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 .
On 23 June 2015 a one day event in Brussels marked the end of a three year multi-centre FP7 project on empowering patients through eHealth. A number of different approaches were featured, but a principal competent involved connecting patients with their electronic health record. EHFF was invited to open the meeting with a keynote related to…
EHFF and EVY both presented at the EHMA annual conference 2015 in Breda, The Netherlands. For the combined presentation click here. We are delighted to inform you that the EHMA/Emerald website with multimedia resources from the event is now available here. Please do click through to watch videos of all the plenary speakers, presentations…
It’s here again. Health 2.0 Europe‘s jamboree promoting technology for health. This year EHFF didn’t just attend, we sent two speakers to contribute to sessions. First, a helpful blog from our colleagues in Mobile World Capital Barcelona which gives an overview of the event –here’s the link: http://www.mobilehealthglobal.com/in-the-news/news/175/health-20-european-digital-health-meets-up-in-barcelona Jim Phillips of ENOPE and QISMET took…
On May 13/14 in a converted warehouse in Leeds a group of 50 or so IT entrepreneurs, health specialists, citizens and others gathered for an ‘unconference’ on the above subject. EHFF attended as we’d supported the event and DS gave a brief closing address, summarising his impressions of the main day. In the blog (link…
Friday, 12 June 2015 from 12:00 to 13:00 (BST) For the fourth in the series on online discussions, EHFF has brought together a unique panel who will explore, contrast and link their own areas of interest. These include patient empowerment and patient-centred care, ICT, digital humanities, spatial/social network analysis, and how to apply appropriate design…