Collaborating for Digital Health and Care in Europe
Community Update
[Greeting]
Spring is the time of the year for planting seeds and envisioning what they will turn into.
Building on the learnings of 2020 and the top priorities of Imagining 2029, EHTEL is planning ahead. We are defining a new Work Programme that forges an ambitious interconnected framework of activities.
The year ahead will be practical and operational, and draw on EHTEL members’ expertise, with the goal of translating theory into practice.
A good starting point is to read the last of the six factsheets EHTEL produced in 2020. The sixth one, just released, examines what two countries, Israel and Scotland, are doing to scale up their digital health initiatives. The focus is very much on five core principles for organisational and data governance.
2021 will be rich in events focused on the digital health ecosystem. Full of experience sharing, we set out to consolidate EHTEL’s role as a key collaboration platform among the various parts of the community.
Keep an eye on the exciting opportunities we have to offer that lie ahead!
EHTEL is boosting its work on imagining the future of health and care systems. Expect a full body of work. The interconnected framework of activities in 2021 includes:
A collaboration platform.
At least eight webinars and workshops.
Hot topics related to Horizon Europe.
A calendar of events is out in the coming weeks. Keep an eye on our Twitter and LinkedIn pages to be the first to know about the exciting opportunities that lie ahead!
The last of six factsheets developed by EHTEL in 2020 focuses what we learn from comparing the health data ecosystems of two countries: Israel and Scotland.
What's your opinion about the need to empower citizens to manage the prescribed drugs they need anywhere in Europe? UNICOM invites you to participate in a survey before 26 March 2021.
Sitra’s fair health data challenge aspires to identify health and well-being solutions based on data sharing and fair values. Help to unlock the value of health data re-use! Submit your examples of good practice before 9 April 2021.
The OPEN DEI health and care cluster, which EHTEL facilitates, welcomes the Digital Governance Act, and its focus on data intermediaries; data altruism; and data use for areas of general interest/scientific research. It also suggests more detailed analysis and guidance, accompanied by concrete examples of work done on health data governance.
How did Israel become the country with one of the highest Covid-19 vaccination rates? Thanks to an impressive amount of medical health data accumulated over decades.
The latest news about virtual coaches is now out! A third vCare newsletter is full of highly readable content. Short on time? Watch a 3-minute video that explains more.
In January 2021, Dr Astrid van der Velde of Isala Heart Centre in the Netherlands was one of 75 speakers at AgeingFit 2021. She updated participants about the hospitalisation at home collaboration of NWE-Chance, a project EHTEL is actively engaged in.
