As many of you will know, as a result of the threat of Brexit (i.e. that being registered in the UK, our work with the European Commission in the future would be compromised) EHFF has relocated its main office to Ireland and since May this year we have been a registered charity there (see news…
For the fourth year running EHFF was very happy to support their partner EHMA in a small way by contributing one of the parallel sessions, this year (no surprises!) a discussion on ‘health futures’. The latter was one of several themes of this year’s conference (for the whole three day programme, see here). Our small…
Health and healthcare enhanced by digital technology is a crucial contributor to the future as EHFF perceives it. The digital sphere in our view is not simply, as some clinicians and many businesses see it, the domain of ‘shiny toys’ that allow you to do the same things but only faster and more efficiently. Nor…
A fascinating one-day symposium, with high quality speakers and presentations which presented a number of examples of current aspirational projects in the digital health field. The programme is here. Just three examples of future vision for the implementation of digital technology and the changes in practice it would introduce (if successful!). First presentation, Liz Mear,…
In this second edition: EHFF supporting it’s partners by David Somekh & Laura Botea (GGI) EHFF and Systems Thinking! by David Somekh Artificial Intelligence and Healthcare: An Artificial Debate by Bernie Merkel Whither Healthcare Policy – Views from a Dutch doctor in London by Daniel Steenstra What to expect in the 3rd Newsletter ‘Acte de…
The SCiE initiative is a voluntary project which follows on from collaboation between partners who completed the two tenders for the European Commission on self-care, PiSCE and PROSTEP (search the website for reports on the two closing conferences during 2017). The SCiE website: http://www.scie.eu/summit2018/ identifies that the lead collaborators are DCHE, the Danish Committee for…
The major project to set up a European Resource Centre for patient empowerment has now been running for nearly six months. Our funders Robert Bosch Stiftung required us to get charity registration, which we sought in Ireland, having registered EHFF as a limited company there last September, in anticipation of Brexit, as we announced at…
EHFF was a collaborating partner for the first Chronic disease Joint action between 2014 and 2017 and our news item of 19th March 2017 reports the final conference in Brussels. Even at that time a follow on Joint Action was mooted. It was finally kicked off in September of that year but has had a…
The POLLAR project is a major initiative from EIT Health (the European Institute of Innovation and Technology health stream) on the Impact of Pollution on Asthma and Rhinitis (for more details, see the EIT website: https://www.eithealth.eu/pollar ) What makes this especially interesting to EHFF is that a member of the consortium running this project is…
This year the AGM took place at a hotel near Heathrow airport. Participants flew or travelled in on Sunday, to meet for dinner and spent Monday April 23rd engaging in the formal business of the AGM followed by, after morning coffee, three hours of strategic discussion around the topics of ongoing sustainability of the EHFF organisation…