A fascinating one-day symposium, with high quality speakers and presentations which presented a number of examples of current aspirational projects in the digital health field. The programme is here. Just three examples of future vision for the implementation of digital technology and the changes in practice it would introduce (if successful!). First presentation, Liz Mear,…
In this second edition: EHFF supporting it’s partners by David Somekh & Laura Botea (GGI) EHFF and Systems Thinking! by David Somekh Artificial Intelligence and Healthcare: An Artificial Debate by Bernie Merkel Whither Healthcare Policy – Views from a Dutch doctor in London by Daniel Steenstra What to expect in the 3rd Newsletter ‘Acte de…
The SCiE initiative is a voluntary project which follows on from collaboation between partners who completed the two tenders for the European Commission on self-care, PiSCE and PROSTEP (search the website for reports on the two closing conferences during 2017). The SCiE website: http://www.scie.eu/summit2018/ identifies that the lead collaborators are DCHE, the Danish Committee for…
The major project to set up a European Resource Centre for patient empowerment has now been running for nearly six months. Our funders Robert Bosch Stiftung required us to get charity registration, which we sought in Ireland, having registered EHFF as a limited company there last September, in anticipation of Brexit, as we announced at…
EHFF was a collaborating partner for the first Chronic disease Joint action between 2014 and 2017 and our news item of 19th March 2017 reports the final conference in Brussels. Even at that time a follow on Joint Action was mooted. It was finally kicked off in September of that year but has had a…
The POLLAR project is a major initiative from EIT Health (the European Institute of Innovation and Technology health stream) on the Impact of Pollution on Asthma and Rhinitis (for more details, see the EIT website: https://www.eithealth.eu/pollar ) What makes this especially interesting to EHFF is that a member of the consortium running this project is…
This year the AGM took place at a hotel near Heathrow airport. Participants flew or travelled in on Sunday, to meet for dinner and spent Monday April 23rd engaging in the formal business of the AGM followed by, after morning coffee, three hours of strategic discussion around the topics of ongoing sustainability of the EHFF organisation…
Jim Phillips, Associated Director for EHFF and Director for CEmPaC attended the Connected Health seminar: How to engage and empower patients? At the Science Park Tehnopol, Tallinn, Estonia in March. The purpose of the event was to showcase good practices, drawing to some extent from local sources in Estonia, but also with European speakers to help…
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By Agnieszka Daval On 27-28 February the European Commission held for the 6th time the Conference of Partners of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Health Ageing (EIP on AHA), with some 350 participants, including EHFF. Next to a stock-taking exercise, the objective was to connect dots between the activities of EIP, Digital Single Market and…