHTEL Symposium 2011 focused on the following themes:
- New care models for persons with chronic disease
- Telemedicine enabling seamless services in the personal sphere - A flashlight on the RENEWING HeALTH project's pilots
- Augmenting the evidence on the impact of telemedicine services
- A scientific review of RENEWING HeALTH: maximising the scientific value of the project
- Lessons learned so far on the large pilot evaluation
- The model for assessment of telemedicine (MAST) in practice
- Political agenda for eHealth and seamless integration of health services
- Sustainable and interoperable eHealth infostructure in support of the seamless integration of services
- From infostructure to services: enabling seamless and integrated care by eHealth
- Managing diseases - seamless service integration by provider organisations
- Seamless service integration in the community - telecare and telemedicines
- Next steps on the seamless integration of services