EHFF seminar at the EHMA annual conference, Birmingham University: ‘A vision for future healthcare in Europe. The challenge for the new generation of healthcare managers’ June 25th Marius Buiting, Jim Phillips and David Somekh co-presented this seminar at the European Health Management Association annual conference. The session was chaired by Olivia Dix, Deputy Director of…
EHFF is proud to announce that Matthijs Zwier has been appointed an Associate Director of EHFF. He has been directly involved in the setting up of EHFF from 2011 and currently leads the EVY Project. At the EHFF Board meeting on 16 Mar 2014 in London it was agreed that Matthijs be invited to join…
At the meeting of the Board on 16 March 2014 in London the 2014 Work Plan was approved and actions are well underway towards another productive year. The complete work plan is available in the reports and minutes section of this website in fulfilment of EHFF commitment to open principles and transparency of operation. The…
Nick Guldemond from Action group A2 of the EIP for active and healthy aging and David Somekh from B3, representing the EMPATHIE network, hosted an interactive seminar with colleagues in the parallel stream on the EIP at the Athens eHealth 2014 Conference on May 14. The session was chaired by Brian O’Connor of ECHAlliance. There…
EHFF joins the Commission Joint Action on Chronic Diseases Chrodis-JA as a collaborating partner and will provide vital contributions to at least three work packages, WP5, 6 and 7. For details of the scope of the Action, there is a PowerPoint presentation from the lead for the JA, Juan Riese available as a PDF.
a) David Somekh, representing EHFF and the EMPATHiE network was co-opted with two other independent experts to join a subgroup of the SANCO Expert Panel on Effective Ways of Investing in Health: this subgroup has the mandate to give an expert opinion on the Future EU Agenda on quality of care with special emphasis on…
The Joint Action was launched at the end of January this year, and although a late joiner, EHFF is in discussion with the project’s coordinators over the work packages it might contribute to, especially through involvement of the EMPATHiE network.
On 03.04.14 a one-year renewable partnership agreement was signed between EHFF and the European Forum for Primary Care (http://www.euprimarycare.org) represented by Prof Jan de Maeseneer. This year EFPC’s annual conference in Barcelona, Sept.1/2 will be titled ‘The Future of Primary Care in Europe V’
Elaborated by : D.J.M. van der Lee Question: As part of my work for Evy , I was requested to deliver a report of ten innovations. Method: During the period from week 38 (Sept. 16) to week 51 (Dec 16), I daily scanned two Dutch newspapers, De Volkskrant and Trouw, for healthcare innovations. When I…
Three strategy group meetings were held during December 2013, in Southampton Brussels and Dublin. The themes were ‘activating the network’, positioning EHFF in the EU and innovation in education. The outputs have been collated, were submitted to the Board at the meeting of March 16 and will be published as the Annual Work plan shortly.…