Collaborating for Digital Health and Care in Europe

Engineering Ingegneria Informatica S.p.A focuses on four key pillars to deliver a comprehensive Digital Transformation strategy that meets stakeholder needs and fosters new business models. By integrating research and innovation, continuous staff training, and strategic acquisitions, it enhances its capabilities and stays updated with industry advancements.

Digital transformation increasingly integrates business and technology. Through consulting, process redesign, and usability design, Engineering ensures the adoption of new solutions across all levels. The organization develops proprietary solutions while collaborating with leading technology providers to effectively meet stakeholder needs. The Project Management Excellence Center oversees projects using the latest skills and technologies. As a strategic partner, it supports stakeholders in evolving their technologies and achieving their goals through end-to-end infrastructure outsourcing, including a hybrid cloud offering and managed services.

Contact person: Vito Morreale

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The TIC Salut Social Foundation, part of the Catalan Ministry of Health, promotes the development and use of ICT in health and social welfare. It supports digital transformation through networking, observes new trends and innovations, and provides accreditation and product approval services. With the aim of integrating health and social welfare, the foundation plays a crucial role in Catalonia's universal public health system, positioning itself as a leader in the adoption of new technologies.

The foundation focuses on several key areas: digital assets, the social sector, personalized digital services, digital skills, health data protection, and artificial intelligence. The challenge moving forward is to develop and maintain integrated policies across these sectors, fostering collaboration among various public administrations, hospitals, and health centres to drive innovation and economic growth in technology.

Contact person: Joan Guanyabens

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gematik is the German national agency responsible for the digitalization of the healthcare system. It is responsible for Germany's telematics infrastructure (TI), the central platform for digital healthcare applications. By setting and enforcing standards, gematik ensures TI remains secure, efficient, and user-friendly. As the National Agency for Digital Medicine, gematik collaborates internationally with other digital health agencies, acting as a mediator, moderator, and advisor.

Key TI applications, such as the electronic patient file and electronic prescription, enhance medical knowledge and treatment quality. gematik fosters stakeholder collaboration, including industry, science, politics, insurers, healthcare professionals, IT experts, and data protection officers, to drive digital health advancements.

gematik provides core services meeting legal and technical requirements, reducing costs and promoting innovation. The goal is to evolve TI into a national digital medicine arena, continuously innovating to improve healthcare and advance digitization.

Contact person: Beatrice Kluge

The Institute for High Performance Computing and Networking (ICAR-CNR) of the National Research Council of Italy (CNR) offers research, technology transfer, and high education in intelligent systems and high-performance computing. ICAR-CNR specializes in cognitive systems, robotics, knowledge representation, human-computer interfaces, and optimization. Their expertise in high-performance computing encompasses cloud computing, parallel and distributed environments, and advanced Internet technologies. They apply their innovations to e-health, energy, security, bioinformatics, cultural heritage, and smart cities.

In eHealth, ICAR-CNR focuses on Electronic Health Records, Artificial Intelligence, Human-Computer Interaction, eXtended Reality, and IoT, driving advancements and applications in these areas.

Contact person: Giuseppe de Pietro

K-Tor Consulting Services, headquartered in Beit Shemesh, Israel, specializes in consultancy services across two main areas. Firstly, it provides health systems consultancy, focusing on healthcare policy, strategic planning, and eHealth solutions such as electronic health records, health management information systems, and telemedicine, with a strong emphasis on digitally integrated care. K-Tor has been actively involved in numerous European projects in digital health. Secondly, K-Tor excels in organizational design and development, offering leadership development and coaching for managers and teams, with international engagements in the UK, US, India, and Asia.

The company's interests in digital health include shared electronic health records, personal health records, mobile health, telemedicine, and health information exchange, all aimed at fostering integrated digital care solutions.

Contact person: Rachelle Kaye

Kelyon, founded in 2008 by a team of ICT and healthcare professionals, is a digital health company dedicated to improving patient lives and shaping the future of healthcare globally. It excels in developing and certifying software, ensuring patient data privacy and security. Kelyon provides sustainable, open-source, cloud-based digital solutions compliant with local and international regulations, catering to pharmaceutical companies, medical-scientific organizations, and healthcare institutions.

Kelyon develops Software-based Medical Devices (SMDs) and eHealth applications for disease prevention, diagnosis, and treatment, covering all development phases and regulatory requirements. Their digital solutions aid physicians in monitoring chronic or complex diseases and in making optimal clinical decisions. Kelyon’s apps simplify access to diagnostic tests, support clinical predictions, enhance data sharing, and facilitate patient support programs. All tools, built on open-source and cloud-based technologies, use algorithms validated by top medical experts.

Contact person: Gaetano Cafiero

Kahn-Sagol-Maccabi (KSM), led by Dr. Tal Patalon, is the Research and Innovation Center of Maccabi Healthcare Services, a leading Israeli HMO with over 2.7 million members. KSM has unique access to Maccabi’s extensive professional resources and wealth of medical knowledge, including Maccabi’s comprehensive and longitudinal database, allowing us to conduct innovative health research and provide health organizations worldwide with actionable health data solutions.

The Center includes a big-data research unit, a clinical research unit, and an epidemiology research unit. Additionally, KSM houses the largest BioBank in Israel, with over 1 million samples for genetic research. The Center has forged strategic partnerships with leading technology companies, startups, academic institutions, and scientists globally.

KSM supports researchers, technology companies, startups, academics, and other ecosystem partners from ideation to implementation. It offers a global market startup launchpad, a data partnerships framework, full access to KSM’s expertise, IRB approval, and the potential for solution implementation in healthcare services. KSM actively seeks and participates in international collaborations, pursuing cutting-edge innovations in emerging areas critical to human health, such as AI, precision medicine, and personalized medicine.

Contact person: Ariel Weiss

Lovexair Foundation is a non-profit, patient-led organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for individuals with respiratory diseases, and rare and chronic conditions. With over 10 years of experience in advocacy, awareness, education, and care support, Lovexair enhances patient journeys and self-care monitoring through digital health solutions. It supports healthcare professionals by promoting awareness, early detection, education, and capacity-building and leverages international digital networks.

The foundation conducts research on digital care initiatives, creates e-learning content, and organizes events to strengthen advocacy and respiratory-care expertise. It aims to ensure equitable access to care resources and treatments through multistakeholder partnerships. Operating mainly in Europe and Latin America, Lovexair manages a digital health ecosystem, focusing on innovative care models with technology for better analytics and connectivity. Collaborations include healthcare professionals, universities, and patient organizations. In 2024, it ran a survey of healthcare professionals’ and patients’ views of using telehealth.

Contact person: Shane Fitch

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MedCom is a publicly funded and non-profit organization in Denmark, funded by the Ministry of Health, regions, and local governments. It facilitates digital health cooperation among general practitioners, hospitals, municipalities, and other healthcare providers by developing and implementing secure digital solutions for health data exchange. MedCom creates and certifies communication standards, ensuring their integration across the healthcare ecosystem to meet clinical needs.

In digital health, MedCom focuses on developing standards for health data exchange, transitioning to HL7® FHIR®, and upgrading the infrastructure for secure data sharing. It manages key national IT solutions like the Danish Health Data Network and the National Home Monitoring Database. Additionally, MedCom coordinates national projects, provides support and training, and engages in international initiatives to further digitalize the Danish health sector.

Contact person: Janne Rasmussen

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The Scottish Government's Digital Health and Care Directorate has two objectives: to work in partnership with stakeholders and citizens to develop, implement and support the dissemination of innovative digital approaches to deliver better health and social care services; and to act as the national experts on the governance, assurance and cyber security of health and social care information and to ensure that the Scottish Government meets its obligations in this area.

The directorate undertakes the following activities in Scotland to support its digital health and care programme:

• leads on policy and strategy drawing on the latest innovation and research,
• transforms services through the implementation and delivery of digital services and technologies,
• provides expertise in information governance, assurance and cyber security.

Contact person: Donna Henderson | Andrea Pavlickova

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