Jim Phillips, Associated Director for EHFF and Director for CEmPaC attended the Connected Health seminar: How to engage and empower patients? At the Science Park Tehnopol, Tallinn, Estonia in March. The purpose of the event was to showcase good practices, drawing to some extent from local sources in Estonia, but also with European speakers to help…
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By Agnieszka Daval On 27-28 February the European Commission held for the 6th time the Conference of Partners of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Health Ageing (EIP on AHA), with some 350 participants, including EHFF. Next to a stock-taking exercise, the objective was to connect dots between the activities of EIP, Digital Single Market and…
Jim Phillips, associate director and for EHFF and executive director for CEmPaC recently attended a conference on prevention in Bucharest, Romania. The International Conference ” Prevention 360 +5″ is at its second edition and is organized under the auspices of the College of Pharmacists in Romania and of the College of Physicians in Romania, having as…
London futurists event 17 February 2018 By Prof Daniel Steenstra – EHFF Yesterday I attended London Futurists’ ‘A Future Glimpse into Human Healthcare’ event as David Somekh’s stunt double. For nearly 2 hours Dr Stephen Minger presented a beguiling view of latest developments in medical science. He is a charismatic American scientist with an illustrious…
By Bernard Merkel (EHFF community member) Since the start of the year the NHS in the UK has been in a state of crisis. How do I know this? Well, I am constantly told so by the media, senior health professionals, such as the heads of 67 hospital emergency departments, and assorted politicians. There are…
Further to the news item dated August 27 we’re summarising the outcome of the annual review of strategy. After meetings on July 15 at Gatwick airport and August 12 in Hampstead the management team have collated the several hours of discussion and produced a list of Action points. These have been roughly sorted into four…
Sounds like an oxymoron (a contradiction in terms – you knew that, didn’t you), but our colleague from the Danish Centre for Health Education, Lars Munter who invited EHFF to provide an ending keynote at this meeting is also a Director of the not-for-profit organisation CSR-Link which looks at Corporate Social Responsibility activities of large…
The London branch of the Association for Professional Futurists (a global organisation for such professionals, website url: https://apf.org/ ) has been a source of contacts and information for EHFF over the last three or four years. David Somekh attended this day seminar partly to maintain links but also because one of the speakers, Bill Sharpe,…
Metaphorum is a society, of which most members are experts in systems theory, which commemorates and explores the application of Stafford Beer’s Viable Systems model (VSM). VSM has been one of the constructs which has guided us in the development of EHFF as an agile, network based organisation. An introduction to Stafford Beer and the…