HOW SOLIDARITY BETWEEN HUMAN BEINGS CAN INSPIRE US TO CREATE A NEW ECONOMY AND GOVERNANCE OF SOCIETY European Health Futures Forum and the Polish Society for Quality Promotion in Healthcare (TPJ) in cooperation with the European Solidarity Centre in Gdansk and the Emigration Museum in Gdynia. Twenty-five colleagues from seven countries met in the historic Hansa…
We are now reporting the round table event held at the Health 2.0 conference in May in Barcelona (click here for the news feed for that period) where World Mobile Capital Barcelona had hosted a meeting of about 25 stakeholders to consider the current barriers to eHealth adoption. Present within the group were EHFF community…
15 members of the EHFF Community met for 24 hours in Porto on June 12/13. The meeting was hosted at the Ordem dos Medicos, where the foundation for EHFF had been previously been developed at a meeting in June 2011. Present were 7 of the 10 current Board members, the three new Special Advisors (Agnieszka…
The DG Sante tender PiSCE on self-management in minor conditions had to be suspended in September last year following the tragic bankruptcy and dissolution of the CBO Institute for Quality (reported in our news feed) as CBO were the consortium leaders. Since then the other Consortium members, DCHE (Danish Centre for Health Education), CPME, FAD…
For the third year in succession EHFF members attended and made a presentation at the Conference of our partner organisation, the European Health Managers Association, which this year was held at the Northern headquarters, in Porto, of the Ordem dos Medicos (the Portuguese equivalent of the UK BMA). Marius Buiting, Chair of the EHFF Board…
EHFF, represented by David Somekh presented at this conference hosted by the European Alliance for Innovation in a session looking at the future of eHealth and mHealth. Click here for details of the full programme. Other EHFF community members contributing to the meeting were Charles Lowe and Nick Guldemond. One of the keynotes was from Terje…
We are very pleased to announce that as of July 1st. Jeni Bremner has joined EHFF as Director of Corporate Development. Jeni is a long time friend of EHFF and for over nine years was the Director of the Brussels-based European Health Management Association (an EHFF Partner). A highly experienced NGO director with substantial health…
With a main programme based on the parallel themes of Trust and Standards, Social innovation and Transition and Empowering People, as ever eHealth week offered a very wide range of presentations. For EHFF, as well as presenting on ‘the paradigm shift’ on Day 1, a valuable breakout event was the Day 2 morning event ‘Coalition…
Since Friday morning June 24 we have been approached by several people asking if the turmoil following the referendum in the UK affects the future of EHFF. Although the answer is fairly obvious given our stated aims and values it is worth stating clearly that whatever the fate of the sad population of fractured Britain…
Although this conference attracts a large number of potential investors, often from outside Europe, as well as show-casing European entrepreneurs, EHFF feels that also provides a window onto what may be coming over the horizon. The main agenda is here There is a very rich mix of presentations but we chose one or two that…