Charles Lowe, former chair of the Royal Society of Medicine, London Telemedicine section is the founder of the Digital Health and Care Alliance. This originated as one of the DALLAS (Delivering Assisted Living Lifestyles at Scale) projects, i-Focus funded by the UK NHS and Innovate UK. InfoLab21: Venue for DHACA Day VI It was…
SATT Ile-de-France Innov is a private Technology Transfer organisation ‘with exclusive rights to detect, seed-fund and commercialise technology stemming from academic research centres across the Paris metropolitan area’ (www.idfinnov.com) It is one of 14 SATTs (Sociétés d’Accélération du Transfert de Technologies) created by the French Government and invests over 6M€ per…
Led by Prof. Helmut Brand’s INTHEALTH group at Maastricht University and the WHO Observatory (represented here by Willy Palm), this project is a tender: CHAFEA/2014/Health/03. Base on a discussion paper which considered the preliminary findings of the study, and framed round a series of presentations, on patient rights law, enforcement systems, Council of Europe activities…
NHS Innovation Expo has been an annual event since 2009. This year, on Sept. 2 and 3 around 5000 people a day from health and care, the voluntary sector, local government, and industry joined together at Manchester Central Convention Centre for two packed days of speakers, workshops, exhibitions and professional development. In 2015, almost 12…
The EFPC organized its’ 2015 conference in Amsterdam, The Netherlands with the title “Integrated Primary Care: Research, Policy & Practice”. EHFF was present and lead one of the workshop sessions, with David Goldberg and Mike Bewick. For the presentation of David Goldberg click here. For the presentation of Mike Bewick click here. Key note speakers at…
At a London venue there was a very constructive and challenging all day meeting to address key strategic issues currently facing the organisation. Present were the Chair, all four executive directors (apologies from Matthijs Zwier and our three non-execs, all on annual leave), three members of the Community (Daniel Steenstra, Mary Morrissey and Agnieszka Daval-Cichon)…
In association with the Latvian Quality Association, EHFF helped organise this year’s Summercamp, based in rural Latvia, about one hour’s drive East of Riga and near to two medieval cities, Cecis and Sigulda. The topic was ‘the future of work’. The flyer, which provides a description of the process, is here. In total 24 participants enjoyed…
Meeting at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, the Festival brought a diverse group of health service commissioning staff and other specialists to discuss current issues of good governance in the UK NHS. GGI’s CEO, Andrew Corbett-Nolan is a member of the EHFF Community. The agenda and overall programme notes are here. David Goldberg, one…
EHFF and EPF were invited to make presentations on patient empowerment on the second day of the ChrodisJA WP7 meeting in Rome at the Istituto Superiore di Sanita. WP7 is devoted to using diabetes as a case study for strengthening healthcare for people with chronic diseases. The agenda is here and the EHFF presentation (here) and that of…
EHFF attended the latest meeting of the Reference Site Collaborative network where the agenda was devoted to chronic respiratory diseases as well as a follow-up of the Montpellier meeting October 2014. See agenda here . The agreed definition of active and healthy aging (the outcome of Montpellier) is here .