On Dec.17th at the Royal Society of Medicine, London, the first meeting of the Design team was convened by Prof Daniel Steenstra and David Somekh. The team comprises, Daniel, David, David Goldberg (EHFF Director); Bernard Merkel (formerly head of Unit, DGSANCO health systems); Maggie Somekh, former CEO of Surrey Oaklands NHS Trust; Veron Lai, Digital…
Reported by Agnieszka Daval-Cichon: EHFF was represented at the 4th Conference of Partners of the EIP-AHA held in Brussels on 9-10 December 2015. The main topic was « Accelerating market uptake of innovation for active and healthy aging across Europe » and it was concluded that the work should continue in the same work streams but with…
Empathie Network update: B3 Action Group meeting Nov.19 Brussels, EHFF and EMPATHiE Network partners bid for Synergies project (upcoming Synergies taskforce meeting Montpellier Dec.7) and upcoming Partners Forum Dec.9/10. In Brussels on Nov. 19 there was a good turn-out of B3 partners. The meeting was chaired by Estaban de Manuel from the Basque country as…
As a final round-up to the year, here are some events that EHFF attended and/or participated in. Some reports are also filed under ‘events’, the Empathie Network or the EVY page. Firstly, this year’s EVY Conference, in Utrecht November 13th; ‘always look on the bright side of change’. This meeting hosted about 60 participants and…
Following the IROHLA final conference (see news item) a two day conference celebrated the third Health Literacy Conference (the previous year being held in Aarhus, Denmark). The full programme is here. There were a rich variety of presentations, all of which can be retrieved from the Conference website, but for ease of reference, here are a…
EU-WISE is an integrated project under the 7th Framework Programme of the European Commission designed to focus on understanding the contribution of policy, personal and community capabilities and resources to potential changes in health related practices in community and cultural context across Europe. It brought together 7 European countries and 8 organisations that to collaborate…
EHFF has had a friendly association with London-based APF for several years, through its co-manager, Nick Price of UCL. We may well hold a joint event in the latter part of 2016. This is a brief report of an APF meeting held with the POST horizon scanning group. POST is the UK Parliamentary Office of…
EHFF signs contract with Robert Bosch Stiftung for project on barriers to involvement of end-users in eHealth product development We are delighted to report that the bid from EHFF has been accepted by RBS and the project began on Nov.23 and will run through to next summer. In essence Nick Guldemond of UMC Utrecht and…
EHFF is a small partner in a Consortium led by SERGAS of Galicia region that has successfully bid for a Horizon 2020 three year grant on pre commercial procurement entitled ‘Self-management of health and disease and patient empowerment supported by ICT’. The EHFF group, which has as a major player Rosa Sunol’s group from Barcelona,…
Since the Gatwick meeting at the end of January we have been discussing the setting up of Special Interest Groups (SIGs) and finally Prof Daniel Steenstra has got this one off the ground. The first meeting at the end of October was recorded and transcribed Disruptive Innovation as applied to Health is a controversial theme…